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New approach may help extract more heat from geothermal reservoirs
Sep 25, 2023 (SPX)
"The public perception of geothermal is that since it's renewable we should be able to produce from these resources infinitely," said co-corresponding author Ar...
Improving the properties of sweeteners for enhanced thermal energy storage
Sep 25, 2023 (SPX)
However, SAs usually suffer from the issue of supercooling where, instead of solidifying, they remain in a liquid state even at temperatures well below the melt...
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...
Fast-tracking fusion energy's arrival with AI and accessibility
Sep 19, 2023 (SPX)
As part of their strategy to accelerate fusion energy's arrival and reach carbon neutrality by 2050, the U.S. Department of Energy (DoE) has announced new fundi...
POWER Program selects teams to design power beaming relays
Sep 19, 2023 (SPX)
"This project has the potential to advance power beaming by orders of magnitude, which could radically reshape society's relationship with energy," said Dr. Pau...
Pixel-by-pixel analysis yields insights into lithium-ion batteries
Sep 19, 2023 (SPX)
The new technique has revealed several phenomena that were previously impossible to see, including variations in the rate of lithium intercalation reactions in ...
French firm nets 2 bn euros for major battery factory
Sep 14, 2023 (AFP)
The plant is among a clutch of factories set to emerge in northern France under President Emmanuel Macron's "reindustrialisation" plan for the country. Verkor s...
Alumnus' thermal battery helps industry eliminate fossil fuels
Aug 21, 2023 (SPX)
Now Antora Energy, co-founded by David Bierman SM '14, PhD '17, is addressing the intermittent nature of wind and solar with a low-cost, highly efficient therma...
Jeep owner Stellantis invests $100 mn in US lithium
Aug 17, 2023 (AFP)
Under the deal, US-based Controlled Thermal Resources will supply the carmaker with up to 65,000 tons of lithium hydroxide monohydrate a year for 10 years from ...
DoE announces $112 million for research on computational projects in fusion energy sciences
Aug 15, 2023 (SPX)
The Scientific Discovery through Advanced Computing (SciDAC) program pairs the Fusion Energy Sciences (FES) program with the Advanced Scientific Computing Resea...
US lab repeats nuclear fusion feat, with higher yield
Aug 07, 2023 (AFP)
The Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory stunned the world in December when it announced it had carried out an experimental nuclear reaction that put out more...
Novel proton-conductive membranes for automobile fuel cells
Aug 06, 2023 (SPX)
For years, the industry has witnessed attempts to better these membranes. Several modified versions like Nafion HP, Nafion XL, and Gore-Select were produced, of...
Less power, lower emissions: improving AC technology
Aug 02, 2023 (AFP)
- Improve efficiency - Innovation is focused on three major fronts, with much of the attention on energy consumption. Air conditioning units account for six per...
Researchers make discovery that could reduce explosions of lithium-metal batteries
Aug 02, 2023 (UPI)
Currently, lithium-ion batteries dominate the market for everything from smartphones to electrical vehicles and solar and wind energy technologies. Lithium-ion ...
MIT engineers create an energy-storing supercapacitor from ancient materials
Aug 01, 2023 (SPX)
The two materials, the researchers found, can be combined with water to make a supercapacitor - an alternative to batteries - that could provide storage of elec...
Fusion model hot off the wall
Jul 28, 2023 (SPX)
The extremely high temperature plasmas, typically as high as 100 million degrees Celsius, confined in the tokamaks - donut-shaped fusion reactors - cause damage...
New approach to fuel cell manufacturing could reduce cost, increase availability
Jul 28, 2023 (SPX)
They published their results this week (July 24) in JACS Au, an open-access journal of the American Chemical Society. According to corresponding author Christop...
Electricity from the Sky: Harnessing raindrop energy
Jul 25, 2023 (SPX)
The technology capitalizes on a device known as a droplet-based triboelectric nanogenerator (D-TENG), which employs liquid-solid contact electrification to gene...
Stellantis, Samsung to build second battery plant in US
Jul 24, 2023 (AFP)
The location of the facility has yet to be announced but Stellantis and South Korea's Samsung SDI said it would start production in 2027, with an initial annual...
Turning waste heat into energy
Jul 19, 2023 (SPX)
We hit the hottest recorded day on Earth this summer, so if you're lucky enough to have an air conditioner, then you've probably had it whirring away at some po...
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