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Using Geothermal Energy in The Process of Recycling Plastic Material in Iceland

An Icelandic company is starting to use geothermal energy in its process of recycling plastic material in Hveragardi, Iceland - a geothermal hot spot of the cou…

Climate Change Could Lead to More Injuries And Deaths

Injuries like drownings, falls, and assaults could kill up to an additional 2,135 people each year in the US as climate change continues to cause unusual temper…

Oil & Gas Trade

Iraq Warns of 'Collapse' if Washington Blocks Oil Cash

BAGHDAD-Iraqi officials fear economic "collapse" if Washington imposes threatened sanctions, including blocking access to a US-based account where Baghdad keeps…

Solar Power for Home

Austria Pledges to Fit 1 Million Roofs With Solar By 2030

Austria’s new government has promised a 1 million photovoltaic roofing program as part of its plan to achieve climate neutrality by 2040. The country pledged t…

Solar Power Panel

This Material Could Squeeze More Energy from Solar Panels

Perovskite may be more efficient, and cheaper, than traditional silicon, but durability remains an issue. Research teams in Australia and China are inching clos…

Oil&Gas Drilling

Bill to Rollback Natural Gas Drilling Regulations Clears Pennsylvania House Committee

Despite the looming promise of Gov. Tom Wolf’s veto, a Pennsylvania House panel has advanced a bill loosening regulations for conventional gas drillers.

Energy Storage Battery

New Electrolyte Charges Efforts to Achieve Viable Calcium Batteries

An electrolyte with impressive electrolytic properties has been used to demonstrate room-temperature calcium batteries with metal sulfide cathodes for the first…

Energy Storage Battery

What Would it Take for the US to Become an Energy Storage Manufacturing Powerhouse?

After “missed opportunity” in solar, Trump administration wants a domestic supply chain for energy storage. Is that realistic?

Crude

China’s Top Oil Firm Sees Demand Growth Cut in Half in 2020

The world’s biggest oil import market could see demand growth in 2020 of just half of last year’s levels as the trade war’s ripple effects continue to be fel…

Microsoft to Launch Its Cloud And AI-based Mobile Hydrogen Fuel Cell Drones

Microsoft will launch its cloud and AI-based mobile hydrogen fuel cell drones at Doosan Mobility Innovation (DMI) and CES 2020 on August 8 (local time in Las Ve…

Nuclear Fuel

Radioactive Fukushima Waste Destined For Pacific?

The government of Japan looks likely to proceed with a controlled ocean-release of radioactive wastewater associated with the Fukushima disaster, a move critici…

Energy Storage System to Help Stabilize Irish Power Grid

The need for speed is critical to Ireland’s ambitious plan to get 70 percent of the Republic’s power from renewable sources by 2030.

A Clean ,Affordable Battery for Home Using in Rural Africa

EPFL startup hiLyte has developed an eco-friendly battery that will allow people in Sub-Saharan Africa to light their homes and charge their cell phones. The te…

Using Liquid Metal to Repurpose Waste Heat

Researchers in the Renewable Energy and Virtual Technology lab at UTD developed a prototype generator that uses gallium to recover low temperature waste heat fr…

Coal-Fired Power Plants

Bangladesh's First Power Plant Using Imported Coal Takes Off

The 1,320MW unit is the first large power plant to come into operation under AL govt; by 2030, total generation capacity to reach 40,000MW