Engineering
In the last 200 years, society has undergone major energy transitions associated with introducing new energy sources, such as coal, oil and natural gas. To address climate change, the world must experience another energy ...
Feb 8, 2023
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Engineering
Researchers from Lithuania and Cyprus claim that the energy payback period of using phase change materials, new technology in the construction industry, is the shortest in a colder climate. The optimal location for their ...
Feb 3, 2023
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Energy & Green Tech
Operational reliability, durability and high energy density: In these respects, solid-state batteries are superior in principle to conventional liquid electrolyte lithium-ion batteries. Some of the problems standing in the ...
Jan 3, 2023
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Energy & Green Tech
Lithium ion batteries are widely used as energy storage systems for electronic products and electric vehicles. However, they are vulnerable to ignition as they are manufactured mainly with flammable organic liquid electrolytes, ...
Dec 29, 2022
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Energy & Green Tech
Solid-state batteries (SSBs) are currently regarded as a promising battery technology of the future. Compared to the current lithium-ion batteries, which are used in mobile phones, laptops and electric vehicles, SSBs could ...
Nov 28, 2022
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Engineering
Research sometimes needs a sacrifice. Empa researcher Patrick Danner has just made one—and filmed it. "When I applied a good 2,000 volts to the sample, it caught fire," he reports drily in the debriefing. The mishap is ...
Nov 8, 2022
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Engineering
Osaka Metropolitan University scientists have successfully developed a new positive electrode material Na2FeS2, consisting of sodium, iron, and sulfur. During testing, batteries using the Na2FeS2 positive electrode had a ...
Oct 11, 2022
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Energy & Green Tech
Up until now it has been a challenge to store the energy we generate when the sun is shining and the wind is blowing. But researchers at a laboratory in Trondheim in Norway have succeeded in doing just this—and entirely ...
Oct 6, 2022
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Energy & Green Tech
Ever-increasing solid waste production has been threatening natural environment and human safety in recent years. With increasing urbanization worldwide, municipal solid waste (MSW) has increased significantly. The integrated ...
Sep 26, 2022
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Energy & Green Tech
Humanity must remove up to 660 billion tons of carbon dioxide (CO₂) from the atmosphere by the end of the century to limit global warming to 1.5°C. That's according to the most recent report by the Intergovernmental Panel ...
Sep 22, 2022
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