Does science have a responsibility to be sustainable? The Graphene Flagship, one of the European Commission's biggest research projects, is working to bring graphene out of labs and into society. But, what kind of impact will graphene have on daily life?

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Current wind turbine blades are primarily made with composite materials that are difficult to recycle and created with a process that is both costly and time intensive.

Aptera Motors has introduced the first solar electric vehicle that requires no charging for most daily use and boasts a range of up to 1,000 miles per full charge.

In 2020 smart cities have been pivoting reinvented hardware and associated systems.

Research in new generation solar cell technologies has been focusing on addressing the stability issues and challenges of perovskite solar cells. A perovskite solar cell is a type of photovoltaic cell which includes a perovskite- structured compound, most commonly an organic-inorganic lead or tin halide-based hybrid material, as the light-harvesting layer.

Namene Solar announced the certification of a new project in Zambia that unlocks the carbon value of a solar light to offer customers truly affordable, high-quality solar lighting for the first time. The lights will reach over 1.5 million people living in rural households, with no access to electricity, and will be financed by the sale of carbon credits.

Following Nestle's global announcement today of its roadmap to halve its emissions by 2030 and achieve net zero carbon emissions by 2050, Nestlé Australia has confirmed its promise to accelerate commitments locally.

Thermal management is becoming a critical technology challenge for modern electronics with decreasing device size and increasing power density.

The project, which could ultimately deliver 1.3GWh of power, dwarfs any similar projects currently in operation in the UK, with the largest operational project presently 75MWh. It is also likely to be one of the biggest batteries anywhere in the world.

While the basic smart city ideas are mainly updates, the materials and devices enabling them are certainly new and they do add remarkable new functions.

This IDTechEx premium article focuses on smart transparent material and green concrete in cities.

Innovative system comes equipped with all of the core components needed for an off-grid, community-based farm.

Total Solar Distributed Generation, in partnership with Canopy Power, is developing and constructing a solar and battery energy storage hybrid microgrid to deliver clean energy and power remote island Koh Rong Sanloem in Sihanoukville, Cambodia. Construction has started, and the project is expected to be completed in April 2021.

Australia's first remote microgrid using renewable hydrogen generation is becoming a reality, with the trial of new energy technologies in remote Western Australia. The project will be a first-of-its-kind demonstration that will use solar and renewable hydrogen generation and storage to provide 526MWh per year of dispatchable renewable electricity, enough to power 100 homes.

The U.S. Department of Energy today announced $35 million in funding for 11 projects as part of the Advanced Research Projects Agency-Energy's Submarine Hydrokinetic And Riverine Kilo-megawatt Systems program. Teams will develop new economically competitive Hydrokinetic Turbines designs for tidal and riverine currents.

ENIAN has this week been awarded a £500,000 Smart Grant by Innovate UK to develop a new cost predicting algorithm set to accelerate the uptake of renewable energy across the country.

The focus of smart cities has changed. In 2020, smart cities have been pivoting reinvented hardware and associated systems.

Supercapacitors (ultracapacitors) are the only capacitors using an electrochemical double layer (EDL) to give one thousand times more storage for a given weight or volume.