Magnesium Batteries Are Beginning To Give Up Their Secrets
Researchers are in hot pursuit of magnesium batteries to fill the growing need for low-impact utility scale energy storage technology.
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European Commission Announces Actions to Make Europe’s Raw Materials Supply More Secure & Sustainable
Today, the Commission presents an Action Plan on Critical Raw Materials, the 2020 List of Critical Raw Materials and a foresight study on critical raw materials for strategic technologies and sectors from the 2030 and 2050 perspectives.
Magnesium Energy Storage Means Never Having To Pay More For An EV
Electric vehicles are already on track to reach price parity with gasmobiles, and that could happen a lot faster if this new magnesium energy storage research pans out.
Magnesium Goes Mobile: New Energy Storage Tech Threatens Lithium-Ion Dominance
A new breakthrough in magnesium energy storage technology could lead the way to a new generation of low cost, high density batteries.
How Soon Till Your Favorite Advanced Material (Graphene, Quantum Dots, etc) Is Commercialized? Lux Research…
Originally published on the Lux Research website. New advanced materials like MOFs (metal organic frameworks), advanced high-strength steel, and carbon nanotubes have the potential to enable novel products and disrupt existing businesses. However, material commercialization timelines are notoriously long and unpredictable. Now, Lux Research analysts have designed a tool that can help … [continued]
The Car Of The Future Will Be Made From Seawater
Hey, maybe we can drink our way out of this mess after all. ARPA-E, the Energy Department’s cutting-edge technology funding branch, has just released grants totaling $66 million for transformative automotive and energy projects, and among the goodies is a cutting-edge process to extract magnesium from seawater. The overall concept … [continued]
$40 Million More For Cleaner Transport (ARPA-E)
Reposted from EERE: The Energy Department on March 22 announced that approximately $40 million from its Advanced Research Projects Agency-Energy (ARPA-E) will be made available for two new programs to develop technologies that shift U.S. cars and trucks from reliance on oil. One program will develop cost-effective and energy-efficient manufacturing … [continued]
