SunPower To Use Ice and Batteries For Storing Solar Energy
Storage technologies are often a roadblock for alternative energy, because of its intermittent nature. Utilities producing power from wind or solar, for example, have to develop ways of storing the energy for the periods when there isn't such a great demand on the grid, and the produced power is higher than the consumed.
Intelligent Battery Project Aiming to Standardize How Batteries Charge, Connect and Work, For Better...
Standardization is a necessity in anything from computers, communication protocols and certain systems in the automotive industry that have to be the same with all the others, for the benefit of all car manufacturers and customers.
Philadelphia To Recover Subway Trains' Brake Forces In Huge Battery For Reuse/Resale
Having a battery could someday be compared to having gold mine. Take Southeastern Pennsylvania Transportation Authority, for example. They' going to use a huge battery and charge it from the subway's braking trains. The energy recovered thus will either be sold back to the grid or reused for acceleration.
Researchers Create New Electric Fuel Cell Powered by Our Own Body
Nowadays everybody's looking to find new sources of energy. All our electronics or gadgets, including laptops, iPods,cell phones need good batteries to keep talking or playing. The truth is that our batteries aren't so good being not much better than the voltaic pile battery invented more than 200 years ago by Alessandro Volta.
New Special Nozzle Makes Methane Hydrates Easier to Obtain
Researchers from the U.S. Department of Energy found out a way to chemically enclose methane in cage-like ice crystals. This technology is much safer than current liquefied natural gas (LNG), which is transported at very low temperatures and high pressures.
Edible Hydrogen Storage Made From Sugar, Alcohol, Salt and Water Discovered
Hydrogen fuel cells are thought to be the best possible solution for our cars to run as clean as they can. Hydrogen, though, can only be stored in pressurized tanks, for the moment, and the mileage you get from a single fill is far from decent, or at least far from what we've been used to.
High-Performance Batteries Developed Using a Common Virus
The development of a new hi-tech rechargeable battery has been discussed this week at the 240th National Meeting of the American Chemical Society (ACS). The new high-performance batteries are portable and can be woven into fabrics, for both military and civil purposes.
New Micro Supercapacitor Much Faster Than Existing Ones
Researchers from the U.S. and France have created a micro-supercapacitor that has the potential to power embedded micro sensors, biomedical implants, mobile electronics, RFID tags, wireless sensor networks and other electronic gadgets.
Hydrogen Makes Metals Brittle: Fraunhofer Researchers Improving Material Technologies
Being the core of the dispute between early electric car adopters, hydrogen may be the solution to the electric movement, eventually even beating batteries by cleanliness. The technology behind hydrogen powered cars poses a few issues, though.
New Mysterious Battery Technology From MIT Professor Cuts Price by 85%
Having received $6 million from ARPA-E and $10 million from venture-capital funding, 24M (whose name stands for "24 molar") is working with Rutgers University and MIT. Yet-Ming Chiang, the materials professor from MIT, who also founded A123 Systems, is behind the wheel and doesn't yet reveal any in-depth technical details about the new battery.
