Renewable Energy

November 2018

University of Pittsburgh to Purchase Local Hydropower

PITTSBURGH—The University of Pittsburgh’s first major commitment to renewable energy will utilize the Allegheny River as the source of clean, local and longterm electricity for the campus. Pitt has signed a letter of intent with Rye Development, LLC to purchase 100 percent of the power from a low-impac

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11/30/2018

Introducing the World's First CO2 Negative Fuel

NextFuel's unique reactor that makes their fuel briquettes.

Introducing the World's First CO2 Negative Fuel

NextFuel is introducing a completely new energy solution to climate change that is CO2 negative, cheap, profitable and massively scalable. Their CO2 negative fuel briquette, made from elephant grass, is cheaper than oil and cheaper than coal in most markets. A coal plant can, without any investments, directly re

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11/29/2018

How Chile Accomplished its Renewable Energy Boom

Wiley

Chile is currently undergoing a renewable energy boom. Today, it's the second largest market for renewable energies in Latin America, and in 2016 Chile was the top-scoring renewable energy producer in the Americas and second in the world, beaten only by China. Two decades ago, when this process started, this tra

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11/21/2018

Explaining the Plummeting Cost of Solar Power

Explaining the Plummeting Cost of Solar Power

Massachusetts Institute of Technology

The dramatic drop in the cost of solar photovoltaic (PV) modules, which has fallen by 99 percent over the last four decades, is often touted as a major success story for renewable energy technology. But one question has never been fully addressed: What exactly accounts for that stunning drop? A new analysis

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11/20/2018

DOE Grant for Improving Process to Reduce Nuclear Fuel Waste

DOE Grant for Improving Process to Reduce Nuclear Fuel Waste

Penn State

An $800,000 grant from the U.S. Department of Energy will allow Penn State researchers to investigate a new approach for removing rare-earth fission products from the molten salt baths where used nuclear fuel is electro-refined to recycle uranium and minimize nuclear waste. Hojong Kim, assistant professor of materi

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11/19/2018

High-Voltage Storage Capacitors for Harsh Environments

High-Voltage Storage Capacitors for Harsh Environments

MALVERN, Pa. — Vishay Intertechnology, Inc. introduced a new series of high voltage ENYCAP electrical double-layer energy storage capacitors for energy harvesting and power backup applications in harsh environments. Vishay BCcomponents 230 EDLC-HV ENYCAP capacitors are among the industry's first to offer a use

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11/14/2018

Next Step on the Path Towards an Efficient Biofuel Cell

This is Julian Szczesny, Nikola Markovi?, Felipe Conzuelo, Wolfgang Schuhmann and Adrian Ruff (from the left).

Next Step on the Path Towards an Efficient Biofuel Cell

Ruhr-University Bochum

Fuel cells that work with the enzyme hydrogenase are, in principle, just as efficient as those that contain the expensive precious metal platinum as a catalyst. However, the enzymes need an aqueous environment, which makes it difficult for the starting material for the reaction - hydrogen - to reach the enzyme-loaded el

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11/14/2018

Purple Bacteria 'Batteries' Turn Sewage Into Clean Energy

Frontiers

You've flushed something valuable down the toilet today. Organic compounds in household sewage and industrial wastewater are a rich potential source of energy, bioplastics and even proteins for animal feed - but with no efficient extraction method, treatment plants discard them as contaminants. Now researcher

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11/13/2018

An Opportunity for Energy Transition

Meeting to incorporate the renewable energy cooperative Som Energia.

