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France taps nuclear know-how to recycle electric car batteries

Sep 27, 2023 (AFP)

The European Union has made building up its recycling capacity a key part of its strategy to become less reliant on Asia for critical metals such as lithium, ni...

Warming up! 30 years of fusion-energy research at EPFL

Sep 25, 2023 (SPX)

Scientists are already able to produce nuclear fusion reactions on Earth. The current challenge faced by researchers around the world is to sustain these fusion...

Improving the properties of sweeteners for enhanced thermal energy storage

Sep 25, 2023 (SPX)

However, SAs usually suffer from the issue of supercooling where, instead of solidifying, they remain in a liquid state even at temperatures well below the melt...

REPT BATTERO Unveiling Transformative Battery Tech Data and North American Alliances at RE+ 2023

Sep 25, 2023 (SPX)

A subsidiary of Tsingshan Industry, REPT BATTERO is led by their proactive CEO Dr. Hui Cao. Under his visionary leadership, the company has thrived, pulling in ...

New approach may help extract more heat from geothermal reservoirs

Sep 25, 2023 (SPX)

"The public perception of geothermal is that since it's renewable we should be able to produce from these resources infinitely," said co-corresponding author Ar...

Golden future for thermoelectrics

Sep 25, 2023 (SPX)

Using thermoelectrics to generate electricity is nothing new. Since the middle of the 20th century, they have been used to generate electrical energy in space e...

Cheap and efficient catalyst could boost renewable energy storage

Sep 25, 2023 (SPX)

The new catalyst, designed by researchers at City University Hong Kong (CityU) and tested by colleagues at Imperial College London, could be cheaply scaled up f...

POWER Program selects teams to design power beaming relays

Sep 19, 2023 (SPX)

"This project has the potential to advance power beaming by orders of magnitude, which could radically reshape society's relationship with energy," said Dr. Pau...

Fast-tracking fusion energy's arrival with AI and accessibility

Sep 19, 2023 (SPX)

As part of their strategy to accelerate fusion energy's arrival and reach carbon neutrality by 2050, the U.S. Department of Energy (DoE) has announced new fundi...

Pixel-by-pixel analysis yields insights into lithium-ion batteries

Sep 19, 2023 (SPX)

The new technique has revealed several phenomena that were previously impossible to see, including variations in the rate of lithium intercalation reactions in ...

French firm nets 2 bn euros for major battery factory

Sep 14, 2023 (AFP)

The plant is among a clutch of factories set to emerge in northern France under President Emmanuel Macron's "reindustrialisation" plan for the country. Verkor s...

Alumnus' thermal battery helps industry eliminate fossil fuels

Aug 21, 2023 (SPX)

Now Antora Energy, co-founded by David Bierman SM '14, PhD '17, is addressing the intermittent nature of wind and solar with a low-cost, highly efficient therma...

Jeep owner Stellantis invests $100 mn in US lithium

Aug 17, 2023 (AFP)

Under the deal, US-based Controlled Thermal Resources will supply the carmaker with up to 65,000 tons of lithium hydroxide monohydrate a year for 10 years from ...

DoE announces $112 million for research on computational projects in fusion energy sciences

Aug 15, 2023 (SPX)

The Scientific Discovery through Advanced Computing (SciDAC) program pairs the Fusion Energy Sciences (FES) program with the Advanced Scientific Computing Resea...

US lab repeats nuclear fusion feat, with higher yield

Aug 07, 2023 (AFP)

The Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory stunned the world in December when it announced it had carried out an experimental nuclear reaction that put out more...

Novel proton-conductive membranes for automobile fuel cells

Aug 06, 2023 (SPX)

For years, the industry has witnessed attempts to better these membranes. Several modified versions like Nafion HP, Nafion XL, and Gore-Select were produced, of...

Researchers make discovery that could reduce explosions of lithium-metal batteries

Aug 02, 2023 (UPI)

Currently, lithium-ion batteries dominate the market for everything from smartphones to electrical vehicles and solar and wind energy technologies. Lithium-ion ...

Less power, lower emissions: improving AC technology

Aug 02, 2023 (AFP)

- Improve efficiency - Innovation is focused on three major fronts, with much of the attention on energy consumption. Air conditioning units account for six per...

MIT engineers create an energy-storing supercapacitor from ancient materials

Aug 01, 2023 (SPX)

The two materials, the researchers found, can be combined with water to make a supercapacitor - an alternative to batteries - that could provide storage of elec...

New approach to fuel cell manufacturing could reduce cost, increase availability

Jul 28, 2023 (SPX)

They published their results this week (July 24) in JACS Au, an open-access journal of the American Chemical Society. According to corresponding author Christop...