When it comes to storing energy on the grid, giant batteries are the only game in town. Now, a number of companies are building mechanical systems that use air as the storage medium. U.K.-based Highview Power Storage last week said that ...
Tags: Liquefied Air, Electronics
Dirty diesel is the most common form of electricity generation throughout Caribbean island nations, but that will change if billionaire Richard Branson has anything to do with it. Branson is using his private island in the British Virgin ...
Tags: NRG Energy, LED lighting, Swap Diesel, Caribbean
The phrase "An army marches on its stomach," often attributed to Napoleon Bonaparte, underscores the importance of logistics in the military. And in the 21st century, keeping up the supply of diesel fuel is one of the most challenging ...
The microgrid market is expected to expand rapidly over the next 10 years, bringing with it increased demand for energy storage associated with these systems. Energy storage systems (ESSs) deliver services to microgrids similar to the ...
Tags: microgrid, resource optimization, solar photovoltaic, energy storage
Washington: Your small electric car may soon become faster and more efficient thanks to ‘super capacitors’ that are capable of storing far greater chargeThe amount of electricity present upon the capacitor's plates. Also, the ...
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Yole Developpement has forecasted that the grapheneGraphene is an allotrope of carbon, whose structure is one-atom-thick planar sheets of sp2-bonded carbon atoms that are densely packed in a honeycomb crystal lattice. materials market will ...
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DNV GL has released a position paper on the future alternative fuel mix for global shipping. While LNG is expected to be an early success, the picture becomes more diversified with time, as more than 20 per cent of shipping could adopt ...
Traditional photovoltaic solar cells have an inherent limit on the efficiency at which they can convert sunlight into energy. This limit—based on the bandgap of the material used and known as the Shockley-Queisser limit—is about ...
Tags: Thermophotovoltaic, solar cells, Nature Nanotechnology, low-bandgap
Washington: Your small electric car may soon become faster and more efficient thanks to ‘super capacitors’ that are capable of storing far greater chargeThe amount of electricity present upon the capacitor's plates. Also, the ...
Tags: Raghvendra Pandey, CCTO, Electronic Car, TSU, super capacitors
The capacitors of electronic circuits function something like batteries – storing electrical chargeThe amount of electricity present upon the capacitor's plates. Also, the act of forcing of electrons onto the capacitor's plates. See ...
Tags: AIP Advances, CCTO, AC, Charles-Augustin de Coulomb
A Virginia Tech research team has developed a battery that runs on sugar and has an unmatched energy density, a development that could replace conventional batteries with ones that are cheaper, refillable, and biodegradable. The findings ...
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Greater attention must be paid to generating renewable heat if the climate protection targets set in Germany and around the world are to be met. At 40%, the heating market accounts for the largest proportion of energy consumed in Germany ...
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"Supercapacitors" take the energy-storing abilities of capacitors (which store electrical charge that can be quickly dumped to power devices) a step further, storing a far greater charge in a much smaller package. In AIP Advances, ...
Tags: Energy Storage, Miniaturized Capacitors, Green Energy Technology
Demand from China, Japan, and USA will represent about 50% of the total worldwide market share in 2014. Due to the recovery of the European market and the rise of the emerging markets, supply and demand in the PV industry will be able to ...
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A new approach to harvesting solar energy, developed by MIT researchers, could improve efficiency by using sunlight to heat a high-temperature material whose infrared radiation would then be collected by a conventional photovoltaic cell. ...
Tags: Metallurgy, Mineral, Energy, Sunlight