China has achieved a new world efficiency record at 26.81 percent for silicon solar cells, according to the certification report of Institut für Solarenergieforschung in Hameln, Chinese solar giant LONGi Green Energy Technology Co said on Saturday. The conversion efficiency of photovoltaic (PV) cells refers to the ability of cells to convert solar power into […]
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How Is This A Thing? by Computing Forever (11:06)
How Is This A Thing? by Computing Forever (11:06) (To view full screen, also with many links, click the link below.) https://www.bitchute.com/video/kdJVV0VpSfmS How Is This A Thing? by Computing Forever (11:06) (To view full screen, also with many links, click the link below.) https://odysee.com/@EarthNewspaper:e/How-Is-This-A-Thing-July-30-2022-by-Computing-Forever Computing Forever Archive https://earthnewspaper.com/category/computing-forever Subscribe To The EarthNewspaper.com Newsletter https://EarthNewspaper.com/Subscribe Support […]
Welcome to 2030: I Own Land, Live Among Like Minded People, And Life Has Never Been Better by Derrick Broze
It’s time for the people to envision what our 2030 will look like. On Friday November 11th, 2016, the World Economic Forum and Forbes magazine published a short essay titled “Welcome to 2030. I own nothing, have no privacy, and life has never been better”. Written by Ida Auken, Denmark’s former Minister for the Environment […]
Mapped: Solar And Wind Power By Country by Bruno Venditti
Wind and solar generate over a tenth of the world’s electricity. Taken together, they are the fourth-largest source of electricity, behind coal, gas, and hydro. This infographic based on data from Ember shows the rise of electricity from these two clean sources over the last decade. Wind and solar generated 10.3% of global electricity for […]
Improved Fuel Cell Performance Using Semiconductor Manufacturing Technology by National Research Council of Science and Technology
A research team in Korea has synthesized metal nanoparticles that can drastically improve the performance of hydrogen fuel cell catalysts by using semiconductor manufacturing technology. The Korea Institute of Science and Technology (KIST) announced that the research team led by Dr. Sung Jong Yoo of the Hydrogen Fuel Cell Research Center has succeeded in synthesizing […]
A New, Inexpensive Catalyst Speeds The Production Of Oxygen From Water by David L. Chandler
An electrochemical reaction that splits apart water molecules to produce oxygen is at the heart of multiple approaches aiming to produce alternative fuels for transportation. But this reaction has to be facilitated by a catalyst material, and today’s versions require the use of rare and expensive elements such as iridium, limiting the potential of such […]
New Technique Boosts Efficiency, Sustainability Of Large-Scale Perovskite Solar Cells by Matt Shipman
An international team of researchers has demonstrated a technique for producing perovskite photovoltaic materials on an industrial scale, which will reduce the cost and improve the performance of mass-produced perovskite solar cells. The technique is low-cost, simple, energy-efficient, and should pave the way for creating perovskite solar cells. Perovskite is of interest for solar cells […]
First Power Achieved On World’s Largest Offshore Windfarm by Bob Yirka
Officials with the Danish energy company Ørsted have announced that they have achieved first power on the Hornsea 2 project—a new windfarm off the coast of England in the North Sea. As part of their announcement, posted on the company’s web page, officials noted that once the windfarm is fully operational, it will represent the […]
Best Of Last Year: The Top Phys.org Articles Of 2021 by Bob Yirka
2021 was a good year for research of all kinds. The strongest coronal mass ejection in years made headlines this past May, prompting experts around the world to urge world leaders to take it as a warning. Future storms, many noted, could wreak havoc on electrical grids, satellites and the internet. The time to act […]
Researchers Suggest Battery-Powered Trains Could Very Soon Be Economically Viable by Bob Yirka
A small team of researchers from Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory and the University of California has found that battery-powered trains could become economical as soon as 2023. In their paper published in the journal Nature Energy, the group argues that improved battery technology and cheap, renewable energy could soon allow battery power to compete with […]
High-Altitude Wind Power Reaches New Milestone by CORDIS
