News tagged with carbon storage
Related topics: carbon emissions , carbon dioxide , climate change , carbon
Carbon nanoballs as data storage units
Small, smaller, "nano" data storage! Interest is growing in the use of metallofullerenes - carbon “cages” with embedded metallic compounds - as materials for miniature data storage devices. Researchers at ...
Sep 01, 2009 |
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Major breakthrough in lithium battery technology reported
An NSERC-funded lab at the University Of Waterloo has laid the groundwork for a lithium battery that can store and deliver more than three times the power of conventional lithium ion batteries.
Nanotechnology / Nanomaterials
May 18, 2009 |
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Researchers develop graphene supercapacitor holding promise for portable electronics
(PhysOrg.com) -- Electrochemical capacitors (ECs), also known as supercapacitors or ultracapacitors, differ from regular capacitors that you would find in your TV or computer in that they store substantially ...
Mar 15, 2012 |
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A Billion Year Ultra-Dense Memory Chip (w/Video)
(PhysOrg.com) -- Berkeley Lab researchers have created a unique ultra-high density memory storage medium that can preserve digital data for a billion years.
Jun 04, 2009 |
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World records by chemists enhance ability to capture CO2
Chemists from UCLA and South Korea report the "ultimate porosity of a nano-material," achieving world records for both porosity and carbon dioxide storage capacity in an important class of materials known ...
Nanotechnology / Nanomaterials
Jul 15, 2010 |
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Improving batteries' energy storage
MIT researchers have found a way to improve the energy density of a type of battery known as lithium-air (or lithium-oxygen) batteries, producing a device that could potentially pack several times more energy ...
Technology / Energy & Green Tech
Jul 25, 2011 |
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New catalyst for safe, reversible hydrogen storage
(PhysOrg.com) -- Scientists at the Brookhaven National Laboratory and collaborators have developed a new catalyst that reversibly converts hydrogen gas and carbon dioxide to a liquid under very mild conditions. ...
Mar 18, 2012 |
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Scientists create large-area graphene on copper: Faster computers, electronics possible
The creation of large-area graphene using copper may enable the manufacture of new graphene-based devices that meet the scaling requirements of the semiconductor industry, leading to faster computers and electronics, ...
May 07, 2009 |
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Research demonstrates method that allows inexpensive carbon materials to store hydrogen at room temperature
Hydrogen has long been considered a promising alternative to fossil fuels for powering cars, trucks and even homes. But one major obstacle has been finding lightweight, robust and inexpensive ways of storing the gas, whose ...
Sep 19, 2011 |
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Springs built from nanotubes could provide big power storage potential
(PhysOrg.com) -- New research by MIT scientists suggests that carbon nanotubes -- tube-shaped molecules of pure carbon -- could be formed into tiny springs capable of storing as much energy, pound for pound, ...
Nanotechnology / Nanomaterials
Sep 21, 2009 |
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Engineering Carbon for Impressive Hydrogen Storage
(PhysOrg.com) -- University of Missouri researchers recently showed how carbon nanostructures can be engineered to become excellent media for hydrogen storage, work that may be important for the advancement of hydrogen-energy ...
Nanotechnology / Nanomaterials
May 22, 2009 |
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First ever hybrid solar-coal power plant operating
(PhysOrg.com) -- The first ever hybrid solar-coal power plant is now operating at Unit 2 of the Cameo Generating Station near Palisade in Colorado. The demonstration project was built by Xcel Energy as part ...
Technology / Energy & Green Tech
Jul 12, 2010 |
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State may have brief window to slow loss of working forests to development
(PhysOrg.com) -- Today's slumping economy and housing market may reduce, temporarily, the insistent economic forces on Washington's private forestland owners to give up the cycle of harvesting and replanting ...
Mar 30, 2009 |
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Leaking Siberian ice raises a tricky climate issue
(AP) -- The Russian scientist shuffles across the frozen lake, scuffing aside ankle-deep snow until he finds a cluster of bubbles trapped under the ice. With a cigarette lighter in one hand and a knife in ...
Nov 21, 2010 |
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Whaling and fishing for the largest species has altered carbon sequestering in oceans
(PhysOrg.com) -- Decades of whaling and fishing for the largest species have altered the ability of oceans to store and sequester carbon, according to a team of marine researchers from the University of Maine, the University ...
Sep 06, 2010 |
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