Credit to Author: Tim Tyler| Date: Wed, 02 Nov 2022 03:08:52 +0000
In order for the United States to meet its 2050 decarbonization goals, it must install up to 20 times more solar photovoltaic (PV) modules than are installed today. In order to achieve this goal, the United States must increase its PV production and installations rapidly, but there are more solutions than simply installing more of […]
Credit to Author: Tim Tyler| Date: Mon, 31 Oct 2022 22:31:48 +0000
The United States has a great network of waterways that is used for municipal, agricultural, and industrial purposes. With millions of miles of pipelines and conduits, the opportunity to harness that wasted energy with conduit hydropower is tremendous. In a recent study at the U.S. Department of Energy’s Oak Ridge National Laboratory, there was great […]
Credit to Author: Tim Tyler| Date: Sun, 30 Oct 2022 16:50:57 +0000
In the future, the high demand for EV charging is something that will need to be addressed. Despite more and more EV charging stations becoming available every day, there are still a few areas that need to be addressed until access to charging stations becomes more widespread. Location, time, and duration are three areas that […]
Credit to Author: Tim Tyler| Date: Sun, 30 Oct 2022 15:57:22 +0000
Four more years of high-resolution imagery data have been released to show the polar regions in stunning detail, thanks to a hard-working team of researchers at the University of Minnesota–Twin Cities. The new images have been added to eight years of previous data, which introduce the most detailed polar region terrain maps ever created. Using […]
Credit to Author: Steve Hanley| Date: Sun, 30 Oct 2022 03:50:39 +0000
Researchers at the University of Cambridge, in collaboration with colleagues in Austria, report that tetrataenite, a “cosmic magnet” that takes millions of years to develop naturally in meteorites, can potentially be used instead of rare earth materials in magnets. Previously, attempts to make tetrataenite in the laboratory have depended on extreme and impractical methods, but […]
Credit to Author: George Harvey| Date: Sun, 30 Oct 2022 03:43:59 +0000
Once upon a time, America was great. It wasn’t that long ago, either. We had a political system that was the hope of the world. But we also had the best science, with the greatest researchers, finding the best ways to do things. We were a proud nation, almost completely undivided on these salient facts. […]
Credit to Author: Guest Contributor| Date: Sun, 09 Oct 2022 23:31:57 +0000
Lithium-ion batteries are efficient, compact, and have a long lifespan — all factors that enable electric vehicles (EVs), which are powered by these batteries, to be a great substitute for their gasoline counterpart. Transportation is a large contributor to greenhouse gas emissions. By switching to EVs, and away from these highly polluting gasoline vehicles, a […]
Credit to Author: U.S. Department of Energy| Date: Sun, 09 Oct 2022 03:28:20 +0000
The Earth System Grid Federation, a multi-agency initiative that gathers and distributes data for top-tier projections of the Earth’s climate, is preparing a series of upgrades that will make using the data easier and faster while improving how the information is curated. The federation, led by the Department of Energy’s Oak Ridge National Laboratory in collaboration with […]
Credit to Author: Nexus Media| Date: Sat, 08 Oct 2022 03:45:30 +0000
Enough methane gas leaks from pipelines between Permian wellheads and processing facilities to power 2.1 million homes, a study published Tuesday in Environmental Science and Technology Letters finds. The 213,000 metric tons of methane escaping from so-called gathering lines is 14 times higher than a previous EPA finding. The study represents the second finding that […]
Credit to Author: Guest Contributor| Date: Fri, 07 Oct 2022 13:01:12 +0000
UNSW researchers have solved the mystery of why and how ocean ‘hotspots’ are forming so fast, by examining the winds that influence the ocean currents heating these areas.