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Goodbye, Cavities? Scientists Just Found a Way to Regrow Tooth Enamel
Scientists Say They've Figured Out How to Transcribe Your Thoughts From an MRI Scan
SanDisk stuffed 1 TB of storage into the smallest Type-C thumb drive ever
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What Has Bitcoin Become 17 Years After Satoshi Nakamoto Published The Whitepaper?
Japan just injected artificial blood into a human. No blood type needed. No refrigeration.
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Energy
Energy independence turns the gears of the visionary’s imagination, and grants us individual control of our modern lives. No meaningful alternative to the Crown’s system can be achieved without exploring decentralized energy production and storage.
Can carbon fiber car panels double as energy storage materials?
Carbon fiber as we know it is one of the most impressive materials in our toolkit.
Sodium ion batteries could finally be ready for prime time
High energy density sodium ion batteries using Cobalt oxide plating are providing better performance than lithium ion batteries.
Scientists Turn Nuclear Waste into Diamond Batteries That'll Last for Thousands of Years
This technology may someday power spacecraft, satellites, high-flying drones, and pacemakers.
Ultra-capacitor hybrid radically boosts power and efficiency of lithium batteries
Combining the unique strengths of lithium batteries with crazy-fast charging, carbon ultra-capacitors could save a ton of weight and add significant range and power to electric vehicles, according to Nawa Technologies.
A Quick-Start Guide to Handling a Power Outage Like a Boss
What's the most common event most of us have to deal with, at least on a short-term basis? Power outages! Not only do they happen alone, but an extended blackout often follows many other major disasters.
Helion Energy got funding for possible breakeven fusion device this year
Helion Energy has successfully raised $30 million raised in the past three years will be enough to get Helion through the debut of its 50-megwatt break-even nuclear fusion prototype.
Self-driving tractor that could be the future of farming: Hydrogen-powered vehicles...
Self-driving tractors which are powered by hydrogen and controlled by a mobile app could plough the world's farmland under one Italian designer's plans.
Bill Ford Hints At Future Pure Electric Ford F-150
Hmm … will it truly come to be? Perhaps, but it won't be this Rivian electric truck disguised as an F-150.
Scientists pioneer a new way to turn sunlight into fuel
The quest to find new ways to harness solar power has taken a step forward after researchers successfully split water into hydrogen and oxygen by altering the photosynthetic machinery in plants.
Tokyo creates 1200 Tesla for 100 microseconds
Physicists from the University of Tokyo have generated the strongest controllable magnetic field ever produced at 1200 Tesla. The field was sustained for longer than any previous field of a similar strength.
Mazda Flips Rotary Engine, Shrinks It Down For Range Extender
The compact, single-rotor engine sounds exactly like revived rotary that a Mazda exec is teasing.
Ford Unveils Wild F-Vision Electric Semi Truck
Ford hints at a Tesla Semi contender
NuScale will start manufacturing its small modular reactor
NuScale Power has selected BWX Technologies Inc (BWXT) as the first manufacturer of its small modular reactor (SMR). This marks the transition to the manufacturing phase and represents major progress in bringing the technology to market.
Panasonic To Speed Up New Battery Production Line Installs At Gigafactory
Gigafactory production capacity to hit 35 GWh annually this year.
Sodium ion batteries closer to commercialization
Purdue University researchers made a sodium powder battery that fixes the problem of charges and discharges of sodium ion batteries.
Wind Power costs at 2 cents per kilowatt hour
Technology advancements and cost reductions have driven wind power down to 2 cents per kwh. This is from the annual report released by the U.S. Department of Energy and prepared by Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (Berkeley Lab).
Venturing To The South Pole In An Electric Car Powered By The Sun
Effort aims to spur environmental action
Solid State Battery Firm Solid Power Raises $20 Million
Solid Power promises all solid-state batteries (ASSB).
Established in 2012, Solid Power from Louisville, Colorado that develops all-solid-state batteries (ASSB) has closed $20 million in a Series A investment round.
Tesla Battery Biz Booming, Mostly From Tesla Energy
Despite increasing negativity about Tesla Energy, business is growing at an alarming rate.
Kreisel Introduces 2-Speed Auto Trans For Electric Cars
2-speed transmission in an electric car is a rare sight.
The Truth About Tesla Model 3 Batteries: Part 1
Today we are going to talk about "The Truth about Tesla's Batteries." If you're thinking about a Tesla, you've undoubtedly heard about how cheap they are to fill up, how little maintenance they require, and with recent Model 3 Production ra
25+ year journey to superstrong carbon nanotube bundles
In 1991, Sumio Iijima's discovered multi-walled carbon nanotubes in the insoluble material of arc-burned graphite rods and Mintmire, Dunlap, and White's independent prediction that if single-walled carbon nanotubes could be made, then they would
Watch Deutsche Accumotive Battery Production
If you ever wondered how Daimler's Deutsche Accumotive produces the batteries for electric smart cars in Kamenz, Saxony in Germany, here is a video that shows the process.
Kilopower first step to safe and power nuclear fission for space and other applications
Dr. David Poston, Los Alamos National Laboratory talks about the simple and safe NASA Kilopower Project.
