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Manipulating magnets in the quest for fusion
Jul 21, 2021 (SPX)
Senior Research Scientist Brian LaBombard is summarizing what might be considered a guiding philosophy behind designing and engineering fusion devices at MIT's ...
Plans drafted for another UK battery gigafactory
Jul 14, 2021 (AFP)
The city's council is submitting blueprints for a 5.7 million square feet (1.7 million square metre) electric car battery plant in partnership with Coventry Air...
Nissan announces UK battery gigafactory, new electric car
Jul 01, 2021 (AFP)
Prime Minister Boris Johnson hailed the post-Brexit investment totalling 1.0 billion pounds ($1.4 billion, 1.2 billion euros), which is set to create 6,200 jobs...
UK auto sector embraces electric car 'gigafactories'
Jun 29, 2021 (AFP)
The Society of Motor Manufacturers and Traders (SMMT) published an industry blueprint at its annual meeting, as demand grows for electric vehicles and speculati...
France hails Chinese battery factory for Renault in electric push
Jun 28, 2021 (AFP)
The two-billion-euro ($2.4 billion) project by China's Envision is being saluted as an example of Macron's efforts to encourage foreign firms to "Choose France"...
Why nuclear batteries offer a new approach to carbon-free energy
Jun 28, 2021 (SPX)
These proposed systems could provide heat for industrial processes or electricity for a military base or a neighborhood, run unattended for five to 10 years, an...
Revisiting a quantum past for a fusion future
Jun 25, 2021 (SPX)
Ram's early education put him on a classical science trajectory. Intrigued with mathematics since high school days in India and Kenya, he chose the subject as h...
Low-cost imaging technique shows how smartphone batteries could charge in minutes
Jun 24, 2021 (SPX)
Using the low-cost technique, the researchers identified the speed-limiting processes which, if addressed, could enable the batteries in most smartphones and la...
A novel energy storage solution featuring pipes and anchors
Jun 24, 2021 (SPX)
There is general consensus that renewable energy sources will play an important role in ensuring a healthier and more sustainable future for the planet and its ...
Exotic superconductors: The secret that wasn't there
Jun 23, 2021 (SPX)
However, a new study by Prof. Andrej Pustogow from the Institute of Solid State Physics at TU Wien together with other international research teams shows that t...
Proliferation of electric vehicles based on high-performance, low-cost sodium-ion battery
Jun 18, 2021 (SPX)
The Korea Institute of Science and Technology (KIST) has announced that Dr. Sang-Ok Kim's team at the Center for Energy Storage Research had developed a novel, ...
Electric heat pumps use much less energy than furnaces, and can cool houses too
Jun 15, 2021 (SPX)
The buildings that people live and work in consume substantial amounts of energy. In 2019, commercial and residential buildings accounted for more than one-seve...
Highview Enlasa developing liquid air energy storage facility in Chile
Jun 11, 2021 (SPX)
With one of the highest solar irradiations in the world, the Atacama Region has the potential to generate all the country's electricity. By pairing solar with c...
Engineers design battery to power flying cars
Jun 07, 2021 (UPI)
"I think flying cars have the potential to eliminate a lot of time and increase productivity and open the sky corridors to transportation," lead author Chao-Yan...
Compound commonly found in candles lights the way to grid-scale energy storage
Jun 06, 2021 (SPX)
Scientists at the U.S. Department of Energy's Pacific Northwest National Laboratory have shown that low-cost organic compounds hold promise for storing grid ene...
China's artificial sun brings nuclear fusion energy closer
Jun 02, 2021 (XNA)
The previous record was 20 seconds at 100 C set by the Korea Superconducting Tokamak Advanced Research (KSTAR), the Republic of Korea's superconducting fusion d...
BASF in battery parts production deal with China's Shanshan
May 20, 2021 (AFP)
In a statement, BASF said it had agreed to take on a 51 percent share of the joint venture to produce cathode active materials and precursors on Chinese soil. S...
Highview Power Developing 2 GWh of Liquid Air Long Duration Energy Storage Projects in Spain
May 20, 2021 (SPX)
Alongside development partners and a consortium of investors, which include TSK, one of the largest engineering companies in Europe, and the Center for Energy, ...
Fuel cells reduce ship emissions
May 19, 2021 (SPX)
Globally, shipping accounts for a significant proportion of greenhouse gas emissions. It also produces sulphur dioxide, nitrogen oxide and soot particles. The I...
Electric vehicle batteries: The older they get, the safer they are
May 04, 2021 (SPX)
"The performance of new battery cells is largely known, so we dealt with the entire life cycle," explains project manager Christian Ellersdorfer at the Institut...
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