Energy & Green Tech
Inside modern cell phones are billions of nanoscale switches that flip on and off, allowing the phone to function. These switches, called transistors, are controlled by an electrical signal that is delivered via a single ...
Apr 15, 2019
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Energy & Green Tech
Futuristic advancements in AI and health care stole the limelight at the tech extravaganza Consumer Electronics Show (CES) 2024. However, battery technology is the game-changer at the heart of these innovations, enabling ...
Feb 7, 2024
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Energy & Green Tech
A compound used widely in candles offers promise for a much more modern energy challenge—storing massive amounts of energy to be fed into the electric grid as the need arises.
May 20, 2021
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Energy & Green Tech
In the power grid, supply and demand need to match exactly. If consumers demand more power than producers can supply, or if producers provide more power than consumers need, the result can be rolling blackouts.
Mar 24, 2017
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Energy & Green Tech
The experimental airplane X-57, developed by NASA, is due to fly for the first time this year. It has an impressive 14 propellers along its wings and is powered entirely by electricity. This sounds great considering we have ...
Jan 31, 2023
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Energy & Green Tech
Safe, cheap and sustainable technology for energy storage has been developed at the Laboratory of Organic Electronics, Linköping University. It is based on two major breakthroughs: the manufacture of wood-based electrodes ...
Nov 18, 2021
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Engineering
A new battery design could help ease integration of renewable energy into the nation's electrical grid at lower cost, using Earth-abundant metals, according to a study just published in Energy Storage Materials. A research ...
Feb 7, 2023
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Energy & Green Tech
People don't ask too much from batteries: Deliver energy when it's needed and for as long as it is wanted, recharge quickly and don't burst into flames.
Mar 18, 2019
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Computer Sciences
Losing jobs to technology is nothing new. Since the industrial revolution, roles that were once exclusively performed by humans have been slowly but steadily replaced by some form of automated machinery. Even in cases where ...
May 5, 2016
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Energy & Green Tech
To meet the growing global demand for electronics that can operate for long periods of time, engineers will need to develop highly performing and stable batteries with increasingly longer lifetimes. To reliably continue improving ...
