In our ongoing struggle to reduce the usage of fossil fuel, technology to directly convert the world’s waste heat into electricity stands out as very promising. Thermoelectric materials, which carry out this energy conversion process, have, thus, recently become the focus of intense research worldwide. …

NEW ORLEANS, LOUISIANA – “I have electricity at the moment, but I don’t know how long it’s going to last,” said Cecily Jones, a resident of Katy, Texas, a suburb 48 kilometers west of Houston. Jones is one of about 4 million people in the …

While much of the snow and ice from last weekend’s winter storm has melted, more than 150,000 Oregonians are still without power, heat, internet and other services. Portland General Electric (PGE) tweeted that its system “experienced catastrophic destruction” due to the storm. PGE had previously warned it would take …

First came a winter blast, now comes a soaking — the money kind. We’re gonna hit on a few power-related financials. For those who lost power, sorry. In addition to the misery of being without service, it might cost you. There have been people posting …

Drilling holes into an extinct volcano might sound like an unusual start to an energy project. But that’s what J Michael Palin, a senior lecturer at the University of Otago in New Zealand, is planning to do. His project involves drilling two boreholes to a …

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