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Saltwater Battery Wins MIT’s Prestigious Award

Mila Luleva — Mon, 21 Sep 2015 18:02:17 +0000

Energy storage system made of salt water and carbon, wins its creator the MIT’s prestigious award, Lemelson-MIT Prize, for 2015. Development of eco-friendly and efficient energy storage systems that can preserve the excess energy generated by renewables, is currently receiving much more attention than the actual energy generation technologies. It all makes sense, especially when advances […]

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Aquion Energy’s Water-Based Batteries Backed by Bill Gates

Mila Luleva — Thu, 04 Apr 2013 09:06:53 +0000

Aquion Energy received an additional boost from major investors, including Bill Gates, to develop a cheap and environmentally-friendly water-based battery system. The new energy storage technology by Aquion Energy received a total of $35 million in investments. The energy storage units are suitable for small and large-scale energy projects, with test units of the so-called […]

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How to Build a Water-Powered Battery for Your Calculator

Mike Sandru — Tue, 03 Jan 2012 18:44:36 +0000

14-year-old Instructables user Angelo S. Casimiro put up a step-by-step fabrication process that can be completed in as little as 10 minutes and can power a small calculator or a similar low-consumption device. If you’re just before an exam, but forgot to buy a battery for your calculator, you can always revert to …water! Yes, […]

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SiGNa mobile H2: Water-Fueled Battery Recharges Your Gadgets Cheaply and Cleanly

Ovidiu Sandru — Thu, 03 Mar 2011 18:24:53 +0000

SiGNa Chemistry Inc has created a kind of a battery that can be recharged with water. At first sight, there's something fishy with their mobile-H2 in the sense that it only needs water to operate and that's all. Ok, let's see some in-depth details of it.

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Portuguese Paper Battery Can Be Recharged With Water

Ovidiu Sandru — Fri, 28 Jan 2011 18:50:45 +0000

Researchers from the Faculty of Science and Technology in Lisbon (CENIMAT) have recently developed a novel type of battery that you can charge... with water! They say it's another step towards their aim of developing new ways to power gadgets and small electronic devices.

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Jay Whitacre’s New & Cheap Sodium-Ion Batteries Funded by DOE

Ovidiu Sandru — Fri, 11 Dec 2009 17:38:02 +0000

Sodium is several orders of magnitude more available than lithium, and that makes it cheaper to use in batteries. Taking into account the destination of the projected batteries, to act like a buffer for storing renewable electricity, low voltages are enough, so making the technology cheaper by using a water-based electrolyte wasn't hard to think of.

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I Charge My Batteries With Water. How About You?

Florin — Fri, 16 Jan 2009 12:26:20 +0000

You go somewhere for the holidays. You have your mp3 player to forget about the "dead times" during not-so-interesting-travels. But what? Suddenly your mp3 player stops working! Noooo!

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