May
26
MIT Designs a Clever New Liquid Flow Battery
May 26, 2016 | Leave a Comment
MIT’s new approach to the design of a liquid battery uses a passive, gravity-fed arrangement similar to an old-fashioned hourglass. The concept could offer great advantages due to the system’s low cost and the simplicity of its design and operation. The MIT team of researchers has made a demonstration version of the new battery. Liquid […]
Aug
23
Blow Up the Battery Materials Before You Build It
August 23, 2012 | 4 Comments
Take a paper like sheet of the world’s thinnest material, graphene, and blast it with a laser or a camera flash to blemish it with countless cracks, pores, and other imperfections and create an easy-to-make, quick-charging lithium-ion battery with high power density. As a practical matter the graphene anode material can be charged or discharged […]
Feb
21
A Turbine Generator in a Suitcase
February 21, 2012 | 35 Comments
This is way too cool to overlook. Atsushi Takano at Nikkei Monozukuri magazine reported in Tech-On that IHI Corp of Japan has developed a compact gas turbine generator unit. The gas turbine and generator set is so small it fits in a suitcase. All by itself, running on propane the unit autonomously generates electricity. IHI […]