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Biodegradable alternative could replace lithium-ion
Feb 28, 2022 (SPX)
Now researchers at Flinders University, with Australian and Chinese collaborators, are developing an all-organic polymer battery that can deliver a cell voltage...
Tuning in to invisible waves on the JET tokamak
Feb 25, 2022 (SPX)
With its ancient stone walls, cathedrals, cobblestone streets, and winding paths, that small city was his home base for a big project: JET, a tokamak that is cu...
New power sources
Feb 23, 2022 (SPX)
The small group of activists - including a journalist, the head of a small nonprofit, a local county official, and a legislative aide - drafted model legislatio...
Impossible breakthrough brings fusion energy device closer to realization
Feb 17, 2022 (SPX)
"The key thing was developing a piece of software that allows you to rapidly try out new design methods" said Elizabeth Paul, a Princeton University Presidentia...
Quantifying California's lithium valley: can it power our EV revolution?
Feb 17, 2022 (SPX)
There are currently 11 commercial plants at the Salton Sea field producing geothermal energy, a clean, renewable form of energy in which hot fluids are pumped u...
Scientists discover new electrolyte for solid-state lithium-ion batteries
Feb 17, 2022 (SPX)
In the quest for the perfect battery, scientists have two primary goals: create a device that can store a great deal of energy and do it safely. Many batteries ...
Can the Salton Sea geothermal field prevent the coming lithium shortage?
Feb 17, 2022 (SPX)
Lithium is required for making electric vehicle batteries and other devices that store and use electricity. As the world transitions away from fossil fuels and ...
NASA challenges students to discover what powers them
Feb 16, 2022 (SPX)
The competition asks students to learn about Radioisotope Power Systems (RPS), a type of nuclear battery that NASA uses to explore some of the most extreme dest...
It's in the air - battery discovery takes up the charge
Feb 11, 2022 (SPX)
Clean energy researchers at the University of Technology Sydney (UTS) have designed a molecule to boost the performance of lithium-oxygen batteries to give elec...
New insight into unconventional superconductivity
Feb 10, 2022 (SPX)
A key example is unconventional - such as high-temperature - superconductivity, which does not follow the conventional laws of superconductivity. Most supercond...
Light could boost performance of fuel cells, lithium batteries, and other devices
Feb 10, 2022 (SPX)
Charge can be carried through a material in different ways. We are most familiar with the charge that is carried by the electrons that help make up an atom. Lig...
JET fusion facility sets a new world energy record
Feb 10, 2022 (SPX)
However, the last experiments with the fuel for future fusion power plants were conducted there in 1997. Because tritium is a very rare raw material that also p...
Scientists in Britain smash fusion energy record
Feb 09, 2022 (AFP)
Nuclear fusion is the same process that the sun uses to generate heat. Proponents believe it could one day help address climate change by providing an abundant,...
High-strength and high energy storage capacity
Feb 04, 2022 (SPX)
Most of the existing energy storage and structural materials have only one property between high strength or high energy storage capacity. By using carbon nanot...
Superconductivity on the edge
Feb 04, 2022 (SPX)
Unless we do something drastic, like cutting or tearing, the doughnut cannot be changed into another topological shape such as a sphere. These newly discovered ...
Portugal wants to hunt for lithium deposits
Feb 04, 2022 (AFP)
The southern European nation currently produces lithium for the ceramic and glass industries, but already has mining projects in the pipeline to meet the boom i...
New material can absorb and release enormous amounts of energy
Feb 03, 2022 (SPX)
"Imagine a rubber band," says Alfred Crosby, professor of polymer science and engineering at UMass Amherst and the paper's senior author. "You pull it back, and...
New superconductors could take data beyond zeroes and ones
Feb 03, 2022 (SPX)
In most current technologies, data is encoded as a zero or a one, depending on the number of electrons that reach a capacitor. With spintronics, data is also tr...
A new way to store sustainable energy: 'information batteries'
Feb 02, 2022 (SPX)
In addition, power grids must keep supply and demand in balance or risk surges and blackouts. As a result, renewable energy is dumped during times of excess pro...
The search for exotic superconductors
Feb 02, 2022 (SPX)
"Professor John Harter is pursuing leading-edge research that could fast track the development of quantum technologies," said Tresa Pollock, interim dean of UCS...
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