May
30
Open Image…Save ImageOpen Image (using #TmpD/ia)… Penn State scientists have found that coal may represent a potential way to store hydrogen gas, much like batteries store energy for future use, addressing a major hurdle in developing a clean energy supply chain. The potential solution coal offers to store hydrogen could bring a hydrogen economy closer to practicality. The report of […]
Apr
26
Cutting Electric Vehicles Impact On The Grid
April 26, 2023 | Leave a Comment
Open Image…Save ImageOpen Image (using #TmpD/ia)… Open Image…Save ImageOpen Image (using #TmpD/ia)… A new Massachusetts Institute of Technology study shows that placing EV charging stations in strategic ways and setting up systems to initiate charging at delayed times could lessen or eliminate the need for new power plants. This is for the problem that some projections show that widespread adoption of electric vehicles might require […]
Apr
12
Old CO2 Science Turns Out To Be The Best Science
April 12, 2023 | Leave a Comment
Cornell University scientists have dusted off an archaic – now 120 year old – electrochemical equation. The goal is to manage atmospheric carbon dioxide and convert the gas into a useful products. The team’s work has been published in the journal ACS Catalysis. The calculation – named the Cottrell equation for chemist Frederick Gardner Cottrell, […]
Jan
17
Space Solar Power Technology Demonstrator Goes Orbital
January 17, 2023 | Leave a Comment
Open Image…Save ImageOpen Image (using #TmpD/ia)… The Caltech Space Solar Power Project (SSPP) prototype launched into orbit, dubbed the Space Solar Power Demonstrator (SSPD), will test several key components of an ambitious plan to harvest solar power in space and beam the energy back to Earth. Space solar power provides a way to tap into the practically unlimited supply of […]
Jan
5
Explaining How Biomass Could Replace All Of Aviation Fuel
January 5, 2023 | Leave a Comment
Arizona State University research shows a pathway toward full decarbonization of U.S. aviation fuel use by substituting conventional jet fuel with sustainably produced biofuels. The study found that planting the grass miscanthus on 23.2 million hectares of existing marginal agricultural lands – land that often lays fallow or is poor in soil quality – across […]
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