TEMPE, Arizona, March 21 (TNSres) -- Arizona State University issued the following news: Stephen Goodnick has built his career around the study of nanoelectronics. The David and Darleen Ferry Professor of Electrical Engineering at Arizona State University has focused his research on using tiny nano-sized electronic components to advance the fields they are used in, such as future information technology and solar power generation. Specifically, he hopes to improve capabilities of information tec  more

WASHINGTON, March 25 (TNStalk) -- The Center for Strategic and International Studies issued the following commentary on March 24, 2023: * * * The United States Needs to Innovate New Mineral Production Technologies. Here's One. By Maria J. Krol-Sinclair and Thomas Hale Critical minerals are the basic ingredients for electric vehicles, solar panels, wind turbines, and many advanced climate mitigation technologies. They are also crucial for other technologies (e.g., cell phones) and for the def  more

TALLAHASSEE, Florida, March 18 (TNSres) -- Florida State University issued the following news: A team of researchers from the FAMU-FSU College of Engineering is developing a modular solar electricity system that can help communities keep electricity flowing during natural disasters. The work is part of a U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) initiative known as the Renewables Advancing Community Energy Resilience (RACER) program, which aims to increase resilience to disasters by using renewable ener  more

INTERLAKEN, Switzerland, March 22 -- Greenpeace Canada issued the following news release on March 20, 2023: Closing its last chapter, the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) delivered the full story of the Sixth Assessment to world governments today. In the first comprehensive IPCC report in nine years, and the first since the Paris Agreement, the synthesis report brings together three working group reports and three special reports to paint a sobering reality but not one without   more

CHICAGO, Illinois, March 18 -- Gov. JB Pritzker, D-Illinois, issued the following news release: The Illinois Finance Authority (IFA), in its role as the State Climate Bank, today announced a landmark year of deploying over $250 million in private capital to further clean and sustainable development projects. Additionally, the IFA Climate Bank is holding public hearings and stakeholder meetings as it crafts applications for up to $1.3 billion in federal funds to advance clean energy, climate, an  more

GOLDEN, Colorado, March 18 (TNSres) -- Colorado School of Mines issued the following news: * * * As emissions change snowpack melt, hydropower generation could fail in the near future, Mines' Adrienne Marshall said * * * Climate change is altering water resources in the western U.S., especially when it comes to snowpack: how much snow there is, how it's melting and when. These factors have profound effects on reliable sources of both water availability and hydropower. "When I think about wa  more

BOZEMAN, Montana, March 18 (TNSres) -- Montana State University issued the following news release: Ongoing microbiological research at Montana State University was featured last week by the federal Department of Energy for its unique impact. "Bio-Mining Fool's Gold" was featured by the DOE Office of Science as part of its Science Highlight series. The series draws special attention to around 200 projects annually from thousands of research findings generated by laboratories, colleges and unive  more

LONDON, England, March 25 -- Nature Energy, a journal that says it features natural, social and behavioural sciences, economics and multi-billion-dollar global industries, published research articles on the following topics in its March 2023 edition: Reviews: * Challenges in speeding up solid-state battery development Research: * Mechanical regulation of lithium intrusion probability in garnet solid electrolytes * Examining energy inequality under the rapid residential energy transition i  more

WASHINGTON, March 25 -- Rep. Mikie Sherrill, D-New Jersey, issued the following news release on March 24, 2023: Representative Mikie Sherrill (NJ-11) highlighted the horrific human rights abuses committed by the Chinese Communist Party in Xinjiang and the complicity of Chinese tech firms in the surveillance of the Uyghur people and urged U.S. businesses to invest in global supply chains that are free of Uyghur forced labor. During the second hearing of the Select Committee on the Strategic Comp  more

RALEIGH, North Carolina, March 25 (TNStalk) -- The Solar Energy Industries Association issued the following statement on March 24, 2023: * * * On Thursday, the North Carolina Utilities Commission (NCUC) issued final orders in its net metering "Smart $aver" docket. The Commission approved a three-year glide path for solar customers to transition from monthly credits to a more dynamic time-of-use rate structure that incentivizes the use of solar when it is most valuable. The order also directs   more

NEW HAVEN, Connecticut, March 25 (TNSjou) -- Yale University issued the following news: * * * A Yale-led team of chemists has identified a tiny "device" that helps certain photosynthetic organisms collect sunlight. * * * A Yale-led research team has discovered a molecular "device" found in nature that harvests a particular sliver of the sunlight spectrum in order to convert it into chemical energy. In a study led by Yale's Gary Brudvig and Christopher Gisriel, and Donald Bryant of Pennsylva  more