Scientists make electricity ⚡ from falling rainwater 🌧️ in radical new energy experiment 🔬 | The plug flow system converted over 10% of the energy from the water descending through the tubes into electricity.

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New fuel cell could enable electric aviation ✈️: « These devices could pack three times as much energy per pound as today’s best EV batteries 🔋, offering a lightweight option for powering trucks 🚚, planes ✈️, or ships 🚢. »

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A California dairy farm tried to capture its methane. It worked. The study shows dairy digesters to capture and re-use methane produced by cows 🐄💨 can reduce atmospheric methane emissions by roughly 80% 📉. The gas is not just from the burps cows emit after eating, but from the way their manure is stored. 🐮💩

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**Incumbent energy providers in the US stand to lose massively by allowing the integration of renewable energy into the power grid, creating strong incentives to block new transmission lines. The top four firms in two energy markets would have lost $1.3 billion in 2022 had the market been integrated. ⚡️🌍💰**

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A new study found that electric vehicles cannot reach their full climate benefit 🌍⚡ unless the US power grid is upgraded to handle more clean energy. 🌱🔋

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Scientists have discovered a new type of crystal that can “breathe” 🌬️—releasing and absorbing oxygen 🔄 repeatedly at relatively low temperatures. This unique ability could transform the way we develop clean energy technologies ⚡, including fuel cells, energy-saving windows 🪟, and smart thermal devices 🌡️.

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Electric vehicles outperform gasoline cars in lifetime environmental impact. 🌍⚡️ After two years of use, lithium-ion battery electric vehicles (BEVs) result in a reduction in cumulative carbon dioxide (CO₂) emissions compared to fossil-based internal combustion engine (ICE) vehicles. 🚗💨

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When economies are sufficiently large, unilateral decarbonization 🌍 (a single economy's efforts to reduce greenhouse gas emissions independently of what others do) pays for itself. "For the United States 🇺🇸 and for the European Union 🇪🇺, decarbonizing over 80% of economic activity pays for itself."

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Solar’s growth in US almost enough to offset rising energy use ☀️🇺🇸📈

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Science’s 2025 Breakthrough of the Year: The unstoppable rise of renewable energy 🌍⚡🌱

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A new study finds that consistently combining clean energy subsidies 💡 with pollution taxes 💰 can drive rapid clean technology adoption and enable up to an 80% reduction in energy-related carbon emissions 🌍 by mid-century, while incentive-only approaches fail to deliver deep, lasting decarbonization.

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🔥 Nearly 30% of the global population (2.4 billion people) still cook without clean fuels, leading to indoor air pollution that may impair brain health and cognitive abilities throughout life, especially in children.

🧠 Childhood exposure to smoke from solid fuels was linked to significantly worse performance on cognitive tests in adulthood, particularly in episodic memory and mental intactness, potentially accelerating age-related cognitive decline.

⚖️ The study identified two pathways for this impairment: biological (harm to long-term physical health) and socioeconomic (lower education and income).

🚬 Men, smokers, and regular alcohol users were found to be particularly vulnerable, suggesting inflammation and stress amplify the neurological damage.

#CleanEnergy #PublicHealth #BrainHealth

Solving the mystery that could help fusion reactors survive decades of use

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☀️ Researchers at the University of Cambridge have developed a solar-powered reactor that breaks down hard-to-recycle plastics like drink bottles and nylon into clean hydrogen fuel and valuable industrial chemicals, using acid from old car batteries.

💡 This new method, called solar-powered acid photoreforming, offers a more sustainable and potentially cheaper alternative to current recycling processes, creating a circular system for waste.

🧪 The reactor uses a specially designed photocatalyst that can withstand corrosive acid and has been tested to run for over 260 hours without performance loss, showing promise for handling mixed and contaminated plastics.

#PlasticRecycling #CleanEnergy #Innovation

Longer Ranges Unlocked for Hydrogen Vehicles

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Investing in wind and solar provides several times more climate and health benefits per dollar than Direct Air Capture (DAC). A new peer-reviewed study warns that grid-connected DAC can even increase local air pollution unless the grid is fully clean.

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⚡ UQ chemical engineers have developed lead-free indoor solar panels that convert indoor light into electricity with 16.36% efficiency, the highest for this type of lead-free perovskite technology.

🔋 These new panels could replace button batteries in low-power electronics like sensors and wearables, reducing electronic waste.

🛒 Potential applications include supermarkets replacing paper price tags with battery-powered electronic shelf labels.

#SolarTech #CleanEnergy #Innovation

By 2023, the transition to new energy vehicles in China led to reductions of 23.80% in particles with a diameter of 2.5 μm or less (8.97 µg m−3) and 30.67% in carbon monoxide (0.26 mg m−3), resulting in the prevention of approximately 262,000 non-accidental deaths and 75,000 all-cause deaths.

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💨 Study finds significant asthma improvement with electric stoves: A US study at MetroHealth in Ohio saw a 70% drop in hospital admissions and days off from work/school for individuals with poorly controlled asthma after replacing gas stoves with electric ones.

💡 Early funding termination impacts study scope: The study, initiated in December 2024, was designed for 1,200 participants but was cut short by the incoming Trump administration after completion in fewer than 100 households.

📊 Dramatic reduction in asthma symptoms: Even in the scaled-down study of 72 homes, researchers observed a large effect size. Average asthma scores improved from 2.6 to 1.5, with fewer hospital visits, less wheezing, and reduced reliance on inhalers.

💨 Air quality improvements noted: In 44 homes where air pollution was measured, nitrogen dioxide levels dropped by an average of 70% after the gas stove replacement.

#Asthma #CleanEnergy #PublicHealth

💡 Dr. Yunqing Kang is developing a method to produce hydrogen fuel using sunlight, seawater, and plastic waste. His research aims to lower the energy required for hydrogen production by using plastic molecules.

🌊 The project focuses on creating efficient and stable catalysts from abundant materials like iron, nickel, and cobalt to produce hydrogen from seawater, which is abundant but contains impurities.

🔬 Dr. Kang has published research on catalyst materials for seawater splitting and nanomaterials that can detect specific plastic molecules, a crucial step for the technology.

✅ He has developed a new semiconductor nanomaterial capable of detecting tiny traces of pollutants, like microplastics, in water samples.

#CleanEnergy #HydrogenFuel #Recycling