It Takes a Real Genius to Fake Photosynthesis
By Don Willlmott Brace yourself for some breathtaking botany. A group of scientists at the U.S. Department of Energy's Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory are hard at work trying to perfect a process...
View ArticleStanford engineers set record for capturing and storing solar energy in...
(Source: Stanford University) Solar energy has the potential to provide abundant power, but only if scientists solve two key issues: storing the energy for use at all hours, particularly at night, and...
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 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 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 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 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 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 ArticleCore-shell nanostructures show promise in production of fuel gases (The...
(Source: The University of Georgia) Athens, Ga. - Researchers at the University of Georgia have created a nanostructure that could provide a path toward using solar energy more efficiently in the...
View ArticleStanford 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 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 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 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 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 ArticleFor platinum catalysts, a tiny squeeze gives a big boost in performance,...
(Source: Stanford University) A nanosize squeeze can significantly boost the performance of platinum catalysts that help generate energy in fuel cells, according to a new study by Stanford scientists....
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 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 ArticleHow does Toyota’s fuel cell vehicle work? (Toyota (GB) plc)
(Source: Toyota (GB) plc) The revolution starts here… The countdown to the launch of Toyota's advanced new fuel cell vehicle has finally begun. On sale in 2015, the Toyota Mirai has been described as...
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 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...
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