Sweden’s Lund University has announced that it intends to divest parts of its fossil fuel investments, at the same time as an MIT committee has recommended similar divestment. Announced on the Fossil Free website, Lund University, one of Europe’s oldest and most prestigious universities, declared that it would divest parts of its investment in … [continued]
Great timing — Just days after the US EPA issues its long-awaited fracking report, Stanford University announces that help is on the way.
The path to next-generation, high efficiency graphene based solar cells and other electronic devices could lie through a “whispering gallery.”
Some top clean transport reading for your Tuesday (& more?) pleasure: Tesla I Spent a Night in the Tesla Airbnb, For Science (and Pizza) After the Moaning, Tesla Makes Some Changes Charging on Road Trips — It’s against Common Sense Warm Silver Pictures (aka Titanium) I Survived a “Launch”! “D” … [continued]
Unfortunately, many people still think that Masdar* = Masdar City. In fact, Masdar has 4 big arms, just one of which is Masdar City. One of the others is Masdar Institute. The cleantech and sustainability research institute includes many top researchers and professors, including several who formerly worked for MIT. … [continued]
Perovskite solar cells could upend the global solar market, by nudging silicon solar cells out of the efficiency doldrums.
Many of us in the South cringe thinking of heat waves, electric bills, and summer. Everyone knows that air conditioners are practically a necessary evil — lusty energy takers. Even the very environmentally caring in America are somewhat sabotaged or spoiled when it comes to temperature. When cold, one might wrap up, … [continued]
Solid Energy, a Boston-based startup, recently said it has developed battery materials that have 200% greater energy density. The company has created an “anode-less” battery prototype with 1200 Wh/L in energy density. Some lithium-ion batteries with graphite anodes provide less than 600 Wh/L. A thin sheet of lithium foil was … [continued]
Researchers from MIT and the Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory have now completed a relatively thorough and systematic evaluation (one of the first) of the performance of spinel-structure compounds as multivalent intercalation cathode materials, according to a recent press release. The evaluation — which was performed utilizing high-throughput, first-principles calculations — spanned a “matrix … [continued]
On-board plasmatrons for hydrogen fuel production were once thought to be a way forward for fuel efficiency and emissions reduction…so, what happened?
