Feb

27

Reverse Fuel Cell Turns CO2 Back Into Valuable Chemicals

February 27, 2020 | Leave a Comment

University of Toronto Faculty of Applied Science & Engineering’s engineering team has adapted technology from fuel cells to do the reverse: harness electricity to make valuable chemicals from waste carbon (CO2). Usual fuel cells turn chemicals into electricity, now the technology has been reversed. Professor Ted Sargent, one of the senior authors of the paper […]

Feb

26

Using Ultrasound For Safer Lithium Batteries

February 26, 2020 | Leave a Comment

University of California – San Diego researchers have developed an ultrasound-emitting device that brings lithium metal batteries, or LMBs, one step closer to commercial viability. Although the research team focused on LMBs, the device can be used in any battery, regardless of the chemistry. The device that the researchers developed is an integral part of […]

Feb

25

Now Fuel Efficiency Research For Rocket Engines

February 25, 2020 | 2 Comments

University of Washington researchers are at work on a simpler fuel efficient rocket engine that could be cheaper and enable lighter spacecraft. The researchers have developed a mathematical model that describes how rotating detonation engines work. It takes a lot of fuel to launch something into space. Sending NASA’s Space Shuttle into orbit required more […]

Feb

20

Drilling 3000 Meters For Geothermal Energy

February 20, 2020 | Leave a Comment

Université de Genève researchers have studied the seismic activity linked to a geothermal drilling in search of supercritical fluids. The concern is destabilizing the precarious equilibrium at depth with geothermal wells may reactivate the geological layers causing earthquakes. They discovered that the drilling did not cause uncontrolled seismic activity. This drilling under such critical conditions […]

Feb

19

Working To Make Sodium Competitive to Lithium For Batteries

February 19, 2020 | 2 Comments

Research leader Dorthe Bomholdt Ravnsbæk of the Department of Physics, Chemistry and Pharmacy at University of Southern Denmark pointed out, “The Na-ion battery is still under development, and researchers are working on increasing its service life, lowering its charging time and making batteries that can deliver many watts.” Now the race is on to develop […]

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