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Shuttering Fossil Fuel Power Plants May Cost Less Than Expected

Dec. 3, 2020 — Decarbonizing US electricity production will require both construction of renewable energy sources and retirement of power plants now operated by fossil fuels. A generator-level model suggests that ...

Hydrogen-Powered Heavy Duty Vehicles Could Contribute Significantly to Achieving Climate Goals

Dec. 1, 2020 — A partial transition of German road transport to hydrogen energy is among the possibilities being discussed to help meet national climate targets. ...

New Technique Seamlessly Converts Ammonia to Green Hydrogen

Nov. 18, 2020 — Researchers have developed a highly effective, environmentally friendly method for converting ammonia into hydrogen. The new technique is a major step forward for enabling a zero-pollution, ...

A New Material for Separating CO2 from Industrial Waste Gases, Natural Gas, or Biogas

Oct. 20, 2020 — With a new material, the greenhouse gas carbon dioxide (CO2) can be specifically separated from industrial waste gases, natural gas, or biogas, and ...

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Green Hydrogen: Buoyancy-Driven Convection in the Electrolyte

Nov. 19, 2020 — Hydrogen produced by using solar energy could contribute to a climate neutral energy system of the future. But there are hurdles on the way from laboratory scale to large-scale implementation. A team ...

New Semiconductor Coating May Pave Way for Future Green Fuels

Nov. 18, 2020 — Hydrogen gas and methanol for fuel cells or as raw materials for the chemicals industry, for example, could be produced more sustainably using sunlight, a new study shows. In this study, researchers ...

In Retrospect, the Burning of Wood in District Heating Plants Has Resulted in Climate Saving

Nov. 17, 2020 — A new report shows that the burning of wood is significantly more climate friendly than coal and slightly more climate friendly than natural gas over ...

How to Improve Natural Gas Production in Shale

Nov. 12, 2020 — A new hydrocarbon study contradicts conventional wisdom about how methane is trapped in rock, revealing a new strategy to more easily access the valuable energy ...

Metal Deposits from Chinese Coal Plants End Up in the Pacific Ocean

Oct. 23, 2020 — Emissions from coal-fired power plants in China are fertilizing the North Pacific Ocean with a metal nutrient important for marine life, according to new findings from a research team. The ...

Quantum Engines With Entanglement as Fuel?

Oct. 19, 2020 — It's still more science fiction than science fact, but perfect energy efficiency may be one step closer due to new research by ...

Artificial Cyanobacterial Biofilm Can Sustain Green Ethylene Production for Over a Month

Oct. 15, 2020 — Ethylene is one of the most important and widely used organic chemicals. A research group has designed a thin-layer artificial biofilm with embedded ...

Hydrogen Embrittlement Creates Complications for Clean Energy Storage, Transportation

Oct. 6, 2020 — Hydrogen is becoming a crucial pillar in the clean energy movement, and developing safe and cost-effective storage and transportation methods for it ...

Spinach: Good for Popeye and the Planet

Oct. 5, 2020 — Spinach, when converted from its leafy, edible form into carbon nanosheets, acts as a catalyst for an oxygen reduction reaction in fuel cells and metal-air ...

Do as Plants Do: Novel Photocatalysts Can Perform Solar-Driven Conversion of CO2 Into Fuel

Sep. 9, 2020 — Scientists develop a novel 'heterostructured' photocatalyst using titanium and copper, two abundant and relatively inexpensive metals. Their ...