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Superheat Unveils the H1: A Revolutionary Bitcoin-Mining Water Heater at CES 2026
World's most powerful hypergravity machine is 1,900X stronger than Earth
New battery idea gets lots of power out of unusual sulfur chemistry
Anti-Aging Drug Regrows Knee Cartilage in Major Breakthrough That Could End Knee Replacements
Scientists say recent advances in Quantum Entanglement...
Solid-State Batteries Are In 'Trailblazer' Mode. What's Holding Them Up?
US Farmers Began Using Chemical Fertilizer After WW2. Comfrey Is a Natural Super Fertilizer
Kawasaki's four-legged robot-horse vehicle is going into production
The First Production All-Solid-State Battery Is Here, And It Promises 5-Minute Charging
Storage doesn't get much cheaper than this
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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.
Six inch wide diamond disks guide megawatt of microwave heating for nuclear fusion
Researchers of Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT) and the company Diamond Materials have developed 6 inch wide diamond disks for window units to heat the plasma in fusion reactors.
Nuclear Fusion Updated project reviews
Here is a rundown of the various nuclear fusion projects.
Asphalt-lithium metal batteries fully charge in five minutes
As useful and ubiquitous as they are, lithium-ion batteries are nearing their limits, and it's unlikely we'll be able to squeeze much more juice out of them.
Nuclear Fusion Updated project reviews
Here is a rundown of the various nuclear fusion projects. Overall there many interesting projects with decent funding.
Six inch wide diamond disks guide megawatt of microwave heating for nuclear fusion
Researchers of Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT) and the company Diamond Materials have developed 6 inch wide diamond disks for window units to heat the plasma in fusion reactors.
Breakthrough could triple the energy collected by solar to 60% efficiency
Current solar cells are able to convert into electricity around 20% of the energy received from the Sun, but a new technique has the potential to convert around 60% of it by funneling the energy more efficiently.
Why graphene hasn't taken over the world...yet
Graphene is a form of carbon that could bring us bulletproof armor and space elevators, improve medicine, and make the internet run faster -- some day.
Skeleton Technologies Presents Ultracapacitors In Fully Charged – Video
Skeleton Technologies is an interesting startup from Estonia, which develops and produces ultracapacitors that could be utilized in electric vehicles.
Solutions for near-term antimatter fusion propulsion using isotope breeding cycle
The world only produces a nanogram of antimatter every year but we cannot store any of it for any length of time.
Liquid metal feeds Stanford's new high-voltage flow battery
Flow batteries have the potential to help store energy on a large scale, and might be particularly useful to back up renewable energy sources, but there are a few issues still to overcome.
AGNI Fusion has innovative hybrid ion beam approach to commercial fusion
AGNI wants to achieve a paradigm shift in energy with a nuclear fusion reactor with 10 times the efficiency of fission and no waste.
Ionic materials could achieve 50% higher energy density while costing less than...
Ionic materials could achieve 50% higher energy density while costing less than $100 per kwh
Room temperature superconductivity evidence with graphene in contact with alkanes
Arxiv – Observation of the Meissner effect at room temperature in single-layer graphene brought into contact with alkanes
Funding for thorium molten salt and other advanced nuclear reactors
Flibe Energy has teamed with Pacific Northwest National Laboratory to examine the use of nitrogen trifluoride as an agent to remove uranium from a molten-salt fuel mixture as a preliminary step for the removal of fission products. They will look at f
Cummins Acquires Electric Powertrain Supplier Efficient Drivetrains
Cummins is expanding its competence in electrification through another acquisition of electric and hybrid powertrain supplier Efficient Drivetrains.
Beyond belief: Meet the 5,221-horsepower, battery-powered Bulgarian Batmobile
Ever since electric cars came back onto the menu in the Lithium age, something like this has been coming. Something flatly outrageous, something that smashes the paradigm of the hypercar and lays waste to all before it. Meet the 5,221-horsepower, 303
World record for direct solar water-splitting efficiency
Researchers have increased the efficiency of producing hydrogen from direct solar water-splitting to a record 19 percent.
