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Quest advances to recreate sun's energy on earth
Jul 28, 2020 (AFP)
The groundbreaking multinational experiment, known as ITER, has seen components arrive in the tiny commune of Saint-Paul-les-Durance from production sites world...
Rare glassy metal discovered by scientists studying lithium batteries
Jul 28, 2020 (UPI)
During experiments, material scientists from the University of California San Diego and Idaho National Laboratory found that when they slowed down the rechargin...
New room-temperature liquid-metal battery could be the path to powering the future
Jul 13, 2020 (SPX)
Most batteries are composed of either solid-state electrodes, such as lithium-ion batteries for portable electronics, or liquid-state electrodes, including flow...
Lose weight of fusion reactor component
Jul 03, 2020 (SPX)
A superconducting coil is essential to realize a magnetic fusion power reactor, in which plasma is required to be confined by a strong magnetic field. The super...
Simulation of high-pressure plasma for an economical helical fusion reactor
Jul 03, 2020 (SPX)
In order to realize fusion energy, we must confine high pressure plasma using the magnetic field for a long duration. Although higher pressure plasma can be con...
Japan considers mothballing old coal-fired power plants
Jul 03, 2020 (AFP)
The world's third-largest economy has come under fire for continuing to build coal-fired plants at home, as well as financing projects to build them abroad, not...
Mathematical noodling leads to new insights into an old fusion problem
Jul 03, 2020 (SPX)
"Conventional models explain most instances of the sawtooth crashes, but there is a tenacious subset of observations that we have never been able to explain," s...
New insights into the energy levels in quantum dots
Jun 26, 2020 (SPX)
For their investigations, the researchers in Basel and Copenhagen used special samples that the team from the Chair of Applied Solid State Physics at Ruhr-Unive...
Scientists develop new tool to design better fusion devices
Jun 25, 2020 (SPX)
Now, researchers at the U.S. Department of Energy's (DOE) Princeton Plasma Physics Laboratory (PPPL) have demonstrated that an advanced computer code could help...
EV battery makers up the ante as competition intensifies
Jun 24, 2020 (XNA)
Song Jin, a senior automobile analyst at Beijing-based market consultancy Analysys, said that currently Contemporary Amperex Technology Co Ltd (CATL) and BYD ar...
Researchers make next-generation, high-toughness battery component
Jun 19, 2020 (SPX)
"There's huge interest in replacing the liquid electrolytes in current batteries with ceramic materials because they're safer and can provide higher energy dens...
Engineers develop new fuel cells with twice the operating voltage as hydrogen
Jun 19, 2020 (SPX)
Liquid-fueled fuel cells are an attractive alternative to traditional hydrogen fuel cells because they eliminate the need to transport and store hydrogen. They ...
A proven method for stabilizing efforts to bring fusion power to Earth
Jun 18, 2020 (SPX)
To prevent such bursts researchers at the DIII-D National Fusion Facility, which General Atomics (GA) operates for the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE), previous...
Researchers advance fuel cell technology
Jun 10, 2020 (SPX)
Led by PhD graduate Qusay Bkour and Professor Su Ha in the Gene and Linda Voiland School of Chemical Engineering and Bioengineering, the researchers have develo...
Spontaneous formation of nanoscale hollow structures could boost battery storage
Jun 10, 2020 (SPX)
Flow of lithium ions into and out of alloy battery anodes has long been a limiting factor in how much energy batteries could hold using conventional materials. ...
New material, modeling methods promise advances in energy storage
Jun 05, 2020 (SPX)
The UH research team also demonstrated that modeling based on the material nanoarchitecture can provide a more accurate understanding of ion diffusion and relat...
An unusual choice of material yields incredibly long-lasting batteries
Jun 04, 2020 (SPX)
Lithium-sulfur batteries (LSBs)--composed of a sulfur-based cathode and lithium anode submerged in a liquid electrolyte--are promising candidates to replace the...
Finding balance between green energy storage, harvesting
Jun 03, 2020 (SPX)
Research published in the Journal of Renewable and Sustainable Energy, by AIP Publishing, identifies key indicators that will help achieve balance between green...
Surprise link found to edge turbulence in fusion plasma
May 27, 2020 (SPX)
Further investigation of this correlation and its role in the loss of heat from magnetic fusion reactors will help to produce on Earth the fusion energy that po...
Next-gen laser facilities look to usher in new era of relativistic plasmas research
May 27, 2020 (SPX)
Researchers released a study taking stock of what upcoming high-power laser capabilities are poised to teach us about relativistic plasmas subjected to strong-f...
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