Tesla Leads The Way In Cheapest Battery Pack Costs
Tesla's battery cost advantage is expected to last for (at least) several years.
Scientists have invented a way to create 'unlimited renewable energy'...
Scientists have developed a way to transform sunlight into fuel that could lead to an 'unlimited source of renewable energy'.
Superbridge over Gibraltar
Carbon nanotube bundles are becoming a feasible and economically convenient solution for the realization in our time of super bridges, such as those required across the Straits of Bab al Mandab, Messina or Gibraltar (main spans ?2.7, 3.3 or 3.5 km,
Cheap perovskite boosts commercial solar cell energy conversion by 20%
UCLA created a double layer solar cell by spraying a thin layer of perovskite onto a commercially available solar cell. The solar cell that forms the bottom layer of the device is made of a compound of copper, indium, gallium and selenide, or CIGS.
Understanding the super safety of the Moltex nuclear plant which will be built in Canada
In July, 2018, Moltex was selected by New Brunswick Energy Solutions Corporation and New Brunswick Power to progress development of its SSR-W (Stable Salt Reactor – Wasteburner) technology in New Brunswick, with the aim of deploying its first SSR-W
Sila Nanotechnologies will produce silicon anode batteries --
--with 10-15% more capacity in wearable gadgets in 2019 and EV cars in 2023
Southern Company partnering with Bill Gates backed Terrapower on molten chloride fast reactor
Several companies are starting to develop molten salt reactors. TerraPower is backed by Bill Gates and is developing molten salt reactors.
Progress to lithium-oxygen batteries with up to four times the energy density of lithium-ion
University of Waterloo Chemists are the first to achieve four-electron conversion, which doubles the electron storage of lithium-oxygen, also known as lithium-air, batteries.
Electrons that behaves like light in twelve-sided graphene quasicrystal
Electrons that behave like light are Dirac electrons. Dirac electrons have been in monolayer graphene and now they are seen in twelve-sided graphene quasicrystal.
In 2019, China and Russia will start using floating nuclear reactors for oil and gas rigs and ...
In 2019, China should complete floating mobile nuclear reactors to power drilling platforms in the ocean to expedite exploitation of oil, natural gas and combustible ice. A Pentagon report believes China will use floating nuclear reactors to power is
Move over, Musk: Kalashnikov unveils 'electric supercar'
Russian arms maker Kalashnikov on Thursday presented its new electric car inspired by a rare 1970s model, saying the new technology will rival Elon Musk's Tesla.
Researchers Reveal New Faster-Charging Solid-State Batteries
Faster than what is the question, though.
Solar electric demonstrator takes to the air for the first time
Just a few short months after its Sun Flyer 2 prototype completed its maiden flight, Bye Aerospace reports that another of its aircraft has completed its first test flights.
"Safest global travel adapter" surges past Kickstarter goal
A new travel adapter which includes built-in grounding and a reset button has charged past its Kickstarter goal. The Passport Pro also includes fast charging using USB-C Power delivery.
China's top battery maker will make cheaper next generation low cobalt batteries
China's largest lithium battery maker Contemporary Amperex Technology Ltd (CATL) plans to begin producing in 2019 next-generation nickel-rich batteries, which are cheaper to make and have longer life-spans.
Breakthrough to safer solid state batteries with double the performance
The University of Michigan has a made a breakthrough towards a ceramic, solid-state electrolyte which could enable lithium-ion batteries with twice the energy performance.
$15 million for 100 qubit trapped ion quantum computer project
There is a $15 million grant from the National Science Foundation to build a 100 qubit trapped ion quantum computer.
First Nanotubes, then Graphene and now new form of carbon schwarzites
UC Berkeley chemists have proved that three carbon structures recently created by scientists in South Korea and Japan are in fact the long-sought schwarzites, which researchers predict will have unique electrical and storage properties like those now
Supercapacitors power the Note 9 stylus -- but are they ready to replace batteries?
Like being shocked with static electricity
Gold and silver nanostructures claimed to have room temperature superconductivity
Arxiv – Evidence for Superconductivity at Ambient Temperature and Pressure in Nanostructures
Long-sought carbon structure joins graphene, fullerene family
Carbon cage molecule formed inside pores of zeolites is a negatively curved schwarzite
In-Depth Look At CATL's Massive Battery Factory In Germany
More details appear on the Contemporary Amperex Technology Ltd. (CATL) lithium-ion battery plant in Thuringia, Germany announced by the way of a €4 billion (€4.7 billion) deal with BMW.
China weakness is foreign oil dependence but will they scale to building two nuclear reactors ...
China initially announced 25% tariffs on $16 billion worth of US imports, including oil products, LPG and coal in a new list of affected goods but left off import duties on US crude oil.
Particle accelerators centimeters long will drastically reduce size and cost of working ....
Physical Review Accelerators and Beams – Quasimonoenergetic laser plasma positron accelerator using particle-shower plasma-wave interactions
Lowering resistance 100 times brings all solid state batteries closer
Tokyo Technology has fixed one of the major disadvantages of all-solid-state batteries by developing batteries with a low resistance at their electrode/solid electrolyte interface.
Carbon nanotube reinforced graphene is twice as tear resistant
Fracture-resistant "rebar graphene" is more than twice as tough as pristine graphene.