On Monday, the Defense Nuclear Facilities Safety Board expressed concerns that stored toxic, nuclear waste at Hanford Nuclear Reservation, the most contaminated site in the United States, could explode.
Hanford was created in the 1940s as part of the Manhattan...
Lithium-Sulfur battery technology may be more powerful and less expensive than lithium-ion , but also suffers from a greatly reduced lifespan.
Battery technology is one of the leading drivers of price of electric vehicles. Bigger batteries give better range, but...
With climate change becoming one of the most widely discussed and pressing problems in recent years, protecting and caring about the environment has become the main goal of many major organizations and governmental agencies.
One such agency is NASA. Opposite...
Nuclear power has been found to have saved millions of lives by being an alternative source of energy to fossil fuels, according to a recent study by scientists at the NASA Goddard Institute.
Quantifying health damage caused by burning of...
The system works by storing energy as potential energy driving by gravity. Boxcars heavy with gravel are driven up a 7% grade by electric motors.
Renewable energy production is often intermittent and isn't produced when there is demand for it,...
We may never give high voltage power cables a second thought, but there's a lot that goes into their construction that could be improved.
High voltage cables are typically made from a steel core and an aluminum shell. Aluminum is...
Tesla Motors is now attracting mainstream car buyers, by offering a tempting financing option to all future customers of the Model S that wouldn't have otherwise thought of purchasing an electric car.
Thanks to the collaboration with Wells Fargo and...
The US Environmental Protection Agency conducted a survey on quality of US rivers, indicating that majority of streams and rivers in the country are in "poor condition" for their inhabitants due to high levels of contamination and physical disturbances.
Hydrologists from the...
“There have been many car startups over the past several decades, but profitability is what makes a company real. Tesla Motors is here to stay and keep fighting for the electric car revolution.”
So spoke CEO Elon Musk in a...
Makers of portable electronic devices might be interested in a new synthetic carbon anode that would effectively make a 30% thinner lithium-ion battery.
With the growing popularity of portable electronic devices, lithium-ion battery technology is becoming more and more important....
