Dec
25
Its a Merry Christmas
December 25, 2018 | Leave a Comment
For the fields of energy and fuels it has been a very good year. The current mainstay of energy, oil and gas, has been quite good for consumers this past year. The U.S. oil and gas industry has shown how impressive, even in the midst of prices actually a bit too low, that enterprise, research, […]
Nov
14
Transforming Carbon Dioxide Back Into Fuels
November 14, 2018 | Leave a Comment
Harvard researchers have developed an improved system to use renewable electricity to reduce carbon dioxide into carbon monoxide to recycle carbon dioxide. Imagine a day when – rather than being spewed into the atmosphere – the gases coming from power plants and heavy industry are instead captured and fed into catalytic reactors that chemically transform […]
Sep
25
A New Idea For the Lithium Metal Battery
September 25, 2018 | Leave a Comment
A Ulsan National Institute of Science and Technology (UNIST) team of researchers has introduced a novel technology that promises to significantly boost the performance of lithium metal batteries. In a study published in Advanced Materials, the UNIST team introduced a novel technology that promises to significantly boost the performance of lithium metal batteries, a promising […]
Sep
20
Breakthrough In How CO2 Is Made Into Electrofuels
September 20, 2018 | 2 Comments
Columbia University School of Engineering and Applied Science engineers have observed how carbon dioxide is activated at the electrode-electrolyte interface. Using surface-enhanced Raman spectroscopy the finding shifts the catalyst design from trial-and-error paradigm to a rational approach and could lead to alternative, cheaper, and safer renewable energy storage. Scientists have long sought ways to convert […]
Jul
17
Energy Harvesting In the Nucleus of an Atom
July 17, 2018 | 1 Comment
In the lab of Fabrizio Carbone at Ecole Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne (EPFL) and their international colleagues, these physicists have now demonstrated experimentally the ability to coherently manipulate the wave function of a free electron down to the attosecond timescale. Attoseconds are 10 to the 18th of a second. The team also developed a theory […]