The recent unveiling by Tesla founder Elon Musk of the low-cost Powerwall storage battery is the latest in a series of exciting advances in battery technologies for electric cars and domestic electricity generation.
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Last month Tesla CEO Elon Musk unveiled a grand plan for home energy storage, and preorders for the system have already sold out until mid-2016. The Powerwall home battery unit comes in two options: a 7 kWh version designed ...
Energy & Green Tech
May 28, 2015
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Never lacking daring ideas, billionaire entrepreneur Elon Musk is determined to jolt the electricity market.
Energy & Green Tech
Apr 30, 2015
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University of British Columbia researchers have found a new way to make state-of-the-art materials for energy storage using a cheap lamp from the hardware store.
Materials Science
Mar 6, 2015
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The use of renewable energy in the United States could take a significant leap forward with improved storage technologies or more efforts to "match" different forms of alternative energy systems that provide an overall more ...
Energy & Green Tech
Nov 26, 2014
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Hitachi today announced that, in collaboration with Professor MIURA Kiyotaka of the School of Engineering, Kyoto University, it has successfully achieved read/write of digital data in 100 layers of fused silica glass, a ...
Hardware
Oct 22, 2014
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UNSW researchers have built an Australian-first bicycle that can take riders up to 125 kilometres on a single battery charge and $2 of hydrogen.
Energy & Green Tech
Sep 8, 2014
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Federal efforts to reduce greenhouse gas emissions must involve increased investment in research and development of carbon capture and storage technologies, according to a new paper published by the University of Wyoming's ...
Environment
Aug 22, 2014
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NASA has selected four proposals for advanced energy storage technologies that may be used to power the agency's future space missions.
Space Exploration
Aug 8, 2014
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The storage capacity of hard drives is increasing explosively, but the speed with which all that data can be written has reached its limits. Researchers at Eindhoven University of Technology and the FOM Foundation present ...
General Physics
Jul 10, 2014
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