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Mixing an icy cocktail to safely cool hot plasma
Nov 13, 2015 (SPX)
A shot of icy chemical cocktail - that's the promising solution to controlling hot plasmas in fusion devices, researchers say. Recent experiments conducted at t...
Daring move for first US-China fusion team
Nov 13, 2015 (SPX)
The way to increase the power and efficiency of magnetic fusion energy may be to risk running the plasma - hotter than 100-million-degrees C - closer than ever ...
Discovery of a new confinement state for plasma
Nov 12, 2015 (SPX)
The National Institutes of Natural Sciences National Institute for Fusion Science applied the "Momentary Heating Propagation Method" to the DIII-D tokamak devic...
Corvus Energy Announces Investment from Statoil Technology Invest
Nov 12, 2015 (SPX)
Corvus Energy has announced the closing of a strategic investment from Statoil Technology Invest. Corvus technology powers more than 35 commercial hybrid and el...
Physicists uncover mechanism that stabilizes plasma within tokamaks
Nov 11, 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...
Breakthrough in superconducting materials opens new path to fusion
Nov 11, 2015 (SPX)
In fusion reactor designs, superconductors (which suffer no resistive power loss) are used to generate the magnetic fields that confine the 100 million degree C...
The long and short of plasma turbulence
Nov 11, 2015 (SPX)
For more than 60 years, fusion scientists have tried to use "magnetic bottles" of various shapes and sizes to confine extremely hot plasmas, with the goal of pr...
Striking the right note on a magnetic violin
Nov 11, 2015 (SPX)
The swirling plasma in donut-shaped fusion facilities called tokamaks are subject to intense heat bursts that can damage the vessel's walls. Halting or mitigati...
Explaining a mysterious barrier to fusion known as the 'density limit'
Nov 11, 2015 (SPX)
For more than 50 years physicists have puzzled over a daunting mystery: Why do tokamak plasmas spiral apart when reaching a certain maximum density and halt fus...
NbSe2, a true 2-D superconductor
Nov 10, 2015 (SPX)
Very few 2D superconductors exist in nature, and single-layer NbSe2 is the first among them that remains a superconductor in its isolated, 2D form without the n...
A new dimension to high-temperature superconductivity
Nov 10, 2015 (SPX)
A team led by scientists at the Department of Energy's SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory combined powerful magnetic pulses with some of the brightest X-rays ...
New low-cost battery could help store renewable energy
Nov 09, 2015 (SPX)
Wind and solar energy projects are growing at a respectable clip. But storing electric power for days when the air is still or when the sun goes down remains a ...
Brownian Carnot engine
Nov 09, 2015 (SPX)
In a recent study published in Nature Physics, ICFO researchers Ignacio Martinez, Edgar Roldan, the late Dmitri Petrov and Raul Rica, in collaboration with the ...
Taiwan Unveils the Eco-Power Station
Nov 05, 2015 (SPX)
The Eco-Power Station (EPS) is a revolutionary, totally off-the-grid system that is entirely self-powered by solar energy. It features a 5 kW thin-film photovol...
China raises coal use figure by hundreds of millions of tonnes
Nov 04, 2015 (AFP)
China has been under-reporting its coal consumption for years, experts said Wednesday after official statistics were revised upwards by hundreds of millions of ...
Tech-sharing key to success of climate summit: France
Nov 04, 2015 (AFP)
French President Francois Hollande said Wednesday that sharing emissions-cutting technology with emerging nations like India and China will be a key part of the...
Simple mathematical formula models lithium-ion battery aging
Nov 04, 2015 (SPX)
Hybrid electric vehicles, cell phones, digital cameras, and the Mars Curiosity rover are just a few of the many devices that use rechargeable lithium-ion batter...
Japan's lofty 'hydrogen society' vision hampered by cost
Nov 03, 2015 (AFP)
Japan has lofty ambitions to become a "hydrogen society" where homes and fuel-cell cars are powered by the emissions-free energy source, but observers say price...
New design points a path to the 'ultimate' battery
Nov 03, 2015 (SPX)
Scientists have developed a working laboratory demonstrator of a lithium-oxygen battery which has very high energy density, is more than 90% efficient, and, to ...
Smart Home Revenues to Reach $100 Billion by 2020
Oct 30, 2015 (SPX)
New data from Juniper Research has found that consumer spend on Smart Home services, including entertainment, health, energy and home automation will reach $100...
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