ENERGY TECH - SINO DAILY

Geothermal energy: Unlimited renewable energy for our homes

Mar 18, 2020 (SPX)

It is estimated that 75% of EU building stock is energy inefficient. This means that buildings across the EU hold untapped potential for renewables and energy e...

Ballard announces order from Solaris for 25 fuel cell modules to power buses

Mar 17, 2020 (SPX)

These 25 modules will power 15 Solaris Urbino 12 hydrogen buses planned for deployment in Cologne, Germany and 10 Urbino 12 hydrogen buses planned for deploymen...

Corvus signs contract for delivery of ESS for coastal cargo carrier with Westcon Power and Automation

Mar 17, 2020 (SPX)

The ship is of MDC 1309 Ecolution design made by Marine Design and Consulting (MDC) in Bergen and defines a whole new standard for this type of ship. Energy eff...

New catalyst provides boost to next-generation EV batteries

Mar 16, 2020 (SPX)

A research team, led by Professor Guntae Kim in the School of Energy and Chemical Engineering at UNIST, has unveiled a new composite catalyst that could efficie...

Pathways toward realizing the promise of all-solid-state batteries

Mar 16, 2020 (SPX)

In a review article published in the March 2020 issue of Nature Nanotechnology, nanoengineers at the University of California San Diego offer a research roadmap...

Permanent magnets stronger than those on refrigerator could be a solution for delivering fusion energy

Mar 13, 2020 (SPX)

In principle, such magnets can greatly simplify the design and production of twisty fusion facilities called stellarators, according to scientists at the U.S. D...

Fast-charging damages electric car batteries

Mar 13, 2020 (SPX)

Mihri Ozkan, a professor of electrical and computer engineering and Cengiz Ozkan, a professor of mechanical engineering in the Marlan and Rosemary Bourns Colleg...

'Spillway' for electrons could keep lithium metal batteries from catching fire

Mar 13, 2020 (SPX)

The team made a clever tweak to the part of the battery called the separator, which serves as a barrier between the anode and cathode, so that it slows down the...

Feeding fusion: hydrogen ice pellets prove effective for fueling fusion plasmas

Mar 13, 2020 (SPX)

The researchers showed that icy pellets of hydrogen improve the temperature of the fusion plasma when compared with the gas fueling method now typically used in...

Seasonal storage technology has the potential to become cost-effective long-term electricity storage system

Mar 12, 2020 (SPX)

As energy demand is increasingly electrified, for example through rising numbers of electric vehicles and in buildings, for space heating and cooling, this grow...

Powering the future with revolutionary lithium extraction technique

Mar 10, 2020 (SPX)

The world-first study, published in the prestigious international journal Nature Materials, presents findings that demonstrate the way in which Metal-Organic Fr...

High energy Li-Ion battery is safer for electric vehicles

Mar 05, 2020 (SPX)

Electric vehicle batteries typically require a tradeoff between safety and energy density. If the battery has high energy and power density, which is required f...

How a magnet could help boost understanding of superconductivity

Mar 05, 2020 (SPX)

A Rutgers co-authored study of the unusual ferromagnetic material appears in the journal Nature. The Rutgers Center for Materials Theory, a world leader in the ...

Scientists created an 'impossible' superconducting compound

Mar 04, 2020 (SPX)

A theory that has evolved in the past fifteen years assumes that hydrogen compounds (hydrides) can make excellent superconductors, that is, substances which hav...

Potassium metal battery emerges as a rival to lithium-ion technology

Mar 04, 2020 (SPX)

In research published in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, researchers from Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute demonstrate how they can overcome a ...

New study explains why superconductivity takes place in graphene

Mar 04, 2020 (SPX)

Researchers at Aalto University and the University of Jyvaskyla showed that graphene can be a superconductor at a much higher temperature than expected, due to ...

Manipulating atoms to make better superconductors

Mar 04, 2020 (SPX)

A new study by University of Illinois at Chicago researchers published in the journal Nature Communications shows that it is possible to manipulate individual a...

Simple self-charging battery offers power solutions for devices

Feb 27, 2020 (SPX)

These batteries can be used in extremely low-frequency communications and in devices such as blinking lights, electronic beepers, voltage-controlled oscillators...

Isotope movement holds key to the power of fusion reactions

Feb 27, 2020 (SPX)

A research team in Japan has reached a key understanding of this process that may aid the future development and use of fusion plasma. They published their resu...

Design of the W7-X fusion device enables it to overcome obstacles

Feb 27, 2020 (SPX)

Now collaborative research by scientists at the U.S. Department of Energy's (DOE) Princeton Plasma Physics Laboratory (PPPL) and the Max Planck Institute for Pl...