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Europe has the untapped onshore capacity to meet global energy demand

14.08.2019 | University of Sussex | www.sussex.ac.uk

Europe has the capacity to produce more than 100 times the amount of energy it currently produces through onshore windfarms, new analysis from the University of Sussex and Aarhus University has…

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Europe has the untapped onshore capacity to meet global energy demand

Installing solar panels on agricultural lands maximizes their efficiency

09.08.2019 | Oregon State University | oregonstate.edu

The most productive places on Earth for solar power are farmlands, according to an Oregon State University study.

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Installing solar panels on agricultural lands maximizes their efficiency

Toyota starts testing high-efficiency solar cells for electric cars

08.07.2019 | Electrek | www.electrek.co

Toyota announced that it is starting to test new high-efficiency solar cells to be used on electric cars that could potentially boost the range by 35 miles (56 km) of range per day.

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Toyota starts testing high-efficiency solar cells for electric cars

Getting more heat out of sunlight

03.07.2019 | MIT | www.mit.edu

A newly developed material that is so perfectly transparent you can barely see it could unlock many new uses for solar heat. It generates much higher temperatures than conventional solar collectors…

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New Additives Promise Better Performance for Electric Cars in Cold Weather

28.06.2019 | IEEE Spectrum | spectrum.ieee.org

Electric cars struggle with extreme temperatures, which can degrade the electrolyte solutions that conduct ions between the negative electrodes, or anodes, and positive electrodes, or cathodes,…

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New Additives Promise Better Performance for Electric Cars in Cold Weather

Next-gen solar cells spin in new direction

24.06.2019 | Flinders University | www.flinders.edu.au

A new nanomaterial made from phosphorus, known as phosphorene, is shaping up as a key ingredient for more sustainable and efficient next-generation perovskite solar cells (PSCs).

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Next-gen solar cells spin in new direction

‘Hot spots’ increase efficiency of solar desalination

19.06.2019 | Rice University | www.rice.edu

Researchers in Rice’s Laboratory for Nanophotonics (LANP) showed they could boost the efficiency of their solar-powered desalination system by more than 50% simply by adding inexpensive plastic…

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‘Hot spots’ increase efficiency of solar desalination

Researchers show glare of energy consumption in the name of deep learning

10.06.2019 | Tech Xplore | www.techxplore.com

Wait, what? Creating an AI can be way worse for the planet than a car? Think carbon footprint. That is what a group at the University of Massachusetts Amherst did. They set out to assess the energy…

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Researchers show glare of energy consumption in the name of deep learning

Chip design drastically reduces energy needed to compute with light

07.06.2019 | MIT | www.mit.edu

MIT researchers have developed a novel “photonic” chip that uses light instead of electricity — and consumes relatively little power in the process. The chip could be used to process massive neural…

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Chip design drastically reduces energy needed to compute with light

New class of catalysts for energy conversion

08.05.2019 | Ruhr-Universität Bochum | www.ruhr-uni-bochum.de/en

Numerous chemical reactions relevant for the energy revolution are highly complex and result in considerable energy losses. This is the reason why energy conversion and storage systems or fuel cells…

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