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Wind and Solar Power Paired With Storage Could Power Grid 99.9 Percent of the Time
December 10, 2012 — Renewable energy could fully power a large electric grid 99.9 percent of the time by 2030 at costs comparable to today's electricity expenses, according to new research. A well-designed combination ... > full story -
Synthetic Fuel Could Eliminate U.S. Need for Crude Oil, Researchers Say
December 5, 2012 — The United States could eliminate the need for crude oil by using a combination of coal, natural gas and non-food crops to make synthetic fuel, a team of researchers has found. Besides economic and ... > full story -
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Synchrotron Gives Insight Into Green Energy Enzymes
December 4, 2012 — Chemists have been using a Japanese synchrotron to get a detailed look at enzymes that could help power the green ... > full story -
Gases from Grasses: Simulations on Ranger Supercomputer Help Researchers Understand Biofuel Reactions
December 4, 2012 — Researchers used computer simulations and laboratory experiments to discover a reaction site on gold-titanium oxides that is responsible for high rates of catalysis relevant to biofuel and fuel cell ... > full story -
Hydrogen Production: Can Cobalt Be Used to Replace Platinum?
November 27, 2012 — Researchers in France have developed two new cobalt-based materials that may be used to replace platinum, a rare and expensive metal, in producing hydrogen from water (electrolysis). One of them ... > full story -
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Electricity from the Marshes
November 23, 2012 — An unexpected source of new, clean energy has been found: the Plant-Microbial Fuel Cell that can generate electricity from the natural interaction between living plant roots and soil bacteria. The ... > full story -
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Nanotechnology Simplifies Hydrogen Production for Clean Energy
November 20, 2012 — In the first-ever experiment of its kind, researchers have demonstrated that clean energy hydrogen can be produced from water splitting by using very small metal particles that are exposed to ... > full story -
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Clues to Cause of Hydrogen Embrittlement in Metals: Findings Could Guide Design of New Embrittlement-Resistant Materials
November 19, 2012 — Hydrogen can easily dissolve and migrate within metals to make these otherwise ductile materials brittle and more prone to failures. Now, researchers have shown that the physics of hydrogen ... > full story -
Mixing Processes Could Increase Impact of Biofuel Spills on Aquatic Environments
November 16, 2012 — Ethanol, a component of biofuel made from plants such as corn, is blended with gas in many parts of the country, but has significantly different fluid properties than pure gasoline. A group of ... > full story -
Using Rust and Water to Store Solar Energy as Hydrogen
November 11, 2012 — How can solar energy be stored so that it can be available any time, day or night, when the sun shining or not? Scientists are developing a technology that can transform light energy into a clean ... > full story
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