An Opportunity for Energy Transition

University of the Basque Country

The transition from fossil to renewable energy sources is a necessary condition for the sustainability of human societies. There are movements in societies seeking to make this transition "not merely technological but also designed to exploit the capacity for social transformation they offer, given the po

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11/12/2018

PSMA Energy Mgmt. Technical Committee Leadership Opportunity

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PSMA Energy Management Technical Committee Leadership Opportunity

PSMA Energy Mgmt. Technical Committee Leadership Opportunity

The PSMA Board of Directors is seeking one or more volunteers interested in providing leadership for the Energy Management Technical Committee. The membership in all the PSMA Technical Committees is comprised of individual volunteers from both Member and non-Member Companies who have a technical, business or pers

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11/10/2018

CITE 2019 will be held in Shenzhen on April 2019

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CITE 2019 Press Conference

CITE 2019 will be held in Shenzhen on April 2019

On November 8, 2018, the Organizing Committee of the 7th China Electronic Information Exposition (hereinafter referred to as "CITE 2019") held a press conference in Beijing, announcing that the 7th China Electronic Information Exposition will be held in Shenzhen Convention and Exhibition Center from Ap

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11/08/2018

A Bionic Mushroom That Generates Electricity

An electrode network (branched pattern) and cyanobacteria (spiral pattern) were 3D printed on a mushroom to produce bio-electricity.

A Bionic Mushroom That Generates Electricity

American Chemical Society

In the quest to replace fossil fuels, scientists are always on the lookout for alternative, environmentally friendly sources of energy. But who could have imagined a bionic mushroom that produces electricity? It sounds like something straight out of Alice in Wonderland, but researchers have now generated mushrooms

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11/07/2018

A Path Forward for Better use of Landfill gas as Energy

Schematic of the experimental setup of siloxane removal from a carrier gas by application of dielectric barrier discharge plasma

A Path Forward for Better use of Landfill gas as Energy

American Physical Society

WASHINGTON, D.C. -- Methane gas released from landfills has long been a topic of interest for alternative energy. One issue, however, is that landfill gases contain numerous contaminants, such as volatile methyl siloxanes, whose silica deposits put extra wear and tear on the natural gas generators when they co

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11/06/2018

Inside job: A new Technique to Cool a Fusion Reactor

This is visible imaging of (a) shell pellet hitting low-field-side boundary of plasma, (b) continuing through plasma toward core, (c) ablating and releasing boron dust in core. (d) Expanded view of (c), highlighting shell and dust. (e) Plasma cross-section with red dot indicating pellet location at time of dust release in (c). Injection velocity ? 230 m/s.

Inside job: A new Technique to Cool a Fusion Reactor

American Physical Society

PORTLAND, Ore.-- Fusion offers the potential of near limitless energy by heating a gas trapped in a magnetic field to incredibly high temperatures where atoms are so energetic that they fuse together when they collide. But if that hot gas, called a plasma, breaks free from the magnetic field, it must be safely pu

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11/05/2018

Ultra-high accuracy coreless current sensor supports 60Arms

Ultra-high accuracy coreless current sensor supports 60Arms

The CZ-370x series device meets the UL safety standard UL61800-5-1 for industrial equipment and features a wide current detection lineup from ±5.3 to ±180 App, 60 Arms. The CZ-370x series is intended to be used for many applications including AC motors and general inverters. Features ● Creepage / Cleara

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11/01/2018

TI’s TPS650861 Multi-Rail PMICs, Now Shipping at Mouser

TI’s TPS650861 Multi-Rail PMICs, Now Shipping at Mouser

The TPS650861 configurable power management integrated circuit (PMIC) offers flexible power solutions for multiprocessor systems-on-chip (MPSoCs) and field-programmable gate arrays (FPGAs). The TI TPS650861 PMIC, available from Mouser Electronics, features three variable-output voltage synchronous step-down

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11/01/2018

COSEL announces new R&D Innovation center in Toyama Japan

COSEL announces new R&D Innovation center in Toyama Japan

In a brand new, purpose built building with a floor space of 8,200 square meters, 250 R&D employees will have access to the most advanced equipment and technologies to design high quality power solutions with a reduced time-to-market. Looking towards future requirements and in order to respond rapidly to ma

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11/01/2018

Compact, Efficient 5-20W AC/DC Power Modules

Compact, Efficient 5-20W AC/DC Power Modules

The modules are designed to offer great light-load efficiency and low standby power. Ideal for industrial controls, IoT infrastructure, smart-building devices, and household appliances, the range comprises 5W, 10W, 15W and 20W options. Built-in filters bring them well within EMC Class B limits with no additional ex

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11/01/2018

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