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Corvus Energy offers turn-key containerized energy storage system

Dec 03, 2015 (SPX)

Corvus Energy, the industry leader in advanced lithium ion energy storage systems (ESS) for maritime hybrid and fully electric propulsion systems is announcing ...

Australia riding coal train despite climate pleas

Dec 03, 2015 (AFP)

It is a battle being played out around resource-rich Australia. In one corner ecologists, and climate change campaigners, who warn coal mines are ticking "carbo...

Physicists unravel behavior of strongly disordered superconductors

Dec 01, 2015 (SPX)

Physicists Mikhail Feigel'man (the head of MIPT's theoretical nanophysics laboratory) and Lev Ioffe have explained the unusual effect in a number of promising s...

Alberta to phase out coal

Dec 01, 2015 (UPI)

The provincial government of Alberta, Canada, said it aims to phase out coal by 2030 by adding more renewable energy resources to its grid. "The plan we have pu...

Price Declines Expected to Broaden the Energy Storage Market

Dec 01, 2015 (SPX)

Commercial energy storage activity is currently consolidated in just a handful of leading regions, but falling system costs will be a major factor enabling broa...

HKUST scientists explain the theory behind Ising superconductivity

Nov 30, 2015 (SPX)

Superconductivity is a fascinating quantum phenomenon in which electrons form pairs and flow with zero resistance. However, strong enough magnetic field can bre...

Identifying new sources of turbulence in spherical tokamaks

Nov 30, 2015 (SPX)

For fusion reactions to take place efficiently, the atomic nuclei that fuse together in plasma must be kept sufficiently hot. But turbulence in the plasma that ...

Dutch lawmakers approve plan to close coal power plants

Nov 27, 2015 (AFP)

Dutch lawmakers voted in favour Thursday of phasing out coal power plants in the Netherlands, appealing to other countries to do the same, days ahead of a crunc...

Energy from a fossil fuel without carbon dioxide

Nov 26, 2015 (SPX)

The production of energy from natural gas without generating carbon dioxide emissions could fast become a reality, thanks to a novel technology developed by res...

The route to high temperature superconductivity goes through the flat land

Nov 26, 2015 (SPX)

Superconductors are marvellous materials that are able to transport electric current and energy without dissipation. For this reason, they are extremely useful ...

ORNL microscopy captures real-time view of evolving fuel cell catalysts

Nov 26, 2015 (SPX)

Atomic-level imaging of catalysts by scientists at the Department of Energy's Oak Ridge National Laboratory could help manufacturers lower the cost and improve ...

Researchers discover salty solution to better, safer batteries

Nov 24, 2015 (SPX)

A team of researchers from the University of Maryland (UMD) and the U.S. Army Research Laboratory (ARL) have devised a groundbreaking "Water-in-Salt" aqueous Li...

Perpetual youth for batteries

Nov 23, 2015 (SPX)

A key issue with lithium ion batteries is aging. It significantly reduces their potential storage capacity. To date, very little is known about the causes of th...

Carbon Capture: key green technology shackled by costs

Nov 21, 2015 (AFP)

Every credible plan to save humanity from global warming reserves a key role for a green energy technology called carbon capture and storage. But there's a prob...

Valley current control shows way to ultra-low-power devices

Nov 20, 2015 (SPX)

University of Tokyo researchers have demonstrated an electrically-controllable valley current device that may pave the way to ultra-low-power "valleytronics" de...

Computers uncover mechanism that stabilizes plasma within tokamaks

Nov 20, 2015 (SPX)

A team of physicists led by Stephen Jardin of the U.S. Department of Energy's Princeton Plasma Physics Laboratory (PPPL) has discovered a mechanism that prevent...

Saft delivers innovative cold weather energy storage system in Arctic Alaska

Nov 19, 2015 (SPX)

Saft has delivered its Intensium Max+ 20M containerized Battery Energy Storage System (BESS) with innovative "Cold Temperature Package" on schedule during Q3 20...

Imitating synapses of the human brain could lead to smarter electronics

Nov 19, 2015 (SPX)

Making a computer that learns and remembers like a human brain is a daunting challenge. The complex organ has 86 billion neurons and trillions of connections - ...

Quantum dots made from fool's gold boost battery performance

Nov 19, 2015 (SPX)

If you add quantum dots - nanocrystals 10,000 times smaller than the width of a human hair - to a smartphone battery it will charge in 30 seconds, but the effec...

Rich powers cut export aid for coal plants

Nov 18, 2015 (AFP)

Advanced economies including the United States, Japan and European Union have agreed for the first time to restrict state aid for exports of large, inefficient ...