Innovation & Technology

École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne (EPFL) has led a team of researchers that developed a single-crystalline titanium dioxide (TiO2) petrovskite solar cell with an electron transport layer (ETL), a paper published in Nature showed. “The solar cell was conceived for use in building-integrated photovoltaics (BIPV), including roof tiles, facades, walls, and thin-film battery integrated perovskite …

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The rate of glacier melt worldwide is in line with the worst forecasts of climatologists, according to results released in January of the first study of the size of glaciers using satellite images. However, there is also a reason for optimism: technologies for reducing carbon emissions (decarbonization) are gradually becoming commonplace—first, renewable energy sources (RES) …

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Australian company Mirreco is developing a 3D printing process that uses hemp biomass as a material to make wall panels. With cannabis legalization spreading rapidly in many parts of the world, even the 3D printing industry has found ways to use this controversial material. Hemp biomass could be used to produce clothing, food, and even …

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CNBC reported that GE Renewable Energy will begin printing wind turbine components using a giant 3D printer. The company said it plans to 3D print some of its industrial wind turbine components, using a three-story building-sized 3D printer located in Bergen, New York. The output of the giant 3D printer is more than 10 tons …

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Canadian entrepreneur Kevin O’Leary, the leading star of the business reality show Shark Tank, believes that the global tightening of crypto mining regulation will force companies to switch to renewable energy sources. In an interview with First Mover, O’Leary said that nuclear and hydropower could take a more important place in the energy balance of …

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Danish LM Wind Power, owned by GE Renewable Energy and leading the ZEBRA consortium, has unveiled a prototype of the world’s largest recyclable wind turbine blade. The length of the composite blade, made on the basis of a special thermoplastic resin, is 62 meters. Unlike most composites, which are used to create flexible yet very …

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EnergyHub, the leading supplier of distributed energy resource management solutions, recently announced that Amazon Smart Thermostat has joined its partner network. EnergyHub’s utility customers, who already have accessibility to the country’s largest network of partners, would gain an advantage with the integration’s increased scale and peak-shaving capabilities for their demand response programs, Bakersfield.com reports. Customers …

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A team of engineers has created portable solar power generator that can store solar energy and release it as needed by its users. This system is based on the MOST system developed at Chalmers University of Technology. The system works thanks to a specially created molecule that changes its “shape” upon contact with sunlight.  Researchers …

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A heat engine is a thermophotovoltaic cell, similar to a solar panel photocell, that captures high-energy photons and converts them into electricity. The design, invented by experts from MIT and the National Renewable Energy Laboratory (NREL), generates current from a source with a temperature of 1900 to 2400 degrees Celsius. The invention has been tested …

Heat Engine With No Moving Parts Outperforms Steam Turbine Read More »

The Forest Energy Atlas online map tool allows users to explore the potential for harvesting energy wood and other varieties in Finland, Sweden, Estonia, Latvia, and Lithuania. This is especially useful for companies or organizations interested in using biomass. The tool is freely available on the Internet. The geographic information system allows the user to …

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