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Quino Energy aims for grid-scale battery infrastructure
Oct 20, 2022 (SPX)
An innovative redox-flow battery now entering commercial development may help to tip the balance. Distinguished by its use of an aqueous, organic electrolyte, t...
PPPL physicist wins awards for two fusion projects
Oct 20, 2022 (SPX)
Fusion, the power that drives the sun and stars, combines light elements in the form of plasma - the hot, charged state of matter composed of free electrons and...
Development of high-time-resolution measurement of electron temperature and density in a magnetically confined plasma
Oct 19, 2022 (SPX)
A research group from the National Institute for Fusion Science in Japan and the University of Wisconsin in the United States have developed a high-performance ...
DOE announces $47 million for research at tokamak and spherical tokamak facilities
Oct 17, 2022 (SPX)
The awards support research that aims to close gaps in the science and technology basis for the tokamak approach to fusion energy. These awards will help suppor...
Nuclear fusion: A new solution for the instability problem
Oct 13, 2022 (SPX)
The edge of the plasma must therefore be well insulated from the reactor wall. In this region, however, plasma instabilities called ELMs occur frequently. Durin...
A catalyst alloying platinum with a rare earth element could slash fuel cell costs
Oct 13, 2022 (SPX)
Batteries may have won the battle against hydrogen fuel cells for cleanly powering cars, but a number of other forms of transportation find it difficult to swap...
Battery tech breakthrough paves way for mass adoption of affordable electric car
Oct 13, 2022 (SPX)
"The need for smaller, faster-charging batteries is greater than ever," said Chao-Yang Wang, the William E. Diefenderfer Professor of Mechanical Engineering at ...
NASA's solid-state battery research exceeds initial goals, draws interest
Oct 11, 2022 (SPX)
Their work - part of NASA's commitment to sustainable aviation - seeks to improve battery technology through investigating the use of solid-state batteries for ...
The battery that runs 630 km on a single charge
Oct 07, 2022 (SPX)
A POSTECH research team led by Professor Soojin Park and PhD candidate Sungjin Cho (Department of Chemistry) in collaboration with Professor Dong-Hwa Seo and Dr...
80-year-old mystery in static electricity finally solved
Oct 07, 2022 (SPX)
For the longest time, it was assumed that two contacting/sliding materials are charging oppositely and uniformly. In the 1940s though it was observed that each ...
A new high-temperature plasma operating mode for fusion energy discovered at the Korean Artificial Sun, KSTAR
Oct 06, 2022 (SPX)
To generate energy through a fusion reaction as occurs in the sun, it is essential to confine super hot and dense plasma in a fusion reactor stably and for long...
The process of waves carrying plasma heat is observed for the first time in the world
Sep 29, 2022 (SPX)
A research group led by Professor Katsumi Ida, Assistant Professors Tatsuya Kobayashi and Mikiro Yoshinuma of the National Institute for Fusion Science and Prof...
CoBra supports the thermal transition in industry
Sep 28, 2022 (SPX)
The DLR Institute of Low-Carbon Industrial Processes in Cottbus (Brandenburg) is working on technologies and solutions for an energy system of the future that i...
Recycling materials: turning old batteries into new ones
Sep 13, 2022 (SPX)
KIT will then check whether the recycled materials are suited for the manufacture of new batteries. The Federal Ministry for Economic Affairs and Climate Action...
Mongolia completes rail crossing with China to boost coal exports
Sep 12, 2022 (AFP)
A ceremony to mark the launch of the rail service between the Tavan Tolgoi coal field and Gashuun Sukhait on the Chinese border was held on Friday. Mongolian Pr...
Lead battery paired with hydrogen-generating technology offers power to off-grid communities
Sep 12, 2022 (SPX)
The collaboration between organisations in the project - called LoCEL-H2 (Low-cost, Circular, plug and play, off-grid Energy for remote Locations including Hydr...
MIT students contribute to success of historic fusion experiment
Sep 07, 2022 (SPX)
On Aug. 8, 2021, researchers at the National Ignition Facility (NIF), Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory (LLNL), used 192 laser beams to illuminate the insi...
A new concept for low-cost batteries
Sep 06, 2022 (SPX)
Now, researchers at MIT and elsewhere have developed a new kind of battery, made entirely from abundant and inexpensive materials, that could help to fill that ...
How do molecular motors convert chemical energy in to mechanical work?
Sep 06, 2022 (SPX)
Now, the research team of Thomas C. Marlovits from the Centre for Structural Systems Biology CSSB at DESY and the University Medical Center Hamburg-Eppendorf (U...
New stable quantum batteries can reliably store energy into electromagnetic fields
Sep 06, 2022 (SPX)
Quantum technologies need energy to operate. This simple consideration has led researchers, in the last ten years, to develop the idea of quantum batteries, whi...
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