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You can’t just flip a switch and immediately shift the world’s energy use from fossil fuels to something cleaner like hydrogen. Such change takes time. But a team of scientists reports that we can use a common plastic to make that transition easier. The polymer “sponge” is a powdery substance that “adsorbs” large amounts of carbon dioxide when under pressure.

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OPEC member countries produced generous amounts of crude during July, causing a “glut” in the supply of oil, despite conflicts involving oil countries that have led to concerns of possible disruptions, the International Energy Agency (IEA) reports. The cost of Brent crude on Aug. 12 fell to its lowest level since Nov. 8, 2013, and another benchmark, West Texas Intermediate,

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China has bet on solar energy as a cleaner alternative to coal, but whether installed solar panels can meet the country’s need for energy is becoming a troubling question. China had installed nearly 19.5 gigawatts of solar panels as of the end of 2013. However, “many solar installations failed to generate as much electricity as planned,” said Ji Zhenshuang, deputy

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What if you could build a brick fence in your backyard that would offset a portion of your daily carbon dioxide emissions, such as those produced on your drive home from work? Would you do it? Ronald Dorn, professor of geography at Arizona State University in Tempe, would. Except the fence he has in mind wouldn’t be just constructed from

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General Electric is involved in nearly every area of the clean energy market: solar engineering, wind manufacturing and development, LED lighting, distributed natural gas, metering and submetering, and grid analytics are just some of its major touch points. It’s also a dominant force in conventional generation, monitoring 1,600 gas and steam turbines that represent nearly one-quarter of the world’s power

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Device manufacturers across a wide range of sectors – communications, radar, military vehicles, missiles, RF ablation and test/measurement – have long relied on semi-rigid cable assemblies. When designing modules within a device, these assemblies are a natural choice for their consistency and stability from an electrical performance perspective. But because semi-rigid assemblies come with an outer-shield made of solid copper

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NASA has selected four proposals for advanced energy storage technologies that may be used to power the agency’s future space missions. Development of these new energy storage devices will help enable NASA’s future robotic and human-exploration missions and aligns with conclusions presented in the National Research Council’s “NASA Space Technology Roadmaps and Priorities,”which calls for improved energy generation and storage

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PowerbyProxi today announced the release of Proxi-2D EVK-1, an evaluation kit for wireless charging of consumer electronic devices. The evaluation kit enables customers to test the capabilities of PowerbyProxi’s resonant technology features such as full spatial freedom, 7.5W power transfer per receiver and multi-device charging up to 15W. PowerbyProxi’s newest evaluation kit includes a transmitter and two receiver modules to

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The rise of the electric vehicle has been predominantly centered in North America and Europe, but new figures from Navigant Research predict that the Asia Pacific region will soon become the largest market for plug-in electric vehicles (PEVs). As a result, Navigant predicts that sales of PEVs throughout North America, Western Europe, and Asia Pacific will grow from 352,000 annually

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Scientists may have overcome one of the major hurdles in developing high-efficiency, long-lasting solar cells—keeping them cool, even in the blistering heat of the noonday Sun. By adding a specially patterned layer of silica glass to the surface of ordinary solar cells, a team of researchers led by Shanhui Fan, an electrical engineering professor at Stanford University in California has

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