U.K. energy secretary Ed Davey has opened the country’s largest renewable electricity generator at Drax Power Station, the largest coal power plant in … [Read more...]
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Researchers Realize Tunable Electrical Conductivity in MOF Materials
December 10, 2013 By Renewable Energy News
Sandia National Laboratories researchers have devised a new way to realize electrical conductivity in metal-organic framework (MOF) materials. This … [Read more...]
Piezoelectric Material Plugs Leaks in Transistors, Saves Energy
December 10, 2013 By Renewable Energy News
Tom van Hemert and Ray Hueting of the University of Twente’s MESA+ Institute for Nanotechnology have found a way to “plug” leakage current in … [Read more...]
Evonik Uses Bacteria to Produce Chemicals from Waste Gas
December 9, 2013 By Renewable Energy News
Evonik Industries, a German maker of speciality chemicals, has for the first time used biotechnology to convert synthesis gas (syngas) into a chemical … [Read more...]
ADB Helps China Build Utility-Scale Concentrated Solar Power Plant
December 9, 2013 By Renewable Energy News
A $150 million loan from the Asian Development Bank (ADB) will help China build a 50-megawatt concentrated solar power plant in the northwestern … [Read more...]
New York’s Fresh Kills Landfill to Become Solar Park
December 9, 2013 By Renewable Energy News
With its 2,200 acres of total area, New York’s Fresh Kills landfill was opened in 1947 as a temporary landfill, but eventually became New York City’s … [Read more...]
