Although solar panels are active while the sun is shining, they typically don't do much once the sun goes down. A newly-developed device, however, uses paraffin to store heat energy until it's needed.

Wax papers that use vegetable or soybean oil are a more environmentally friendly option than those that use petroleum-based paraffin, which is a by-product of the unsustainable fossil fuel industry.

According to Future Market Insights, the global paraffin wax market is set to reach USD 9.9 billion by 2033, rising from USD ...

Paraffin is commonly found in candles, wax polishes, cosmetics, and water-proofing products. The engineers reportedly chose it for their experiments because it is organic, widely available, and ...

Paraffin oil, a common ingredient in candles, wax polishes, cosmetics and water-proofing compounds, was their material of choice for this endeavor because it is organic, widely available ...

The US Energy Department, the University of Tulsa, and 14 private companies plan a $2.5 million study of wax accumulation in deepwater pipelines using a highly instrumented flow ...

The tensile specimens were prepared from a thin paraffin sheet formed by pouring liquid paraffin upon a clean, ... Continental Oil Co., P.O. Drawer 1267, Ponca City, Oklahoma. F. J. RADD & L. H ...