The Inevitable Solar-Powered March Of The Hydrogen Fuel Cell
Hydrogen is slowly but surely shedding its bad boy image as research progresses on solar powered water-splitting for hydrogen fuel cells.
Rice University
More Good News For Fuel Cell EV Fans
Take heart, fuel cell electric vehicle early adopters! You can look forward to cheaper, greener hydrogen for your personal mobility needs.
Black Or Yellow, There’s Gold In That Thar Wastewater
Yet another sustainability threefer for algae: producing algae biofuel from municipal wastewater, removing pollutants, and saving energy, too.
Flakey New “Foam Party” Graphene Battery Breakthrough
Researchers at Rice University have whipped up a flexible foam-based, flakey graphene battery in the form of an inexpensive microsupercapacitor.
Graphene Cousin “Flips” For Energy Storage Breakthrough
A research team from Rice University has achieved an energy storage breakthrough based on a new, relatively cheap and simple method for manufacturing MoS2.
Solar Energy News Buffet
As noted in an article yesterday, I’ve been very busy in the past month (well, months…) moving into a new home and following the birth of a sweet little cleantech lover. Inevitably, “roundup articles” of important or interesting cleantech news we didn’t cover dropped off as a result. With a big backlog … [continued]
Diamane — Extremely Thin Films Of Diamond Can Be Created Without High-Pressure
Diamane — an extremely thin film of diamond only a few atoms thick — can be created without the extreme pressure needed to produce natural gemstones, according to new multi-university research. These “perfect” sheets of diamond — which have been predicted to be possible for some time, and signs of … [continued]
Cheap Substitute For Silicon Grows From Carbon Nanotube “Seeds”
While we’ve been busy touting graphene as the “miracle material of the new millennium,” there’s another advanced materials kid on the block called carbon nanotubes and they haven’t exactly been on the snooze either. A team of researchers at the University of Southern California (USC) has just announced that they’ve … [continued]
Elusive Silicon Battery Not So Elusive, Thanks To Carbon Nanotubes
Silicon could provide lithium-ion batteries with ten times their typical storage capacity, but this ubiquitous semiconductor is notoriously fragile when applied to battery technology. One promising line of research is to apply silicon to a flexible platform, enabling it to expand without cracking. That is the approach taken by a … [continued]
Solar Steam — Off-Grid Solar-Powered Sterilization System Created
An impressive new solar-powered sterilization system — capable of converting as much as 80% of the energy found in sunlight into sterilization heat — was recently created by nanotechnology researchers at Rice University. The researchers think that the new “solar steam” sterilization system could be of great utility to those … [continued]
