PINE BLUFF -- The Russian invasion of Ukraine has had a global impact on business, and changes in the fuels used to generate electricity in Europe brought on by the war might open up opportunities for ...

The wood-pellet business is thriving based on the argument that trees are a clean-energy alternative to coal, but the science behind it is facing challenges from researchers who say cutting and ...

Researchers from Switzerland have devised a method that allows the harvesting of electricity from walking on a wooden floor. The technology is called a nanogenerator and enables enough electric power ...

Here's another example of a climate-change solution that may actually be the opposite. Wood pellets made from trees cut in the forests of North Carolina and the Southeast are a growing alternative ...

Even a little pressure can generate usable energy from a wooden sponge created by the team at ETH Zurich and EMPA. Scientists at ETH Zurich in Switzerland have found a way to make wood produce small ...

WASHINGTON, Oct. 14 (UPI) -- The push for renewable energy has some power plants across the United States turning to wood to make electricity, industry sources say. The switch is the result of state ...

Carried out by nanoengineers as KTH Royal Institute of Technology, the research centers on the sequence of events that play out when wood becomes wet and then dries. Called transpiration, this takes ...