Cladophora: The Alga Behind The Thinnest and Most Powerful Organic Battery Yet
Cladophora is the name of an alga that could be the key to a new revolution in energy storage systems... and not just any storage, but batteries so thin you would have them printed on a paper and charged in about 11 seconds, with net superior capacities above anything that exists on the market.
CALMAC Stores Surplus Wind Energy in Ice Banks
While some green projects store the excess energy in a kinetic form, such as the fore-mentioned flywheels, others are inventing ways to use frozen water to collect surpluses from wind farms, which are more productive at night, when winds are stronger.
200 Flywheels Will Back Up New York's Energy Grid Starting 2011
Beacon Power's flywheels will spin at up to 16,000 rpm, and will be powered by the excess energy produced at night or at times when power consumption is not so big. The numbers are also impressive: the entire array will be able to store about 10% (20 MW) of New York's energy needs.
Solid-State Rechargeable Lithium-Air Battery Reduces Risk of Explosion
Binod Kumar, a research engineer and leader of UDRI's electrochemical power group said that the university is looking for partners that could license the â€Ã…“breakthrough†technology for manufacturing the batteries.
Imperfecting Carbon Nanotubes Makes Them Very Good Fast-Charging Batteries
Prabhakar Bandaru, a professor in the UCSD Department of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering, along with graduate student Mark Hoefer, have discovered that artificially introducing defects in carbon nanotubes would increase their energy storage capacity.
Widetronix and Ithaca Making Progress in Betavoltaic Battery Research
Nuclear power has been discarded for decades since the tragic accidents from the 80's that led to numerous environmental damages in Ukraine and other parts of the world. Still, nowadays there is a trend of reviving nuclear power, to make it 100% safe and to convince people it's worth investing in it, as an alternative to coal or petrol.
Silicon Nanowires Anode Technology Promises Li-Ion Batteries 10 Times Stronger
Amprius, a start-up company from Menlo Park, CA, has invented an innovative type of anode for Li-Ion batteries. The material that they intend to use is made of silicon nanowires, that are said to store 10 times more electricity than graphite.
Metal-Air Ionic Liquid Battery: 11 Times The Capacity of Li-Ion
A spinoff company from Arizona State University is planning to develop a metal-air battery which unlike lithium-ion batteries has an energy density 11 times greater, for less than one-third the cost. Last week, the US Department of Energy awarded a $5.13-million research grant to Scottsdale, AZ-based Fluidic Energy. This company hopes that its ultra-dense energy storage technology to become reality.
Torotrak's Flywheel System Could Be Cheaper Alternative to Hybrid Car Batteries
Flywheels are known to be very good mechanical energy storage devices. They have a certain weight and, by spinning, they capture the energy in their momentum. That energy can be released by electromagnetic means and transformed into electricity.
Toshiba Corp Building SCiB Cell Production Factory by 2011
Toshiba Corp is anticipating strong demands and sales for their SCiB (super charge ion battery) and started the construction of another production plant in the Kashiwazaki Frontier Park, in Kashiwazaki city, Niigata prefecture.
