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Sunlight split in two: Organic layer promises leap in solar power efficiency
In the race to make solar energy cheaper and more efficient, a team of UNSW Sydney scientists and engineers have found a way to push past one of the biggest limits in renewable technology.
Oct 31, 2025
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Energy & Green Tech
Unlocking next-generation battery performance: Fluoride-based solid electrolyte surpasses voltage limits
In a major advancement for energy storage technology, Professor Yoon Seok Jung and his team at Yonsei University reveal a new fluoride-based solid electrolyte that enables all-solid-state batteries (ASSBs) to operate beyond ...
Oct 31, 2025
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Iron-based battery material achieves higher energy state, promising improved storage and voltage
Researchers have created a more energy dense storage material for iron-based batteries. The breakthrough could also improve applications in MRI technology and magnetic levitation.
Oct 31, 2025
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3D porous structure promises safer, longer-lasting lithium-metal batteries for electric vehicles
According to the International Council on Clean Transportation, as of early 2024, there are approximately 40 million electric vehicles (EVs) in operation worldwide. Among them, verified battery-related fires in light-duty ...
Oct 31, 2025
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Fast chargers are expanding quickly, but American EV drivers still fear running out of juice
For most Americans, there's less reason than ever to worry about finding chargers to fuel up an electric vehicle. But charging worries remain a top hesitation for potential buyers, second only to sticker shock.
Oct 31, 2025
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Energy & Green Tech
AI model identifies high-performing battery electrolytes by starting from just 58 data points
In an ideal world, an AI model looking for new materials to build better batteries would be trained on millions or even hundreds of millions of data points.
Oct 30, 2025
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Energy & Green Tech
Sustainable aviation fuel made from food waste meets industry standards
Airplane travel is more popular than ever, and our desire for fast transportation means jet fuel has become a major contributor to greenhouse gas emissions. Now, researchers at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign ...
Oct 30, 2025
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Business
Steel's carbon emissions dilemma: Retrofitting plants offers big cuts at moderate cost
A powerful new database and economic model that identifies the most cost-effective strategies to reduce the carbon emissions from the world's iron and steel processing plants has been developed by researchers from UCL.
Oct 30, 2025
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Consumer & Gadgets
Battery-equipped kitchen stove makes it easy to switch from gas to electric
As batteries have gotten cheaper and more powerful, they have enabled the electrification of everything from vehicles to lawn equipment, power tools, and scooters. But electrifying homes has been a slower process. That's ...
Oct 30, 2025
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Energy & Green Tech
Brain-inspired AI could cut energy use and boost performance
Artificial intelligence (AI) could soon become more energy-efficient and faster, thanks to a new approach developed at the University of Surrey that takes direct inspiration from biological neural networks of the human brain.
Oct 30, 2025
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Engineering
Keeping clothes in circulation: How EU research is transforming textile waste
EU research is helping to turn old clothes into new, quality products, aiming to reduce textile waste and make recycled textiles the norm.
Oct 30, 2025
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Energy & Green Tech
Investigating membrane reactor properties that enhance carbon dioxide conversion to methane
Climate change, expedited by anthropogenic activities, has become a major environmental concern in this century. Governments and organizations worldwide are gradually making substantial efforts to mitigate this challenge.
Oct 30, 2025
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Business
Offshore wind projects feel brunt of Trump policy decisions
On his first day in office, President Donald Trump signed an executive memorandum prohibiting new offshore wind leasing for all areas of the U.S. Outer Continental Shelf and directing his Cabinet to review previously approved ...
Oct 30, 2025
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Business
In controversial move, LADWP says it will shift its largest gas power plant to hydrogen
On Oct. 28, the board of the Los Angeles Department of Water and Power approved a controversial plan to convert part of the city's largest natural gas-fired power plant into one that also can burn hydrogen.
Oct 30, 2025
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Energy & Green Tech
China's new controls on rare earths create challenges for the West's plans for green tech
China recently announced that it was putting new controls on the export of rare earth elements, sparking a new round in the country's ongoing trade war with the US.
Oct 30, 2025
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Engineering
Beneath the waves: Floating solar panels are stressing the seafloor
Floating solar installations offer a tantalizing vision of sustainable energy—combining wind and solar power in the same offshore space. But according to new research, the seabed may be feeling the strain of such ingenuity.
Energy & Green Tech
Bridging boundaries: Dense, thick electrodes pack more energy into batteries
Electrodes are the veins of batteries, responsible for harnessing and transporting the lifeblood of energy storage devices: electricity. Battery power and efficiency largely hinge on the performance of these electrodes—and ...
Oct 29, 2025
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Energy & Green Tech
Ultra-black nanoneedles absorb 99.5% of light for future solar towers
Using state-of-the-art equipment, researchers in the Thermophysical Properties of Materials group from the University of the Basque Country (EHU) have analyzed the capacity of ultra-black copper cobaltate nanoneedles to effectively ...
Oct 29, 2025
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Energy & Green Tech
Electric vehicles outperform gasoline cars in lifetime environmental impact
After two years of use, lithium-ion battery electric vehicles (BEVs) result in a reduction in cumulative carbon dioxide (CO₂) emissions compared to fossil-based internal combustion engine (ICE) vehicles, according to a ...
Oct 29, 2025
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Engineering
Battery particle brightness levels tell the true story of a battery's charge
Lithium-ion batteries power our phones, cars, and even homes; ensuring their safe and efficient behavior has become incredibly important. Using a simple optical technique, Purdue University researchers have observed a battery's ...
Oct 29, 2025
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Engineering
Good vibrations: Ceramic material harvests electricity from waste energy
There's a lion's share of potential energy in the vibrations produced by footsteps on dance floors, exercise machines in the gym, or the engines of cars, planes or construction equipment. Some tech companies have already ...
Oct 29, 2025
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Business
Amid renewable-energy boom, study explores options for electricity market
Renewable energy sources like wind and solar generation now account for over 20% of electricity in the U.S., and keep growing after large-scale production has more than doubled since 2000.
Oct 29, 2025
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Engineering
Microwave sintering slashes hydrogen cell production time and energy use
Solid oxide electrolysis cells (SOECs), a key technology for producing green hydrogen without carbon emissions, require a high-temperature "sintering" process to harden ceramic powders. Researchers at KAIST, led by Professor ...
Oct 29, 2025
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Engineering
Manufacturing for the future: Researcher advances smarter, more sustainable production
As industries around the world move toward smarter and more sustainable production methods, a recent Ph.D. graduate at Missouri S&T has developed a new model that could help manufacturers cut costs and reduce carbon emissions ...
Oct 29, 2025
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Engineering
Engineers build sensors that can withstand the next generation of nuclear reactors
Nuclear power plants provide 20% of the nation's energy. To ensure they remain functional and safe to operate, plant engineers rely on sensors to provide feedback on a wide range of parameters, including temperature; reactor ...
Oct 29, 2025
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