Brookhaven National Laboratory Archives – The Green Optimistic green tech news, since 2008 Sat, 31 May 2014 00:45:10 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=7.0 2667534 Lithium-Ion Battery Lifespan Explained https://www.greenoptimistic.com/lithium-ion-battery-lifespan-explained-20140530/ https://www.greenoptimistic.com/lithium-ion-battery-lifespan-explained-20140530/#respond Sat, 31 May 2014 00:45:10 +0000 https://www.greenoptimistic.com/?p=47788 The lithium-ion battery, like other rechargeable battery types, only has a few hundred cycles in it before its performance begins to degrade, although exactly “why” has been elusive. Actually, rechargeable battery degradation is the anti-EV cult’s main point, that the production and recycling of a lithium-ion battery could be worse than the emissions generated by […]

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]]> https://www.greenoptimistic.com/lithium-ion-battery-lifespan-explained-20140530/feed/ 0 47788 Breakthrough Iron-Based Superconductors Pave the Way for Energy-Intensive Technologies https://www.greenoptimistic.com/breakthrough-iron-based-superconductors-pave-the-way-for-energy-intensive-technologies-20130112/ https://www.greenoptimistic.com/breakthrough-iron-based-superconductors-pave-the-way-for-energy-intensive-technologies-20130112/#respond Sat, 12 Jan 2013 08:16:55 +0000 https://www.greenoptimistic.com/?p=31278 The US Department of Energy’s (DOE) Brookhaven National Laboratory scientists have developed an iron-based high performance superconducting wire, paving the way for some of the most energy-intensive technologies in the world. Scientists were able to grow custom materials that are able to carry very high current under very high magnetic fields, not unlike those found […]

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