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Researchers aim to make cheaper fuel cells a reality
Nov 14, 2023 (SPX)
"Hydrogen fuel cells have really great potential for energy storage and conversion, using hydrogen as an alternative fuel to, say, gasoline," said Michaela Burk...
BMW probes Moroccan cobalt supplier over pollution claims
Nov 13, 2023 (AFP)
The mine operated by Managem in Bou Azzer, southern Morocco, had released excessive amounts of arsenic, according to a joint investigation by German daily Suedd...
The secret to longer lasting batteries might be in how soap works, new study says
Nov 09, 2023 (SPX)
In conducting a new study published in Nature Materials, researchers noticed that a similar process plays out in what has become one of the most promising subst...
Urban Heat Island effect extends below ground to water sources
Nov 03, 2023 (SPX)
The interplay between urban infrastructure and the natural environment is complex, and as cities continue to expand, the effects of construction and development...
China lithium boom harming fragile Tibetan plateau: report
Nov 01, 2023 (AFP)
China is the world's biggest EV market but largely relies on other countries to supply the lithium used in the batteries that power low-carbon vehicles. That is...
Chinese Research Team Develops Fast-Charging Biohybrid Battery System
Nov 01, 2023 (SPX)
Microbial fuel cells (MFCs) are a type of bioelectrochemical system where bacteria serve as the catalyst to convert energy-rich molecules into electrical energy...
A step on the way to solid-state batteries
Oct 30, 2023 (SPX)
Two factors dominate the development of batteries for electric vehicles: power, which determines the vehicle range; and cost, which is critical in the competiti...
Generating clean electricity with chicken feathers
Oct 30, 2023 (SPX)
Researchers at ETH Zurich and Nanyang Technological University Singapore (NTU) have now found a way to put these feathers to good use. Using a simple and enviro...
South Korea's KERI Develops Pioneering Thermoelectric Technology for Space Probes
Oct 30, 2023 (SPX)
RTGs have long served as reliable power generators in various space applications, including space probes and rovers. Using radioactive isotopes like plutonium-2...
New battery technology could lead to safer, high-energy electric vehicles
Oct 30, 2023 (SPX)
The innovative method, presented in a paper published Wednesday in the journal Nature, suppresses the growth of lithium dendrites-damaging branch-like structure...
Remaking an old Swedish oil depot into a giant underground 'thermos'
Oct 17, 2023 (AFP)
Originally dug out in the early 1970s, the three caverns with a combined volume of 300,000 cubic metres served as an oil storage until the site was abandoned in...
A cheaper, safer alternative to lithium-ion batteries: Aqueous rechargeable batteries
Oct 16, 2023 (SPX)
For this reason, the demand for energy storage systems (ESS) that can store and supply electricity as needed is ever-increasing, but lithium-ion batteries (LIBs...
Revolutionizing energy storage: Metal nanoclusters for stable lithium-sulfur batteries
Oct 16, 2023 (SPX)
LSBs use lithium as the anode and sulfur as the cathode, but this combination poses challenges. One significant issue is the "shuttle effect," in which intermed...
Sustainable living technology
Oct 16, 2023 (SPX)
Cells provide organisms with soft and sustainable environmental interactions with complete recycling of material components, except in a few notable cases like ...
Ex-Fusion and Tokyo Tech establish collaborative research cluster for laser fusion
Oct 13, 2023 (SPX)
The 'EX-Fusion Liquid Metal Collaborative Research Cluster' has been established with the support of the Tokyo Tech's Open Innovation Platform. It aims to provi...
Superconductivity at room temperature remains elusive
Oct 04, 2023 (SPX)
On April 8, 1911, Dutch physicist Heike Kamerlingh Onnes scribbled in pencil an almost unintelligible note into a kitchen notebook: "near enough null." The note...
France taps nuclear know-how to recycle electric car batteries
Sep 27, 2023 (AFP)
The European Union has made building up its recycling capacity a key part of its strategy to become less reliant on Asia for critical metals such as lithium, ni...
Cheap and efficient catalyst could boost renewable energy storage
Sep 25, 2023 (SPX)
The new catalyst, designed by researchers at City University Hong Kong (CityU) and tested by colleagues at Imperial College London, could be cheaply scaled up f...
Warming up! 30 years of fusion-energy research at EPFL
Sep 25, 2023 (SPX)
Scientists are already able to produce nuclear fusion reactions on Earth. The current challenge faced by researchers around the world is to sustain these fusion...
Golden future for thermoelectrics
Sep 25, 2023 (SPX)
Using thermoelectrics to generate electricity is nothing new. Since the middle of the 20th century, they have been used to generate electrical energy in space e...
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