Stanford scientists discover how microbes acquire electricity in making...
(Source: Stanford University) Stanford Report, May 18, 2015 New findings by Stanford engineering Professor Alfred Spormann and colleagues could pave the way for microbial "factories" that produce...
View ArticleStanford's GCEP awards $10.5 million for research on renewable energy...
(Source: Stanford University) Stanford Report, October 8, 2014 Stanford scientists and an international research group receive funding to advance solar cells, batteries, renewable fuels and bioenergy....
View ArticleSolar Fuels: How Planes And Cars Could Be Powered By The Sun
Solar energy is the world’s most plentiful and ubiquitous energy source, and researchers around the world are pursuing ways to convert sunlight into a useful form. Most people are aware of solar...
View ArticleHyperSolar Reports Record Time for Hydrogen Production
SANTA BARBARA, CA--(Marketwired - Jun 30, 2014) - HyperSolar, Inc. (OTCQB: HYSR), the developer of a breakthrough technology to produce renewable hydrogen using sunlight and water, announced today...
View ArticleMacArthur 'genius' grant winner creates artificial leaves that photosynthesize
It took nature millions of years to figure out how to turn energy from the sun into chemical energy that can be stored for a cloudy day - a process known as photosynthesis. It took Peidong Yang, a...
View ArticleCarbon dioxide may soon be used to make fuel
A newly developed, solar powered “leaf” mimics photosynthesis, converting CO2 into fuel. Carbon dioxide is one of the main culprits of climate change, dramatically warming the Earth as it accumulates...
View ArticleSupersonic electrons could produce future solar fuel (Lunds universitet)
(Source: Lunds universitet) The ultimate aim of the present study is to find a way to make fuel from water using sunlight. This is what photosynthesis does all the time - plants convert water and...
View ArticleHyperSolar Announces Breakthrough in Low Cost Fabrication of Water Splitting...
Company Develops Artificial Photosynthesis Particles Using a Simplified Low-Cost Aqueous Process SANTA BARBARA, CA--(Marketwired - April 28, 2015) - HyperSolar, Inc. (OTCQB: HYSR), the developer of a...
View Article'Synthetic' Leaves: The Energy Plants of the Future? (Kavli Roundtable)
Alan Brown, writer and blogger for The Kavli Foundation contributed this article to Live Science's Expert Voices: Op-Ed & Insights. Imagine using plants to grow the natural gas that heats homes and...
View ArticleHyperSolar Announces Breakthrough in Low Cost Fabrication of Water Splitting...
(Source: HyperSolar Inc) SANTA BARBARA, CA - April 28, 2015 - HyperSolar, Inc. (OTCQB: HYSR), the developer of a breakthrough technology to produce renewable hydrogen using sunlight and any source of...
View ArticleNew Discovery Could Better Predict How Semiconductors Weather Abuse (Lawrence...
(Source: Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory) Mimicking nature is not easy, but new insights by researchers at the Department of Energy's Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (Berkeley Lab) could...
View ArticleNew Hybrid Fuel Cell Made From E. Coli, Gold, And Titanium
Escherichia coli (E. coli) is not something anyone wants to come into contact with; after all, this bacteria is responsible for fairly potent, sometimes dangerous, food poisoning. A team of researchers...
View ArticleSolar Cells Get Boost with Integration of Water-Splitting Catalyst onto...
(Source: Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory) Scientists have found a way to engineer the atomic-scale chemical properties of a water-splitting catalyst for integration with a solar cell, and the...
View ArticleAnother Milestone in Hybrid Artificial Photosynthesis (Lawrence Berkeley...
(Source: Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory) A team of researchers at the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE)'s Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (Berkeley Lab) developing a bioinorganic hybrid...
View ArticleHyperSolar Achieves Major Breakthrough in Splitting Water into Renewable...
(Source: HyperSolar Inc) HyperSolar Achieves Major Breakthrough in Splitting Water into Renewable Hydrogen Fuel HyperSolar Achieves Major Breakthrough in Splitting Water into Renewable Hydrogen Fuel...
View ArticleHyperSolar Achieves Major Breakthrough in Splitting Water Into Renewable...
The Company Exceeds the 1.23 Volts Threshold Required for Artificial Photosynthesis to Split Water Into Hydrogen and Oxygen Using Only the Power of the Sun SANTA BARBARA, CA--(Marketwired - December...
View ArticleJCAP Stabilizes Common Semiconductors For Solar Fuels Generation (California...
(Source: California Institute of Technology) Researchers around the world are trying to develop solar-driven generators that can split water, yielding hydrogen gas that could be used as clean fuel....
View ArticleArtificial Photosynthesis Could Soon Be Key To Widespread Adoption Of Renweables
Solar and wind power have one thing in common besides being renewable: When the sun isn’t shining or the wind isn’t blowing, they don’t generate electricity. But artificial photosynthesis may someday...
View ArticleDid UIC just save the world? (University of Illinois at Chicago)
(Source: University of Illinois at Chicago) Civilizations are powered by the burning of fossil fuels. Humans are adding tons of carbon dioxide to the Earth's atmosphere, causing climate change and...
View ArticleBerkeley Lab’s Major Advance in Artificial Photosynthesis Poses Win/Win for...
(Source: FLC - Federal Laboratory Consortium for Technology Transfer) A major advance in artificial photosynthesis poses a win/win for the environment - using sequestered CO2 for green chemistry,...
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