A voltage breakthrough with perovskite solar cells to edge closer to commercialization
A new technique has produced the highest performing inverted perovskite solar cell ever recorded.
Tokomak Energy UK high temperature superconductors and -
- better magnet path to commercial nuclear fusion
Wendelstein 7-X sets new record in its quest for practical fusion power
Perched loftily on Germany's Baltic coast, the small-to-middling town of Greifswald continues to be at the forefront of research into nuclear fusion. This is in no small part down to the presence of the Wendelstein 7-X - a fusion reactor so complic
Solar power for the whole world could be generated from a relatively small patch...
of land, says report...(Natural News) If the U.S. wants to completely rely on solar power, it will need to set aside a lot of land. But solar energy can fulfill the world's power needs, and an article on Inverse states that the average nation can
On track to commercial extraction of uranium from seawater
Researchers at Pacific Northwest National Laboratory and LCW Supercritical Technologies have created five grams of yellowcake -- a powdered form of uranium used to produce fuel for nuclear power production -- using acrylic fibers to extract it from
Indonesia and ThorCon continue working towards thorium reactor
Bob Effendi, a native of Indonesia, helped ThorCon win its 2015 deals with Indonesian companies to work on thorium nuclear power.
Tesla Supercharger Tally Now Exceeds 10,000
The number of individual stalls in the Tesla Supercharging network now exceeds 10,000… several months behind the schedule, but still it's the biggest such network by far in the world.
GM Teams With Honda To Develop Next-Gen Advanced Battery
It's an unexpected partnership on battery development that we didn't see coming.
But we welcome it for sure.
Nuscale small modular reactor will have 20 Percent More Power and better cost performance
NuScale Power small modular reactor (SMR) will be able generate 20 percent more power than originally planned. Advanced testing and modeling tools helped NuScale identify optimization and increased power generation.
Horne Technologies has superconducting IEC fusion device and hope for net power by 2020
Horne Technologies is developing an inertial electrostatic nuclear fusion system. They claim to have the world's first superconducting, high-beta plasma research device in operation.
Strong, Machinable Aerogels Now Commercially Available
Airloys™ are a new class of mechanically robust aerogels with the strength to stand up to real-world applications. In this video, classic silica aerogel is compared with a new material called Airloy X100 which has the low density and superinsulatin
Russia's Amazing Floating Nuke Plants Will Light Up New Arctic Route to Asia (TV News Video)
Russia has by far the largest nuclear energy industry in the world.
The Age of Graphene: Samsung's Revolutionary Battery Technology
Pre-historic times and ancient history are defined by the materials that were harnessed during that period.
Mass production of graphene, MIT develops process to make unlimited high quality graphene
Researchers at MIT have developed a method to produce high quality graphene at a commercial scale.
Japan's NTN to supply in-wheel motor tech to Chinese startup
New drive system will make first appearance in a mass-produced electric vehicle
Magnax prepares to manufacture radically high-powered...
Magnax prepares to manufacture radically high-powered, compact axial flux electric motor
High-altitude, autonomous, solar-powered aircraft flexes wings to ace flight tests
Nestled in between satellites and drones are autonomous aerial vehicles known as High Altitude Pseudo Satellites (HAPS), which can soar at the edges of space for long periods of time, acting as telecommunications relays or environmental monitors.
"3D battery" design twists together for split-second charging
Most batteries are made up of a cathode on one side and an anode on the other, with a nonconducting separator between them.
UPDATE – Prince Harry And Meghan Markle Drove Electric Jaguar E-Type At Wedding
The royal wedding car driven away from Windsor was Jaguar Classic's electric 'E-type Zero'
Ultra Capacitor Tech Again Touted As EV Game-Changer
French company NAWA Technologies claims that its ultracapacitor technology could help improve performance/range of electric vehicles.
Atom thin magnetic memory
Researchers report that they used stacks of ultrathin materials to exert unprecedented control over the flow of electrons based on the direction of their spins -- where the electron "spins" are analogous to tiny, subatomic magnets. The materials