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Grand Transitions

by Distinguished Professor Emeritus Vaclav Smil, Vaclav Smil

Nanophotonic Chemical Reactions

by Takashi Yatsui

by Thomas Gryta and Ted Mann

Nanoscale Energy Transport and Conversion

by Gang Chen

ITER: The Giant Fusion Reactor

by Michel Claessens

The Green New Deal and Beyond

by Stan Cox

Renewable Energy: A Primer for the Twenty-First Century

by Bruce Usher

Amity and Prosperity: One Family and the Fracturing of America

by Eliza Griswold

The Grid: The Fraying Wires Between Americans and Our Energy Future

by Gretchen Bakke

Energy: A Human History

by Professor Richard Rhodes, Richard Rhodes

The Wizard and the Prophet: Two Remarkable Scientists and Their Dueling Visions to Shape Tomorrow’s World

by Charles C Mann

The Fracking Debate: The Risks, Benefits, and Uncertainties of the Shale Revolution (Center on Global Energy Policy Series)

by Daniel Raimi

The Vital Question: Energy, Evolution, and the Origins of Complex Life

by Nick Lane

Harness the Sun: America’s Quest for a Solar-Powered Future

by Philip Warburg

The Burning Answer: The Solar Revolution: A Quest for Sustainable Power

by Keith Barnham

Coal Wars: The Future of Energy and the Fate of the Planet

by Richard Martin

Cheap and Clean: How Americans Think About Energy in the Age of Global Warming

by David M. Konisky, Stephen Ansolabehere

Energy Revolution: The Physics and the Promise of Efficient Technology

by Mara Prentiss

The Powerhouse: Inside the Invention of a Battery to Save the World

by Steve LeVine

Organic Photovoltaics: Materials, Device Physics, and Manufacturing Technologies

by Christoph Brabec, Ullrich Scherf, Vladimir Dyakonov

Nanoscience: Giants of the Infinitesimal

by Peter Forbes and Tom Grimsey

Photochemistry and Photophysics: Concepts, Research, Applications

by Vincenzo Balzani, Paola Ceroni, and Alberto Juris

Chemistry of Sustainable Energy

by Nancy E. Carpenter

Half-Life: The Divided Life of Bruno Pontecorvo, Physicist or Spy

by Frank Close

The Knowledge: How to Rebuild our World from Scratch

by Lewis Dartnell

Spark from the Deep: How Shocking Experiments with Strongly Electric Fish Powered Scientific Discovery

by William J. Turkel

The Real Cost of Fracking: How America’s Shale Gas Boom Is Threatening Our Families, Pets, and Food

by Michelle Bamberger and Robert Oswald

Nuclear Dawn: F. E. Simon and the Race for Atomic Weapons in World War II

by Kenneth D. McRae

Colloidal Quantum Dot Optoelectronics and Photovoltaics

by Gerasimos Konstantatos and Edward H. Sargent

The Burning Question: We Can’t Burn Half the World’s Oil, Coal, and Gas. So How Do We Quit?

by Mike Berners-Lee

Oil in the Environment: Legacies and Lessons of the Exxon Valdez Oil Spill

by John A. Wiens

Sun Power: How Energy from the Sun Is Changing Lives Around the World, Empowering America, and Saving the Planet

by Neville Williams

Coherent Doppler Wind Lidars in a Turbulent Atmosphere

by Viktor Banakh and Igor Smalikho

Synthetic Aesthetics: Investigating Synthetic Biology’s Designs on Nature

by Alexandra Daisy Ginsberg, Jane Calvert, Pablo Schyfter, Alistair Elfick, and Drew Endy

The Boom: How Fracking Ignited the American Energy Revolution and Changed the World

by Russell Gold

Age of Radiance: The Epic Rise and Dramatic Fall of the Atomic Era

by Craig Nelson

Atomic Accidents – A History of Nuclear Meltdowns and Disasters: from the Ozark Mountains to Fukushima

by James Mahaffey

Faraday, Maxwell, and the Electromagnetic Field: How Two Men Revolutionized Physics

by Nancy Forbes and Basil Mahon

Fukushima: The Story of a Nuclear Disaster

by David Lochbaum, Edwin Lyman, and Susan Q. Stranahan

Big Questions in Science

by Colin Stuart, Hayley Birch, Mun Keat Looi

Nanotechnology for the Energy Challenge

by Javier García-Martínez

Under the Surface: Fracking, Fortunes, and the Fate of the Marcellus Shale

by Tom Wilber

Renewable: The World-Changing Power of Alternative Energy

by Jeremy Shere

by Bill McKibben

Ingenious: A True Story of Invention, Automotive Daring, and the Race to Revive America

