China could meet its energy needs by wind alone
A team of environmental scientists from Harvard and Tsinghua University has demonstrated the enormous potential for wind-generated electricity in China. Using extensive meteorological data and...
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Last August about 100 residents of an island off Maine gathered at their pristine little port to watch the arrival of three giants. From shore, the islanders could see their enormous white arms,...
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Despite the economic strides that many of its nations have made in recent years, Africa is still, in a literal sense, a dark continent. No country there represents this more clearly than Liberia, where...
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Battery offers renewable energy breakthrough
A team of Harvard scientists and engineers has demonstrated a new type of battery that could fundamentally transform the way electricity is stored on the grid, making power from renewable energy...
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Getting to the source
Plenty of strange diets have captured the public imagination over the years, but Harvard scientists have identified what may be the strangest of them all — sunlight and electricity. Led by Peter...
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China could meet its energy needs by wind alone
A team of environmental scientists from Harvard and Tsinghua University has demonstrated the enormous potential for wind-generated electricity in China. Using extensive meteorological data and...
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Turning to the wind
Last August about 100 residents of an island off Maine gathered at their pristine little port to watch the arrival of three giants. From shore, the islanders could see their enormous white arms,...
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Turning on the lights
Despite the economic strides that many of its nations have made in recent years, Africa is still, in a literal sense, a dark continent. No country there represents this more clearly than Liberia,...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Battery offers renewable energy breakthrough
A team of Harvard scientists and engineers has demonstrated a new type of battery that could fundamentally transform the way electricity is stored on the grid, making power from renewable energy...
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Getting to the source
Plenty of strange diets have captured the public imagination over the years, but Harvard scientists have identified what may be the strangest of them all — sunlight and electricity. Led by Peter...
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Harvesting energy from devices
If there’s one thing nearly all modern technology has in common, it’s heat. Whether it’s your car, computer, television, or even refrigerator, they all generate large amounts of heat. And nearly all...
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Staying power for shale gas
The natural gas boom that transformed the energy picture in the United States in the last decade is still in its infancy, says John Shaw, chair of Harvard’s Earth and Planetary Sciences Department....
View ArticleA way forward on climate
Headlines focus on international agreements, sea levels, melting ice, and superstorms, but climate change is most of all an energy problem. Burning fossil fuels to power our cars and heat our homes...
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Harvard undergrads spend summer studying environmental issues in China
A group of Harvard undergraduates spent the summer in China, working on solutions to an array of environmental problems ranging from examining ozone pollution’s effects on crops to analyzing household...
View ArticleNew evidence that shows how the brain makes decisions
Today, the internet is a sensory free-for-all: Pop-up ads burst into articles every few paragraphs, stealing the screen with lollipop colors and music, shouting product information from unseen corners....
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