Scientific discovery doesn’t always require a high-tech laboratory or a hefty budget. Many people have a first-rate lab right in their own homes—their kitchen.
State-owned China Aerospace and Technology Corporation says the new technology meets international standards.
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.
Researchers have developed a method to turn chicken fat into carbon electrodes for supercapacitors in energy storage.
Researchers in Japan have discovered that manganese could help reduce reliance on iridium as a catalyst for hydrogen production.
This Earth Day, we looked at researchers pursuing safer alternatives to facilitate the implementation of energy storage solutions.
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.
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.
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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.”
