Green Hydrogen Inching Its Way Into Singapore Decarbonization Scheme
Green hydrogen fans have lots to cheer about this year, but LNG stakeholders are still pitching decarbonization through not-so-green hydrogen.
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Carbon Capture: Bright Promise Or Senseless Boondoggle?
Carbon capture has a powerful allure. The Earth is overheating because there is too much carbon dioxide in the atmosphere. So why not suck out the excess, then store it in holes deep underground — there are thousands upon thousands of old oil and gas wells just waiting for some useful purpose to come along — or use it to make biofuel, fertilizer, medicine, and biodegradable plastics? It sounds like the ideal solution to a problem that affects us all.
BMW & Hanyang University Tag Team Lithium-Ion Batteries
A new, fully functional lithium-ion battery design featuring high energy density and a good cycle life has been created by researchers at Hanyang University and BMW Group, according to recent news from the company and university. The new work has been detailed in a paper published in the RSC journal … [continued]
NREL Researches Capturing Of Waste Heat Via Nanotubes
Originally published on Planetsave. There may be a remarkable potential energy future for nanotubes. Researchers at the Energy Department’s National Renewable Energy Laboratory (NREL) believe finely tuned carbon nanotube thin film has the potential to act as a thermoelectric power generator which captures and uses waste heat. According to press … [continued]
Energy Storage Slam-Dunk: Graphene + Carbon Nanotubes + Li-ion EV Batteries
Researchers have created an energy storage film that can be embedded into electric vehicle body parts, potentially replacing Li-ion batteries.
New Graphene + Carbon Nanotube Supercapacitor Rivals Lithium Battery
An international team of researchers has come up with a recipe for a microscale flexible energy storage device made of graphene and carbon nanotubes, which can store enough energy to rival the gold standard, lithium batteries. That’s significant because the device is actually not a battery, it is a supercapacitor … [continued]
Controlled Placement Of Carbon Nanotubes Creates Big Boost In Solar Cell Performance
Solar cells can receive a big boost to their performance via the use of specially designed nano-engineered carbon nanotubes networks, according to new research from Umeå University in Sweden. While it’s long been predicted that carbon nanotubes could aid in the boosting of solar cell performance, barriers to their effective … [continued]
Plasma-treated, Carbon-nanotube Filters For Water Purification In Developing Countries
Plasma-treated carbon nanotubes can function very effectively as an inexpensive means of purifying water in developing countries, according to new research from the Singapore University of Technology and Design. Water purification membranes enhanced with the plasma-treated carbon nanotubes are ‘perfectly’ structured for the removal of contaminants and brine from water, … [continued]
Elusive Silicon Battery Not So Elusive, Thanks To Carbon Nanotubes
Silicon could provide lithium-ion batteries with ten times their typical storage capacity, but this ubiquitous semiconductor is notoriously fragile when applied to battery technology. One promising line of research is to apply silicon to a flexible platform, enabling it to expand without cracking. That is the approach taken by a … [continued]
Unzip A Carbon Nanotube, Find A Graphene Ribbon, Create A “Flexible” Li-Ion Battery
In what sounds like a solution in search of a problem, a few years ago researchers at Rice University figured out a way to create graphene ribbons by “unzipping” carbon nanotubes. Well, now it looks like a problem has been found, and it’s a big one with huge implications for … [continued]
