Tag: ENERGY

  • Why is the UAE, where solar energy is abundant, about to open four nuclear reactors?

    Why is the UAE, where solar energy is abundant, about to open four nuclear reactors?

    The United Arab Emirates (UAE) is building the world’s largest concentrated solar power plant, capable of generating 700 megawatts. During daylight, solar power will provide cheap electricity, and at night the UAE will use stored solar heat to generate electricity.

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  • New record could usher in new era for solar energy

    New record could usher in new era for solar energy

    The future of solar technology is almost reality, with researchers at The Australian National University (ANU) setting a new record for the conversion of sunlight into energy.

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  • Environmental disaster or key to a clean energy future? A new twist on hydropower

    Environmental disaster or key to a clean energy future? A new twist on hydropower

    Steve Lowe gazed into a gaping pit in the heart of the California desert, careful not to let the blistering wind send him toppling over the edge.

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  • Groundbreaking all-solid-state battery technology

    Groundbreaking all-solid-state battery technology

    On March 9 in London, researchers from the Samsung Advanced Institute of Technology (SAIT) and the Samsung R&D Institute Japan (SRJ) presented a study on high-performance, long-lasting all-solid-state batteries to Nature Energy, one of the world’s leading scientific journals.

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  • A scheme for hybrid access point (H-AP) deployment in smart cities

    A scheme for hybrid access point (H-AP) deployment in smart cities

    Researchers at the University of Essex, UESTC-China and ZTE have recently introduced a scheme for the deployment of hybrid access points (H-APs), which could simultaneously enable wireless information transfer (WIT) and wireless energy transfer (WET) in smart cities. This unique scheme, presented in a paper pre-published on arXiv, uses a mobility model of grid-based streets in urban environments to represent the movements of users navigating a city.

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  • Building a nuclear plant? Go online

    Building a nuclear plant? Go online

    Bucking current trends toward safe, clean and renewable energy resources, a Silicon Valley entrepreneur last week launched an initiative to reignite enthusiasm for nuclear energy.

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  • Ultrathin organic solar cell is efficient and durable

    Ultrathin organic solar cell is efficient and durable

    Scientists from the RIKEN, in collaboration with international partners, have succeeded in creating an ultrathin organic solar cell that is both highly efficient and durable. Using a simple post-annealing process, they created a flexible organic cell that degrades by less than 5 percent over 3,000 hours in atmospheric conditions and that simultaneously has an energy conversion ratio—a key indicator of solar cell performance—of 13 percent.

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  • Water splitting advance holds promise for affordable renewable energy

    Water splitting advance holds promise for affordable renewable energy

    A breakthrough into splitting water into its parts could help make renewable energy pay off, even when the sun isn’t shining and the wind isn’t blowing.

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  • Innovative method improves safety in lithium-sulfur batteries

    Innovative method improves safety in lithium-sulfur batteries

    Researchers from A*STAR’s NanoBio Lab (NBL) have designed a semi-solid electrolyte for lithium-sulfur batteries that improves their safety without compromising their performance. This promising breakthrough paves the way for lithium-sulfur batteries to be used as efficient power solutions across diverse electronic and energy storage applications.

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  • User-customizable computing engine for artificial intelligence tasks

    User-customizable computing engine for artificial intelligence tasks

    Scientists at Osaka University have built a new computing device from field-programmable gate arrays (FPGA) that can be customized by the user for maximum efficiency in artificial intelligence applications. Compared with currently used rewireable hardware, the system increases circuit density by a factor of 12. Also, it is expected to reduce energy usage by 80%. This advance may lead to flexible artificial intelligence (AI) solutions that provide enhanced performance while consuming much less electricity.

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