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Fuel Cell electric buses ready to deliver zero-emission transit throughout US
Feb 13, 2019 (SPX)
With this important accomplishment, New Flyer's 40-foot and 60-foot FCEBs, using Ballard's FCveloCity -HD 85kW module, are commercially available for sale utili...
Improving geothermal HVAC systems with mathematics
Feb 13, 2019 (SPX)
For example, the heating and cooling of buildings accounts for over 25 percent of the world's energy consumption. In the European Union specifically, buildings ...
New materials for high-voltage supercapacitors
Feb 08, 2019 (SPX)
Supercapacitors are rechargeable energy storage devices with a broad range of applications, from machinery to smart meters. They offer many advantages over batt...
Chinese company wins bid to build lithium factories in Bolivia
Feb 07, 2019 (AFP)
The agreement aims to develop "strategic cooperation" between the two companies to ensure the "financing and realization of industrial projects" in the saline l...
Tesla to buy battery tech firm Maxwell
Feb 04, 2019 (AFP)
The all-stock deal values Maxwell at $4.75 a share, according to a statement. The move comes with Tesla facing increasing competition in the sector and electric...
Researchers find a way to boost sodium-ion battery performance
Feb 04, 2019 (SPX)
The findings were published in Scientific Reports in November of 2018 and was headed by Naoto Tanibata, Ph.D., an Assistant Professor at the Department of Advan...
Superconductors: Resistance is futile
Jan 30, 2019 (SPX)
The search for high-temperature superconductors is extremely difficult, because many of the quantum effects related to superconductivity are not yet well unders...
Putting that free energy around you to good use with minuscule energy harvesters
Jan 29, 2019 (SPX)
Nowadays, it would be hard to not notice that electronic devices have become incredibly small. The use of miniature sensors in the upcoming Internet of Things (...
Converting Wi-Fi signals to electricity with new 2D materials
Jan 29, 2019 (SPX)
Devices that convert AC electromagnetic waves into DC electricity are known as "rectennas." The researchers demonstrate a new kind of rectenna, described in a s...
Proton transport 'highway' may pave way to better high-power batteries
Jan 29, 2019 (SPX)
The research team led by Xiulei (David) Ji of OSU's College of Science, along with collaborators at the Argonne National Laboratory, the University of Californi...
Static electricity could charge our electronics
Jan 28, 2019 (SPX)
"Nearly everyone has zapped their finger on a doorknob or seen child's hair stick to a balloon. To incorporate this energy into our electronics, we must better ...
New method yields higher transition temperature in superconducting materials
Jan 28, 2019 (SPX)
The results, reported in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, suggest a previously unexplored avenue for achieving higher-temperature supercondu...
Novel device may rapidly control plasma disruptions in a fusion facility
Jan 25, 2019 (SPX)
Researchers at the U.S. Department of Energy's (DOE) Princeton Plasma Physics Laboratory (PPPL), and the University of Washington have developed a novel prototy...
UMass Amherst materials chemists tap body heat to power 'smart garments'
Jan 23, 2019 (SPX)
Writing in an early online edition of Advanced Materials Technologies, Andrew and Allison explain that in theory, body heat can produce power by taking advantag...
North Sea rocks could act as large-scale renewable energy stores
Jan 22, 2019 (SPX)
An advanced technique could be used to trap compressed air in porous rock formations found in the North Sea using electricity from renewable technologies. The p...
Researchers discover new evidence of superconductivity at near room temperature
Jan 18, 2019 (SPX)
Superconductivity is the lack of electrical resistance and is observed in many materials when they are cooled below a critical temperature. Until now, supercond...
Fiery sighting: A new physics of eruptions that damage fusion experiments
Jan 17, 2019 (SPX)
Now researchers at the U.S. Department of Energy's (DOE) Princeton Plasma Physics Laboratory (PPPL) have directly observed a possible and previously unknown pro...
Technique identifies electricity-producing bacteria
Jan 14, 2019 (SPX)
Scientists and engineers are exploring ways to harness these microbial power plants to run fuel cells and purify sewage water, among other uses. But pinning dow...
Cartilage could be key to safe 'structural batteries'
Jan 11, 2019 (SPX)
The idea behind structural batteries is to store energy in structural components - the wing of a drone or the bumper of an electric vehicle, for example. They'v...
Model predicts lithium-ion batteries most competitive for storage applications by 2030
Jan 10, 2019 (SPX)
They developed a model to determine the lifetime costs of 9 electricity storage technologies for 12 different applications between 2015 and 2050. The model, whi...
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