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Star power: Troubled ITER nuclear fusion project looks for new path
May 22, 2015 (AFP)
In 1985, then Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev and US president Ronald Reagan launched one of the unlikeliest ideas of the Cold War. Under it, the Soviet Union w...
Electricity generating nano-wizards
May 20, 2015 (SPX)
Just as alchemists always dreamed of turning common metal into gold, their 19th century physicist counterparts dreamed of efficiently turning heat into electric...
Scientists discover how microbes acquire electricity in making methane
May 19, 2015 (SPX)
Stanford University scientists have solved a long-standing mystery about methanogens, unique microorganisms that transform electricity and carbon dioxide into m...
David V. Goliath: Small-Cap Tech To Save Giant Coal
May 08, 2015 (SPX)
The Environmental Protection Agency's (EPA) new mercury pollution regulations that took effect last month opened the flood gates for a new multi-billion-dollar ...
Could mobile phone data help bring electricity to the developing world
May 08, 2015 (SPX)
Lack of quality demographic data is a major obstacle to infrastructure planning in the developing world. In a recent study, a team of researchers from the Santa...
Scientists build battery entirely out of one material
May 04, 2015 (UPI)
One is the loneliest number. It's also the number of materials needed to store and transfer energy -- that is if you are an inventive engineer from the Universi...
Tracking exploding lithium-ion batteries in real-time
May 01, 2015 (SPX)
What happens when lithium-ion batteries overheat and explode has been tracked inside and out for the first time by a UCL-led team using sophisticated 3D imaging...
Students develop electricity-producing leg brace
May 01, 2015 (UPI)
Phone need charging? Whose doesn't? With the energy-generating leg brace developed by researchers at Rice University, a power boost is only a walk around the bl...
Telsa unveils battery to 'transform energy infrastructure'
May 01, 2015 (AFP)
Electric car pioneer Telsa Motors unveiled a "home battery" Thursday which its founder Elon Musk said would help change the "entire energy infrastructure of the...
Tesla unveils battery to 'transform energy infrastructure'
May 01, 2015 (AFP)
Electric car pioneer Tesla unveiled a "home battery" Thursday which its founder Elon Musk said would help change the "entire energy infrastructure of the world....
Successful Commissioning Of SylWin1 HVDC Grid Connection
Apr 29, 2015 (SPX)
Prysmian Group has announced the successful commissioning of the High Voltage Direct Current (HVDC) offshore grid connection project SylWin1 realised off the No...
Advances in molecular electronics: Lights on - molecule on
Apr 29, 2015 (SPX)
Scientists at the Helmholtz-Zentrum Dresden-Rossendorf (HZDR) and the University of Konstanz are working on storing and processing information on the level of s...
Thumbnail track pad
Apr 29, 2015 (SPX)
Researchers at the MIT Media Lab are developing a new wearable device that turns the user's thumbnail into a miniature wireless track pad. They envision that th...
Heat makes electrons' spin in magnetic superconductors
Apr 29, 2015 (SPX)
Physicists have shown how heat can be exploited for controlling magnetic properties of matter. The finding helps in the development of more efficient mass memor...
Climate change: How Brits feel about 'smart' energy
Apr 29, 2015 (SPX)
Reluctance to share data about personal energy use is likely to be a major obstacle when implementing 'smart' technologies designed to monitor use and support e...
Generating broadband terahertz radiation from a microplasma in air
Apr 29, 2015 (SPX)
Researchers at the University of Rochester's Institute of Optics have shown that a laser-generated microplasma in air can be used as a source of broadband terah...
An improvement to the global software standard for analyzing fusion plasmas
Apr 29, 2015 (SPX)
The gold standard for analyzing the behavior of fusion plasmas may have just gotten better. Mario Podesta, a staff physicist at the U.S. Department of Energy's ...
Li-ion battery's inner workings revealed
Apr 28, 2015 (AFP)
Scientists said Tuesday they have for the first time looked inside an overheating lithium-ion battery, using sophisticated X-ray imaging to identify ways to mak...
New class of 3D-printed aerogels improve energy storage
Apr 28, 2015 (SPX)
A new type of graphene aerogel will make for better energy storage, sensors, nanoelectronics, catalysis and separations. Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory ...
Caltech Makes Chemistry Safe and Less Toxic for Sustainability
Apr 27, 2015 (SPX)
When Caltech PhD candidate Anton Toutov observed that a commonly available salt was serving as a catalyst for an important chemical process, he couldn't believe...
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