In June, the initial floating solar panel system located at Banja reservoir suffered damage. Credit: Offshore Energy.The Norway-based Ocean Sun, got the floating solar power project at the Banja reservoir in Albania, back online.. A tornado damaged the 500 kW unit last year simply days after it was commissioned.Floatovoltaics are an exciting name for...
Credit: flight global.Tickets are getting more expensiveAir France-KLM shared Monday that it would include an additional charge of 12 euros ($13,50) to its tickets to counter the expense of using more expensive sustainable aviation fuel.Air France claimed that the fuel fee would be added to tickets from January 10.Passengers in coach will pay around...
Fusion could create more energy than any other process that could be produced on Earth. Credit: ShutterstockThere has been significant excitement about recent results from the Joint European Torus (JET) facility in the UK, suggesting that the dream of nuclear fusion power is inching closer to reality. We know that fusion works-- it is the...
Partial density of states for 2,3-butanediol with accompanying partial charge density images; isosurface of 0.0075 electrons/Bohr3. The gray, red, brown, and pink spheres are Ru, O, C, and H atoms, respectively. Credit: DOI: 10.3389/fenrg.2021.781001From Plants to Jet fuelA long-overlooked first step in producing sustainable aviation fuels will start with the ideal arrangement of molecular...
What if surplus renewable energy could be stored as computation instead? that’s the thinking behind “information batteries.” Photo/ISTOCK.A future powered by sustainable energy sources can save the globe from drastic climate change and reduce energy expenses. But the renewable resource has an intermittency issue-- the sun offers no power during the night, while winds...
The context of cooperation with UC Water and the Sierra Nevada Research Institute at UC Merced, scientists from UC Santa Cruz have released an investigation that suggests that encompassing California's 6,350 km network of public water shipment canals with photovoltaic panels could be a financially viable way to advance both renewable energy sources and...
An odoriferous, toxic gas can now be converted into clean-burning petroleum using a brand-new chemical process that has been found by specialists.The procedure converts hydrogen sulfide—more commonly known as "drain gas"—into hydrogen fuel and was recently described in the American Chemical Society publication ACS Sustainable Chemical Engineering. Hydrogen sulfide is a byproduct of industrial...
The now-familiar sight of conventional propeller wind turbines might be substituted in the years to come with wind farms consisting of an extra compact and efficient vertical turbine design.A new study from Oxford Brookes University has found that the vertical turbine concept is far more effective than conventional turbines in large-scale wind farms. When...
China has reached a new milestone in humanity's experiments to control the power of the stars.In May, the Chinese Academy of Sciences' fusion machine reached 120 million degrees Celsius and remained at that temperature for 101 seconds.The last time the EAST (Experimental Advanced Superconducting Tokamak or HT-7U) withstood a plasma vortex for so long...
