ENERGY TECH - INTERN DAILY

Tesla delays truck launch, eyes battery power for Puerto Rico

Oct 06, 2017 (AFP)

The electric carmaker's chief executive Elon Musk announced the news on Twitter, pushing back the launch of its semi-truck which had been set to be unveiled Oct...

A new way to produce clean hydrogen fuel from water using sunlight

Oct 06, 2017 (SPX)

Now, researchers centered at Osaka University have developed a new kind of photocatalyst for producing hydrogen from water, which is not only free of expensive ...

Superconductivity found in thin films of titanium oxide

Oct 05, 2017 (SPX)

Now, researchers at Tokyo Tech have reported superconductivity in two kinds of higher titanium oxides prepared in the form of ultrathin films. With a thickness ...

New nanomaterial can extract hydrogen fuel from seawater

Oct 05, 2017 (SPX)

The breakthrough could someday lead to a new source of the clean-burning fuel, ease demand for fossil fuels and boost the economy of Florida, where sunshine and...

Ultra-fast and ultra-sensitive hydrogen sensor

Oct 05, 2017 (SPX)

A research group under Professor Il-Doo Kim in the Department of Materials Science and Engineering at KAIST, in collaboration with Professor Reginald M. Penner ...

Asphalt helps lithium batteries charge faster

Oct 05, 2017 (SPX)

The Rice lab of chemist James Tour developed anodes comprising porous carbon made from asphalt that showed exceptional stability after more than 500 charge-disc...

Small scale energy harvesters show large scale impact

Oct 02, 2017 (SPX)

To address this need, Hamid Foruzande, Ali Hajnayeb and Amin Yaghootian from the Shahid Charmran University of Ahvaz in Iran have been modeling new piezoelectri...

Scientists harvest electricity from tears

Oct 01, 2017 (UPI)

In recent lab experiments, researcher at the University of Limerick's Bernal Institute, in Ireland, found lysozyme crystals yield an electric current when press...

Research led by PPPL provides reassurance that heat flux will be manageable in ITER

Sep 27, 2017 (SPX)

Alarming projections extrapolated from existing tokamaks suggest that the heat flux could be so narrow and concentrated as to damage the tungsten divertor plate...

Energy harvested from evaporation could power much of US, says study

Sep 27, 2017 (SPX)

Though still limited to experiments in the lab, evaporation-harvested power could in principle be made on demand, day or night, overcoming the intermittency pro...

Hybrid indium-lithium anodes provide fast interfacial ion transport

Sep 27, 2017 (SPX)

Modern lithium ion batteries usually have graphite anodes that store lithium when the batteries are charged. An interesting alternative is presented by batterie...

Stopping problem ice - by cracking it

Sep 25, 2017 (SPX)

A thin coating of ice on solar panels can wreak havoc with their ability to generate electricity. Thin layers of ice on the vanes of wind turbines can slow thei...

Innovation could mean flexible rechargeable batteries for pacemakers

Sep 22, 2017 (SPX)

Currently, devices such as pacemakers and defibrillators are fitted with rigid and metal based batteries, which can cause patient discomfort. Dr Geetha Srinivas...

Graphene-wrapped nanocrystals make inroads towards next-gen fuel cells

Sep 22, 2017 (SPX)

The study, led by Berkeley Lab researchers, drew upon a range of Lab expertise and capabilities to synthesize and coat the magnesium crystals, which measure onl...

Stanford professor tests a cooling system that works without electricity

Sep 19, 2017 (SPX)

Research published in 2014 first showed the cooling capabilities of the optical surface on its own. Now, Fan and former research associates Aaswath Raman and El...

Firebricks offer low-cost storage for carbon-free energy

Sep 15, 2017 (SPX)

The researchers' idea is to make use of excess electricity produced when demand is low - for example, from wind farms when strong winds are blowing at night - b...

UW shatters long-range communication barrier for near-zero-power devices

Sep 15, 2017 (SPX)

For example, flexible electronics - from knee patches that capture range of motion in arthritic patients to patches that use sweat to detect fatigue in athletes...

Supercharging silicon batteries

Sep 15, 2017 (SPX)

To prevent such accidents, the current solution is to encapsulate the anode - which is the negative (-) electrode of the battery, opposite to the cathode (+) - ...

Army, UMD researchers develop water-based lithium-ion batteries that don't explode

Sep 13, 2017 (SPX)

This technology will bring the Soldiers a "completely safe and flexible Li-ion battery that provides identical energy density as the SOA Li-ion batteries. The b...

A revolution in lithium-ion batteries is becoming more realistic

Sep 13, 2017 (SPX)

Commercially available lithium-ion batteries consist of two electrodes connected by a liquid electrolyte. This electrolyte makes it difficult for engineers to r...