Berkeley Lab to Lead Multimillion-Dollar Geothermal Energy Project
In geothermal systems, heat acquired from water circulating in rock fractures deep in the Earth’s crust is extracted for conversion to electricity.
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The Economic Case for Wind and Solar Energy in Africa
Not only did the researchers find plentiful wind and solar resources in Africa, another key finding was that system costs and impacts could be lower with robust energy trade and grid connections between countries.
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New Materials Have Potential for Use in Solar fuels
To create practical solar fuels, scientists have been trying to develop low-cost and efficient materials that perform the necessary chemistry using only visible light as an energy source.
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Looks Like the Cost of Wind Energy is On Track to Decrease by 40%
The study summarizes a global survey of 163 wind energy experts to gain insight into the possible magnitude of future wind energy cost reductions.
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Is Black Phosphorous the Next Big Thing in Materials?
A new experimental revelation about black phosphorus nanoribbons should facilitate the future application of this highly promising material to electronic, optoelectronic and thermoelectric devices.
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Video on How Berkeley Lab’s Electrolyte Genome Project Could Be Battery Game-Changer
The Electrolyte Genome project uses the infrastructure of the Materials Project, a database of calculated properties of thousands of known materials, co-founded by Persson and Gerbrand Ceder.
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