Sep
2
Dry Water Is Reborn
September 2, 2010 | Leave a Comment
Dry water was discovered in 1968 and got attention for its potential use in cosmetics. Scientists at the University of Hull, U.K. rediscovered it in 2006 in order to study its structure. Ben Carter, Ph.D., researcher for study leader Professor Andrew Cooper and his group at the University of Liverpool has since expanded its range [...]
Aug
6
The Wind Power Storage Issue
August 6, 2010 | 1 Comment
Storing the energy from wind is obviously useful. But is it essential? Numerous studies cover the matter both asserting that storage can useful and asserting its not. The practical common result is the continental U.S. could increase wind energy production another ten times before the capacity would merit storage at scale. It’s just not that [...]
Jul
8
A New Energy Storage Material
July 8, 2010 | 3 Comments
Washington State University scientists working at pressures found halfway to the center of the Earth created a new substance, which stores chemical energy in its very strong molecular bonds. The team is saying the material could be used to create a new class of fuels or an energy storage device, although its practical application is [...]
Jun
28
A New and Very Big Lithium Ion Battery Claim
June 28, 2010 | 5 Comments
When it comes to batteries one gets a little jaded by all the press releases and stories. A check back to two years ago about the breakthroughs at that time shows little has come to the market. Yet the research field is packed with innovation trying to build up more capacity and recharge cycles. The [...]
Jun
22
Its How You Make Things That Makes the Difference
June 22, 2010 | 3 Comments
The Tokyo University of Agriculture and Technology Graduate School has announced electrode materials made by adding lithium iron phosphate (positive-electrode material, LiFePO4) and tin oxide (negative-electrode material, SnO2), respectively, inside carbon. The new process drastically improves the performance of the materials in lithium-ion (Li-ion) rechargeable batteries by using an ultracentrifugal processing technology to add an [...]
May
11
Lithium Air Battery Update
May 11, 2010 | Leave a Comment
The perfect car battery will have to balance many different factors, it’s powerful, has endurance, isn’t too expensive and never, ever explodes. For now the lithium air battery is just equations in the notebooks of researchers. Don Hillebrand, who directs the Center for Transportation Research at Argonne National Laboratory, was quoted at Climatewire saying, “Theoretically, [...]
Apr
29
Get Ready For the Super Ultra Capacitor
April 29, 2010 | 5 Comments
The latest news in energy storage has Drexel University with a new piece out that notes in a paper published in Science by John Chmiola doubling supercapacitors storage and then MIT Technology Review marking it up to triple. It’s a little amusing, yet Chmiola is on to something. Chmiola idea is to use an electrode [...]
Apr
19
Ultracapacitors Ready for Power Storage
April 19, 2010 | Leave a Comment
When you couple ultracapacitors with lithium batteries performance of an electric vehicle is dramatically boosted. Ultracapacitors give electric vehicles the instant response needed to get going, recover braking energy, work across a wide temperature range, and charge very quickly for thousands or millions of cycles. There is more out there than Eestor, and some are [...]
