ENERGY TECH - BIO FUEL DAILY

Smart home platform lowers energy costs and boosts grid resilience

Apr 02, 2025 (SPX)

To address these shortcomings, the startup has created a cloud-based solution that automates energy management by integrating various power sources and electric...

Battery boom drives Bangladesh lead poisoning epidemic

Apr 01, 2025 (AFP)

Akter is one of 35 million children -- around 60 percent of all children in the South Asian nation -- who have dangerously high levels of lead exposure. The cau...

A lifetime power source in miniature form

Mar 30, 2025 (SPX)

Su-Il In, a professor at DGIST, presented this breakthrough at the American Chemical Society's Spring 2025 meeting, held March 23-27. His team is pioneering nuc...

Commercial fusion milestone sets stage for next-gen power

Mar 30, 2025 (SPX)

This achievement is detailed across six peer-reviewed studies featured in a dedicated issue of the *Journal of Plasma Physics* (JPP), published by Cambridge Uni...

Gas injection setup in new fusion system is guided by public-private research

Mar 26, 2025 (SPX)

To answer this question, researchers turned to a computer code known as M3D-C1, which is developed and maintained by scientists at the U.S. Department of Energy...

Framatome and Perpetual Atomics to Scale Up Space Battery Production for Future Missions

Mar 24, 2025 (SPX)

These power systems, which generate heat through the natural decay of radioisotopes, can use that heat directly or convert it into electrical energy. Among avai...

Producing fusion fuel without mercury may open path to clean energy

Mar 24, 2025 (SPX)

"This is a step towards addressing a major roadblock to nuclear energy," explained chemist and senior author Sarbajit Banerjee of ETH Zurich and Texas A and M U...

800-mn-euro battery factory to be built in Finland

Mar 20, 2025 (AFP)

The plant will produce cathode active material, a key component in lithium-ion batteries used in electric vehicles and for energy storage, said Easpring Finland...

Reusing old oil and gas wells may offer green energy storage solution

Mar 19, 2025 (SPX)

CAES plants compress air and store it underground when energy demand is low and then extract the air to create electricity when demand is high. But startup cost...

Top locations for ocean energy production worldwide revealed

Mar 18, 2025 (SPX)

However, marine renewable energy development is still in its early stages compared to wind and solar power. One challenge is identifying the most feasible and e...

Chinese battery behemoth CATL posts jump in annual profit

Mar 14, 2025 (AFP)

The firm produces more than a third of all electric vehicle (EV) batteries sold worldwide, cooperating with major brands including Tesla, Mercedes-Benz, BMW and...

CATALYST Unveils INSIGHTS Vegetation Management to Strengthen Utility Grid Reliability

Mar 11, 2025 (SPX)

Vegetation encroachment is a leading cause of power disruptions and can contribute to infrastructure failures and wildfires. As extreme weather events become mo...

Developing materials for stellar performance in fusion power plants

Mar 11, 2025 (SPX)

When Fisher stumbled upon the drawing in her parents' Chicago home recently, it felt serendipitous because, by all measures, she has realized that childhood dre...

The quest for room-temperature superconductors

Mar 11, 2025 (SPX)

This breakthrough, soon to be published in *Journal of Physics: Condensed Matter*, demonstrates that the upper limit of superconducting temperature (TC) is intr...

Some fuel lodges in the inner walls of fusion vessels. Researchers now have a better idea of how much

Mar 10, 2025 (SPX)

"The less fuel is trapped in the wall, the less radioactive material builds up," said Shota Abe, a staff research physicist at the U.S. Department of Energy's (...

Will neutrons compromise the operation of superconducting magnets in a fusion plant?

Feb 28, 2025 (SPX)

But some early tests suggested that neutron irradiation inside a fusion power plant might instantaneously suppress the superconducting magnets' ability to carry...

Researchers are cracking the code on solid-state batteries

Feb 28, 2025 (SPX)

University of Missouri researchers may have a solution. Assistant Professor Matthias Young and team are figuring out how to use solid electrolytes instead of li...

Scientists develop battery that converts nuclear waste into electricity

Feb 26, 2025 (SPX)

Nuclear power contributes approximately 20% of the United States' electricity while generating minimal greenhouse gas emissions. However, a major challenge rema...

China's CALB announces European battery plant in Portugal

Feb 24, 2025 (AFP)

CALB said it would break ground this year on the factory in Sines, around 100 kilometres (60 miles) south of Lisbon, which it expects to start supplying the Eur...

Geothermal systems drive global clean energy expansion

Feb 24, 2025 (SPX)

In the past fifty years, innovations adapted from oilfield technologies have led to the creation of enhanced geothermal systems (EGS), unlocking the potential t...