Alternative Energy
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ScienceBefore 2016 gets rolled over by the tide of time, join us as we toast the most mind-boggling, world-changing, amazing advancements scientists made around the globe this year.
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A British green energy company sees grass as the solution to the UK's energy needs. Ecotricity has announced plans to produce methane using grass harvested from marginal farmland that could one day heat 97 percent of British homes and create a whole new energy industry.
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ScienceA Duke University study suggests that serpentinized rocks underneath the ocean floor may hold the key to finding an abundant and free hydrogen resource.
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Using modified B2 vitamin molecules, researchers at Harvard University have created a rechargeable flow battery that could help revolutionize large-scale electricity storage from intermittent energy sources, such as solar and wind, with its low-cost, high-capacity capabilities
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ScienceResearchers at Oxford University claim computer simulations have demonstrated it is possible that microscopic wind farms could be built and powered by bacteria to provide a steady, albeit small, source of power.
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Solar-concentrating thermal technology is being used to power the air-conditioning system of an entire shopping center in Australia solely from the rays of the sun. It is expected that this technology will help drastically reduce commercial building energy use.
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Researchers at Cambridge have discovered that hybrid lead halide perovskites can actually recycle photons from light, which could lead to solar cells that are orders of magnitude more efficient than anything currently in use.
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A team of scientists led by McGill University are studying the combustion characteristics of metal powders to determine whether such powders could provide a more viable alternative to fossil fuels.
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Using "fools gold" nanocrystals to form part of a larger sodium-magnesium battery, scientists have created a storage cell that not only uses cheap and abundant materials but has the potential to be scaled up to store many terawatt-hours of energy.
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An Israeli-Palestinian NGO is using solar and wind energy to transform the lives of a marginalized community of Palestinian famers and shepherds. Comet-ME has helped develop small off-grid systems across 20 communities.
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A team of engineering students and faculty at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln have devised several systems that harness power from railway tracks. They could be used to illuminate warning lights at rural railway crossings.
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Although wave energy-harvesting systems are often just presented as concepts, one was recently deployed in Hawaii to provide power to the municipal grid. Built by Northwest Energy Innovations, the Azura device will remain in operation for a 12-month assessment period.
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