Oct
24
Tree Waste Found to Make Good Super Capacitors
October 24, 2013 | 2 Comments
Research engineers at the Illinois Sustainable Technology Center at the University of Illinois (UI) find wood biochar supercapacitors can produce as much power as today’s activated-carbon supercapacitors at a fraction of the cost. The report noted that the wood bio-char would be sourced from forest products waste, an environmentally friendly source to make power storage. […]
Aug
8
The Aussies Top the Super Capacitor Field
August 8, 2013 | Leave a Comment
A research team led by Professor Dan Li of the Department of Materials Engineering at Monash University in Australia has developed a completely new strategy to engineer graphene-based supercapacitors. The Monash University researchers have brought next generation energy storage closer with an engineering first – a graphene-based device that is compact, yet lasts as long […]
Apr
25
A Better Simpler Flow Battery For the Grid
April 25, 2013 | 5 Comments
Researchers from the U.S. Department of Energy’s (DOE) SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory and Stanford University have designed a low-cost, long-life battery that might make solar and wind energy major suppliers to the electrical grid. An electrical grid’s tolerate of large and sudden power fluctuations from wide swings in sunlight and wind power sources is a […]
Mar
19
Better Storage for Wind and Solar Power Found
March 19, 2013 | 4 Comments
Fraunhofer scientists have recently made an important breakthrough with their development of an improved Redox Flow Battery. Over the area of a half square meter, a bit over 4.5 square feet, the new redox stack battery holds 25-kilo watts. The Fraunhofer Institute for Environmental, Safety and Energy Technology UMSICHT in Oberhausen, Germany is intensely motivated. […]
Feb
6
Lithium Battery Material Redesign For a Big Improvement
February 6, 2013 | Leave a Comment
SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory and Stanford University scientists set a new world record for energy storage, using a clever “egg yolk-shell” design to store five times more energy in the sulfur cathode of a rechargeable lithium-ion battery. The comparison is made directly to today’s commercial technology. The performance is quite impressive beyond the capacity. The […]