Beleaguered GE Hopes Energy Storage Is Its Next Big Business
General Electric Co. GE 1.53% plans to unveil a new battery platform Wednesday as it seeks to become a leader in the emerging market of storing electricity. GE is set Continue Reading
The Secret To More Efficient Batteries
New research published in Nature Communications reveals that manganese has a novel chemical state. According to the U.S. Department of Energy’s Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, this new state enables a Continue Reading
Scientists Confirm Century-Old Speculation on the Chemistry of a High-Performance Battery
An array of solar panels and windmills. (Credit: PxHere) Scientists have discovered a novel chemical state of the element manganese. This chemical state, first proposed about 90 years ago, enables Continue Reading
Beleaguered GE Hopes Energy Storage Is Its Next Big Business
General Electric Co. GE 1.53% plans to unveil a new battery platform Wednesday as it seeks to become a leader in the emerging market of storing electricity. GE is set Continue Reading
How To Avoid Blackouts Using 100% Renewable Energy
The inconsistencies of power produced by wind, water, and sunlight and the continuously fluctuating demand for energy often hinder renewable energy solutions. In a new paper, which appears in Renewable Continue Reading
AkzoNobel and Gasunie investigating large-scale production of green hydrogen; 20MW facility for 3000 tons per year
AkzoNobel Specialty Chemicals and Gasunie New Energy are partnering to investigate the possible large scale conversion of sustainable electricity into green hydrogen via the electrolysis of water. Intended for Delfzijl Continue Reading
Physicists Just Found a Loophole in Graphene That Could Unlock Clean, Limitless Energy
By all measures, graphene shouldn’t exist. The fact it does comes down to a neat loophole in physics that sees an impossible 2D sheet of atoms act like a solid Continue Reading
UC Santa Barbara team develops catalytic molten metals for direct conversion of methane to hydrogen without forming CO2
Researchers at the University of California Santa Barbara have developed catalytic molten metals to pyrolize methane to release hydrogen and to form solid carbon. The insoluble carbon floats to the Continue Reading
Air-Breathing Battery Makes Renewable Power Viable for the Grid
MIT researchers have developed an “air-breathing” flow battery that exhales oxygen, stores power for months, and costs about one-fifth of what current storage batteries cost to run. Air-Breathing Battery To Continue Reading
Ceramic Pump That Takes the Heat Promises Cheap, Efficient Grid Storage
Scientists have developed a ceramic pump that can operate at 1,400 ˚C, several hundred degrees hotter than existing heat transfer systems, opening up significant new possibilities for energy storage. Specifically, Continue Reading