Jun
18
Fracturing Petroleum Wells With Carbon Dioxide
June 18, 2019 | 1 Comment
Scientists at the Chinese Academy of Sciences and China University of Petroleum (Beijing) have demonstrated that CO2 may make a better hydraulic fracturing (fracking) fluid than water. The new research could help pave the way for a more eco-friendly form of fracking that would double as a mechanism for storing and recycling captured atmospheric CO2. […]
Jun
13
Generate Power In Your Clothes
June 13, 2019 | Leave a Comment
Rice University researchers have produced triboelectric nanogenerators with laser-induced graphene. The flexible devices turn movement into electrical energy and could enable wearable, self-powered sensors and devices. Wearable devices that harvest energy from movement are not a new idea, but a material created at Rice University may make them more practical. The Rice lab of chemist […]
Jun
12
Artificial Photosynthesis Makes CO2 Into Liquid Fuel
June 12, 2019 | 2 Comments
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign chemists have successfully produced fuels using water, carbon dioxide and visible light through artificial photosynthesis. By converting carbon dioxide into more complex molecules like propane, green energy technology is now one step closer to using excess carbon dioxide to store solar energy – in the form of chemical bonds – […]
Jun
11
Brookhaven National Laboratory scientists have developed a highly efficient catalyst for extracting electrical energy from ethanol. Ethanol is an easy-to-store liquid fuel made from renewable resources. The catalyst, described in the Journal of the American Chemical Society, steers the electro-oxidation of ethanol down an ideal chemical pathway that releases the liquid fuel’s full potential of […]
Jun
6
New High Temperature Record For Superconductivity
June 6, 2019 | Leave a Comment
Open Image…Save ImageOpen Image (using #TmpD/ia)… A University of Chicago team with an international research team of scientists has discovered superconductivity – the ability to conduct electricity perfectly – at the highest temperatures ever recorded. Using advanced technology at University of Chicago affiliated Argonne National Laboratory, the team studied a class of materials in which they observed superconductivity at temperatures […]
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