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Electric vehicle batteries: The older they get, the safer they are
May 04, 2021 (SPX)
"The performance of new battery cells is largely known, so we dealt with the entire life cycle," explains project manager Christian Ellersdorfer at the Institut...
Denmark's largest battery - one step closer to storing green power in stones
May 01, 2021 (SPX)
The technology, which stores electrical energy as heat in stones, is called GridScale, and could become a cheap and efficient alternative to storing power from ...
On course to create a fusion power plant
Apr 30, 2021 (SPX)
For decades researchers have explored fusion, the reaction that powers the sun, as a potential source of virtually endless, carbon-free energy on Earth. MIT has...
Fooling fusion fuel: How to discipline unruly plasma
Apr 27, 2021 (SPX)
Fusion reactions combine light elements in the form of plasma - the hot, charged state of matter composed of free electrons and atomic nuclei that makes up 99 p...
Clean energy innovation slowing, report warns
Apr 27, 2021 (AFP)
A joint report by the European Patent Office and the International Energy Agency found that found that the average annual growth rate of patents for low carbon ...
Hybrid material moves next-generation transport fuel cells closer
Apr 26, 2021 (SPX)
The results were published on April 19 in ACS Applied Materials and Interfaces, a journal of the American Chemical Society. The team, led by the University of T...
Tracking the progress of fusion power through 60 years of neutral particle analysis
Apr 16, 2021 (SPX)
A review paper published in EPJ H examines the 6-decade history of neutral particle analysis (NPA), developed in Ioffe Institute, Saint Petersburg, Russia, a vi...
Phoenix receives contract from DOE for fusion energy technology
Apr 14, 2021 (SPX)
The project, titled "Ultra High Flux DT Neutron Source for Accelerated Testing of Fusion Materials and Subsystems to Reactor-Relevant DPA Levels," will develop ...
NASA seeks to create a better battery with SABERS
Apr 08, 2021 (SPX)
Now, with increasing emphasis on aviation sustainability, interest in using batteries to partially or fully power electric propulsion systems on aircraft of all...
A new type of battery that can charge ten times faster than a lithium-ion battery created
Apr 07, 2021 (SPX)
According to the leader of the team of researchers, Professor in the Department of Electrochemistry at St Petersburg University Oleg Levin, the chemists have be...
New batteries give jolt to renewables, energy storage
Apr 06, 2021 (SPX)
Cornell University researchers led by Lynden Archer, Dean and Professor of Engineering, have been exploring the use of low-cost materials to create rechargeable...
Thermal power nanogenerator created without solid moving parts
Apr 01, 2021 (SPX)
The majority of thermal power generation technologies involve solid moving parts, which can reduce their reliability and lead to frequent maintenance. This insp...
Is battery recycling environmentally friendly?
Apr 01, 2021 (SPX)
In a new study, researchers at Aalto University have investigated the environmental effects of a hydrometallurgical recycling process for electric car batteries...
Cooling homes without warming the planet
Mar 29, 2021 (SPX)
Now the startup Transaera is working to curb those energy demands with a more efficient air conditioner that uses safer refrigerants to cool homes. The company ...
Researchers harvest energy from radio waves to power wearable devices
Mar 29, 2021 (SPX)
The researchers recently published their method in Materials Today Physics. According to Cheng, current energy sources for wearable health-monitoring devices ha...
Study reveals plunge in lithium-ion battery costs
Mar 24, 2021 (SPX)
Now, MIT researchers have carried out an exhaustive analysis of the studies that have looked at the decline in the prices these batteries, which are the dominan...
Big breakthrough for 'massless' energy storage
Mar 24, 2021 (SPX)
The batteries in today's electric cars constitute a large part of the vehicles' weight, without fulfilling any load-bearing function. A structural battery, on t...
Understanding imperfections in fusion magnets
Mar 18, 2021 (SPX)
Richard Ibekwe recalls his early assumptions about his academic path at MIT. Now he is a nuclear science and engineering (NSE) PhD candidate working at the Plas...
New approach to thermal protection in outdoor wearable electronics
Mar 17, 2021 (SPX)
Heat can accumulate in wearable devices owing to various reasons. Operation in close contact with the user's skin is one of them; this heat is said to come from...
Material from Russia will triple the capacity of lithium-ion batteries
Mar 11, 2021 (SPX)
Lithium-ion batteries are widely used for household appliances from smartphones to electric vehicles. The charge-discharge cycle in such battery is provided by ...
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