by Jason Fagone

Diamondoid Molecules: With Applications in Biomedicine, Materials Science, Nanotechnology & Petroleum Science

by G. Ali Mansoori, Patricia Lopes Barros de Araujo, and Elmo Silvano de Araujo

High Temperature Superconductors (HTS) for Energy Applications (Woodhead Publishing Series in Energy)

by Ziad Melhem

The Biobased Economy: Biofuels, Materials and Chemicals in the Post-oil Era

by Hans Langeveld, Johan Sanders, and Marieke Meeusen

Handbook of Organic Materials for Optical and (opto)electronic Devices: Properties and Applications

by Oksana Ostroverkhova

Probabilistic Safety Assessment for Optimum Nuclear Power Plant Life Management

by Gennadij V. Arkadov, Alexander F. Getman, and Andrei N. Rodionov

Fuel Cells: Current Technology Challenges and Future Research Needs

by Noriko Hikosaka Behling

An Introduction to Radiation Protection 6E

by Alan Martin, Sam Harbison, Karen Beach and Peter Cole

A Piece of the Sun: The Quest for Fusion Energy

by Daniel Clery

Energy for Future Presidents: The Science Behind the Headlines

by Richard A Muller

Project Sunshine: How Science Can Use the Sun to Fuel and Feed the World

by Steve McKevitt and Tony Ryan

Power Grid Complexity

by Shengwei Mei, Xuemin Zhang, and Ming Cao

Tesla: Inventor of the Electrical Age

by W. Bernard Carlson

Nuclear and Radiochemistry

by József Kónya and Noémi M Nagy

The Big Switch: Rewiring the World, from Edison to Google

by Nicholas Carr

Recommended Practice for Corrosion Management of Pipelines in Oil & Gas Production and Transportation

by Bijan Kermani

Supercritical Water

by Yizhak Marcus

The Power of Design: Product Innovation in Sustainable Energy Technologies

by Angele Reinders, Jan Carel Diehl, and Han Brezet

by Tyler Hamilton

Powering the Future

by Robert B. Laughlin

Inside The Centre: The Life of J. Robert Oppenheimer

by Ray Monk

A Nuclear Family Vacation: Travels in the World of Atomic Weaponry

by Nathan Hodge and Sharon Weinberger

Fundamentals of Materials for Energy and Environmental Sustainability

by David S. Ginley and David Cahen

Functional Supramolecular Architectures: for Organic Electronics and Nanotechnology

by Paolo Samorí and Franco Cacialli

Introduction to Chemicals from Biomass (Wiley Series in Renewable Resource)

by James H. Clark and Fabien Deswarte

Radioactive: Marie and Pierre Curie: A Tale of Love and Fallout

by Lauren Redniss

Powering the Dream

by Alexis Madrigal

Wind Wizard: Alan G. Davenport and the Art of Wind Engineering

by Siobhan Roberts

A Newer World: Politics, Money, Technology, and What’s Really Being Done to Solve the Climate Crisis

by William F. Hewitt

Oil (PRS – Polity Resources series)

by Gavin Bridge, Philippe Le Billon

Nanotechnology for Lithium-Ion Batteries (Nanostructure Science and Technology)

by Yaser Abu-Lebdeh and Isobel Davidson

Radioactivity: A History of a Mysterious Science

by Marjorie C. Malley

Sustainable Energy – Without the Hot Air

by David J.C. MacKay

Sunshine To Dollars / Surviving the Blackout of 2003

by Steven E. Harris

by Jonathan Fetter-Vorm

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Integrated design gives lithium–air battery room to breathe safely

6th May 2021, Curated by Joanna Carpenter

Lithium-ion battery soaks up the sun for recharge

27th April 2021, Curated by Joanna Carpenter

How to Prevent Batteries From Exploding? Nanoparticles, Says Startup

22nd April 2021, Curated by Rose Grey

Aluminum bonds with carbon over new rechargeable battery

22nd April 2021, Curated by Joanna Carpenter

Floating solar farms could cool down lakes threatened by climate change

20th April 2021, Curated by Rose Grey

Sunny superpower: solar cells close in on 50% efficiency

19th April 2021, Curated by Rose Grey

Water-splitting material gets better with age

15th April 2021, Curated by Joanna Carpenter

Battery storage 30% cheaper than gas peaker plants for firming renewables

13th April 2021, Curated by Rose Grey

Novel water-splitting material gives pores for thought

9th April 2021, Curated by Joanna Carpenter

Renewables plus batteries offer Australia the same energy security as coal, research finds

7th April 2021, Curated by Rose Grey

Perovskite solar cells take a dip into large-scale production

7th April 2021, Curated by Joanna Carpenter

Turning seabed to ‘quicksand’ could reduce offshore turbine installation noise by 90-95%

2nd April 2021, Curated by Joanna Carpenter

Can FuelCell Energy’s molten carbonate fuel cell help solve the CO₂ problem?

