ENERGY TECH - BIO FUEL DAILY

Waste to treasure: Crayfish shells to store energy

Dec 23, 2020 (SPX)

Compared with other high-performance materials, biomass has long been regarded as a promising one for its environmental-friendliness and extensive resources. Ho...

Brazilian researcher experiments with electron-plasma interactions

Dec 22, 2020 (SPX)

The paper, entitled "Wave-particle interactions in a long traveling wave tube with upgraded helix", is signed by Sousa, Ibere Caldas, her supervisor at IF-USP, ...

Engineers go microbial to store energy, sequester CO2

Dec 16, 2020 (SPX)

The key: Let bioengineered microbes do all the work. Buz Barstow, assistant professor of biological and environmental engineering at Cornell University, and doc...

Massive underground instrument finds final secret of our sun's fusion

Dec 15, 2020 (SPX)

In results published Nov. 26 in the journal Nature (and featured on the cover), investigators of the Borexino collaboration report the first detections of this ...

New hard-carbon anode material for sodium-ion batteries will solve the lithium conundrum

Dec 15, 2020 (SPX)

They are also key enablers of various medical devices and facilitate research in various fields as the energy source of electronic sensors and cameras. So, it s...

Artificial intelligence improves control of powerful plasma accelerators

Dec 14, 2020 (SPX)

Experiments led by Imperial College London researchers, using the Science and Technology Facilities Council's Central Laser Facility (CLF), showed that an algor...

A cool advance in thermoelectric conversion

Dec 14, 2020 (SPX)

A temperature gradient, or difference, within a material such as a metal or semiconductor can, through a phenomenon known as the Seebeck effect, give rise to an...

Upscaling thermochemical energy storage to a commercial level

Dec 11, 2020 (SPX)

"The storage solution is like a "salt battery". It is based on a basic chemical process with a very common material, calcium oxide produced from limestone, with...

Mammal bones inspire design of new sodium-ion battery

Dec 08, 2020 (UPI)

Like the bones of mammals, the new battery structure -- described Tuesday in the journal Applied Physics Review -- combines a spongy inner material with a harde...

China turns on nuclear-powered 'artificial sun'

Dec 04, 2020 (AFP)

The HL-2M Tokamak reactor is China's largest and most advanced nuclear fusion experimental research device, and scientists hope that the device can potentially ...

New method sees fibers in 3D, uses it to estimate conductivity

Dec 03, 2020 (SPX)

"We used X-ray microtomography to create 3D images that show the orientation of the fibers," said Francesco Panerai, a faculty member in the Department of Aeros...

Fikile Brushett is looking for new ways to store energy

Dec 03, 2020 (SPX)

"For a really long time, I really wanted to be a chemist and work for the FBI with chemical warfare agents. That was the goal: to be Nick Cage," recalls Brushet...

Game changer in thermoelectric materials could unlock body-heat powered personal devices

Dec 01, 2020 (SPX)

Current and potential future applications range from low-maintenance, solid-state refrigeration to compact, zero-carbon power generation, which could include sm...

Neutrinos yield first experimental evidence of catalyzed fusion dominant in many stars

Nov 26, 2020 (SPX)

The CNO cycle is the dominant energy source powering stars heavier than the sun, but it had so far never been directly detected in any star, Pocar explains. For...

Researchers decipher structure of promising battery materials

Nov 24, 2020 (SPX)

Thanks to MOFs' extraordinary combination of porosity and conductivity, this finding opened the possibility of new applications in batteries, fuel cells, superc...

Tesla to build 'world's largest' battery plant near Berlin

Nov 24, 2020 (AFP)

Tesla has already started construction on a huge "gigafactory" in a forested area in Gruenheide, south of the German capital, due to open next year. The factory...

Chinese car battery maker eyes 2-bn-euro base in Germany

Nov 17, 2020 (AFP)

The company, a spin-off of Chinese automotive giant Great Wall Motors, said it was investing the equivalent of $2.3 billion to build two factories in the wester...

Finland's battery plans spark environmental fears

Nov 16, 2020 (AFP)

At the immense, 60 square kilometre site, the extracted stone is crushed, heaped into vast mounds and fed with oxygen and water through red hoses, allowing the ...

Time for a new state of matter in high-temperature superconductors

Nov 13, 2020 (SPX)

In this sense, every point inside the bucket is equivalent. Once the water freezes, however, the water molecules occupy well-defined positions in space. Thus, n...

Turning heat into power with efficient organic thermoelectric material

Nov 12, 2020 (SPX)

An international team led by Jan Anton Koster, Professor of Semiconductor Physics at the University of Groningen, has now produced an n-type organic semiconduct...