Mar
29
EEStor Makes a Little Bit of News
March 29, 2012 | 4 Comments
The Bariumtitanate.blogspot, which is a close observer of the EEStory as they’re calling it over there, found a bit of news on the EEStor saga. Zenn, the motorcar company that took off thinking that the EEStor ultra capacitor was coming soon survives with essentially nothing for sale of note. But the capital base has a […]
Dec
14
A Metal Air Battery Dream Gets Traction
December 14, 2010 | 8 Comments
Scottsdale Arizona-based startup Fluidic Energy is looking far into the future. With a focus on a metal-air ionic liquid battery, Fluidic Energy has just received a $5.13 million research grant from the U.S. Department of Energy to expand its plan. This follows a $3 million grant in July through the Advanced Research Projects Agency for […]
Dec
13
A Lithium Ion 3-D Battery Breakthrough
December 13, 2010 | 6 Comments
Pulickel Ajayan, the Benjamin M. and Mary Greenwood Anderson Professor in Mechanical Engineering and Materials Science and of Chemistry at Rice University said, “In a battery, you have two electrodes separated by a thick barrier, The challenge is to bring everything into close proximity so this electrochemistry becomes much more efficient.” That is exactly a […]
Aug
16
A New Peak Demand Electricity Generation System
August 16, 2010 | 12 Comments
An impressive idea is out in the International Journal of Energy Research from the University of Leeds and the Chinese Academy of Sciences. The research group has invented a new way to answer quick peak electricity demands. Peak demand and particularly quick and short-lived peaks are when demand for electricity soars, causing a problem for […]
Aug
6
The Wind Power Storage Issue
August 6, 2010 | 4 Comments
Storing the energy from wind is obviously useful. But is it essential? Numerous studies cover the matter both asserting that storage can useful and asserting its not. The practical common result is the continental U.S. could increase wind energy production another ten times before the capacity would merit storage at scale. It’s just not that […]
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