Enlarge (credit: StoreDot) Building a better battery requires dealing with problems in materials science, chemistry, and manufacturing. We do regular coverage of work going on in the former two categories, but we get a fair number of complaints about our inability to handle the third: figuring out how companies manage to take solutions to the […]
Enlarge (credit: US EIA) Earlier this week, the US Energy Information Agency (EIA) released figures on the new generating capacity that’s expected to start operating over the course of 2021. While plans can obviously change, the hope is that, with its new additions, the grid will look radically different than it did just five years […]
Enlarge (credit: Wikimedia Commons) Most of the disposable batteries you’ll come across are technically termed alkaline batteries. They work at high pH and typically use zinc as the charge carrier. Zinc is great because it’s very cheap, can be used to make one of the two electrodes, and, in the right context, allows the use […]
Expand (charge: Eric Bangeman / Ars Technica) The typical price of a lithium ion package dropped to $137 per kWh in 2020, as shown by a new business survey in BloombergNEF. That is an inflation-adjusted decrease of 13 percent because 2019. The most recent statistics continue the surprising improvement in battery technology throughout the previous […]
As electrical car adoption expands, the demand for battery monitoring is increasing with it. Generally, recycling entails breaking down the battery into pure compound elements which may be reconstituted for battery substances. However, what if–for a few battery chemistries–that is overkill? This is not the very energy-dense sort of lithium-ion batterylife, however it’s long-lived and […]
Expand / / An iPhone 6. (charge: Getty Images | NurPhoto) The attorneys general for 33 states and the District of Columbia have attained a $113 million settlement with Apple over allegations the iPhone manufacturer throttled operation in a number of generations of the unit to hide a design flaw in the batterylife. The states […]
Expand (charge: Viaframe / / Getty Images) Elon Musk made Plenty of promises during Tesla’s Battery Day past September. Shortly, he explained, the business could have an automobile which runs on batteries using pure silicon anodes to enhance their performance along with decreased cobalt from the cathodes to reduce their price. Its battery pack is going […]
Expand (charge: TLPOSCHARSKY / / Flickr) Renewable energy costs have dropped to the stage at which, for a lot of Earth, solar and wind energy is now less expensive than fossil fuel-generated power. However, the variability of the power sources might make handling them in an electrical grid hard –an obstacle which can precise prices […]
Facebook is among those world’s biggest corporate buyers of renewable energy, using signed prices for at least 5 gigawatts of all “fresh ” electricity –3.5 gigawatts of that is anticipated to be on line by the end of the year. (One gigawatt is enough to electricity 700,000 houses for per lifetime, according to some estimates) […]
Expand / / Length of phosphorene sheets shape carbon. (charge: Wikimedia Commons) At the moment, electric vehicles are somewhat restricted by the scope which their batteries permit. That is because repainting the vehiclesunder ideal circumstances, can not be accomplished as fast as refueling an internal combustion automobile. Thus far, the majority of the attempt on […]