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• Geothermal energy’s earthquake problem – and possible solutions

  28-05-2019 00:23 via revolution-green.com
  A geothermal energy project triggered a damaging earthquake in 2017 in South Korea. A new analysis suggests flaws in some of the most common ways of trying to minimize the risk of such quakes when harnessing Earth’s heat for energy.
  On a November afternoon in 2017, a magnitude 5.5 earthquake shook Pohang, South Korea, injuring dozens and forcing more than 1,700 of the city’s residents into emergency housing. Research now shows that development of a geothermal energy project shoulders
  
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  05-06-2024 17:29 via breakingenergy.com
  
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• Top Recent Energy Industry Stories: 12/12/2023

  13-12-2023 17:58 via breakingenergy.com
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• How AI Can Be Used To Transform Energy Storage

  12-09-2023 18:03 via breakingenergy.com
  Energy storage tech will be a key factor in the transition to renewables.
  
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• Top Recent Energy Industry Stories: 8/15/2023

  14-08-2023 18:48 via breakingenergy.com
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• Cybersecurity Challenges For The Energy Sector

  18-07-2023 20:09 via breakingenergy.com
  
  Today’s cybersecurity professionals face an ever-evolving list of threats.
  
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• Top Recent Energy Industry Stories: 6/20/2023

  20-06-2023 20:00 via breakingenergy.com
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• What’s Next for American Offshore Wind Power?

  19-05-2023 19:39 via breakingenergy.com
  Major projects are underway, but technological and infrastructural issues could pose challenges.
  
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• 5 Companies Harnessing AI To Boost Solar Power

  29-03-2023 18:30 via breakingenergy.com
  Artificial intelligence is letting these companies make solar power more accessible, powerful, and efficient.
  
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• Top Recent Energy Industry Stories: 3/21/2023

  21-03-2023 17:55 via breakingenergy.com
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• Top Recent Energy Industry Stories: 2/21/2023

  23-02-2023 21:26 via breakingenergy.com
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  21-03-2022 03:13 via revolution-green.com
  
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• ASU team throws new light on photosynthetic supercomplex structure

  28-05-2019 08:01 via revolution-green.com
  A team of scientists from Arizona State University has taken a significant step closer to unlocking the secrets of photosynthesis, by determining the structure of a very large photosynthetic supercomplex.
  This important discovery is laid out in their paper published today in Nature Structural & Molecular Biology. The paper is titled “The structure of the stress induced photosystem I – IsiA antenna supercomplex.”Overall structure of the PSI-IsiA supercomplex.
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• Data science helps engineers discover new materials for solar cells and LEDs

  28-05-2019 06:48 via revolution-green.com
  Engineers at the University of California San Diego have developed a high-throughput computational method to design new materials for next generation solar cells and LEDs. Their approach generated 13 new material candidates for solar cells and 23 new candidates for LEDs. Calculations predicted that these materials, called hybrid halide semiconductors, would be stable and exhibit excellent optoelectronic properties.
  The team published their findings on May 22, 2019 in the journal Energy &
  
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• ​3D Graphene/Carbon Nanotube Aerogels for Ultrahigh Volumetric-Energy-Density Li-S Batteries Developed

  28-05-2019 06:30 via revolution-green.com
  A research group led by WU Zhongshuai from the Dalian Institute of Chemical Physics (DICP) of the Chinese Academy of Sciences developed high volumetric-energy-density and long-life lithium sulfur (Li-S) batteries based on the free-standing, densely compact, and integrated cathode.
  These Li-S batteries are derived from three-dimensional (3D) interconnected porous graphene/CNT aerogels, simultaneously serving as sulfur host and interlayer. Their findings were published in Nano Energ
  
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• Superconductor films convert heat into electricity

