Nguyen and her team solved this by designing a version of their molecule that remains liquid at room temperature. It requires ...

New research from the Department of Energy's Oak Ridge National Laboratory, in collaboration with The Ohio State University ...

The systems, which can store clean energy as heat, were chosen by readers as the 11th Breakthrough Technology of 2024. We need heat to make everything from steel bars to ketchup packets. Today, a ...

The EU project RESTORE—Renewable Energy-based Seasonal Storage Technology in Order to Raise Environmental Sustainability of DHC—launched in October 2021, brought together 12 partners from seven ...

In many quantum materials—materials with unusual electrical and magnetic properties driven by quantum mechanical effects—electrons can organize themselves into Landau levels. Landau levels are ...

The rise of artificial intelligence, cloud platforms, and data processing is driving a steady increase in global data center electricity consumption. While running computer servers accounts for the ...

Ernest specializes in thermal engineering research, focusing on designing, fabricating, and testing sustainable thermal energy systems for heating, cooling, and humidity control in various ...

Off a highway nestled in the woods of New Hampshire, a small group of engineers have been quietly working on advanced heat pumps inspired by rockets and satellites, of all things. Evari emerged from ...

Combustion engines, the engines in gas-powered cars, only use a quarter of the fuel’s potential energy while the rest is lost as heat through exhaust. Now, a study published in ACS Applied Materials & ...

Two 650-foot-tall (200-m) towers have risen in China's Gansu Province. Combined with an array of 30,000 mirrors arranged in concentric circles, the new facility is expected to generate over 1.8 ...

Heat pumps can save you about $370 per year and are good for the planet. By Sara Kiley Watson Published Oct 2, 2025 9:00 AM EDT Get the Popular Science daily ...

OTEC technology is now close to practical application with potential projects like Global OTEC's commercial-scale generator planned for 2025. The technology exploits the temperature difference between ...