GELI, The Smart Grid Operating System, Advances to Next Step

Currently, power grids are very centralized and electricity is produced on demand. This also makes the power grid very susceptible to interruptions due to...

Sodium Could Be The Next Best Thing For Rechargeable Batteries

With lithium batteries being the most desirable mean for powering devices, it is inevitable that their main disadvantage is highlighted. The element that powers...
Lithium-Ion Battery Pack Being Assembled and Tested

Premium EV Battery Maker A123 Systems Files for Bankruptcy

In a press release yesterday, A123 Systems, an advanced lithium-ion electric vehicle battery manufacturer, announced what investors and owners feared and expected,...

Rohm Shows Highest-Energy-Density Prototype Power Module

The CEATEC show in Japan this past week, October 2 through October 6, gave developers and researchers the chance to show off their latest...

New Flower-Like Germanium Sulfide Structures Could Improve Batteries, Solar Cells

New flower-like structures, made from germanium sulfide (GeS), have the potential to be the next-best-thing in the field of energy storage and solar cells. The...

NEC Effects +30% Energy-Density Lithium-ion Battery

Rechargeable batteries are the mainstay of portable devices, such as mobile phones and laptops, to electric vehicles. A major challenge for the development of...

Sugar Might Power Batteries, According to Japanese Researchers

Robust, cheap and with high energy-storage capacity- this is the description of the desired Li-ion rechargeable batteries.  In some countries, however, in order to...

The Liquid Air Energy Storage: An Alternative to Batteries

The problem of excess energy storage might just have been resolved, as, according to the Institution of Mechanical Engineers (IMechE), liquid air is a...

Lithium Extracted From Geothermal Power Plants to Make Cheaper Batteries

Simbol Materials of Pleasanton, California has proposed a new method of acquiring lithium for batteries by extracting the element from post-production brine solutions of...

Joint Lithium-Ion and Capacitor Technology Supplies More Mobile Energy

Innovative research by pushing boundaries is inevitably the aim of all doctoral candidates. Steven Arnold Klankowski is a perfect example for this. Under the...