The New York Times published an article that beautifully illustrates where New York City gets its electrical power. Similar concepts are at play all across the world.

Read the article here.

Researchers at Harvard have provided the first experimental demonstration of solid metallic hydrogen. At very high pressures, dihydrogen (H2) is converted to a solid with the properties of an atomic metal, including being reflective.

A popular press summary: https://phys.org/news/2017-01-metallic-hydrogen-theory-reality.html

The original research report in Science magazine: http://science.sciencemag.org/content/early/2017/01/25/science.aal1579/tab-pdf

An overview on uranium enrichment

https://www.nrc.gov/materials/fuel-cycle-fac/ur-enrichment.html

Article and video showing just how easy it is to make lead-amine perovskite solar cells, the fastest-growing class of photovoltaics currently under research.

http://cen.acs.org/articles/92/i8/Tapping-Solar-Power-Perovskites.html

All about fuel cells:

http://www.doitpoms.ac.uk/tlplib/fuel-cells/index.php

All about batteries:

http://www.doitpoms.ac.uk/tlplib/batteries/index.php

This book by the Italian chemists Nicola Armaroli, Vincenzo Balzani, and Nick Serpone provides a great overview of current and future energy technologies.

It is available for free as an e-book from UNC Libraries: http://search.lib.unc.edu/search?R=UNCb7466862

Nocera’s Artificial Leaf on BBC’s Horizons

Professor Daniel Nocera at Harvard University featured in BBC show Horzions with Adam Shaw.