ENERGY TECH - INDO DAILY

Tesla to build battery plant in Shanghai: state media

Apr 09, 2023 (AFP)

The factory, which will have an initial capacity of 10,000 Megapack units per year, is expected to "start production in the second quarter of 2024", according t...

Novel supercapacitor for energy storage applications

Apr 02, 2023 (SPX)

Most of these devices are currently powered by batteries. However, over time, these batteries lose their ability to store charge and therefore have a limited sh...

Recycling of batteries: 70% of lithium recovered

Mar 31, 2023 (SPX)

Lithium-ion batteries are omnipresent in our life. They are not only used for wireless power supply of notebooks, smartphones, toys, remote controls, and other ...

Canada revs up its EV batteries manufacturing

Mar 30, 2023 (AFP)

Its efforts appear to be paying off with companies such as Volkswagen and Stellantis opening plants and more than Can$18 billion (US$13 billion) in investment a...

Cooking up plasmas with microwaves

Mar 29, 2023 (SPX)

Getting plasma just right is one of the hurdles to harnessing the massive amounts of energy promised by nuclear fusion. Plasmas - soups of ions and electrons - ...

Probe where the protons go to develop better fuel cells

Mar 29, 2023 (SPX)

In what can potentially accelerate the development of more efficient SOFCs, a research team led by Kyushu University has uncovered the chemical innerworkings of...

UTEP joins project to 3D print batteries from lunar and Martian soil

Mar 27, 2023 (SPX)

"UTEP is a national leader in additive manufacturing for space applications," said Kenith Meissner, Ph.D., dean of the UTEP College of Engineering. "I congratul...

Simplified calculations reproduce complex plasma flows

Mar 27, 2023 (SPX)

A research group led by Associate Professor Motoki Nakata of the National Institute for Fusion Science and Tomonari Nakayama, a Ph.D student at the Graduate Uni...

Fusion's future in the US could come down to dollars and cents

Mar 17, 2023 (SPX)

In a study led by fusion expert Egemen Kolemen, associate professor of mechanical and aerospace engineering and the Andlinger Center for Energy and the Environm...

Stalactites and stalagmites in the battery

Mar 17, 2023 (SPX)

So-called "solid-state batteries" could provide a remedy. These no longer contain a liquid core - the so-called electrolyte - but consist entirely of solid mate...

Development of a self-resonant smart energy harvester

Mar 14, 2023 (SPX)

The Korea Institute of Science and Technology (KIST, President Seok Jin Yoon) announced that Dr. Hyun-Cheol Song's research team at the Electronic Materials Res...

Crab shells could help power the next generation of rechargeable batteries

Mar 14, 2023 (SPX)

Lithium-ion batteries have become ubiquitous in recent years, powering phones, cars and even toothbrushes. But because the amount of lithium metal in the world ...

Electric vehicle batteries could get big boost with new polymer coating

Mar 08, 2023 (SPX)

"The advance opens up a new approach to developing EV batteries that are more affordable and easy to manufacture," said Gao Liu, a senior scientist in Berkeley ...

China probes mining practices in 'lithium capital of Asia'

Feb 27, 2023 (AFP)

A key component of batteries used in electric cars, the price of lithium reached new heights last year as demand for cleaner sources of energy surges. China is ...

Salt could play key role in energy transition

Feb 24, 2023 (SPX)

The study describes how large underground salt deposits could serve as hydrogen holding tanks, conduct heat to geothermal plants, and influence CO2 storage. It ...

On the road to better solid-state batteries

Feb 24, 2023 (SPX)

Touted for their high energy density and superior safety, solid-state batteries could be a game-changer for the electric car industry. But developing one that i...

New compound that withstands extreme heat and electricity could lead to next-generation energy storage devices

Feb 17, 2023 (SPX)

Polymer film capacitors are electrical components that store and release energy within an electric field using a thin plastic layer as the insulating layer. The...

Quantum geometry found to be newest twist in superconductivity

Feb 17, 2023 (SPX)

Their findings, published online Feb. 15 in the journal Nature, demonstrate a new way to measure electron speed and mark the first time that quantum geometry ha...

The race to develop the battery of the future

Feb 17, 2023 (SPX)

According to the joint study by the European Patent Office and the International Energy Agency, by 2040 the world will need energy storage solutions equivalent ...

High thermal conductivity of cubic silicon carbide finally demonstrated

Feb 15, 2023 (SPX)

Silicon carbide (SiC) is attracting significant attention as a semiconductor material for next-generation power electronics. Generally, the simpler the crystal ...