From two different places the old tokamak confinement method has gotten a new lease on life.  Well, its life is set by the ITER effort paid for by governments across the planet with tens of billions of dollars.  It might make one cringe or celebrate, depending on one’s view towards the basic tokamak concept to […]

An Arizona State University spin off, Fluidic Energy in Scottsdale, AZ, was awarded a U.S. Department of Energy research grant of $5.13 million at the end of October 2009.  Fluidic Energy says it can develop a metal-air battery that dramatically outperforms the best lithium-ion batteries on the market.  Now the company has the cash coming […]

Chemist Daniel Nocera of MIT made news by trying to mimic photosynthesis, and improve on it. The idea seems simple: split water into hydrogen and oxygen with sunlight, and then recombine them which releases the energy in a fuel cell when the power is needed.  The goal is to do both these things cheaply.  Nocera […]

A Better Lithium Battery

November 10, 2009 | 2 Comments

A Better Lithium Battery Dr. Stefan Koller with his team at the Institute for Chemistry and Technology of Materials Graz University of Technology has developed a new method to utilize silicon in lithium-ion anode materials.  The news stories are saying silicon applied to the anodes raises theoretical storage capacity ten times higher than the graphite […]

The National High Magnetic Field Laboratory in Tallahassee Florida has been awarded nearly $3 million to build a novel kind of superconducting magnet that’s expected to break records for magnetic field strength, make possible new types of science and save vast amounts of energy and money.  Of interest is the technologies that could benefit from […]

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