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The reasons behind lithium-ion batteries' rapid cost decline
Nov 23, 2021 (SPX)
Some of the researchers behind that earlier study have now analyzed what accounted for the extraordinary savings. They found that by far the biggest factor was ...
Thermal energy storage could play major role in decarbonizing buildings
Nov 19, 2021 (SPX)
To overcome some of the limitations of traditional water-based thermal energy storage, Berkeley Lab scientists are looking at developing next-generation materia...
Sustainable electrochemical process could revolutionize lithium-ion battery recycling
Nov 18, 2021 (SPX)
A new study, led by University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign chemical and biomolecular engineering professor Xiao Su, uses selective electrodeposition to recover...
Newly developed compound may enable sustainable, cost-effective, large-scale energy storage
Nov 18, 2021 (SPX)
Significant work has been dedicated to developing the negative electrolyte liquid, while the positive electrolyte liquid has received less attention, according ...
New material could be two superconductors in one
Nov 18, 2021 (SPX)
The work was reported in the Nov. 3 issue of the journal Nature. The demonstration of finite momentum superconductivity in a layered crystal known a natural sup...
Powering up next-generation energy storage
Nov 18, 2021 (SPX)
"Energy storage devices need to be improved for further electrification of transportation and energy storage systems for renewable energy sources," Schaefer sai...
Visualizing the microscopic world of fast ions in fusion devices
Nov 15, 2021 (SPX)
Yet, the fusion reaction neither releases carbon dioxide in the atmosphere, nor results in radioactive biproducts, which makes it one of the most promising ways...
Unveiling the steady progress toward fusion energy gain
Nov 15, 2021 (SPX)
Sam Wurzel, a Technology-to-Market Advisor at the Advanced Research Projects Agency-Energy (ARPA-E), details and highlights this progress over the last 60 years...
Neutral particles a drag on disruptive plasma blobs
Nov 15, 2021 (SPX)
Large amounts of heat and particles, however, eventually need to be exhausted from the edge of the tokamak (Figure 1), and conditions in the exhaust region can ...
Researchers at the brink of fusion ignition at national ignition facility
Nov 15, 2021 (SPX)
NIF precisely guides, amplifies, reflects, and focuses 192 powerful laser beams into a target about the size of a pencil eraser in a few billionths of a second....
Upgraded code reveals a source of damaging fusion disruptions
Nov 15, 2021 (SPX)
Such quenches are sudden drops of electron heat in the plasma that fuels fusion reactions, drops that can create damaging disruptions inside the tokamak. Unders...
Meter-scale plasma waveguides push the particle accelerator envelope
Nov 15, 2021 (SPX)
Recently, however, researchers at the University of Maryland have used intense lasers and plasmas to make a significant advance in shrinking the size of acceler...
Harnessing hot helium ash to drive rotation in fusion reactors
Nov 15, 2021 (SPX)
The wave-particle interaction that gives rise to alpha channeling occurs when the helium ash velocity matches the velocity of the wave, a condition known as Lan...
Calling all fusioneers! New US fusion energy website launches
Nov 15, 2021 (SPX)
The U.S. fusion community has just completed a two year strategic planning process to focus on a bold new direction: the construction of a prototype fusion powe...
Integrating hot cores and cool edges in fusion reactors
Nov 15, 2021 (SPX)
Researchers working at the DIII-D National Fusion Facility at General Atomics have recently tackled this problem in two ways: the first aims to make the fusion ...
Feeling the heat: Fusion reactors used to test spacecraft heat shields
Nov 15, 2021 (SPX)
Scientists working at the DIII-D National Fusion Facility at General Atomics (GA) recently developed an innovative approach that uses the conditions inside a fu...
Storing energy in plants with electronic roots
Nov 12, 2021 (SPX)
Dr Eleni Stavrinidou, Associate Professor and Principal Investigator in the Electronic Plants Group at the Laboratory of Organic Electronics, showed in 2015 tha...
Surrey researchers reveal the hidden behaviour of supercapacitor materials
Nov 12, 2021 (SPX)
Improvements in energy storage are vital if countries are to deliver carbon reduction targets. The inherent unpredictability of energy from solar and wind means...
Large-scale synthesis methods for single-atom catalysts for alkaline fuel cells
Nov 12, 2021 (SPX)
Although platinum catalysts are generally employed in alkaline fuel cells, they are expensive and also experience challenges related to stability when used in a...
Radio-frequency wave scattering improves fusion simulations
Nov 12, 2021 (SPX)
Researchers have tried to study these RF processes using computer simulations to match the experimental conditions. A good match would validate the computer mod...
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