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Nuclear fusion project faces delay over US budget cuts: director

Dec 07, 2017 (AFP)

Launched a decade ago by seven partners -- the European Union, the United States, China, Russia, Japan, India and South Korea -- the project has been plagued by...

Superior hydrogen catalyst just grows that way

Dec 06, 2017 (SPX)

One of reasons we don't is the expensive platinum catalyst required to operate hydrogen fuel cells efficiently. Research led by Sandia National Laboratories and...

Musk's record-breaking battery officially launches in Australia

Dec 01, 2017 (AFP)

Musk's Tesla built the Powerpack system, which can provide electricity for more than 30,000 homes, to ease South Australia's energy woes after the state was hit...

Batteries with better performance and improved safety

Nov 30, 2017 (SPX)

Currently the core technology for these applications is lithium ion batteries. But the technology is expensive and contains a flammable liquid, which may repres...

Activity descriptors for electrocatalysts in energy storage applications

Nov 29, 2017 (SPX)

There are some challenges to design high-activity catalysts for electrochemical conversions. Scientists from State Key Laboratory of High Performance Ceramics a...

Statoil: Batteries can address wind power variability

Nov 28, 2017 (UPI)

The company said Tuesday its Hywind facility off the coast of Scotland, the first floating wind farm in service in the world, will be equipped next year with ba...

New computational method provides optimized design of wind up toys

Nov 27, 2017 (SPX)

The new computational system includes analytic modeling of a wide variety of elemental mechanisms found in common wide-up toys, including their geometry and kin...

Musk beats deadline for building world's biggest battery

Nov 23, 2017 (AFP)

State Premier Jay Weatherill said testing of the massive lithium ion battery would begin within days, ahead of the December 1 deadline Musk set for himself when...

Renaissance of the iron-air battery

Nov 23, 2017 (SPX)

Together with American Oak Ridge National Laboratory (ORNL), they successfully observed with nanometre precision how deposits form at the iron electrode during ...

A new way to store thermal energy

Nov 23, 2017 (SPX)

Now, a new chemical composite developed by researchers at MIT could provide an alternative. It could be used to store heat from the sun or any other source duri...

Reusing waste energy with 2-D electron gas

Nov 23, 2017 (SPX)

More than 60% of the energy produced by fossil fuels is lost as heat. Thermoelectric energy conversion has attracted much attention as a way to convert waste he...

Researchers take next step toward fusion energy

Nov 17, 2017 (SPX)

The sun makes energy by fusing hydrogen atoms, each with one proton, into helium atoms, which contain two protons. Helium is the byproduct of this reaction. Alt...

Fuel cell X-ray study details effects of temperature and moisture on performance

Nov 17, 2017 (SPX)

But seeing inside a working fuel cell at the tiny scales relevant to a fuel cell's chemistry and physics is challenging, so scientists used X-ray-based imaging ...

Study helps make microgrids a more reliable power source

Nov 16, 2017 (SPX)

Increasingly, many rural and some urban communities are turning to microgrids as an alternative source of electricity. Microgrids are small-scale power systems ...

Scientists make progress in quest for fusion energy

Nov 14, 2017 (UPI)

Scientists have developed a new method for creating resilient materials -- possibly strong enough to survive the intensity of a fusion core. Fusion energy is th...

'Perfectly frustrated' metal provides possible path to superconductivity

Nov 13, 2017 (SPX)

Condensed matter physicists use the term "frustrated" to describe a kind of magnet in which the spins fail to align into stable magnetic order. In perfectly fru...

Cool textiles to beat the heat

Nov 10, 2017 (SPX)

Now researchers report in ACS Nano the development of a new material for clothing that we could one day don as our own personal cooling unit, without any extern...

A novel layered superconductor based on tin and arsenic

Nov 10, 2017 (SPX)

The research group of Yoshikazu MIZUGUCHI (Associate Professor) and Yosuke GOTO (Project Researcher) specializes in the discovery of two-dimensional layered str...

Scientists design smart paper capable of detecting water, conducting electricity

Nov 07, 2017 (UPI)

Even small leaks in a city's maze of pipes can prove costly. Left alone, the problem can get worse. And finding the leak can prove timely. The American Water Wo...

Microscopic defects make batteries better

Nov 06, 2017 (SPX)

Rice materials scientist Ming Tang and chemists Song Jin at the University of Wisconsin-Madison and Linsen Li at Wisconsin and the Massachusetts Institute of Te...