An effective new strategy to stabilizing the cathodes in lithium-sulfur (Li-S) batteries was recently developed by researchers at the University of Waterloo in Canada + BASF. The new strategy allows for significantly improved cycle life performance, improving the number of times that the battery can be charged/discharged without losing significant … [continued]
This year’s international “Science Award Electrochemistry” was recently awarded by Volkswagen and BASF to Dr Vanessa Wood, of the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology (ETH Zürich), for her work with lithium-ion battery technology. Dr Wood was chosen specifically owing to her work analyzing the way that the microstructures of electrodes … [continued]
RenewEconomy By Giles Parkinson Novatec Solar – a company majority owned by Australia’s Transfield Holdings – has commissioned a solar thermal energy demonstration plant in Spain that is based on a new type of molten salt storage technology. The Germany-based Novatec Solar says the new plant uses a process called … [continued]
One of the country’s leading manufacturers of commercial flat-roof PV solar racking systems, Sollega, recently unveiled its newest offering in that field — the FastRack510, a new light-weight, ballasted, hybrid roof-mount solution. The new system was created in partnership with BASF — one of the biggest global suppliers of plastics. … [continued]
By Denis Kuznetsov Open innovation has been a hot topic in the business world since its introduction by Professor H. Chesbrough in 2003. Having initially evolved in technology and consumer goods corporations (like IBM and P&G), the open innovation paradigm is now spreading to most industries, including energy and cleantech. In simple words, the … [continued]
Just in time for the Energy Department’s ARPA-E Agency to sink $30 million into transformative technologies for measuring methane emissions, along comes a gigantic new market for natural gas: diapers. So weird! It turns out that methane-to-propylene is a thing, and propylene is a precursor to the polymers used in … [continued]
The velocipede is a classic. Its that cool old bike with the big wheel in the front and a small one in the back, with the pedals connected to the front wheel. German design studio Ding3000 and German corporate giant BASF have now created an electric version of a velocipede, … [continued]
Sequester or no sequester, the Obama Administration has just pledged $36 million to kickstart a new program called RANGE, for Robust Affordable Next Generation Energy Storage Systems. Basically the program aims to wallop the range anxiety issue once and for all, by accelerating the development of advanced, long range EV … [continued]