  28-05-2019 05:54 via revolution-green.com
  Films of a superconductor show excellent thermoelectric properties at very low film thicknessesWhen thinned down to a sheet a few atoms thick, the superconductor iron selenide (FeSe) can efficiently convert heat into electricity, researchers at RIKEN have discovered1. This opens up the possibility that similar multifunctionality may be lurking in other two-dimensional materials.
  Ultrathin films often behave quite differently from the same material in bulk form. For example, bulk FeSe superconduc
  
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• High energy textile lithium battery is highly flexible for wearable electronics

  28-05-2019 05:15 via revolution-green.com
  Researchers at The Hong Kong Polytechnic University (PolyU) have developed a highly flexible, high-energy Textile Lithium Battery that offers more stable, durable and safe energy supply for wearable electronics with a myriad of applications, such as in healthcare monitoring, intelligent textiles, smartphones, Global Positioning System (GPS) tracking and Internet of Things (IoT)..PolyU’s novel lightweight Textile Lithium Battery demonstrates high energy density of more than 450 Wh
  
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• Major step forward in the production of ‘green’ Hydrogen

  28-05-2019 00:53 via revolution-green.com
  The first thermodynamically-reversible chemical reactor capable of producing hydrogen as a pure product stream represents a “transformational” step forward in the chemical industryThe novel reactor, described today in the prestigious academic journal Nature Chemistry, avoids mixing reactant gases by transferring oxygen between reactant streams via a solid state oxygen reservoir.
  This reservoir is designed to remain close to equilibrium with the reacting gas streams as they follo
  
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• Charging into the future–novel rock salt for use in rechargeable magnesium batteries

  28-05-2019 00:40 via revolution-green.com
  Rechargeable, high-energy density magnesium batteries with a novel rock-salt cathode synthesized by researchers at Tokyo University of Science
  Life today depends heavily on electricity. However, the unrelenting demand for electricity calls for increasingly greener and “portable” sources of energy. Although windmills and solar panels are promising alternatives, the fluctuation in output levels depending on external factors renders them as unreliable. Thus, from the viewpoint of resour
  
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• Australian rare-earth ore processor wants to build a plant in the US

  28-05-2019 00:14 via revolution-green.com
  Rare-earth minerals are mostly processed in China, but a new project could change that
  This week, two rare-earth mineral-processing companies announced a new joint-venture whose aim will be to establish a rare-earth ore processing plant in Hondo, Texas..
  Construction takes place at the site of Lynas Corp.’s Advanced Materials Plant in the Gebeng Industrial Zone near Kuantan, Malaysia, on Thursday, April 19, 2012.
  .Lynas Corp., an Australian rare-earths processor, and Blue Line Corp., a che
  
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• Scientists Develop High-efficiency, Stable Thermoelectric Module Based on High-performance Liquid-like Materials

  26-05-2019 17:17 via revolution-green.com
  Two Articles:
  Scientists Develop High-efficiency, Stable Thermoelectric Module Based on High-performance Liquid-like Materials
  Based on high-performance liquid-like materials, scientists from the Shanghai Institute of Ceramics of the Chinese Academy of Sciences and Northwestern University in US innovatively fabricated a Cu2Se/Yb0.3Co4Sb12 thermoelectric module with eight n-type Ni/Ti/Yb0.3Co4Sb12 legs and eight p-type Ni/Mo/Cu2Se legs.
  Their strategy goes beyond the normal design of TE
  
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• Waste not want not; empowered by heat: converting waste heat into electricity

  26-05-2019 16:01 via revolution-green.com
  [This article from 2014 is about the thermoelectric material magnesium silicide. An RG article from January 2018 was about a similar use for ytterbium silicide. While both studies come from Japan, they are independent: one is from Osaka University and the other is from the Tokyo University of Science. Professor Iida from TUS was hoping for implementation of his technology for automotive applications by 2020, when tighter EU regulations for CO2 emissions take effect. His website currently states:
  
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• PixelGreen: A hybrid, green media wall for existing high-rise buildings