As part of the EU-funded REACH project, Dutch start-up Kitepower has successfully deployed its Airborne Wind Energy System (AWES) in the Caribbean. This is a landmark achievement for the company working to bring its Falcon 100kW to market. It will provide plentiful, inexpensive renewable energy to remote communities and small power grids. The AWES Falcon […]
Making Solar Energy Even More Sustainable With Light-Powered Technology by Newcastle University
Technology using a new generation of hybrid solar cells is one step closer to mass-production, thanks to Newcastle University-led research. An international team of scientists have identified a new process using coordination materials that can accelerate the use of low-cost, Earth-abundant materials with the potential to transform the energy sector by replacing silicone-based solar panels. […]
The Self-Reliance Manifesto: More Than 350 Resources To Guide You On The Path To Radical Freedom by Brian Shilhavy
Preparing for a total collapse of society can certainly seem daunting, but there are always things one can do to become less reliant on the world’s fragile system, as a system collapse is now imminent. Daisy Luther of the Organic Prepper recently published her “Self-Reliance Manifesto” with hundreds of links that she has collected over […]
Universal Declaration For The Future Of Humanity by Hardwick Alliance for Real Ecology
Empowering The Sovereign Peoples Of The World To Stop Global Totalitarianism, Corporate-Driven Ecocide And Unlawful Debt-Slavery By Implementing Solutions That Embrace Truth, Freedom, Justice And Prosperity For All Whilst Engaging The Common Sense And Human-Scale Values Of Real Ecology To Protect Our Precious Home, The Earth. This Universal Declaration is for every sovereign human being […]
This Compressed Air Grid ‘Battery’ Is An Energy Storage Game Changer by Caroline Delbert
Pumped hydropower is great. This method might be even better. Two new compressed air storage plants will soon rival the world’s largest non-hydroelectric facilities and hold up to 10 gigawatt hours of energy. But what is advanced compressed air energy storage (A-CAES), exactly, and why is the method about to have a moment? Compressed air […]
The Green Agenda Or How This Energy Crisis Is Different From All Others by F. William Engdahl
The price of energy from all sources conventional is exploding globally. Far from accidental, it is a well-orchestrated plan to collapse the industrial world economy that has already been weakened dramatically by almost two years of ridiculous covid quarantine and related measures. What we are seeing is a price explosion in key oil, coal and […]
The Hardwick Alliance For Real Ecology (HARE)
‘Holistic in outlook, pragmatic in action’HARE was formed in February 2020 at Hardwick House, Whitchurch-on-Thames in Oxfordshire, with the task of creating a united and purposeful front to expose, challenge and reverse our present deeply oppressive, corrupted and degraded political and economic systems. Our country’s ancient freedoms are now under threat like never before as […]
Game-Changer For Clean Hydrogen Production by Curtin University
Curtin University research has identified a new, cheaper and more efficient electrocatalyst to make green hydrogen from water that could one day open new avenues for large-scale clean energy production. Typically, scientists have been using precious metal catalysts, such as platinum, to accelerate the reaction to break water into hydrogen and oxygen. Now Curtin research […]
Missing Piece In Solar Panel Puzzle Found, May Lead To More Efficient Technology by Loughborough University
Silicon-based solar modules dominate the current market. However, they are expensive and have a high carbon footprint. A new generation of modules is emerging made using a chemical compound known as cadmium telluride (CdTe) andover 25 GW has already been installed. Solar panel efficiency refers to a panel’s ability to convert energy from the sun […]
Green Hydrogen: Focusing On The Catalyst Surface by Karlsruhe Institute of Technology
Using energy from solar modules and wind turbines, water can be split by electrolysis into its constituents hydrogen and oxygen without producing any dangerous emissions. As the availability of energy from renewable sources varies when producing green, i.e. CO2-neutral, hydrogen, it is very important to know the behavior of the catalysts under high loading and […]
Major Nuclear Fusion Milestone Reached As ‘Ignition’ Triggered In A Lab by Hayley Dunning
Ignition is a key process that amplifies the energy output from nuclear fusion and could provide clean energy and answer some huge physics questions. A new experiment appears to have triggered ignition for the first time, at the National Ignition Facility (NIF) at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory in the US, recreating the extreme temperatures and […]
