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Mar 17, 2017 (SPX)

Chemists at Friedrich-Alexander Universitat Erlangen-Nurnberg (FAU) have developed a process in which nitrogen oxides generated during industrial processes can ...

Headphone batteries explode on flight to Australia

Mar 15, 2017 (AFP)

A woman whose headphones caught fire on a plane suffered burns to her face and hands, Australian officials said Wednesday as they warned about the dangers of ba...

Discovery in new material raises questions about theoretical models of superconductivity

Mar 13, 2017 (SPX)

The U.S. Department of Energy's Ames Laboratory has successfully created the first pure, single-crystal sample of a new iron arsenide superconductor, CaKFe4As4,...

Australia PM, Musk discuss offer to fix power woes

Mar 12, 2017 (AFP)

Australia's prime minister held talks with Elon Musk Sunday after the US innovator offered to solve the energy crisis plaguing a southern region in a hundred da...

ORNL study examines tungsten in extreme environments to improve fusion materials

Mar 09, 2017 (SPX)

A fusion reactor is essentially a magnetic bottle containing the same processes that occur in the sun. Deuterium and tritium fuels fuse to form a vapor of heliu...

Space energy technology restored to make power stations more efficient

Mar 07, 2017 (SPX)

Satellite-powering technology that was abandoned decades ago has been reinvented to potentially work with traditional power stations to help them convert heat t...

Imaging the inner workings of a sodium-metal sulfide battery for first time

Mar 07, 2017 (SPX)

Sometimes understanding how a problem arises in the first place is key to finding its solution. For a team of scientists at the U.S. Department of Energy's (DOE...

A new approach to improving lithium-sulfur batteries

Mar 07, 2017 (SPX)

Rechargeable lithium-ion batteries are the power behind most modern portable electronics, including cell phones, tablets, laptops, fitness trackers, and smart w...

ABB delivers first urban battery storage solution in Denmark to support renewables

Mar 07, 2017 (SPX)

ABB reports the commissioning of Denmark's first urban energy storage system. The Lithion-ion based battery energy storage system (BESS) will be integrated with...

New path suggested for nuclear fusion

Mar 03, 2017 (SPX)

Controlled nuclear fusion has been a holy grail for physicists who seek an endless supply of clean energy. Scientists at Rice University, the University of Illi...

Tweaking electrolyte makes better lithium-metal batteries

Mar 03, 2017 (SPX)

Scientists have found adding a pinch of something new to a battery's electrolyte gives the energy storage devices more juice per charge than today's commonly us...

Lithium-ion battery inventor introduces new technology for fast-charging, noncombustible batteries

Mar 01, 2017 (SPX)

A team of engineers led by 94-year-old John Goodenough, professor in the Cockrell School of Engineering at The University of Texas at Austin and co-inventor of ...

A rose to store energy

Feb 28, 2017 (SPX)

In November 2015, the research group presented results showing that they had caused roses to absorb a conducting polymer solution. Conducting hydrogel formed in...

Triboelectric nanogenerators boost mass spectrometry performance

Feb 28, 2017 (SPX)

Triboelectric nanogenerators (TENG) convert mechanical energy harvested from the environment to electricity for powering small devices such as sensors or for re...

Confined nanoparticles improve hydrogen storage materials performance

Feb 28, 2017 (SPX)

Sometimes, you have to go small to win big. That is the approach a multilab, interdisciplinary team took in using nanoparticles and a novel nanoconfinement syst...

Nano-sized hydrogen storage system increases efficiency

Feb 28, 2017 (SPX)

Lawrence Livermore scientists have collaborated with an interdisciplinary team of researchers including colleagues from Sandia National Laboratories to develop ...

Getting rid of the last bits of sulfur in fuel

Feb 28, 2017 (SPX)

Scientists led by a team at Caltech have developed a new method for potentially removing nearly all sulfur compounds from gas and diesel fuel. Sulfur compounds ...

Romeo Power expands EV battery pack production in Southern California

Feb 28, 2017 (SPX)

Romeo Power is a southern California company that designs and manufactures electric vehicle battery packs. Launched last year by renowned tech innovators Michae...

Donut-shaped fusion plasmas decrease adverse turbulence

Feb 28, 2017 (SPX)

Fusion research has been dominated by the search for a suitable way of ensuring confinement as part of the research into using fusion to generate energy. In a r...

New hydronium-ion battery presents opportunity for more sustainable energy storage

Feb 22, 2017 (SPX)

A new type of battery developed by scientists at Oregon State University shows promise for sustainable, high-power energy storage. It's the world's first batter...