1st April 2021, Curated by Joanna Carpenter

Whether Cold Fusion or Low-Energy Nuclear Reactions, U.S. Navy Researchers Reopen Case

1st April 2021, Curated by Rose Grey

Sungrow unveils 325 kW string inverter

25th March 2021, Curated by Rose Grey

First microwave-powered home boiler could help cut emissions

22nd March 2021, Curated by Rose Grey

“Wearable Microgrid” Harvests Energy From Human Body to Power Electronic Gadgets

16th March 2021, Curated by Sarah Payton

Fukushima: ten years on from the disaster, was Japan’s response right?

15th March 2021, Curated by Rose Grey

Novel material represents solid advance for sodium-ion batteries

12th March 2021, Curated by Joanna Carpenter

Perovskite solar cells work best with precise seasoning

11th March 2021, Curated by Joanna Carpenter

Seawater-splitting system could scale-up renewable hydrogen production

9th March 2021, Curated by Joanna Carpenter

‘A role model’: how Seville is turning leftover oranges into electricity

3rd March 2021, Curated by Rose Grey

10 Breakthrough Technologies 2021

3rd March 2021, Curated by Sarah Payton

New method converts methane in natural gas to methanol at room temperature

2nd March 2021, Curated by Joanna Carpenter

Bismuth-rich electrode surface lifts electrons higher

1st March 2021, Curated by Joanna Carpenter

Hydrogen goop could be a more convenient fuel than hydrogen gas

1st March 2021, Curated by Rose Grey

Solar panels in Sahara could boost renewable energy but damage the global climate – here’s why

18th February 2021, Curated by Rose Grey

Catalyst turns mixed plastic waste into natural gas

16th February 2021, Curated by Joanna Carpenter

Salt battery design could help electric cars go the extra mile

9th February 2021, Curated by Joanna Carpenter

Carbon dioxide turned into methanol by exploiting daily temperature changes

8th February 2021, Curated by Joanna Carpenter

Mechanochemical oxidation turns a profit from battery recycling

2nd February 2021, Curated by Joanna Carpenter

Catalyst boosts prospects for fuel-cell vehicles

28th January 2021, Curated by Joanna Carpenter

Novel alloy anode lets seawater into batteries

25th January 2021, Curated by Joanna Carpenter

Chilli peppers add spice to perovskite solar cells

25th January 2021, Curated by Joanna Carpenter

Solar panels capture more sunlight with capsaicin – the chemical that makes chili peppers spicy

21st January 2021, Curated by Rose Grey

Research Paves Way for More Stable, Longer-Lasting Batteries

13th January 2021, Curated by Joanna Carpenter

These Oxford Scientists Just Created Carbon-Neutral Jet Fuel From CO2

12th January 2021, Curated by Rose Grey

Nickel clusters attracted to surface imperfections on hydrogen catalyst

11th January 2021, Curated by Joanna Carpenter

Using urine to heat homes

6th January 2021, Curated by Rose Grey

Nuclear-Powered Rockets Get a Second Look for Travel to Mars

30th December 2020, Curated by Rose Grey

Nanomaterial could speed up hydrogen fuel production

30th December 2020, Curated by Joanna Carpenter

Could Carbon Dioxide Be Turned Into Jet Fuel?

28th December 2020, Curated by Joanna Carpenter

Solar cells perovskite films made at record low cost and speed

23rd December 2020, Curated by Joanna Carpenter

Single-crystal lithium-ion battery cathode material resists crumbling

22nd December 2020, Curated by Joanna Carpenter

Bone cathode boosts integrity of sodium-ion battery

21st December 2020, Curated by Joanna Carpenter

Nanosheets and graphene foam provide bridge to wearable micro-supercapacitors

21st December 2020, Curated by Joanna Carpenter

Solar-based Electronic Skin Generates Its Own Power

18th December 2020, Curated by Rose Grey

This super energy dense battery could nearly double the range of electric vehicles

17th December 2020, Curated by Rose Grey

New record efficiency for flexible perovskite solar cells

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A fast and safe way to store natural gas

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