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Researchers propose high-efficiency wireless power transfer system
Feb 09, 2016 (SPX)
Today, wireless power transfer (WPT) systems enable to charge electronic devices without plugging them into the wall, but rather by placing them on a special ch...
Canadian physicists discover new properties of superconductivity
Feb 09, 2016 (SPX)
New findings from an international collaboration led by Canadian scientists may eventually lead to a theory of how superconductivity initiates at the atomic lev...
From allergens to anodes: Pollen derived battery electrodes
Feb 09, 2016 (SPX)
Pollens, the bane of allergy sufferers, could represent a boon for battery makers: Recent research has suggested their potential use as anodes in lithium-ion ba...
Boeing delivers fuel cell energy storage system to U.S. Navy
Feb 09, 2016 (UPI)
Boeing has delivered its reversible solid oxide fuel cell, for generating clean electricity, to the U.S. Navy for testing. The fuel cell system is designed to g...
Helping turn waste heat into electricity
Feb 04, 2016 (SPX)
At the atomic level, bismuth displays a number of quirky physical phenomena. A new study reveals a novel mechanism for controlling the energy transfer between e...
Cornell researchers create first self-assembled superconductor
Feb 02, 2016 (SPX)
Building on nearly two decades' worth of research, a multidisciplinary team at Cornell has blazed a new trail by creating a self-assembled, three-dimensional gy...
Putting silicon 'sawdust' in a graphene cage boosts battery performance
Jan 29, 2016 (SPX)
Scientists have been trying for years to make a practical lithium-ion battery anode out of silicon, which could store 10 times more energy per charge than today...
Heavy fermions get nuclear boost on way to superconductivity
Jan 29, 2016 (SPX)
In a surprising find, physicists from the United States, Germany and China have discovered that nuclear effects help bring about superconductivity in ytterbium ...
Clarifying the role of magnetism in high-temperature superconductors
Jan 29, 2016 (SPX)
A collaboration of scientists from the RIKEN SPring-8 Center, Osaka University, the Japan Atomic Energy Agency, and the Japan Synchrotron Radiation Research Ins...
Corvus Energy announces new performance specifications for lithium ion battery systems
Jan 26, 2016 (SPX)
Corvus Energy has validated and is restating the product specifications for its lithium ion battery systems reflecting that the system has double the RMS power ...
New finding may explain heat loss in fusion reactors
Jan 22, 2016 (SPX)
One of the biggest obstacles to making fusion power practical - and realizing its promise of virtually limitless and relatively clean energy - has been that com...
Many clean-tech subsidies should be greater
Jan 22, 2016 (SPX)
Governments often offer subsidies to consumers for clean-technology products, from home solar panels to electric vehicles. But what are the right levels of subs...
Researchers prove surprising chemistry inside a potential breakthrough battery
Jan 22, 2016 (SPX)
Lithium-air batteries hold the promise of storing electricity at up to five times the energy density of today's familiar lithium-ion batteries, but they have in...
Non-platinum catalysts for fuel cells remain a mystery
Jan 22, 2016 (SPX)
A persistent controversy in catalysts for fuel cells has just been solved by a team of researchers from the Faculty of Pure and Applied Sciences at the Universi...
Self-heating lithium-ion battery could beat the winter woes
Jan 21, 2016 (SPX)
A lithium-ion battery that self heats if the temperature is below 32 degrees Fahrenheit has multiple applications, but may have the most impact on relieving win...
Seeing where energy goes may help realize nuclear fusion
Jan 20, 2016 (SPX)
An international team of researchers has taken a step toward achieving controlled nuclear fusion--a process that powers the Sun and other stars, and has the pot...
Superoxide gives lithium-air batteries a jolt
Jan 18, 2016 (SPX)
While lithium-ion batteries have transformed our everyday lives, researchers are currently trying to find new chemistries that could offer even better energy po...
Fuel cell advance
Jan 18, 2016 (SPX)
"Planes, Trains and Automobiles" is a popular comedy from the 1980s, but there's nothing funny about the amount of energy consumed by our nation's transportatio...
A different way to make cathodes may mean better batteries
Jan 15, 2016 (SPX)
Lithium nickel manganese cobalt oxide, or NMC, is one of the most promising chemistries for better lithium batteries, especially for electric vehicle applicatio...
Companies mostly dump their coal ash in poor, minority communities
Jan 14, 2016 (UPI)
A number of previous studies have shown poor communities and people of color are exposed to higher levels of harmful pollution. A new report suggests the trend ...
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