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Fuel cell advance a breath of fresh air for future power alternative
Apr 10, 2019 (SPX)
Now, in an advance that could help lead the way toward longer-lived green energy devices, engineers at the University of Wisconsin-Madison have revealed new ins...
Graphene coating could help prevent lithium battery fires
Apr 10, 2019 (SPX)
These fires occur most frequently when the batteries overheat or cycle rapidly. With more and more electric vehicles on the road each year, battery technology n...
Carbon-negative power generation for China
Apr 09, 2019 (SPX)
While most climate researchers and activists agree that carbon-negative solutions will be needed to meet the terms of the Paris Agreement goal, so far most of t...
Electricity-conducting bacteria yield secret to tiny batteries, big medical advances
Apr 09, 2019 (SPX)
Scientists had believed Geobacter sulfurreducens conducted electricity through common, hair-like appendages called pili. Instead, a researcher at the University...
Ballard to opens Fuel Cell Center in Europe to serve zero-emission marine market
Apr 09, 2019 (SPX)
A new motive fuel cell system manufacturing hall is planned to be constructed and operational at the Hobro location by year-end 2019, with expected annual produ...
Scientists discover potential sustainable energy technology for the household refrigerator
Apr 03, 2019 (SPX)
"Energy efficiency of a normal refrigerator is affected by the heat-insulating property of the thermal barriers of the freezer. This is due to its low inner tem...
CMBlu and MANN+HUMMEL team up for large-scale battery storage
Apr 03, 2019 (SPX)
The business idea for redox flow batteries with organic electrolytes derived from lignin ('Organic Flow') was already conceived in 2011 and since 2014, CMBlu ha...
New 'blue-green' solution for recycling world's batteries
Apr 02, 2019 (SPX)
The Rice lab of materials scientist Pulickel Ajayan used an environmentally friendly deep eutectic solvent to extract valuable elements from the metal oxides co...
New research shows highest energy density all-solid-state batteries now possible
Mar 25, 2019 (SPX)
The researchers say the new material, achieved by designing structures of hydrogen clusters (complex anions), shows markedly high stability against lithium meta...
Energy monitor can find electrical failures before they happen
Mar 25, 2019 (SPX)
The new sensor, whose readings can be monitored on an easy-to-use graphic display called a NILM (non-intrusive load monitoring) dashboard, is described in the M...
Speeding the development of fusion power to create unlimited energy on Earth
Mar 20, 2019 (SPX)
Menard first presented the paper, now published in Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society A, to a Royal Society workshop in London that explored accele...
Advances point the way to smaller, safer batteries
Mar 19, 2019 (SPX)
As interest in electric vehicles revs up, researchers and industry insiders are searching for improved rechargeable battery technology that can safely and relia...
Powering devices - with a desk lamp?
Mar 14, 2019 (SPX)
Electronic gadgets increasingly are becoming indispensable. Smart thermostats learn when to turn up the heat, sensors set off alarms when windows are opened, an...
Green Hydrogen to become affordable alternative by 2035, DNV GL study finds
Mar 13, 2019 (SPX)
The results provide an encouraging outlook for the acceleration of the energy transition, as hydrogen is a unique energy carrier with no carbon emissions that c...
Testing space batteries to destruction for cleaner skies
Mar 13, 2019 (ESA)
Extreme 'abuse' testing of the current generation of lithium-ion batteries for space took place in the test bunkers of France's Alternative Energies and Atomic ...
Fusion science and astronomy collaboration enables investigation of the origin of heavy elements
Mar 13, 2019 (SPX)
It is not yet identified where and how elements heavier than iron in the universe have been made. Drawing attention as one of the origins of the heavy elements ...
Light pulses provide a new route to enhance superconductivity
Mar 11, 2019 (SPX)
But now, scientists from the RIKEN Cluster for Pioneering Research have shown that pulses of light could be used to turn these materials beyond simple conductor...
New reactor-liner alloy material offers strength, resilience
Mar 11, 2019 (SPX)
"This material showed outstanding radiation resistance when compared to pure nanocrystalline tungsten materials and other conventional alloys," said Osman El At...
Magnonic devices can replace electronics without much noise
Mar 08, 2019 (SPX)
Devices based on magnonic currents - quasi-particles associated with waves of magnetization, or spin waves, in certain magnetic materials - would transform the ...
Frost and Sullivan perspective on the acquisition of Maxwell Technologies by Tesla
Mar 06, 2019 (SPX)
One of the biggest game-changing news in the EV and energy storage industry is the impending acquisition of Maxwell Technologies for a reported $218 million wit...
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