Why Is It So Hard to Make Batteries Smaller & Lighter?
Scientists freeze and cut a battery in half to look inside and reveal why it fails.
Author: US Department of Energy
High-Performance, Earth-Friendly Materials For Geothermal Wells
New DOE-funded center seeks to cut costs and improve carbon footprint of cement composites and other materials used in extreme geothermal environments
A New Twist on Rechargeable Battery Performance
In-situ transmission electron microscopy allows researchers to observe directly how the materials in a battery evolve at atomic scale, providing insight into rechargeable battery function
Enhanced Geothermal, Offshore Wind Energy Gain Earthshot™ Support at PNNL
Leading two Energy Earthshot™ Research Centers, Pacific Northwest National Laboratory will perform the fundamental research needed to harness the power of both subsurface heat and offshore wind to provide renewable energy from the Earth and the offshore environment.
Can A Roof’s Material Cool The Outside Air & Lower Energy Demand?
Cool, green and solar panel roofs can
How Renewable Energy Is Transforming Global Electricity — Charts!
Even as Fossil Energy Still Provides Most of the World’s Electricity, New Electricity Generating Capacity Is Dominated by Renewable Energy Projects
Hualapai Indian Tribe: Solar-Plus-Storage Equals Savings of $450,000 Per Year At Grand Canyon West :
Tribal Energy Snapshot: Hualapai Indian Tribe In this tribal energy snapshot, learn more about the Hualapai Indian Tribe’s Building Resiliency into the Grand Canyon West Microgrid project. The project was co-funded by the U.S. Department of Energy’s Office of Indian Energy. Project Quick Facts As the home of the world-famous … [continued]
Hualapai Indian Tribe: Solar-Plus-Storage Equals Savings of $450,000 Per Year At Grand Canyon West
Tribal Energy Snapshot: Hualapai Indian Tribe In this tribal energy snapshot, learn more about the Hualapai Indian Tribe’s Building Resiliency into the Grand Canyon West Microgrid project. The project was co-funded by the U.S. Department of Energy’s Office of Indian Energy. Project Quick Facts As the home of the world-famous … [continued]
Updated Report & Data Illustrate Distributed Solar Pricing & Design Trends
We are pleased to announce the release of the latest edition of Berkeley Lab’s Tracking the Sun annual report, describing pricing and design trends for grid-connected, distributed solar photovoltaic (PV) and PV-plus-storage systems in the United States. The report is based on data from roughly 3.2 million systems installed nationally … [continued]
Researchers Using AI to Aid Disaster Response & Recovery
For some, all the talk about artificial intelligence sounds like science fiction, where futuristic societies are overrun by robots that begin to think for themselves. And given all the hype about AI, it is not surprising that 61 percent of respondents in a recent Reuters poll believed that AI poses … [continued]
