A 50 MW sodium-ion battery station in Hubei province is on the verge of full-capacity operation, storing 100 MWh of energy ...

Although desalination is very commonly used these days to convert seawater into fresh water, one of the major disadvantages of current approaches is that commercial desalination plants produce a lot ...

As common as uranium is in the ground around us, the world’s oceans contain a thousand times more uranium (~4.5 billion tons) than can be mined today. This makes extracting uranium as well as other ...

University of Rochester scientists built laser-etched solar panels that desalinate seawater with no chemicals and no brine waste. The panels recover nearly all the salt as solid material. The system ...

(Nanowerk Spotlight) Coastal cities, farms, and industries need both fresh water and electricity to function. These essential resources typically require separate, energy-intensive systems to produce ...