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A thermophotovoltaic cell captures intense infrared radiation from a heated carbon source in a laboratory experiment.
A large-scale flow battery system with colorful electrolyte tanks and complex piping in a modern laboratory.
A robotic arm assembles lithium-sulfur battery cells in a clean, modern manufacturing facility.
A large-scale thermal energy storage unit containing glowing refractory bricks used to store renewable electricity as heat.
A geothermal drilling rig and infrastructure at a test site in the Nevada desert.
The interior of the JT-60SA tokamak showing the vacuum vessel and the purple glow of a plasma discharge.
The interior of a tokamak fusion reactor showing a glowing purple plasma ring held by magnetic fields.
A researcher in a cleanroom holds a shimmering perovskite-silicon tandem solar cell that has achieved a record-breaking efficiency.
A wide view of the Thwaites Glacier ice shelf meeting the Southern Ocean in Antarctica.