ENERGY TECH - SATURN DAILY

Nov 01, 2016 (SPX)

The mechanism of sodium ion storage in an important two-dimensional material could be a simpler and less toxic route to cheaper batteries, a team of KAUST resea...

What's the silent danger lurking in our rechargeable devices?

Oct 31, 2016 (SPX)

Dozens of dangerous gases are produced by the batteries found in billions of consumer devices, like smartphones and tablets, according to a new study. The resea...

Hybrid nanostructures hold hydrogen well

Oct 31, 2016 (SPX)

Layers of graphene separated by nanotube pillars of boron nitride may be a suitable material to store hydrogen fuel in cars, according to Rice University scient...

Fusion reactor designs with 'long legs' show promise

Oct 28, 2016 (SPX)

Magnetic fusion is all about managing the interface between hot plasma and ordinary materials. The strong magnetic field in a tokamak- the vessel used in this f...

From Germany comes a new twist for fusion research

Oct 28, 2016 (SPX)

This past year saw the commissioning and initial operation of a new large-scale plasma experiment, the Wendelstein 7-X (W7-X) in Greifswald, Germany. Designed, ...

Steering a fusion plasma toward stability

Oct 28, 2016 (SPX)

Plasmas in fusion-energy producing devices are gases heated to millions of degrees that can carry millions of amperes of current. These superhot plasmas must be...

Alcator C-mod bows out with a new world record

Oct 28, 2016 (SPX)

On its final day of operation, the Alcator C-Mod tokamak at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology's Plasma Science and Fusion Center (Figure 1) set a new re...

Scientists measure how ions bombard fusion device walls

Oct 28, 2016 (SPX)

For the first time, researchers at West Virginia University (WVU) have directly measured the complicated 3D patterns of flowing plasma as it strikes the walls o...

General atomics breakthrough enables greater control of fusion energy

Oct 28, 2016 (SPX)

Researchers working at the DIII-D National Fusion Facility at General Atomics (GA) have created an important new tool for controlling fusion plasmas that are ho...

Gamma ray camera offers new view on ultra-high energy electrons in plasma

Oct 28, 2016 (SPX)

Researchers at General Atomics (GA) have invented a new kind of gamma ray camera that can image beams of energetic electrons inside ultra-hot fusion plasma. The...

A turbulent solution to a growing problem

Oct 28, 2016 (SPX)

A recent experiment lead by University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA), researchers on the DIII-D tokamak suggests that plasma turbulence can prevent filament...

Launching fusion reactions without a central magnet, or solenoid

Oct 28, 2016 (SPX)

The tokamak is an experimental chamber that holds a gas of energetic charged particles, plasma, for developing energy production from nuclear fusion. Most large...

First results of NSTX-U research operations

Oct 28, 2016 (SPX)

Researchers from the U.S. Department of Energy's (DOE) Princeton Plasma Physics Laboratories (PPPL) and collaborating institutions presented results from resear...

Fixing deficits in boundary plasma models

Oct 28, 2016 (SPX)

Researchers working on the DIII-D tokamak in San Diego are working to show how plasma transport and atomic physics come together to provide power exhaust soluti...

A disappearing feast: Mean flows remain slim after eating eddies

Oct 28, 2016 (SPX)

Magnetic confinement fusion holds the promise of almost limitless amounts of energy, available on demand and producing zero carbon dioxide. But in order to harn...

Extinguishing a fusion fire in a flash of light

Oct 28, 2016 (SPX)

Fusion energy researchers have discovered that they can rapidly extinguish and cool a magnetically confined fusion plasma hotter than the center of the sun by i...

Breakthrough in Z-pinch implosion stability opens new path to fusion

Oct 28, 2016 (SPX)

Using magnetic field thermal insulation to keep plasmas hot enough to achieve thermonuclear fusion was first proposed by the Italian physicist Enrico Fermi in 1...

U.S. Army to field-test wearable power-generation system in 2017

Oct 27, 2016 (UPI)

The U.S. Army plans to field test a bionic PowerWalk system next year that generates battery power from a soldier's leg movements. The "bionic power knee harves...

Improved water splitting advances renewable energy conversion

Oct 27, 2016 (SPX)

Washington State University researchers have found a way to more efficiently create hydrogen from water - an important key in making renewable energy production...

New method increases energy density in lithium batteries

Oct 27, 2016 (SPX)

Yuan Yang, assistant professor of materials science and engineering at Columbia Engineering, has developed a new method to increase the energy density of lithiu...