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A student team from TU Delft presented the latest Eco-Runner in May, a hydrogen-powered city car concept designed to be more than a hundred times more fuel-efficient than modern fossil-fuel vehicles. Now the car has set a Guinness distance record.Conti… Continue reading Student team sets distance record with hydrogen city car concept
Solar cells are good for the environment, but they have downsides. They’re expensive to make, and there are limited ways to recycle them. But researchers have developed a new manufacturing technique that may address both of these issues.Continue Readin… Continue reading Using microwaves improves production, recyclability of solar cells
Tokamak Energy has released the first images of what its commercial fusion power plant, which it says would safely generate enough electricity to power 50,000 homes in the 2030s, would look like.Continue ReadingCategory: Energy, ScienceTags: Nuclear Fu… Continue reading Tokamak Energy unveils images of fusion power plant slated for 2030s
We’ve been following an automotive startup’s journey to get its three-wheeled solar-electric vehicle on the road for more than 15 years, and now the latest teardrop-shaped Aptera prototype has made its public debut in San Diego.Continue ReadingCategory… Continue reading Aptera Gamma prototype SEV makes public debut in San Diego
Australian scientists say they’ve made a “eureka moment” breakthrough in gas separation and storage that could radically reduce energy use in the petrochemical industry, while making hydrogen much easier and safer to store and transport in a powder.Con… Continue reading Mechanochemical breakthrough unlocks cheap, safe, powdered hydrogen
Heating and cooling buildings is a major consumer of energy, especially older ones that weren’t built with modern energy efficiencies in mind. Now, engineers at Fraunhofer Institute have developed a modular facade powered by solar panels that can heat … Continue reading Modular building facade heats and cools rooms with solar power
Compressor efficiency might not sound like the most exciting topic in the world, but consider this: the hotter the world gets – and the wealthier its developing countries become – the more air conditioners will come online. According to the IEA, fans a… Continue reading Super-efficient linear compressor could vastly reduce air con power use
As we increasingly move toward renewable energy sources such as wind turbines, we’re going to require the best means possible of relaying electricity from them to our cities. A new cable-insulating material may allow us to do so much more efficiently.C… Continue reading Insulation additive drastically boosts performance of power lines
What does Bitcoin’s energy consumption problem have to do with AI? At a fundamental level, it turns out, some AI applications require similarly massive amounts of computing energy to function.
The post How AI is Contributing to Global Warming and What … Continue reading How AI is Contributing to Global Warming and What it Can Learn from Bitcoin
If you worked in a dingy, windowless environment, it would be nice (and energy-efficient) if you could get natural daylight “piped in” from outside. An experimental device does exactly that, in a new compact and robust form.Continue ReadingCategory: Go… Continue reading Sunlight-concentrating ball illuminates dark places