News tagged with energy capacity

UM invention helps advance reliability of alternative energy

A University of Minnesota invention could help make storage of solar and wind energy more efficient and economical. The invention was licensed to SustainX, a leading global developer of grid-scale energy storage solutions ...

Technology / Energy & Green Tech

created Apr 16, 2012 | popularity 2 / 5 (6) | comments 3

French group Areva to build big Indian solar power plant

The French energy group Areva said Wednesday that it would build the biggest concentrated solar power installation in Asia for Reliance Power of India.

Technology / Energy & Green Tech

created Apr 12, 2012 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 0

Thermosolar power station in Spain works at night

A unique thermosolar power station in southern Spain can shrug off cloudy days: energy stored when the sun shines lets it produce electricity even during the night.

Technology / Energy & Green Tech

created Mar 18, 2012 | popularity 4.5 / 5 (37) | comments 243

Toward the EU energy mix: State of the art of the strategic energy technologies

A new edition of the Strategic Energy Technologies review has been published. This "2011 Technology Map", produced by the European Commission's in-house science service, the Joint Research Centre (JRC), provides a European ...

Technology / Energy & Green Tech

created Mar 07, 2012 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Bubbles help break energy storage record for lithium-air batteries

Resembling broken eggshells, graphene structures built around bubbles produced a lithium-air battery with the highest energy capacity to date, according to scientists at Pacific Northwest National Laboratory ...

Nanotechnology / Nanomaterials

created Nov 29, 2011 | popularity 4.3 / 5 (9) | comments 1 | with audio podcast

New technology improves both energy capacity and charge rate in rechargeable batteries

Imagine a cellphone battery that stayed charged for more than a week and recharged in just 15 minutes. That dream battery could be closer to reality thanks to Northwestern University research.

Chemistry / Materials Science

created Nov 14, 2011 | popularity 4.8 / 5 (18) | comments 17 | with audio podcast

South Africa gets $250mn loan for wind, solar power

South Africa signed a $250-million (183-million-euro) loan deal with the World Bank on Monday aimed at adding 200 Megawatts of solar and wind power to the coal-dependent country's grid.

Technology / Energy & Green Tech

created Nov 14, 2011 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Fluoride shuttle increases storage capacity

German researchers have developed a new concept for rechargeable batteries. Based on a fluoride shuttle -- the transfer of fluoride anions between the electrodes -- it promises to enhance the storage capacity ...

Chemistry / Materials Science

created Oct 21, 2011 | popularity 4.3 / 5 (7) | comments 5 | with audio podcast

Revolutionary conducting polymer enables silicon use as next generation of lithium-ion battery anodes

Lithium-ion batteries are everywhere, in smart phones, laptops, an array of other consumer electronics, and the newest electric cars. Good as they are, they could be much better, especially when it comes to ...

Nanotechnology / Nanomaterials

created Sep 23, 2011 | popularity 4.9 / 5 (10) | comments 6 | with audio podcast

Molecular chaperones traffic signaling proteins between cells in plant stem-cell maintenance pathway

Like all living things, plants depend for their growth and sustenance on elaborate signaling networks to maintain stem cells, cells that have an almost magical regenerative capacity. The signals sent through these networks ...

Biology / Cell & Microbiology

created Aug 25, 2011 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0 | with audio podcast

Diagnosing advanced batteries for a longer life

(PhysOrg.com) -- Imagine a battery that truly does keep on going and going -- and not for just a few years, but close to decades.

Physics / Condensed Matter

created Jul 14, 2011 | popularity 4.6 / 5 (5) | comments 3 | with audio podcast

Japan's Mitsui in quake-zone solar plan: report

Japanese trading house Mitsui plans to build large-scale solar power plants with the capacity to supply 30,000 households in the tsunami-hit northeast, a newspaper reported Wednesday.

Technology / Energy & Green Tech

created Jul 06, 2011 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 1

Progress in the development of rechargeable batteries through nanotechnology

Researchers are testing different ways of improving rechargeable batteries for electric vehicles and nanotechnology plays an important role in the development. The aim is to offer batteries that have fast ...

Nanotechnology / Nanomaterials

created May 31, 2011 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 3

Activated graphene makes superior supercapacitors for energy storage

(PhysOrg.com) -- Scientists at the U.S. Department of Energy's Brookhaven National Laboratory have helped to uncover the nanoscale structure of a novel form of carbon, contributing to an explanation of why ...

Nanotechnology / Nanomaterials

created May 12, 2011 | popularity 5 / 5 (14) | comments 8 | with audio podcast

Batteries charge quickly and retain capacity, thanks to new 3D nanostructure

The batteries in Illinois professor Paul Braun's lab look like any others, but they pack a surprise inside.

Nanotechnology / Nanomaterials

created Mar 20, 2011 | popularity 4.8 / 5 (23) | comments 63 | with audio podcast