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U.S. DOE Awards $7m in Funding for Work on Reducing Geothermal Drilling Cost

The U.S. Department of Energy has announced the recipients of $7 million funding to help decrease the cost of geothermal drilling operations and field developme…

New Generator That Uses Substance to Convert Waste Heat into Clean Electricity

University of Texas at Dallas researchers have developed a generator prototype that uses liquid metal to convert waste heat from sources such as electric cars o…

Converting Low Grade Heat into Electricity

Researchers at Hong Kong University have recently invented a device that is capable of converting low grade heat into electricity. Low grade heat, or waste heat…

Energy Storage Project

Bosch to Develop Fuel Cell Batteries in China

Bosch broke ground on a fuel cell battery development center last week in the east China city of Wuxi with the aim of supplying the emerging local fuel cell veh…

Acciona Bags Deal To Build Biofuels HVO Plant

Spain's engineering group Acciona SA was selected to build Latin America's first plant to produce advanced biofuels HVO and SPK in a project that will use techn…

New Technology

Making Higher-energy Light to Fight Cancer

Researchers have achieved photon up-conversion, the emission of light with energy higher than the one that excites the material, using carefully designed struct…

When Solids and Liquids Meet: In Nanoscale Detail

Infrared light is focused onto the sharp metallic tip of an atomic force microscope, enabling the acquisition of vibrational spectra from a graphene-liquid inte…

A New Metric Tells You If It Worth Increasing Cell Efficiency

The value of efficiency (VOE) is a new metric proposed by a group of international researchers to determine when it is economically convenient to increase the c…

Material Developed for Solar Cell Efficiency Enhancement

The Institute for Basic Science announced on Dec. 2 that its Center for Integrated Nanostructure Physics, led by director Lee Young-hee, has developed a two-dim…

Cincinnati Signs on for Largest Municipal Solar Array in the Country

The City of Cincinnati, Ohio, will construct the largest municipal solar array in the country to provide clean, renewable energy to all city facilities and serv…

NextEra Starts Construction on Largest Solar Project in Arkansas

A subsidiary of NextEra Energy Resources and Entergy Arkansas announced the start of construction of Arkansas’ largest universal, utility-scale solar energy pr…

Nuclear Power Plant

Leningrad II Plant Begins Providing District Nuclear Heating

Unit 1 of Russia's Leningrad II nuclear power plant has been integrated into the heat supply system of the city of Sosnovy Bor, operator Rosenergoatom has annou…

New Technology

Thermo-Chemical Power Generation Integrated with Forced Convection Cooling

Scientists combine forced convection cooling with thermo-electrochemical energy conversion to create a self-sustaining liquid cooling system.

Coal-Fired Power Plants

Coal Power Generation Continues to Drop in the US

By comparing 2018 and 2019 energy production data for the entire country, the researchers found that coal generation in 2019 Q2 was down 19% when compared to th…

As Climate Warnings Grow Dire, Energy Companies Face A 'New Frontier Of Threats'

But in the coming months, the Interior Department will sell leases to companies that intend to drill for oil and gas in the refuge's coastal plain.