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
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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.
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?
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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.
Stronger Man-made Muscles
October 20th, 2011 | by Breath on the Wind
Science fiction has suggested artificial limbs stronger than biological counterparts. We are beginning to see this reality in present day research. Carbon-nanotube muscles can be 100 times stronger than the biological variety. Now they have been shown to twist 1000 times more than other materials and suggest a potential as strong as a commercial electric motor
Quantum Dots Could Boost Solar Efficiency by 100%
June 20th, 2010 | by Tina Casey
Researchers at the University of Texas at Austin are hot on the heels of a discovery that could more than [&hellip
Nuclear Fusion-Fission Hybrid: A Possible Solution for Clean Nuclear Power
January 28th, 2009 | by Ariel Schwartz
Nuclear power is one of the most controversial alternative energies, partially due to the toxic waste it creates. Now physicists [&hellip
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