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A Chinese company now holds the power to more than half the world’s lithium supplies

A Chinese company now holds the power to more than half the world’s lithium supplies

A Chinese company now holds the power to more than half the world’s lithium supplies Chinese lithium supplier Tianqi Lithium recently paid more than $4B to become the second-largest shareholder in Sociedad…

No Oil, No Army: Costa Rica First Nation to Eliminate Fossil Fuels

No Oil, No Army: Costa Rica First Nation to Eliminate Fossil Fuels

No Oil, No Army: Costa Rica First Nation to Eliminate Fossil Fuels © REUTERS / Juan Carlos Ulate Environment 00:54 08.07.2018Get short URL 7184 Costa Rica will become the first…

New water-based battery can store wind and solar energy for pennies

New water-based battery can store wind and solar energy for pennies

New water-based battery can store wind and solar energy for pennies Jinwei Xu / Standford Scientists have developed a water-based battery that can store power generated by wind and solar…

More bad news for US dollar hegemony…One of the world’s longest gas pipelines from Russia to China almost complete

More bad news for US dollar hegemony…One of the world’s longest gas pipelines from Russia to China almost complete

One of the world’s longest gas pipelines from Russia to China almost complete © gazprom.com The construction of the 3,000km Power of Siberia gas pipeline or the eastern route, which is…

Scientists reach ‘significant milestone’ in race to create the world’s first quantum computer as they discover how to make atoms in silicon ‘talk’ to each other

Scientists reach ‘significant milestone’ in race to create the world’s first quantum computer as they discover how to make atoms in silicon ‘talk’ to each other

Scientists reach ‘significant milestone’ in race to create the world’s first quantum computer as they discover how to make atoms in silicon ‘talk’ to each other Australian scientists figured out…

First magnetic wormhole connecting two regions of space created by scientists in a lab

First magnetic wormhole connecting two regions of space created by scientists in a lab

First magnetic wormhole connecting two regions of space created by scientists in a lab By Strange Sounds Wormholes are fascinating, only theoretical, cosmological objects that can connect two distant regions…

China’s first solar powered highway will recharge electric cars (PHOTOS,VIDEO)

China’s first solar powered highway will recharge electric cars (PHOTOS,VIDEO)

China’s first solar powered highway will recharge electric cars (PHOTOS,VIDEO) Photovoltaic Pavement Experimental Section © Qilu Transportation Development Group China has successfully tested its first solar powered highway, opening the…

Scientists create stretchable battery made entirely out of fabric

Scientists create stretchable battery made entirely out of fabric

Scientists create stretchable battery made entirely out of fabric New microbial fuel cell could be integrated into wearable electronics This entirely textile-based, bacteria-powered bio-battery could one day be integrated into…

Astronomers Measure Magnetic Field of Black Hole V404 Cygni

Astronomers Measure Magnetic Field of Black Hole V404 Cygni

Astronomers Measure Magnetic Field of Black Hole V404 Cygni An illustration of a black hole. Credit: Michael McAleer, University of Florida Scientists measure the magnetic field of the black hole…

Breakthrough process for directly converting methane to methanol

Breakthrough process for directly converting methane to methanol

Breakthrough process for directly converting methane to methanol New process could lead to production of methanol or acetic acid through more energy efficient, low-cost and environmentally friendly ways Aberration-corrected HAADF/STEM…

Costa Rican Scientist Obtains Energy from Plants

Costa Rican Scientist Obtains Energy from Plants

Costa Rican Scientist Obtains Energy from Plants By gabriel azuaje Would you like to charge your mobile phone through a plant? This is viable thanks to the research carried out by…

The World’s Largest “Artificial Sun” Is Powering up in Germany

The World’s Largest “Artificial Sun” Is Powering up in Germany

The World’s Largest “Artificial Sun” Is Powering up in Germany German Aerospace Center Synlight is the largest collection of film projector spotlights ever assembled in one room, and scientists in…

Heavy metal thunder: Protein can be switched on to conduct electricity like a metal

Heavy metal thunder: Protein can be switched on to conduct electricity like a metal

Heavy metal thunder: Protein can be switched on to conduct electricity like a metal Lindsay explored the interactions between a protein, called an integrin (alphaVbeta3), and its target, called a…

China Launches World’s Largest Floating Solar Power Plant

China Launches World’s Largest Floating Solar Power Plant

China Launches World’s Largest Floating Solar Power Plant © AFP 2017/ STR The energy facility, which comprises over 160,000 solar panels spreading over 86 hectares of water surface, was launched…

