Nov
20
Engineering a Much Better Lithium Metal Battery
November 20, 2018 | 1 Comment
Penn State researchers are engineering a dramatically longer-lasting, faster-charging and safer lithium metal battery design. Described in Nature Energy the researchers developed a three-dimensional, cross-linked polymer sponge that attaches to the metal plating of a battery anode. Donghai Wang, professor of mechanical engineering and the principal investigator of the project said, “This project aims to […]
Nov
15
MIT Researchers Solve Corrosion In Metal Air Batteries
November 15, 2018 | Leave a Comment
Open Image…Save ImageOpen Image (using #TmpD/ia)… MIT researchers have found a way to substantially reduce metal air battery corrosion, making it possible for such batteries to have much longer shelf lives. Metal-air batteries are one of the lightest and most compact types of batteries available, but they can have a major limitation: When not in use, they degrade quickly, as […]
Nov
14
Transforming Carbon Dioxide Back Into Fuels
November 14, 2018 | Leave a Comment
Harvard researchers have developed an improved system to use renewable electricity to reduce carbon dioxide into carbon monoxide to recycle carbon dioxide. Imagine a day when – rather than being spewed into the atmosphere – the gases coming from power plants and heavy industry are instead captured and fed into catalytic reactors that chemically transform […]
Nov
13
Controlling Fusion Plasma With Microwaves
November 13, 2018 | Leave a Comment
Dr. Michael Van Zeeland from General Atomics, led the research by international team that was composed of more than 30 scientists from across the globe who worked together to develop an approach to keep the fusion plasma in check. To harness fusion energy fast plasma particles can be confined by a strong magnetic field, which […]
Nov
8
Wendelstein 7-X Stellarator Gets Good Startup Results
November 8, 2018 | Leave a Comment
Imagine building a machine so advanced and precise you need a supercomputer to help design it. That’s exactly what scientists and engineers in Germany did when building the Wendelstein 7-X experiment. The device, funded by the German federal and state governments and the European Union, is a type of fusion device called a stellarator. The […]
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