  25-05-2019 19:11 via revolution-green.com
  Researchers at Deakin University and the University of Hong Kong have recently designed a hybrid green architectural wall system for high-rise buildings that integrates a vertical micro-farm and a media screen. They presented this wall, called PixelGreen, in a paper published on Research Gate. PIXEL GREEN is designed for integration into the wall surfaces of existing buildings, turning them into analogue media screens.
  “In this research, we explore the opportunity for new design possi
  
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• Need for rigorous procedures within electrochemical production of ammonia

  25-05-2019 18:50 via revolution-green.com
  Many experimental studies of electrochemical synthesis of ammonia are flawed—a new study in Nature highlights the need for rigorous protocols moving forwardAmmonia (NH3) is one of the most widely produced chemicals, with a global output of 170 megatons per year. It is the key ingredient in the production of fertilizers and thus plays a critical role in sustaining the world’s population. However, more than 1 per cent of global energy is consumed by the production of ammonia
  
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• Learning magnets could lead to energy-efficient data processing

  25-05-2019 18:27 via revolution-green.com
  The power consumption of data centres around the world is increasing. This creates a high demand for new technologies that could lead to energy-efficient computers. In a new study, physicists at Radboud University have demonstrated that this could also be achieved by using chips whose operation is inspired by that of the human brain. The study was published in the scientific journal Applied Physics Letters on 16 May.
  Compared to our current computers, the human brain uses a fraction of
  
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• Threat or promise? E-auto boom could cost industry jobs

  25-05-2019 18:16 via revolution-green.com
  Over 115 years the auto industry in the east German town of Zwickau has lived through wrenching upheavals including World War II and the collapse of communism. Now the city’s 90,000 people are plunging headlong into another era of change: top employer Volkswagen’s total shift into electric cars at the local plant.
  The world’s largest carmaker is creating its first all-electric plant and phasing out production of the internal combustion-engine cars built by generations of local
  
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• Strain Enables New Applications of 2D Materials

  25-05-2019 18:00 via revolution-green.com
  Superconductors’ never-ending flow of electrical current could provide new options for energy storage and superefficient electrical transmission and generation, to name just a few benefits. But the signature zero electrical resistance of superconductors is reached only below a certain critical temperature, hundreds of degrees Celsius below freezing, and is very expensive to achieve.
  Physicists from the University of Belgrade in Serbia believe they’ve found a way to manipulate superth
  
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• Zero-carbon electric transport is already in reach for small islands

  25-05-2019 17:47 via revolution-green.com
  At a recent talk on the UK’s energy sector, the head of an electric utility company claimed that “the problem of decarbonising our electricity sector is fixed”. Eyebrows were raised at this, but his point quickly became clear. The technologies needed to decarbonise the UK’s electricity system now exist, he explained. Indeed, grid operators in the UK expect a zero carbon electricity system by 2025.
  But far greater challenges remain in the heat and transport secto
  
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• In-car technology: are we being sold a false sense of security?

  25-05-2019 17:31 via revolution-green.com
  The retired football star David Beckham recently received a six-month driving ban after being photographed using his hand-held phone while driving. Unfortunately, Beckham is not alone in apparently thinking that time spent driving can also be usefully spent doing something else.
  But it isn’t just phones that can distract us while driving. Increasingly, vehicles come pre-installed with technology that promises to improve our lives and let us get that little bit more productivity o
  
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• Mathematically-designed graphene has improved electrocatalytic activity

  25-05-2019 17:19 via revolution-green.com
  An international research group has improved graphene’s ability to catalyse the ‘hydrogen evolution reaction’, which releases hydrogen as a result of passing an electronic current through water. They designed a mathematically-predicted graphene electrocatalyst, and confirmed its performance using high resolution electrochemical microscopy and computational modelling. The findings were published in the journal Advanced Science.
  Akichika Kumatani of Tohoku University’s Adva
  
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