A group of researchers has recently announced their discovery of building a biofilm that collects energy created in evaporation and turns it into electricity. This biofilm offers great potential to change the world’s industry of wearable electronics by powering anything from personal electronics to medical sensors.
According to Xiaomeng Liu, an electrical and computer engineering student at Umass Amherst’s College of Engineering, this technology is extremely exciting. It is genuine green energy which, unlike other ones that are dubbed “green energy” …
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Many researchers have seen the potential of hydrogen fuel as the key component to achieving a carbon-neutral future. At the Massachusetts Institute of Technology Spring Symposium 2022, industry experts defined efforts to produce hydrogen power on a large scale.
For the past few decades, industry experts and the government have seen hydrogen as a potential tool in the journey to a carbon-neutral …
Natel Energy is in the process of setting up hydropower turbines with turbines that are fish-safe and comes with other features replicating the natural conditions of rivers.
Natel Energy was founded by Abe Schneider and Gia Schneider who were both alumni of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.
Growing up in a rural area of Texas, Abe and Gia always had something to do on their farm. However, on Saturdays at 2 in the afternoon, their family would always go to their local creek to fish, play on rope swings, and …
A new and innovative design for the storage of solid-state hydrogen offers the potential to significantly reduce charging times.
A team of researchers from the Queensland University of Technology and the University of Technology in Sydney has developed a brand new method to upgrade the charging times of solid-state hydrogen fuel cells.
Hydrogen is gaining popularity in terms of being an efficient method of storing green energy from renewable sources such as solar and wind. The most common …
A Newly-Developed Method Improves the Output of Wind Energy Farms Without Any New Equipment
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Engineers can help boost power output among existing wind power plants by modeling the current conditions of the entire farm instead of the individual wind turbines.
Generally, wind turbines are controlled individually as stand-alone units. The wind power industry produces over 5 percent of worldwide electricity. Large wind farms come with dozens to hundreds of wind turbines.
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Matteo Bucci, a partner professor at the Department of Nuclear Science and Engineering, is dedicated to addressing some unfamiliar factors distressing fundamental science.
Heat transfer is an issue that has plagued scientists for over a hundred years. However, an Italian-born associate professor of NSE aims to provide the solution to this dilemma.
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A simple yet highly functional nanoparticle ink could potentially help in the large-scale printing of new-generation perovskite solar cells and help make it become the dominating system in commercial photovoltaics.
The ink is produced from tin oxide and is made with a single primary step at a significantly low temperature through the use of microwave technology. In addition, the entire creation process of this ink requires no further …
A group of researchers has created a fuel creation system that utilizes water, sunlight, and carbon dioxide to produce jet fuel. They have carried out the production system in the field as well as the design. This system was designed with the aim of fostering efforts of making the aviation industry carbon-neutral.
Becoming carbon-neutral is of great importance in the fight against global climate change. The aviation sector alone is …
