Feb
8
The Best Lithium Air Batteries Get a 33% Boost
February 8, 2012 | Leave a Comment
The best lithium air lab research batteries had cathodes built with graphene nanosheet materials. Back in August of 2011 scientists at the Nanomaterials and Energy Group at the University of Western Ontario (UWO), Canada, reported the development of graphene nanosheet cathode (GNS) materials for non-aqueous lithium-oxygen (Li-air) batteries showing a capacity of 8,705.9 mAh g-1 […]
Feb
7
A New Idea for the Electro Mechanical Battery
February 7, 2012 | 2 Comments
Carl Peart of New Mexico has a very different take on the electro mechanical battery (EMB) – solve the inherent problems of friction with air and bearings – by using them in orbital power stations. No air or gravity, only centrifugal forces for drag. An EMB (a technical description of a flywheel) stores energy through […]
Feb
6
How to Charge Your Car While Driving
February 6, 2012 | 3 Comments
Out at Stanford University a research team may have solved the problem of range anxiety with wireless charging technology that one day could create an electric highway. The team follows research work from 2007 at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology getting magnetic resonance to light a 60-watt bulb. That experiment demonstrated that power could be […]
Feb
3
A More Efficient Way to Move Heat
February 3, 2012 | Leave a Comment
Rice University’s materials scientist Pulickel Ajayan with graduate student Jaime Taha-Tijerina and postdoctoral researcher Tharangattu Narayanan, with help from Matteo Pasquali, professor of chemical and biomolecular engineering and of chemistry, have created a nano-infused oil that could greatly enhance the ability of devices as large as electrical transformers and as small as microelectronic components to […]
Feb
2
Cold Fusion Has a Good Week
February 2, 2012 | 13 Comments
Last week at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), Electrical Engineering Prof. Peter Hagelstein taught an Independent Activities Period course titled “Cold Fusion 101: Introduction to Excess Power in Fleischmann-Pons Experiments.” For many, the news that an MIT professor holding a cold fusion class at MIT is astonishing because decades ago former MIT people went […]
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