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February 10, 2020 Uncategorized

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Model Shows Users How to Make On-Farm Sustainable Energy Projects More Profitable

By Staff Model can predict when farm-based sustainable energy projects will turn a profit.

February 7, 2020 Uncategorized

diagram of a greenhouse with translucent solar panels on the roof.

Next Generation of Greenhouses May Be Fully Solar Powered

By Staff Many greenhouses could become energy neutral by using see-through solar panels to harvest energy.

January 30, 2020 Uncategorized

Wearable Health Tech Gets Efficiency Upgrade

By Staff NC State researchers make their flexible, wearable energy harvester even better.

January 29, 2020 Uncategorized

Record-Setting Reduction

By Staff Campus energy use intensity is down 34% since 2002.

December 16, 2019 Uncategorized

Salty Algae Leads to Sweet Success

By Staff NC State University professor Heike Sederoff started studying saltwater algae more than a decade ago as part of a project to use algae to make biofuel. This research led to a recent paper in the journal Nature and a biofuels patent application.

September 13, 2019 Energy Research News, Uncategorized

Paramagnetic Spins Take Electrons for a Ride, Produce Electricity from Heat

By Staff “Paramagnon drag thermopower” converts a temperature difference into an electrical voltage. This discovery could lead to more efficient thermal energy harvesting, such as converting car exhaust heat into electric power to enhance fuel-efficiency.

September 12, 2019 Uncategorized

This Comic Creator Hopes His Terrible Ideas for Producing Energy Will Inspire You to Think of Better Ones

By Staff TimeYour backyard has lots of easily reachable space — could you trigger vacuum decay and solve the world’s energy problems forever? To answer this question, I contacted astrophysicist and end-of-the-universe expert Katie Mack, who teaches at NC State.

September 11, 2019 Energy Research News, Uncategorized