Catalysts are at the heart of many chemical reactions involving carbon dioxide. These catalysts often initiate a process known as chemical reduction that forms either carbon monoxide or formic acid (HCO2H) and can be used to produce fuel. The only problem is that they often lack the activity and selectivity to make suitable fuels, such as methanol, ethanol or methane. Now (2020), scientists at the Argonne National Laboratory, in...
Canadian Solar is one of the world’s largest solar power companies, providing solar power products, services and system solutions and operating in North America, South America, Europe, South Africa, the Middle East, Australia and Asia. The company designs, develops and manufactures solar ingots, wafers, cells, modules and other solar power products. The company is incorporated in Canada and conducts most of manufacturing operations in...
General Electric Company is a high-tech industrial company that operates worldwide through its four industrial segments, Power, Renewable Energy, Aviation and Healthcare, and its financial services segment, Capital: The Power segment offers technologies, solutions, and services related to energy production, including gas and steam turbines, generators, and power generation services. The Renewable Energy segment provides...
Photosynthesis is the process where plants use the energy of the sun to convert carbon dioxide and water into glucose. Scientists have been trying for years to imitate this process, the only difference being that they want to obtain electricity rather than glucose. So far, they have made some notable progress in this area, even if their achievements have yet to find application in large-scale energy production. Now (2020), scientists...
Tesla designs, develops, manufactures, and sells high-performance fully electric vehicles, solar energy generation, and energy storage products. The company also installs and maintains such energy systems and sells solar electricity. Tesla has two operating segments: automotive and energy generation & storage. Tesla is the world’s first vertically integrated sustainable energy company to offer end-to-end clean energy products,...
Despite the obvious oversupply of oil on world markets, it is too early to talk about excluding this resource from the things that define the modern energy. The share of oil in global primary consumption exceeds 30%, and a significant change in this ratio in the next two decades is unlikely to be expected. Moreover, a decrease in investments in geological exploration on the one hand and an increase in the share of hard-to-recover oil...
Calpine Corporation is a power company with 77 power plants and is one of the largest power generators of electricity from natural gas and geothermal resources in the U.S. The company sells power and services to wholesale customers who include commercial and industrial end-users, state and regional wholesale market operators, retail customers. The company employs 2,256 full-time employees. Geographic segments have a generation capacity...
In the search for a vehicle battery able to extend the driving range of electric vehicles scientists have tried to exchange the currently-used graphite anodes with lithium metal anodes. Lithium can extend an EV’s driving range by 30–50%, but also shortens the battery’s useful life. This is due to dendrites and their needle-like projections called whiskers that can grow inside a lithium battery and impair its proper functioning because...
Lithium is considered to be a strategically important metal due to a number of its unique properties. In terms of power engineering, the most important quality is that lithium successfully combines value of standard electrode potential and density, which makes it indispensable for the production of storage batteries. U.S. The Geological Survey publishes Lithium Statistics and Information1 on a yearly basis. The last issue was published...
Perovskite‐based solar cells have been at the centre of scientific interest for several years due to their low cost and high photovoltaic (PV) performance. In addition to their success in the PV sector, there have been growing efforts to employ perovskites in energy‐efficient technologies, such as smart windows and other building technologies because of their large absorption coefficient and colour tunability. Smart windows have the...
