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Researchers Demo A Sunlight Powered Water Splitter
September 8, 2015 | Leave a Comment
Rice University researchers have demonstrated an efficient new way to capture the energy from sunlight and convert it into clean, renewable hydrogen fuel by splitting water molecules. The new technology relies sunlight-harvesting gold nanoparticles. It looks to be the first true solar water splitter. The team’s research paper has been published online in the American […]
Sep
3
Low Cost Catalyst Makes Natural Gas From CO2
September 3, 2015 | 4 Comments
Research by Professor Marc Koper and PhD student Jing Shen at University in Leiden, the Netherlands, discovered a new catalyst that makes natural gas from CO2. The team is showing how this process can be implemented in a cost-effective and controllable way for carbon dioxide recycling. The conversion of the greenhouse gas CO2 into natural […]
Sep
2
Dense Wind Turbine Farms Shown to be Less Efficient
September 2, 2015 | Leave a Comment
University of Kansas scientists report a slowdown effect triggered by wind turbines is substantial for large wind farms and results in proportionally less renewable energy generated for each turbine versus the energy that would be generated from an isolated wind turbine. Renewable wind energy is experiencing a boom, with more wind turbines popping up across […]
Sep
1
New Catalyst Makes Fuel Precursor from CO2 and Hydrogen
September 1, 2015 | Leave a Comment
University of Pittsburgh (UP) researchers have computationally derived a metal-free catalyst that captures converts and recycles the carbon dioxide into formic acid. The new metal-free catalyst that does the molecular recombining without the use of expensive or extreme conditions. Turning carbon dioxide effluent into a more valuable chemical would reduce emissions while creating a revenue […]
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