A Clean US Hydrogen Economy Is Within Reach, But Needs A Game Plan, Energy Researchers Say by Cell Press
Hydrogen and its derivatives could be that fuel, argues a Commentary publishing August 11 in the journal Joule, but a clean U.S. H2 economy will require a comprehensive strategy and a 10-year plan. The commentary suggests that careful consideration of future H2 infrastructure, including production, transport, storage, use, and economic viability, will be critical to […]
Windbreaks, Surprisingly, Could Help Wind Farms Boost Power Output by Emily Conover
Low walls in front of turbines could improve performance by 10 percent, simulations show. Windbreaks may sound like a counterintuitive idea for boosting the performance of a wind turbine. But physicists report that low walls that block wind could actually help wind farms produce more power. Scientists already knew that the output of a single […]
Renewables Generated More Electricity Than Coal Or Nuclear In The US For The First Time In 2020 by Lucy Jones
21 per cent of electricity generated across the United States last year came from renewable sources. A new report from the United States Energy Information Administration shows that renewable energy outperformed coal and nuclear for the first time ever in 2020. Approximately 21 per cent, or 834 billion kilowatt hours, of electricity generated in the […]
Earth’s ‘Vital Signs’ Worsening As Humanity’s Impact Deepens by Patrick Galey
“Policies to combat the climate crisis or any other symptoms should address their root cause: human overexploitation of the planet.” They said increasing ocean deoxygenation and warming waters were threatening warm-water coral reefs, upon which half a billion people rely for food, income and storm protection. Both ocean heat and global sea levels set new […]
Solar Cells: Layer Of Three Crystals Produces A Thousand Times More Power by Martin-Luther-Universität Halle-Wittenberg
The photovoltaic effect of ferroelectric crystals can be increased by a factor of 1,000 if three different materials are arranged periodically in a lattice. This has been revealed in a study by researchers at Martin Luther University Halle-Wittenberg (MLU). They achieved this by creating crystalline layers of barium titanate, strontium titanate and calcium titanate which […]
A High-Energy Density And Long-Life Initial-Anode-Free Lithium Battery by Ingrid Fadelli
Lithium-metal batteries (LMBs), an emerging type of rechargeable lithium-based batteries made of solid-state metal instead of lithium-ions, are among the most promising high-energy-density rechargeable battery technologies. Although they have some advantageous characteristics, these batteries have several limitations, including a poor energy density and safety-related issues. In recent years, researchers have tried to overcome these limitations […]
Making Clean Hydrogen Is Hard, But Researchers Just Solved A Major Hurdle by University of Texas at Austin
For decades, researchers around the world have searched for ways to use solar power to generate the key reaction for producing hydrogen as a clean energy source—splitting water molecules to form hydrogen and oxygen. However, such efforts have mostly failed because doing it well was too costly, and trying to do it at a low […]
Researchers Develop Tool To Aid In Development, Efficiency Of Hydrogen-Powered Cars by University of Colorado at Boulder
Widespread adoption of hydrogen-powered vehicles over traditional electric vehicles requires fuel cells that can convert hydrogen and oxygen safely into water—a serious implementation problem. Researchers at the University of Colorado Boulder are addressing one aspect of that roadblock by developing new computational tools and models needed to better understand and manage the conversion process. Hendrik […]
May Gales Help Britain Set Record For Wind Power Generation by Julia Kollewe
In early hours of Friday, windfarm turbines provided nearly two-thirds of Britain’s electricity. Powerful gusts of wind sweeping across Britain have helped the country reach a new all-time high for electricity generated from wind turbines. A new record was set in the early hours of Friday for the share of wind power in the generation […]
First Nanoscale Look At A Reaction That Limits The Efficiency Of Generating Clean Hydrogen Fuel by Glennda Chu
Transitioning from fossil fuels to a clean hydrogen economy will require cheaper and more efficient ways to use renewable sources of electricity to break water into hydrogen and oxygen. But a key step in that process, known as the oxygen evolution reaction or OER, has proven to be a bottleneck. Today it’s only about 75% […]
