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The community from Rock Port, Missouri is celebrating their accomplishment of being ‘100% wind powered’. The energy comes from four wind turbines built on agricultural lands that are estimated to produce 16 million kilowatt hours. The town is expected to use 13 million kilowatt hours of electricity this year.

The energy surplus will be sent to [...]

Hui Wu, a scientist from the University of Maryland collaborated with the National Institute of Standards and Technology to discover a new class of materials that can store large amounts of hydrogen into its crystal structure for later release.

Hydrogen is an abundant element as is viewed as the perfect fuel of the next generation. But [...]

Electrical engineers from the University of California, San Diego, developed a new method that could lead to the thin-film solar cells of the future, with highly increased performance. Researchers spiked regular solar cells with nanowires that serve as electron superhighways for electrons resulted from the photons of light.
These ’superhighways’ directly take the electrons to the [...]

Researchers from MIT have announced that they managed to improve fuel cell efficiency with more than 50 percent. The new technology could be very helpful for portable electronics and the key for this discovery was a new material.
“Our goal is to replace traditional fuel-cell membranes with these cost-effective, highly tunable and better-performing materials,” said Paula [...]