The Batteries Of Tomorrow Are In The Laboratories Of Today
Better batteries are under development at Cornell and Harvard as researchers rush to solve the problem of dendrites.
Better batteries are under development at Cornell and Harvard as researchers rush to solve the problem of dendrites.
ITHACA, N.Y. — As the Earth’s human population grows, greenhouse gas emissions from the world’s food system are on track to expand. A new study demonstrates that state-of-the-art agricultural technology and management can not only reduce that growth but eliminate it altogether by generating net negative emissions — reducing more … [continued]
Researchers at Cornell have developed a stereo camera imaging system they say is almost as good as lidar at a fraction of the cost. Meanwhile, Apple has applied for a patent that would add sensors to the head and tail light assemblies of vehicles.
Researchers from Harvard and Cornell have built a soft robot that looks like Gumby without a head, which can roam freely outside of the laboratory.
A longer version of this article, with commentary, was released in one of our sister publications, Planetsave, on Sunday, July 27. Scientific American has raised an issue that’s been puzzling environmental and climate scientists since the beginnings of the natural gas boom in the United States. With ClimateWire, the nation’s … [continued]
Originally published on Climate Central. By Bobby Magill Natural gas as a means to produce electricity is being hailed by the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change as the fuel that can act as a “bridge” between carbon-heavy coal and zero-carbon renewables, helping to reduce humans’ impact on the climate. The idea is that burning … [continued]
From the good folk over at NREL (notably, I recently landed an interview with the Director of NREL just after he had given a presentation — at the International Renewable Energy Conference — in which he discussed this amazing building a bit): By Heather Lammers The Research Support Facility (RSF) at the … [continued]
A project that involved 1.8 megawatts (MW) of solar power, 500 geothermal wells, and fuel cells could potentially reduce energy consumption at a Cornell University campus by 75%. The campus has the name “NYC Tech Campus” and is a project of Distributed Sun. The project, if it were already … [continued]