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Five technologies to watch. BAE provides details of 'structural battery' technology. 13 February 2012Last updated at 13:55 ET The Lola-Drayson electric car is an opportunity to test the structural batteries which will power some on-board systems.
Whatever happened to carbon capture? 12 May 2012Last updated at 01:29 GMT By Richard Black Environment correspondent, BBC News, Bergen, Norway University students can now study CCS; but when will it come fully out of the lab?
The process was patented back in the 1930s, and it is reckoned to be one of the most important technologies we have for tackling greenhouse gas emissions. So you might well ask: "Whatever happened to carbon capture and storage (CCS)? " The International Energy Agency (IEA) forecasts global energy demand increasing by at least one-third by 2035. The majority of that increase will come from burning fossil fuels; and without capturing and storing some of the carbon dioxide (CO2) emissions that result, this implies a significant addition to global warming. 'Nanocable' Could Be Big Boon For Energy Storage. Thanks to a little serendipity, researchers at Rice University have created a tiny coaxial cable that is about a thousand times smaller than a human hair and has higher capacitance than previously reported microcapacitors.
The nanocable, which is described this week in Nature Communications, was produced with techniques pioneered in the nascent graphene research field and could be used to build next-generation energy-storagesystems. It could also find use in wiring up components of lab-on-a-chip processors, but its discovery is owed partly to chance. “We didn’t expect to create this when we started,” said study co-author Jun Lou, associate professor of mechanical engineering and materials science at Rice. A home heating system with a brain. Neurobat thermal controller (credit: Neurobat) A thermal regulator that uses neural networks to learn about your house as the seasons change has been developed by a spinoff from École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne (EPFL) and the Swiss Center for Electronics and Microtechnology (CSEM).
Vorbeck Materials Earns Innovator Award for Graphene-Based Energy Solution. By Cameron Chai Vorbeck Materials will participate in the Arpa-E summit to be conducted on February 27, 2012 in Washington, DC.
The company, in collaboration with Princeton University and the Pacific Northwest National Labs (PNNL), is working on the commercialization of next-generation lithium batteries using its graphene technology. This novel development paves the way to enhance battery performance, facilitate rapid charging and develop high-power batteries for consumer electronics and transportation. News. Direct Water Splitting Through Vibrating Piezoelectric Microfibers in Water - The Journal of Physical Chemistry Letters. † Department of Geoscience, and Materials Science Program ‡ Department of Mechanical Engineering, and Materials Science Program University of Wisconsin—Madison, 1215 W.
Dayton Street, Madison, Wisconsin 53706 J. Phys. DOI: 10.1021/jz100027t Publication Date (Web): March 2, 2010 Copyright © 2010 American Chemical Society Section: Abstract We propose a mechanism, a piezoelectrochemical effect for the direct conversion of mechanical energy to chemical energy. Citing Articles View all 11 citing articles. Green Blog: Water into Hydrogen with Waste Energy using Piezoelectric crystal - New technology. With each passing day, scientists are coming out with unique solutions to lessen our dependence on fossil fuels.
They are now thinking of turning stray forms of energy such as noise or random vibrations from the environment into useful form of energy. They want to use piezoelectric effect for such purposes. Some materials produce electricity while undergoing mechanical stress. This is known as piezoelectric effect. How wireless charging could boost the electric car. Fueling nuclear power with seawater: Tests adsorbent to extract uranium from the ocean. When you take a dip in the ocean, nuclear fuel is probably the farthest thing from your mind.
Uranium floats in Earth's oceans in trace amounts of just 3 parts per billion, but it adds up. Combined, our oceans hold up to 4.5 billion tons of uranium -- enough to potentially fuel the world's nuclear power plants for 6,500 years. Countries such as Japan have examined the ocean as a uranium source since the 1960s, but previous approaches have been too expensive to extract the quantities needed for nuclear fuel. Now researchers at the Department of Energy's Pacific Northwest National Laboratory and Oak Ridge National Laboratory are tweaking one of those concepts with the goal of making it more efficient and cost-competitive.
The research is being done for the Department of Energy's Office of Nuclear Energy. Japan developed an adsorbent that attaches the uranium-loving chemical group amidoxime to a plastic polymer.