Plasma thruster breakthrough as researchers discover how to control magnetic fields in the radical engines

Plasma thruster breakthrough as researchers discover how to control magnetic fields in the radical engines

Plasma thruster breakthrough as researchers discover how to control magnetic fields in the radical engines New experiments shed light on environmental factors that influence plasma flow Study identified transition that…

Biofuel from waste: Zeolite catalysts pave the road to decentralized chemical processes

Biofuel from waste: Zeolite catalysts pave the road to decentralized chemical processes Fuel from waste? It is possible. But hitherto, converting organic waste to fuel has not been economically viable.…

Wireless charging of moving electric vehicles overcomes major hurdle

Wireless charging of moving electric vehicles overcomes major hurdle

Wireless charging of moving electric vehicles overcomes major hurdle Professor Shanhui Fan (left) and graduate student Sid Assawaworrarit have developed a device that can wirelessly charge a moving object at…

Solar paint prototype to offer endless energy from water vapour

Solar paint prototype to offer endless energy from water vapour

Solar paint prototype to offer endless energy from water vapour   RMIT researchers have created a new solar paint that absorbs moisture from the air and uses sunlight to split…

Are printable solar panels the future of solar power?

Are printable solar panels the future of solar power?

Are printable solar panels the future of solar power? The Week Staff,The Week “Despite places like Australia being bathed in sun, the cost of traditional silicon-based solar cells hasn’t inspired…

The World’s Largest Floating Solar Plant Is Finally Online(In China)

The World’s Largest Floating Solar Plant Is Finally Online(In China)

The World’s Largest Floating Solar Plant Is Finally Online The largest floating solar power plant in the world is now online in China. Floating where coal used to be mined,…

Scientists design energy-saving ‘smart’ glass

Scientists design energy-saving ‘smart’ glass

2Scientists design energy-saving ‘smart’ glass Australian scientists have developed smart windows that can block or pass heat as needed with the use of nanotechnology. Researchers at Griffith University managed to…

Zapping bacteria with sanitizers made of paper

Zapping bacteria with sanitizers made of paper

Zapping bacteria with sanitizers made of paper Team invents promising technology for killing microbes Paper-based plasma generators — consisting of laminated assemblies of honeycomb-patterned, metallized paper — are capable of…

How Energy Storage Could Disrupt Energy as We Know It

How Energy Storage Could Disrupt Energy as We Know It

How Energy Storage Could Disrupt Energy as We Know It — The Motley Fool The Motley Fool The biggest criticism of wind and solar energy has long been their variability…

New breakthrough in battery charging technology

New breakthrough in battery charging technology

New breakthrough in battery charging technology This is a schematic representation of the monolithically integrated SiPV-LIB device and the electrochemical performance of the bipolar LIB. Credit: UNIST A team of…

Making batteries from waste glass bottles

Making batteries from waste glass bottles

Making batteries from waste glass bottles Researchers are turning glass bottles into high performance lithium-ion batteries for electric vehicles and personal electronics Waste glass bottles are turned into nanosilicon anodes…

MIT Engineers Develop New Technique for Highly Conductive Graphene Wafers

MIT Engineers Develop New Technique for Highly Conductive Graphene Wafers

  MIT Engineers Develop New Technique for Highly Conductive Graphene Wafers By using an adhesive-like layer of nickel to peel graphene from silicon carbide, engineers at MIT have developed a…

Tiny black holes enable a new type of photodetector for high speed data

Tiny black holes enable a new type of photodetector for high speed data

Tiny black holes enable a new type of photodetector for high speed data Photodetectors for optical to electronic signal conversion usually make use of efficient, but expensive materials other than…

Air could be the world’s next battery

Air could be the world’s next battery

Air could be the world’s next battery This is the idea that RICAS 2020 will be helping to realise: surplus energy generated by wind turbines and solar cells is used…

A copper oxide solar cells on top of regular silicon solar cells cold boost energy conversion up to 40% from 25% today

A copper oxide solar cells on top of regular silicon solar cells cold boost energy conversion up to 40% from 25% today

A copper oxide solar cells on top of regular silicon solar cells cold boost energy conversion up to 40% from 25% today nextbigfuture.com Researchers are currently developing the environment-friendly solar…

Self-sustaining bacteria-fueled power cell created

Self-sustaining bacteria-fueled power cell created

Self-sustaining bacteria-fueled power cell created Binghamton University Electrical and Computer Science Assistant Professor Seokheun Choi is one of the co-authors of ‘Self-sustaining, solar-driven bioelectricity generation in micro-sized microbial fuel cell…