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With Solid State Energy Storage, Oil-Rich Texas Hits Clean Tech Trifecta

September 19th, 2020 | by Tina Casey

A Texas-sized energy storage breakthrough is in store for the US, with new solid state technology cutting costs while increasing efficiency

USA’s Battery500 Initiative Has Achieved Li-Metal Battery Energy Density Of 350 Wh/kg

June 10th, 2020 | by Zachary Shahan

Toward the end of President Obama's time in office, the US Department of Energy (DOE) launched a "Battery500 Consortium." The goal is in the name: reaching 500 Wh/kg battery energy density with lithium-metal battery cells, a target which was reportedly triple the battery energy density at the time

Batteries

Inventor Of Lithium-Ion Battery Receives Prestigious Award

July 29th, 2019 | by Jennifer Sensiba

I'm not sure how we missed it, but in May, the inventor of the lithium-ion battery received the Royal Society's prestigious Copley Medal

Climate Change

For Nearly 20 Years, GRACE Has Helped Us Understand Climate Change

May 24th, 2019 | by Steve Hanley

For 15 years, the GRACE twin satellite system allowed scientists to better understand how the Earth's climate was changing. Now a second generation monitoring system is in place to provide even more accurate data about climate change.

An Influx Of New Tech Is Changing How We See & Act On Pollution

December 10th, 2018 | by Sponsored Content

While there is exciting progress and promise as air sensors become cheaper and more available, a diverse coalition of industry, activists, policymakers and researchers is critical to ensuring that the data is reliable, accessible and most of all, actionable.

Batteries

The Solid-State Lithium-Ion Battery — Has John Goodenough Finally Done It?

June 26th, 2018 | by Steve Hanley

John Goodenough and his colleagues claim they have created a solid state lithium ion battery that actually have an increase in capacity the more times they are charged and discharged. Is that even possible?

Batteries

Battery Researchers Keep Coming Up With New Breakthroughs

December 21st, 2017 | by Steve Hanley

Batteries are the key to the zero carbon future, there’s little argument about that. But today’s batteries are less than [&hellip

Batteries

ExxonMobil Investing $15 Million Into University Of Texas Emerging Technology Development

August 5th, 2016 | by James Ayre

The fossil fuel giant ExxonMobil will be investing $15 million into the University of Texas at Austin Energy Institute to [&hellip

Batteries

Tesla, IBM, Stanford, & PNNL Lead Obama’s Battery500 EV Battery Initiative

July 23rd, 2016 | by Zachary Shahan

As I’ve written many times, I think the #1 barrier to quicker electric car (and electric bus) adoption is simply [&hellip

Batteries

New Energy Storage Formula From Inventor Of Lithium-Ion Batteries

September 24th, 2015 | by Tina Casey

The inventor of the lithium-ion battery is moving on to a sodium-ion energy storage solution, which could push Li-ion out of the EV market

Buildings

Solar Decathlon 2015: Texas/Germany Team’s NexusHaus (Video)

February 12th, 2015 | by Amber Archangel

The US Department of Energy Solar Decathlon 2015 team Texas/Germany — the University of Texas at Austin and Technische Universitaet Muenchen [&hellip

Climate Change

Do Fugitive Emissions Of Methane Create A Fossil Fuel Tossup?

July 28th, 2014 | by Sandy Dechert

A longer version of this article, with commentary, was released in one of our sister publications, Planetsave, on Sunday, July [&hellip

Fossil Fuels

Methane Emissions Questions Gas Being ‘Bridge’ Fuel

April 19th, 2014 | by Guest Contributor

Originally published on Climate Central. By Bobby Magill Natural gas as a means to produce electricity is being hailed by the Intergovernmental [&hellip

Clean Power

Americans Overwhelmingly Support Wind Power

April 1st, 2014 | by AWEA

Originally published on AWEA. By David Ward American-made wind power has long enjoyed popular support across the country. There’s even [&hellip

Fossil Fuels

More Fracking Headaches As Earthquake Evidence Grows

September 5th, 2013 | by Tina Casey

It looks like more trouble is looming ahead for communities that host fracking operations. Two new studies have linked fracking-related [&hellip

Clean Power

Graphene Stretchability Improved With New Technique

August 7th, 2013 | by James Ayre

A new technique to improve the stretchability of graphene has been devised by researchers from North Carolina State University and [&hellip

Clean Power

Texas A&M Launches World’s Biggest Solar Photovoltaic R&D Facility

July 19th, 2013 | by Silvio Marcacci

Texas A&M University has launched the world's biggest solar photovoltaic research and development facility, a $600 million 800-acre center that could kickstart the state's solar manufacturing industry.