Better Solutions For Making Hydrogen May Lie Just At The Surface by Christina Nunez, Argonne National Laboratory
A clean energy future propelled by hydrogen fuel depends on figuring out how to reliably and efficiently split water. That’s because, even though hydrogen is abundant, it must be derived from another substance that contains it—and today, that substance is often methane gas. Scientists are seeking ways to isolate this energy-carrying element without using fossil […]
Low-Cost Solar-Powered Water Filter Removes Lead, Other Contaminants by Princeton University
A new invention that uses sunlight to drive water purification could help solve the problem of providing clean water off the grid. The device resembles a large sponge that soaks up water but leaves contaminants-like lead, oil and pathogens-behind. To collect the purified water from the sponge, one simply places it in sunlight. The researchers […]
A New Strategy To Enhance The Performance Of Silicon Heterojunction Solar Cells by Ingrid Fadelli
Crystalline silicon (c-Si) solar cells are among the most promising solar technologies on the market. These solar cells have numerous advantageous properties, including a nearly optimum bandgap, high efficiency and stability. Notably, they can also be fabricated using raw materials that are widely available and easy to attain. In recent years, many companies and engineers […]
New Analysis Shows Potential For ‘Solar Canals’ In California by University of California at Santa Cruz
UC Santa Cruz researchers published a new study—in collaboration with UC Water and the Sierra Nevada Research Institute at UC Merced—that suggests covering California’s 6,350 km network of public water delivery canals with solar panels could be an economically feasible means of advancing both renewable energy and water conservation. Pilot projects in India have demonstrated […]
‘You Will Own Nothing, And You Will Be Happy’: Warnings Of ‘Orwellian’ Great Reset (7:24)
‘You Will Own Nothing, And You Will Be Happy’: Warnings Of ‘Orwellian’ Great Reset (7:24) (To view full screen, also with many links, click the link below.) https://www.bitchute.com/video/UWhfLeQZCgzv
Researchers Improve Efficiency Of Next-Generation Solar Cell Material by David L. Chandler
Perovskites are a leading candidate for eventually replacing silicon as the material of choice for solar panels. They offer the potential for low-cost, low-temperature manufacturing of ultrathin, lightweight flexible cells, but so far their efficiency at converting sunlight to electricity has lagged behind that of silicon and some other alternatives. Now, a new approach to […]
The Mechanical Battery Explained – A Flywheel Comeback? by Undecided With Matt Ferrell (11:18)
The Mechanical Battery Explained – A Flywheel Comeback? by Undecided With Matt Ferrell (11:18) (To view full screen click the link below.) https://www.bitchute.com/video/prUC31x3nw4d
Introducing The V236-15.0 MW by Vestas (1:16)
Introducing the V236-15.0 MW by Vestas (1:16) (To view full screen click the link below.) https://www.bitchute.com/video/G3Emntff1a5p
Why Don’t We All Just Use Geothermal Energy? by Just Have A Think (14:38)
Why Don’t We All Just Use Geothermal Energy? by Just Have A Think (14:38) (To view full screen click the link below.) https://www.bitchute.com/video/RPmMSZLgkiu2
Bill Gates Goes Full Captain Planet by Tyler Durden
Wants To Change “Every Aspect Of Economy” While We Dine On Fake Meathttps://www.activistpost.com/2021/02/bill-gates-goes-full-captain-planet-wants-to-change-every-aspect-of-economy-while-we-dine-on-fake-meat.html
A Strategy To Improve The Efficiency And Long-Term Stability Of Perovskite Solar Cells by Ingrid Fadelli
The design strategy introduced by Prof. Noh and his colleagues could soon be used to create 2-D/3-D halide junction perovskite solar cells that have both a high efficiency and a high thermal stability. In the future, their work could also inspire other research teams to employ the same strategy or devise similar approaches to improve […]
The Missing Link In Renewables by Real Engineering (23:25)
The Missing Link In Renewables by Real Engineering (23:25) (To view full screen click the link below.) https://www.bitchute.com/video/gif6J6pvHEhi
Solar Power Supplies 100% Of South Australia’s Energy For The First Time by Lucy Jones
On Sunday, the state was running entirely on renewable energy. https://planetark.org/newsroom/news/solar-power-supplies-100-of-south-australias-energy-for-the-first-time
Robert Stirling – The Stirling Engine (14:40)
Robert Stirling – The Stirling Engine (14:40) (To view full screen click the link below.) https://www.bitchute.com/video/9R3X7JjBz7rJ