ENERGY TECH - INDO DAILY

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...

Tata picks Britain for massive electric car battery plant

Jul 19, 2023 (AFP)

The 4-billion pound plant in the county of Somerset, southwest England, will be Tata's first gigafactory outside India. The UK reportedly beat off competition f...

Coordination could spare billions in grid upgrade costs and accelerate electrification

Jul 14, 2023 (SPX)

Better grid reliability could be achieved instead by installing software in homes and businesses that coordinates various consumer demands and resources. Such c...

A bright future in eco-friendly light devices, just add dendrimers, cellulose, and graphene

Jul 12, 2023 (SPX)

Electroluminescence is the phenomenon where a material emits light in response to a passing electric current. Everything from the screen you're using to read th...

Scientists developing way to make cheaper Lithium batteries

Jul 12, 2023 (SPX)

Recently scientists have looked at dispensing with lithium altogether and instead using sodium or other elements in high quality batteries. Sodium is cheaper an...

Next-generation flow battery design sets records

Jul 12, 2023 (SPX)

A research team from the Department of Energy's Pacific Northwest National Laboratory reports that the flow battery, a design optimized for electrical grid ener...

Norway's quest for 'black gold' from used car batteries

Jun 30, 2023 (AFP)

But this "black gold" -- a term that usually refers to oil -- is actually good for the Earth. In southeastern Norway lies Europe's biggest plant for recycling u...

China, Russia pledge $1.4 bn for lithium plants in Bolivia

Jun 30, 2023 (AFP)

China's Citic Guoan and Russia's Uranium One Group, both with strong state participation, will partner with Yacimientos de Litio Bolivianos (YLB) to install two...

Chinese, Russian firms to build lithium plants in Bolivia

Jun 29, 2023 (AFP)

China's Citic Guoan and Russia's Uranium One Group -- both with a major government stake -- will partner with Bolivia's state-owned YLB to build two lithium car...

Dual-use rechargeable battery

Jun 28, 2023 (SPX)

The research team, led by Haohong Duan, designed a hybrid cell that exploits the qualities of both types of batteries and expands upon them, investigating wheth...

Nobel-winning lithium battery inventor John Goodenough dies at 100

Jun 27, 2023 (AFP)

Goodenough died on Sunday, said the university, where he worked as an engineering professor. The US scientist's contributions to the development of lithium-ion ...

Towards efficient lithium-air batteries with solution plasma-based synthesis of perovskite hydroxide catalysts

Jun 27, 2023 (SPX)

Theoretically, lithium-air batteries provide a higher energy density than lithium-ion batteries. However, before they can be put to practical use, these batteri...

Ford-backed electric battery venture approved for $9.2bn US loan

Jun 22, 2023 (AFP)

The US Department of Energy announced a "conditional commitment for a loan" to BlueOval SK, a joint venture between Ford Motor and SK On, a South Korean battery...

How tidal range electricity generation could meet future demand and storage problems

Jun 22, 2023 (SPX)

The research published in Energy demonstrates the benefits of tidal energy, which does not suffer from unpredictable intermittency as power is generated both da...

UK Nuclear Fusion company announces space rocket US Partnership

Jun 18, 2023 (SPX)

Pulsar Fusion, located in Oxfordshire, and Princeton Satellite Systems, are set to harness AI machine learning simulations to develop a deep space rocket engine...

Lithium boom comes to Brazil's 'misery valley'

Jun 15, 2023 (AFP)

Sun-scorched and drought-prone, the Jequitinhonha valley, in the southeastern state of Minas Gerais, is one of the poorest places in the country. But the region...

A novel, completely solid, rechargeable air battery

Jun 12, 2023 (SPX)

Traditionally, batteries use metals as active materials for negative electrodes. However, a growing body of recent research has demonstrated the effectiveness o...

Railways could be a key 'utility player' for backup power

Jun 12, 2023 (SPX)

New research points to a flexible, cost-effective option for backup power when trouble strikes: batteries aboard trains. A study from the U.S. Department of Ene...

Turning up the heat

Jun 07, 2023 (SPX)

These batteries use a solid electrolyte instead of a potentially flammable liquid. When the battery charges or operates, ions move between electrodes through th...

Zap Energy charts roadmap for measuring fusion gain

Jun 06, 2023 (SPX)

"The manner in which we generate fusion-grade plasmas within our devices is fundamentally different from other existing fusion technologies. Hence, the publicat...