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Wartsila's flexible floating energy storage system bolsters Philippine power grid
Mar 10, 2021 (SPX)
The Wartsila barge will be placed next to TMI's existing thermal power barge of a total of 100 MW in the municipality of Maco in the province of Davao de Oro. T...
Finding key to low-cost, fast production of solid-state batteries for EVs
Mar 09, 2021 (SPX)
The melt-infiltration technology developed by materials science researchers at the Georgia Institute of Technology uses electrolyte materials that can be infilt...
Extreme-scale computing and AI forecast a promising future for fusion power
Mar 08, 2021 (SPX)
But using high-performance computers and artificial intelligence (AI), researchers at the U.S. Department of Energy's (DOE) Princeton Plasma Physics Laboratory ...
Nuclear fusion: building a star on Earth is hard, which is why we need better materials
Mar 05, 2021 (The Conversation)
Replicating this process on Earth has the potential to deliver almost limitless electricity with virtually zero carbon emissions and greater safety, and without...
Wearable device prototype powered by human movement
Mar 03, 2021 (UPI)
The prototype wrist device was made from discarded paper wipes and plastic cups and can transmit Morse code. Scientists at the University of Surrey's Advanced T...
Batteries are a hot topic for SPARRCI researchers
Mar 02, 2021 (SPX)
Objects with these batteries, such as hoverboards or even cell phones, have been known to spontaneously combust, especially if they are physically damaged someh...
Laser-cooled plasma-in-a-bottle could answer many questions
Mar 02, 2021 (SPX)
"To understand how the solar wind interacts with the Earth, or to generate clean energy from nuclear fusion, one has to understand how plasma - a soup of electr...
An aggressive market-driven model for US fusion power development
Feb 25, 2021 (SPX)
To achieve this key step toward commercialization, the report calls for an aggressive public-private effort to produce by 2028 a pilot plant design that can, wh...
Keeping an eye on the fusion future
Feb 24, 2021 (SPX)
"I already have this network of peers and professors and staff," he notes with enthusiasm. "I've been kind of training for this for four years." Korsun arrived ...
Tunnels to become CO2-neutral energy suppliers
Feb 24, 2021 (SPX)
Within a year, the researchers want to use simulation models for the Brenner base tunnel to make an initial assessment of which infrastructural measures are nee...
Increasing battery and fuel cell power with quantum computing
Feb 19, 2021 (SPX)
The special thing about QuESt (Quantencomputer Materialdesign fur elektrochemische Energiespeicher und -wandler mit innovativen Simulationstechniken; Quantum co...
Reduced nickel content leads to improved stability and performance for Ceramic fuel cells
Feb 18, 2021 (SPX)
The Korea Institute of Science and Technology (KIST) announced that a team led by Dr. Ji-Won Son at the Center for Energy Materials Research, through joint rese...
Novel two-polymer membrane boosts hydrogen fuel cell performance
Feb 18, 2021 (SPX)
In the past decade, anion exchange membrane fuel cells (AEMFC), which convert chemical energy to electrical energy via the transport of negatively charged ions ...
Advisory committee releases strategic plan for US fusion, plasma program
Feb 17, 2021 (SPX)
Its strategic plan charts a path for the U.S. as it seeks to develop fusion as a limitless and practical source of energy while also advancing areas of fundamen...
New machine learning theory raises questions about nature of science
Feb 15, 2021 (SPX)
The algorithm, devised by a scientist at the U.S. Department of Energy's (DOE) Princeton Plasma Physics Laboratory (PPPL), applies machine learning, the form of...
New wearable device converts body heat into electricity
Feb 10, 2021 (UPI)
Because the device, which is flexible enough to be worn as a ring or bracelet, can turn the human body into a power source, it could eliminate the need for an e...
Living bricks can generate energy in the home and wean humanity off fossil fuels
Feb 09, 2021 (SPX)
If you thought having a virtual assistance in your home makes life easier, how about having a home that can not only make electricity and clean water, but can a...
Ballard signs MOU with Global Energy Ventures for fuel cell-powered ship
Feb 08, 2021 (SPX)
The power required for a small-scale demonstration of the C-H2 Ship is expected to be under 10 megawatts (MW). At full scale, the C-H2 Ship will have a propulsi...
New fiber optic temperature sensing approach to keep fusion power plants running
Feb 05, 2021 (SPX)
A collaborative group led by Department of Nuclear Science and Engineering (NSE) doctoral student Erica Salazar recently took a step forward in this area with a...
From waste heat to electrical power: A new generation of thermomagnetic generators
Feb 04, 2021 (SPX)
Many technical processes only use part of the energy consumed. The remaining fraction leaves the system in the form of waste heat. Frequently, this heat is rele...
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