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Ballard Unveils Next Generation Zero-Emission Fuel Cell Stack for Heavy Duty Motive Market
The stack will be a core technology component of Ballard’s 8th-generation power module portfolio for use in heavy duty motive applications.
DNV GL Launches Revised Design Standard and New Certification Guideline for Floating Wind Turbines
The two documents define design and certification requirements for floating offshore wind turbine concepts, prototypes and projects.
Highest Peak Magnetic Field Intensity Ever Generated Indoors
Researchers at the University of Tokyo have produced the largest magnetic field ever generated indoors — 1,200 T.
Simec Atlantis Energy Unveils World’s Largest, Single-Rotor Tidal Turbine
The new 2 mW tidal power turbine system includes the largest and most powerful single-axis turbine available on the commercial market.
Report: These 10 U.S. Cities are Committed to 100% Renewable Energy
Ten U.S. cities which plan to be 100% powered with renewable energy in the near term are profiled in a new Sierra Club report.
Lithos Energy Announces Newest Generation of Battery Pack Technology
The technology offers significant improvements including a 23% increase in specific energy compared with previous generations.
Battery-powered Train Will Be Tested in Germany
The train includes four traction batteries and can travel around 40 kilometers, roughly 25 miles.
Graphene Gives a New Lease on Millennia-old Gilding Techniques
University of Illinois (UI) at Urbana-Champaign researchers have improved a millennia-old conservation technique with modern metals.
Bloom Energy to Preview Biogas Clean-up Solution at California Climate Action Summit
A standard Bloom Energy Server integrated with a new biogas clean-up module can generate clean electricity from biogas emitted by landfill, agricultural, waste and water treatment processes.
Watch: World's Largest Offshore Wind Farm is Now Operational
Walney Extension, the world's largest offshore wind farm, has officially opened in the Irish Sea.
Project to Demonstrate Hydrogen Production Using an Integral Molten Salt Reactor
The venture seeks to demonstrate the commercial and industrial-scale viability of pairing a hybrid sulfur process with a molten salt reactor for large-scale production of hydrogen with zero greenhouse-gas emissions.
Video: Electrification Could Lead to Emission-free Quarry
The feasibility of electrifying quarry operations is being weighed at a Skanska aggregate production mine near Gothenburg, Sweden.
Watch: Urban Wind Turbine Wins 2018 U.K. James Dyson Award
Two students at Lancaster University received the prize for engineering the O-Wind Turbine, configured to harness the relatively untapped resource of urban winds.
Double-layer Solar Cells Set Conversion Efficiency Record
The perovskite-CIGS tandem cell converts 22.4% of incoming energy from the sun, a record for this type of cell.
Electric Propulsion Capabilities Demonstrated for Future NASA Missions
Aerojet Rocketdyne has completed its early systems integration test of the Advanced Electric Propulsion System 13 kW Hall thruster being built for NASA.
Facebook to Post 100% Renewable Energy Use by 2020
By the end of 2020, Facebook plans to be powered solely by renewable power and to reduce its greenhouse gas emissions by 75%.
High Efficiency PV Cells Based on a Boron Nitride Separation Process
A boron nitride separation layer could hold the key to high efficiency hybrid photovoltaic (PV) cells that can harness a broader spectrum of light.
New Technology from Maplesoft Helps Cities Go Green through Smarter Fleet Electrification
Maplesim Fleet Forward helps transit authorities reduce risk during the transition to electric buses.
What is the Ultimate Dielectric Material? Diamond Materials, Part 4
While nanotechnology has enabled rapid advances in microelectronics, diamond is key to overcoming major stumbling blocks to further miniaturization, namely the cost, power limitations and large size of passives.
What is the Best Material for Electronics Thermal Management? Diamond Materials, Part 3
Diamond has the highest thermal conductivity of any material, which makes it an excellent choice for thermal management in electronic devices.