ENERGY TECH - NANO DAILY

Jun 25, 2014 (SPX)

Limiting climate change to 2C means shutting down coal power plants - an unpopular proposition for coal power companies. But a new study shows that delaying cli...

Researchers developing cheap, better-performing lithium-ion batteries

Jun 25, 2014 (SPX)

Researchers at the USC Viterbi School of Engineering have improved the performance and capacity of lithium batteries by developing better-performing, cheaper ma...

Charging Portable Electronics in 10 Minutes

Jun 13, 2014 (SPX)

Researchers at the University of California, Riverside Bourns College of Engineering have developed a three-dimensional, silicon-decorated, cone-shaped carbon-n...

Magnetic cooling enables efficient, 'green' refrigeration

Jun 12, 2014 (SPX)

Magnetic cooling is a promising new refrigeration technology boasting several advantages - ranging from lower energy consumption to eliminating the use of hazar...

Funky ferroelectric properties probed with X-rays

Jun 12, 2014 (SPX)

Ferroelectric materials like barium titanate, a ceramic used in capacitors, are essential to many electronic devices. Typical ferroelectric materials develop fe...

Technology using microwave heating may impact electronics manufacture

Jun 12, 2014 (SPX)

Engineers at Oregon State University have successfully shown that a continuous flow reactor can produce high-quality nanoparticles by using microwave-assisted h...

Team Demonstrates Continuous Terahertz Sources at Room Temperature

Jun 10, 2014 (SPX)

Imagine a technology that could allow us to see through opaque surfaces without exposure to harmful x-rays, that could give us the ability to detect harmful che...

Designing Ion 'Highway Systems' for Batteries

Jun 10, 2014 (SPX)

Since the early 1970s, lithium has been the most popular element for batteries: it's the lightest of all metals and has the greatest electrochemical potential. ...

Rice University produces carbon-capture breakthrough

Jun 10, 2014 (SPX)

Rice University scientists have created an Earth-friendly way to separate carbon dioxide from natural gas at wellheads. A porous material invented by the Rice l...

Controlling thermal conductivities can improve energy storage

Jun 10, 2014 (SPX)

Controlling the flow of heat through materials is important for many technologies. While materials with high and low thermal conductivities are available, mater...

Connecting dead ends increases power grid stability

Jun 10, 2014 (SPX)

Climate change mitigation strategies such as the German Energiewende require linking vast numbers of new power generation facilities to the grid. As the input f...

Seeing how a lithium-ion battery works

Jun 10, 2014 (SPX)

New observations by researchers at MIT have revealed the inner workings of a type of electrode widely used in lithium-ion batteries. The new findings explain th...

Trojan Showcases Smart Carbon Line of Advanced Lead Acid Batteries

Jun 03, 2014 (SPX)

Trojan Battery will showcase its new lines of deep-cycle batteries featuring Smart Carbon technology which addresses the impact of partial state of charge (PSOC...

Physicist builds useful light source from harmonic generation

Jun 03, 2014 (SPX)

A Kansas State University physicist's proposal may lead to a new way of creating tabletop light sources in the laboratory. Cheng Jin, research associate in phys...

Breakthrough in energy storage: Electrical cables that can store energy

Jun 03, 2014 (SPX)

Imagine being able to carry all the juice you needed to power your MP3 player, smartphone and electric car in the fabric of your jacket? Sounds like science fic...

X-ray pulses on demand from electron storage rings

Jun 02, 2014 (SPX)

Everything we know nowadays about novel materials and the underlying processes in them we also know thanks to studies at contemporary synchrotron facilities lik...

In climate change fight, Obama gets tough on coal

Jun 02, 2014 (AFP)

US President Barack Obama is doubling down in the fight against climate change. With Congress refusing to budge, he is poised to unveil sweeping new limits on c...

Obama wants to force coal plants to reduce emissions: NYTimes

May 29, 2014 (AFP)

US President Barack Obama wants to force coal energy plants to reduce emissions and pay for greenhouse gases they do emit through a cap and trade system, the Ne...

Spain okays Repsol plan for Canary Islands exploration

May 29, 2014 (AFP)

The Spanish government on Thursday gave oil giant Repsol the green light to explore for oil and gas off the coast of the Canary Islands, a move that environment...

Scientists develop new hybrid energy transfer system

May 28, 2014 (SPX)

Scientists from the University of Southampton, in collaboration with the Universities of Sheffield and Crete, have developed a new hybrid energy transfer system...