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New solar battery technology offers household power at 2.5c per kW/h

The company is making impressive inroads on the prototype of a deep storage battery, the size of a small refrigerator, that safely operates at room temperature, consists of everyday materials, and can output household power at 2.5c per kW/h. What’s more, Ceramatec says it will be cheap to purchase.

Could Battery Advances Mean a Better Robot?

It’s the limited life span of batteries that keeps robots from being more widely available

Korean electric vehicle solution

Researchers at the Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology (KAIST) have developed an electric transport system where the vehicles get their power needs from cables underneath the surface of the road via non-contact magnetic charging.

Round-the-world solar plane debut

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Swiss adventurer Bertrand Piccard has unveiled a prototype of the solar-powered plane he hopes eventually to fly around the world.
The initial version, spanning 61m but weighing just 1,500kg, will undergo trials to prove it can fly at night.
Dr Piccard, who made history in 1999 by circling the globe non-stop in a balloon, says [...]

In search of the perfect battery

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Energy technology: Researchers are desperate to find a modern-day philosopher’s stone: the battery technology that will make electric cars practical. Here is a brief history of their quest.

WHEN General Motors (GM) launched the EV1, a sleek electric vehicle, with much fanfare in 1996, it was supposed to herald a revolution: the start [...]