Nov
16
Halfway to the Ultimate Lithium Battery
November 16, 2011 | 1 Comment
Northwestern University engineers show in the journal Advanced Energy Materials they have developed technology that could hugely improve lithium batteries. The new anode technology suggests a cellphone battery might recharge in 15 minutes and last ten times longer. The scientists combined two chemical engineering approaches to address two major battery limitations — energy capacity and […]
Nov
15
Energy Gathering Antennas Reach Further Into the Light Spectrum
November 15, 2011 | Leave a Comment
A solar panel composed of nano-antennas instead of semiconductors, made by adapting classic metallic antennas to absorb light waves at optical frequencies, has been announced by Tel Aviv University’s Department of Physical Electronics from its innovative new Renewable Energy Center. We have a prior work to consider that harvests the infrared from nearly four years […]
Nov
14
New Insight For Cheaper Ammonia as NH3
November 14, 2011 | 2 Comments
A couple of barriers sit in the way of the ammonia NH3 folks looking for lower costs and a chance at the fuel business. The N part or nitrogen is great stuff, it makes up about 80% of the atmosphere and its highly non-reactive and stabile tendency is a very good thing. If oxygen and […]
Nov
11
Bussard Fusion Update
November 11, 2011 | 1 Comment
Dr. Robert Bussard’s EMC2 Corp. with the U.S. Navy using recovery act funding working on inertial electrostatic confinement (IEC) nuclear fusion based on the theory and prior work of Dr. Bussard has issued a very brief report. The plan is to determine if the experimental plasma scaling agrees with the theoretical models. The U.S. Navy […]
Nov
10
Absorbing All the Light and its Energy
November 10, 2011 | Leave a Comment
NASA engineers have developed a super black material that absorbs light across multiple wavelength bands. The material absorbs on average more than 99 percent of the ultraviolet, visible, infrared, and far-infrared light that hits it — a development that promises to open new frontiers in space technology. It also has implication for those seeking to […]