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With the help of some clever engineering, Stanford engineers have harnessed tiny microorganisms that give off small amounts of electrons as they digest organic matter in sewage and other wastewater, hooking them into a circuit that charges a battery.
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"With this work, we are blurring the lines between what is a battery and what is a supercapacitor."
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Add another item to the growing buzz about graphene, which ReWire has covered quite recently: in addition to being a promising candidate for electrical power storage, the single-atom thin sheet form of carbon may offer a way to squeeze a whole lot more power out of photovoltaic cells.
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That battery life video that had gone viral due to a recent post on UpWorthy now has an update.
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There's a video making the viral rounds describing a potential energy storage device that seems way too good to be true: a high capacity "battery" made in an almost absurdly simple process which can be safely composted at the end of its useful life.
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When researchers were trying to figure out how to maximize the amount of time light spent inside their organic solar photovoltaic cells, they turned to an age-old technique to refine their design: evolution by natural selection.
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Natural gas use may be far more dangerous to the planet's climate than expected -- with potentially serious ramifications for solar thermal generating plants as well.
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A researcher at UC Riverside thinks he may have a way to help build the kind of microscopic structures that can make photovoltaics and lithium ion batteries far more efficient than they are now -- and it involves stealing tricks from a snail.
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A prominent California ratepayer advocacy organization has slammed an agreement between the state's investor-owned utilities and the Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory to conduct studies into new renewable grid management techniques.
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That desert landscape we're bulldozing for solar power plants? Turns out it sequesters carbon if we leave it alone.
Wildlife:
Renewable development, if done carelessly, can harm wildlife populations. Scientists gathering in Oakland this week discuss how, and why we need to do better.
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News and analysis about renewable energy in California. Blog host Chris Clarke is an environmental writer of two decades standing. He currently lives in Joshua Tree and can be contacted at: rewire@kcet.org.
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