Our brains are charged with the task of directing most of the processes needed for our bodies to function. As such, they consume roughly 20% of our body’s metabolic energy, even while we’re resting.
Cornell bioengineer Buz Barstow, Ph.D. ’09, is trying to solve a big problem: How to build a low-cost, environmentally friendly and large-scale system for storing and retrieving energy from renewable ...
April 27, 2007,Building a balanced portfolio for energy production is not simply a matter of applying known science to large-scale engineering applications, according to George Whitesides, one of the ...