More Solar Power To Drive The All-Electric Economy Of The Sparkling Green Future
Best friends forever: renewable hydrogen could help provide more bandwidth in the grid for millions of battery EVs due to hit the road in the coming years.
Brookhaven National Laboratory
Return Of The Bionic Leaf: Plant-Inspired Solar Cell Pushes Efficiency Envelope
Solar cell researchers are marching the world onward to the low carbon economy of the future, Clean Power Plan or no Clean Power Plan.
New Energy Storage Breakthroughs Sweeten Outlook For EV Market
Energy storage breakthroughs are among the factors lightening up an otherwise gloomy outlook for EVs described in a new survey of leading auto industry executives.
New Sodium Battery Throws Shade On Lithium-Ion Energy Storage Dream
Researchers are beginning to nudge lithium-ion energy storage aside with a new breakthrough for batteries based on cheap, plentiful sodium.
Get Ready For The Age Of Room Temperature Superconductors (No More Hot Laptops!)
Brookhaven researchers are hot on the trail of a new class of superconductors that could cool down your laptop, among other things.
Tesla, IBM, Stanford, & PNNL Lead Obama’s Battery500 EV Battery Initiative
As I’ve written many times, I think the #1 barrier to quicker electric car (and electric bus) adoption is simply lack of awareness / lack of experience. That said, despite the many technological, societal, and consumer benefits of electric cars, there are two remaining technological hurdles that can limit adoption for … [continued]
New Graphene-Glass Combo Powers “Spontaneous” Solar Cell
A new graphene solar cell deploys common window glass to touch off a spontaneous “doping” effect, leading to high efficiency, low cost solar cells.
Huge Payoff For EV Battery Range — Potentially 3X More Capacity — If Quirky Iron…
The search for longer EV battery range (and cheaper EV batteries) could depend on taming the quirky behavior of a common materials, iron fluoride.
New Carbon Dioxide Conversion Process Yields…Carbon Monoxide!
We’re pretty excited about this new carbon dioxide conversion process from Brookhaven National Laboratory and the Japan Science and Technology Agency, first of all because we love seeing our tax dollars at work and second of all because it involves a room-temperature process that results in carbon monoxide. Now, that … [continued]
First 3-D Nanoscale Observations Of Structural Changes In Rechargeable Battery Material During Operation
The first 3-D nanoscale observations of the structural changes that occur in the anode of a lithium-ion battery during operation (discharging and recharging) were recently achieved by researchers at the US Department of Energy’s Brookhaven National Laboratory. This achievement is expected to lead to a much greater understanding of such … [continued]
