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May 14, 2024

China unveils 100kg liquid-hydrogen fuel system that could allow a truck to travel 1,300km without refuelling

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State-owned China Aerospace and Technology Corporation says the new technology meets international standards.

May 14, 2024

First sodium-ion battery storage station at grid level opens with cells that can be charged in 12 minutes

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Clean electricity generation paired with the first grid-level sodium battery energy storage system can bring costs down to just $0.028 per kWh. The 10 MWh storage capacity is executed with sodium-ion cells that can be charged in just 12 minutes.

May 14, 2024

Chicken fat sparks breakthrough in sustainable energy storage

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Researchers have developed a method to turn chicken fat into carbon electrodes for supercapacitors in energy storage.

May 14, 2024

Scientists unlock key to cheap hydrogen fuel with 95% less iridium

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Researchers in Japan have discovered that manganese could help reduce reliance on iridium as a catalyst for hydrogen production.

May 13, 2024

Earth Day: Advanced battery tech could fuel the clean energy revolution

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This Earth Day, we looked at researchers pursuing safer alternatives to facilitate the implementation of energy storage solutions.

May 12, 2024

GM Energy Powered a Mansion with an Electric Silverado Using V2H

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You can run your house for a week on a high-capacity EV battery. To prove it, GM Energy deliberately cut power to an event showing off its bi-directional V2H.

May 11, 2024

Redox-neutral electrochemical decontamination of hypersaline wastewater with high technology readiness level

Posted by in categories: chemistry, energy

A flow-through redox-neutral electrochemical reactor–electrodialysis system has been developed to recover water, alkali and acids from hypersaline wastewaters. This accelerates a shift in ‘zero-discharge’ technology from energy-intensive steam-driven to energy-efficient electrically driven processes.

May 11, 2024

‘Warp drives’ may actually be possible someday, new study suggests

Posted by in categories: energy, quantum physics, space

Related: Warp drive and ‘Star Trek’: The physics of future space travel

Alcubierre published his idea in Classical and Quantum Gravity. Now, a new paper in the same journal suggests that a warp drive may not require exotic negative energy after all.

“This study changes the conversation about warp drives,” lead author Jared Fuchs, of the University of Alabama, Huntsville and the research think tank Applied Physics, said in a statement. “By demonstrating a first-of-its-kind model, we’ve shown that warp drives might not be relegated to science fiction.”

May 10, 2024

First ‘extreme’ solar storm in 20 years brings spectacular auroras

Posted by in categories: energy, satellites

WASHINGTON: The most powerful solar storm in more than two decades struck Earth on Friday (May 11), triggering spectacular celestial light shows in skies from Tasmania to Britain — and threatening possible disruptions to satellites and power grids as it persists into the weekend.

The first of several coronal mass ejections (CMEs) — expulsions of plasma and magnetic fields from the Sun — came just after 1,600 GMT, according to the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA)’s Space Weather Prediction Center.

It was later upgraded to an “extreme” geomagnetic storm — the first since the so-called “Halloween Storms” of October 2003 caused blackouts in Sweden and damaged power infrastructure in South Africa. More CMEs are expected to pummel the planet in the coming days.

May 10, 2024

Australian Startup Mimics Trees to Make Cheaper Green Hydrogen

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Hysata raised $111 million from investors including BP to scale its technology, which could help lower the cost of the clean-burning fuel.

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