As a researcher and leader at a Department of Energy national laboratory, I spend a lot of time thinking about water. “Why?” you may ask. The intricate interplay between these two critical domains is ...
Water is one of the most common substances on Earth, but scientists have now discovered that it may have a surprising new use ...
Hells Canyon,Oregon, Wednesday, April 26, 2023- The Snake River rushes through Hell's Canyon Dam as night falls. (Robert Gauthier/Los Angeles Times via Getty Images) The global economy runs on two ...
Energy storage systems (ESSs) have gained significant global attention due to their potential to align renewable energy supply (e.g., solar and wind power) with consumer demand, a major barrier to the ...
Desalination is increasingly essential to ensure access to water as climate change and population growth stress fresh water supplies. Already in use in water-stressed regions around the world, ...
Steam from St. Joseph Energy Center, a gas-fired power plant, rises over New Carlisle, Indiana, where Amazon Web Services has built a data center. Photo @ J. Carl Ganter/Circle of Blue A six-decade ...
Sodium-ion batteries offer multiple advantages over their lithium-ion cousins. Energy storage, however, isn't one of them. That might be set to change thanks to a new method of creating the batteries ...
South Africa faces serious water, energy and food problems. Drought, overuse and ageing infrastructure strain water supplies. Coal-fired electricity is not sustainable in the long term and causes high ...