“remarkable electronic properties” The Jell-O-like material, from the labs of Stanford professors Yi Cui and Zhenan Bao, may have applications in areas as widespread as energy st... Read more
LightSail’s process recovers 70% of the energy it puts out Danielle Fong might have dropped out of grade school, but that hasn’t stopped her and her company LightSail from finding a way to p... Read more
You could feed solar, wind and diesel into this system to ensure the availability of power CURRENTLY used in remote communities to regulate the unreliable electricity supply, the Grid Power... Read more
Besides powering vehicles, the technology can also be used to solve the problem of energy storage The era of clean technologies is hopefully only at its dawn and yet we have already witnesse... Read more
The study reports that the capacitance of the nanocable is at least 10 times greater than what would be predicted with classical electrostatics. Thanks to a little serendipity, researchers a... Read more
Deferring the Need for New Infrastructure for instance . . . Large-scale energy storage technologies are often hailed as a key to enabling increased use of intermittent renewable energy reso... Read more
The GT4 is striking in outward appearance Volta Volaré has begun taking orders for its four-seater GT4 hybrid private aircraft it calls “the most technologically advanced private aircr... Read more
He said the efficiency of the invention is more than 100 times greater than the efficiency of any existing solar technology Unknown South Korean inventor Jong-Eun Lee made headlines worldwid... Read more
Isothermal compressed air A University of Minnesota invention could help make storage of solar and wind energy more efficient and economical. The invention was licensed to SustainX, a leadin... Read more
Sulfur in Every Pore Lithium-sulfur batteries may be the power storage devices of the future. Newly developed porous nanoparticles containing sulfur deliver optimized battery performance. Fr... Read more
Enable a new generation of high-performance portable electronics and solar cells You are this close to the breakthrough energy storage technology of the next millennium if you a) have a comp... Read more
The initial production capacity will be “hundreds” of megawatt-hours of batteries per year About one fifth of the world’s population lacks access to electricity. It is one of biggest economi... Read more
One involves pumping water uphill, the other one involves compressing air Energy storage is the key to deploying wind and solar energy on a vast scale, but exactly how much of it will... Read more
Think of it as a giant energy bank. Withdraw when you need it; deposit when you don’t. The concept has been used before, most notably in the natural gas storage facilities that... Read more