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Carbon Footprint of Grid-Scale Battery Technologies Calculated
March 8, 2013 — Solar and wind power pose a challenge for the U.S. electrical grid, which lacks the capacity to store surplus clean electricity and deliver it on demand. Researchers are developing grid-scale storage ... > full story -
Engineering Breakthrough Promises Significantly More Efficient Solar Cells
March 7, 2013 — A new technique could lead to significantly more efficient solar cells. Quantum dot photovoltaics offers the potential for low-cost, large-area solar power -- however these devices are not yet highly ... > full story -
New Material Using Doped Carbon Allows Fuels to Be Produced While Reducing CO2 Emissions
March 7, 2013 — After more than 10 years' work, scientists in Spain have a developed a carbon gel that enables carbon dioxide to be turned into hydrocarbons by electro-catalytic ... > full story -
Improved Synchronicity: Preventive Care for the Power Grid
March 2, 2013 — As the U.S. national power-grid network becomes larger and more complex, achieving reliability across the network is increasingly difficult. Now scientists have identified conditions and properties ... > full story -
U.S. May Face Inevitable Nuclear Power Exit
March 1, 2013 — In the third and final issue in a series focused on nuclear exits, the Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists, published by SAGE, turns its attention to the United States and looks at whether the ... > full story -
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Antarctic Scientists Discover 18-Kilogram Meteorite
February 28, 2013 — An international team of scientists have discovered a meteorite with a mass of 18 kilograms embedded in the East Antarctic ice sheet, the largest such meteorite found in the region since ... > full story -
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New Fabrication Technique Could Provide Breakthrough for Solar Energy Systems
February 27, 2013 — Scientists are using a novel fabrication process to create ultra-efficient solar energy rectennas capable of harvesting more than 70 percent of the sun's electromagnetic radiation and simultaneously ... > full story -
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Rethinking Wind Power
February 25, 2013 — “People have often thought there’s no upper bound for wind power—that it’s one of the most scalable power sources,” says an applied physicist. After all, gusts and ... > full story -
Research to Probe Deep Within a Solar Cell
February 25, 2013 — Engineers and scientists have pioneered a new technique to analyze PCBM, a material used in polymer photovoltaic cells, obtaining details of the structure of the material which will be vital to ... > full story -
NASA Deciphering the Mysterious Math of the Solar Wind
February 21, 2013 — The sun and its prodigious stream of solar particles, called the solar wind, can be particularly tricky to model since as the material streams to the outer reaches of the solar system it carries ... > full story
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