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Scientists design new grid batteries for renewable energy

Nov 11, 2019 (SPX)

Now, a battery membrane technology developed by researchers at the U.S. Department of Energy's Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (Berkeley Lab) may point to...

UK needs to act to prevent electric vehicle battery waste mountain

Nov 07, 2019 (SPX)

A review of lithium ion battery recycling led by the University of Birmingham suggests that, while electric vehicles (EVs) offer a solution for cutting pollutio...

PowerCell to present new version of MS-100 fuel cell system

Nov 05, 2019 (SPX)

The MS-100 fuel cell system has been developed for marine applications and off-road applications such as construction and material handling equipment which dema...

The Current War: Director's Cut'

Nov 05, 2019 (The Conversation)

Another electricity pioneer, engineer and inventor George Westinghouse, was convinced that Edison's system wouldn't scale, to use a modern term. When Westinghou...

Post-lithium technology

Nov 05, 2019 (SPX)

In the journal Angewandte Chemie, US and Chinese scientists report a high-performance cathode made of an organic polymer to be used in low-cost, environmentally...

Shedding new light on the charging of lithium-ion batteries

Nov 01, 2019 (SPX)

Owners of electric vehicles are well aware of "range anxiety" as the charge level runs low or the location of the closest charging station seems too distant. Fa...

In and out with 10-minute electrical vehicle recharge

Oct 31, 2019 (SPX)

"We demonstrated that we can charge an electrical vehicle in ten minutes for a 200 to 300 mile range," said Chao-Yang Wang, William E. Diefenderfer Chair of mec...

System provides cooling with no electricity

Oct 31, 2019 (SPX)

The device, which has no moving parts, works by a process called radiative cooling. It blocks incoming sunlight to keep from heating it up, and at the same time...

Discoveries from fusion to astrophysics at global gathering

Oct 30, 2019 (SPX)

The October 21-25 conference drew more than 1,800 participants from around the world to meet with colleagues and present posters and talks on the range of plasm...

Ballard to supply Anglo American with 900kW of Fuel Cells to support mining truck project

Oct 29, 2019 (SPX)

A total of 8 of the FCveloCity-HD modules will power a retrofitted Ultra heavy duty mining truck in a demonstration project during 2020 at one of Anglo American...

Army Air Force meteorologist turned material scientist shares the Nobel Prize in Chemistry 2019

Oct 25, 2019 (SPX)

The eldest recipient of a Nobel Prize at age 97, Goodenough shares the award with M. Stanley Whittingham of Binghamton University and Akira Yoshino of Meijo Uni...

Taking new angle to enable more efficient, compact fusion power plants

Oct 23, 2019 (SPX)

Dr. Xi Chen will present the team's findings at this week's APS Division of Plasma Physics annual meeting. Building economical fusion reactors in the future wil...

Gravity crystals: A new method for exploring the physics of white dwarf stars

Oct 23, 2019 (SPX)

Wigner crystallization has been observed in variety of systems, ranging from particulates the size of sand grains suspended in small clouds of electrons and ion...

New insights could help tame speedy ions in fusion plasmas

Oct 23, 2019 (SPX)

A team at the DIII-D National Fusion Facility recently took a different approach to studying these difficult-to-measure particles. The research showed promising...

A star is born: Using lasers to study how star stuff is made

Oct 23, 2019 (SPX)

The NIF laser beams' energy is amplified in a building equivalent to the length of three football fields and then focused onto tiny gas- or ice-filled capsules ...

Fuel injection helps reduce magnetic island instabilities

Oct 23, 2019 (SPX)

But like a balloon holding air, the magnetic fields can be leaky, allowing the plasma energy to escape. One form of a "leak" is a phenomenon known as a magnetic...

World record acceleration: Zero to 7 billion electron volts in 8 inches

Oct 23, 2019 (SPX)

With conventional technology, however, this requires a machine that is enormously big and expensive (think 20 miles long). To shrink the size and cost of these ...

Magneto-inertial fusion experiment nears completion

Oct 23, 2019 (SPX)

In the meantime, experiments performed with the currently installed plasma guns are providing fundamental data to create simulations of colliding plasma jets, w...

New plasma wave accelerator propels electrons to record speeds

Oct 21, 2019 (UPI)

Particle accelerators are essential to advanced particle physics and the quest to solve the great mysteries of the cosmos. But today's particle accelerators are...

Energy flow in the nano range

Oct 19, 2019 (SPX)

But how can the flow of energy be observed? This is what Tobias Brixner's group at the Institute of Physical and Theoretical Chemistry at Julius-Maximilians-Uni...