Deep Learning Trains Buildings on Energy Efficiency
In the United States, residential and commercial buildings account for nearly 40 percent of all energy consumption. About 40 percent of that energy use is from heating, [...]
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InEnTec: Turning trash into valuable chemical products and clean fuels
Climate goals expand impact of MIT waste-processing spinoff that capitalizes on a process called plasma gasification. by Kathryn M. O’Neill | MIT Energy Initiative [...]
Here’s why AI is so power-hungry
By Kate Saenko, Boston University This month, Google forced out a prominent AI ethics researcher after she voiced frustration with the company for making her withdraw a [...]
Electricity from Falling Snow
Energy harvesting has made great strides over the past few years. Companies have begin harvesting kinetic energy from people dancing on surfaces, and researchers are [...]
Graphene Heat Pipes Offer Improved Cooling
Copper heat pipes have long been used for cooling electronics in many different environments. Now researchers at Chalmers University of Technology, Sweden, have found that [...]
Power Grid Electricity Loss – Globally, It’s a Lot
Sarah Marie Jordaan, Johns Hopkins University and Kavita Surana, University of Maryland When it comes to strategies for slowing the effects of climate change, the idea of [...]
High Efficiency Solar Cell Lands from Space
After developing a way to produce solar cells using materials previously considered too expensive for use on Earth, scientists at the National Renewable Energy Laboratory [...]
Carbon Nanotubes Channel Heat into Light for Solar
The ever-more-humble carbon nanotube may be just the device to make solar panels far more efficient – and anything else that loses energy through heat. Rice University [...]
“Solar Cell Flow Battery” Shows High Efficiency
While many utilities and solar farm developers are rushing to connect solar capacity to large batteries, a research team is taking a different approach by making the solar [...]
“Deep Farms” Could Avoid Inefficiencies of Surface Farming
In these days of increased concern about climate change, two of the greatest vulnerabilities affecting our current food production are the availability of arable land and the [...]
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