ENERGY TECH - BIO FUEL DAILY

Study reveals plunge in lithium-ion battery costs

Mar 24, 2021 (SPX)

Now, MIT researchers have carried out an exhaustive analysis of the studies that have looked at the decline in the prices these batteries, which are the dominan...

Understanding imperfections in fusion magnets

Mar 18, 2021 (SPX)

Richard Ibekwe recalls his early assumptions about his academic path at MIT. Now he is a nuclear science and engineering (NSE) PhD candidate working at the Plas...

New approach to thermal protection in outdoor wearable electronics

Mar 17, 2021 (SPX)

Heat can accumulate in wearable devices owing to various reasons. Operation in close contact with the user's skin is one of them; this heat is said to come from...

Material from Russia will triple the capacity of lithium-ion batteries

Mar 11, 2021 (SPX)

Lithium-ion batteries are widely used for household appliances from smartphones to electric vehicles. The charge-discharge cycle in such battery is provided by ...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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 ...

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...