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Hundred million degree fluid key to fusion
Mar 08, 2016 (SPX)
Scientists developing fusion energy experiments have solved a puzzle of why their million-degree heating beams sometimes fail, and instead destabilise the fusio...
Plasma processing technique takes SNS accelerator to new energy highs
Mar 08, 2016 (SPX)
A novel technique known as in-situ plasma processing is helping scientists get more neutrons and better data for their experiments at the Spallation Neutron Sou...
100 million-degree fluid essential to fusion
Mar 07, 2016 (UPI)
Some scientists believe fusion power -- the energy that powers the stars -- is the future of sustainable energy. Despite periodic breakthroughs, physicists have...
Device 'fingerprints' could help protect power grid, other industrial systems
Mar 04, 2016 (SPX)
Human voices are individually recognizable because they're generated by the unique components of each person's voice box, pharynx, esophagus and other physical ...
Electric Car War Sends Lithium Prices Sky High
Mar 03, 2016 (SPX)
With lithium prices skyrocketing beyond wildest expectations, talk heating up about acquisitions and mergers in this space and a fast-brewing war among electric...
New material to enhance battery life
Feb 25, 2016 (SPX)
Nowadays Li-ion batteries power a wide range of electronic devices: mobile phones, tablets, laptops. They became popular in 90s and subsequently ousted widespre...
Quantum phase transition underpins superconductivity in copper oxides
Feb 25, 2016 (SPX)
Physicists have zoomed in on the transition that could explain why copper-oxides have such impressive superconducting powers. Settling a 20-year debate in the f...
Understanding how turbulence drains heat from fusion reactors
Feb 24, 2016 (SPX)
The life of a subatomic particle can be hectic. The charged nuclei and electrons that zip around the vacuum vessels of doughnut-shaped fusion machines known as ...
Cogeneration sector supportive of a comprehensive follow-up to the Heating and Cooling Strategy
Feb 22, 2016 (SPX)
The European Commission has published the long awaited Heating and Cooling Strategy, putting for the very first time the heat sector on the map of EU policymaki...
New synthesis method developed at UEF opens up new possibilities for Li-ion batteriess
Feb 22, 2016 (SPX)
Lithium-ion batteries are a rapidly growing energy storage method due to their high energy density, especially in mobile applications such as personal electroni...
Fuel cells powering inner-city vehicles
Feb 19, 2016 (ESA)
Inner-city deliveries in Austria may soon be powered by pollution-free fuel cell technology that is also being explored by ESA for satellites and robotic missio...
Explosive Growth Attracts Major Energy Storage Suppliers in Australia
Feb 18, 2016 (SPX)
As households turn to storage to avoid ever increasing electricity tariffs, the Australian energy storage market is on the rise, going from less than 500 instal...
Electric-car battery materials could harm key soil bacteria
Feb 12, 2016 (SPX)
The growing popularity of battery-powered cars could help reduce greenhouse gas emissions, but they are not entirely Earth friendly. Problems can creep in when ...
Researchers present new findings on magnetic spin waves
Feb 12, 2016 (SPX)
An international team of researchers gained new insights into magnetic spin waves. Spin waves can evolve in electrically non-conducting materials given a specif...
Footsteps could charge mobile electronics
Feb 12, 2016 (SPX)
When you're on the go and your smartphone battery is low, in the not-so-distant future you could charge it simply by plugging it into your shoe. An innovative e...
Research reveals carbon films can give microchips energy storage capability
Feb 12, 2016 (SPX)
After more than half a decade of speculation, fabrication, modeling and testing, an international team of researchers led by Drexel University's Dr. Yury Gogots...
Superconductivity: Footballs with no resistance
Feb 11, 2016 (SPX)
Superconductors have long been confined to niche applications, due to the fact that the highest temperature at which even the best of these materials becomes re...
Researchers propose high-efficiency wireless power transfer system
Feb 09, 2016 (SPX)
Today, wireless power transfer (WPT) systems enable to charge electronic devices without plugging them into the wall, but rather by placing them on a special ch...
Phosphine as a superconductor? Sure, but the story may be complicated
Feb 09, 2016 (SPX)
Phosphine is one of the newest materials to be named a superconductor, a material through which electricity can flow with zero resistance. In 2015, scientists r...
Scientists create laser-activated superconductor
Feb 09, 2016 (SPX)
Shining lasers at superconductors can make them work at higher temperatures, suggests new findings from an international team of scientists including the Univer...
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