Energy storage using the concrete method cost only $0.78 per kilowatt-hour, far below the Department of Energy’s goal of achieving thermal energy storage at a cost of $15 per kilowatt-... Read more
The goal is to make new magnet alloys from recycled rare earths Recycling keeps paper, plastics, and even jeans out of landfills. Could recycling rare-earth magnets do the same? Perhaps, if... Read more
It can also provide dedicated energy crops suitable for establishment on marginal land Putting the water-use-efficient and turbo-charged photosynthesis from plants such as agave into woody b... Read more
Eventually yielding more effective pharmaceuticals with fewer side effects. It’s not a magic trick and it’s not sleight of hand – scientists really are using levitation to improve the drug d... Read more
Can extract five to seven times more uranium at uptake rates seven times faster than the world’s best adsorbents Fueling nuclear reactors with uranium harvested from the ocean could be... Read more
“There’s going to be graveyards full of buried battery companies” PolyPlus partners with Johnson Controls and Corning to commercialize energy dense lithium-water, lithium-a... Read more
Image via Wikipedia New research by Rice University scientists suggests that a class of material known as metallacarborane could store hydrogen at or better than benchmarks set by the United... Read more
Columbia University and N.Y. engineering firm Weidlinger Associates are developing a layered approach that will draw electricity from the sun’s energy in multiple ways Tar and shingles... Read more