ENERGY TECH - BIO FUEL DAILY

Apr 19, 2022 (SPX)

This is not good for the battery's health. Rice University researchers who recognize the problem worked with the Department of Energy to view in great detail ho...

A new heat engine with no moving parts is as efficient as a steam turbine

Apr 14, 2022 (SPX)

The heat engine is a thermophotovoltaic (TPV) cell, similar to a solar panel's photovoltaic cells, that passively captures high-energy photons from a white-hot ...

Novel use of iron-laced carbon nanofibers yields high-performance energy storage

Apr 07, 2022 (SPX)

Energy storage technologies are increasingly important as the world shifts toward carbon neutrality, looking to further electrify the automotive and renewable e...

Freeze-thaw battery is adept at preserving its energy

Apr 07, 2022 (SPX)

The development of the "freeze-thaw battery," which freezes its energy for use later, is a step toward batteries that can be used for seasonal storage: saving e...

Nuclear fusion hit a milestone thanks to better reactor walls

Apr 05, 2022 (SPX)

We are a nuclear physicist and a nuclear engineer who study how to develop controlled nuclear fusion for the purpose of generating electricity. The JET result d...

The material that could save industries heat

Apr 05, 2022 (SPX)

The results were published in the journal Nature Communications and were a collaboration between scientists at Tohoku University's Institute for Materials Resea...

New 3D thermal management network could increase the safety of electric car batteries

Mar 30, 2022 (SPX)

For example, although cars can cover longer distances between charges, and battery charging times have reduced, the lifespan of those batteries has also decreas...

Light may increase performance of fuel cells and lithium-ion batteries

Mar 29, 2022 (SPX)

A charge can be transported by a material in a number of different ways. The most familiar is the electrical conductivity of metals, where the charge is borne b...

Design tweak helps prevent malfunction in yarns designed to store energy

Mar 29, 2022 (SPX)

The researchers reported in npj Flexible Electronics that they were able to prevent short-circuiting in yarns that act as supercapacitors - which are electrical...

HB11 Energy demonstrates nuclear fusion using a laser

Mar 29, 2022 (SPX)

HB11 Energy's world-first results were published in the peer-reviewed scientific journal, Applied Sciences, and demonstrate non-thermal fusion of hydrogen and b...

Commercial-scale flow batteries for long-duration energy storage

Mar 29, 2022 (SPX)

The development of commercial-scale flow batteries for long-duration energy storage requires to reduce the cost of flow batteries, especially the cost of ion-ex...

GS Yuasa Lithium Power completes PDR of scalable spacecraft battery

Mar 25, 2022 (SPX)

GYLP's design integrates the recently qualified LSE12x Lithium-ion Cell developed by GS Yuasa Technology LTD (GYT) and seeks to align with smaller spacecraft, i...

How a few geothermal plants could solve America's lithium supply crunch

Mar 24, 2022 (The Conversation)

Geothermal technologies are on the verge of unlocking vast quantities of lithium from naturally occurring hot brines beneath places like California's Salton Sea...

DoE funds $50M for fusion research at tokamak and spherical tokamak facilities

Mar 18, 2022 (SPX)

Fusion energy research seeks to harness the energy that powers the sun and stars as an abundant and clean source of power on Earth. Creating conditions for fusi...

Magnetism helps electrons vanish in high-temp superconductors

Mar 11, 2022 (SPX)

However, the super-low temperatures conventional superconductors need to function - a few degrees above absolute zero - make them too expensive for wide use. In...

New paper offers innovative solution for thermal energy storage

Mar 10, 2022 (SPX)

Experimental apparatus showing the piston used to apply pressure to the PCM within the container; the heat source (heating pads) is at the bottom. A PCM's abili...

Blowing dust to cool fusion plasmas

Mar 09, 2022 (SPX)

A new approach uses impurities in powder form. This allows researchers to introduce a considerable amount of material directly into the exhaust system, far more...

Toward batteries that pack twice as much energy per pound

Mar 09, 2022 (SPX)

But one thing has held back solid-state batteries: Instabilities at the boundary between the solid electrolyte layer and the two electrodes on either side can d...

UCF and NASA researchers design charged 'power suits' for electric vehicles and spacecraft

Mar 08, 2022 (SPX)

The suit is made of layered carbon composite material that works as an energy-storing supercapacitor-battery hybrid device due to its unique design at the nanos...

Safer, more powerful batteries for electric cars, power grid

Mar 08, 2022 (SPX)

A Sandia National Laboratories-led study, published on March 7 in the scientific journal Joule, tackled one of these challenges - a long-held assumption that ad...