Fluorination Increases EV Battery Capacity and Stability
Electric vehicle (EV) range anxiety is what keeps EV owners from maximizing use of their cars. It’s also what makes would be owners nervous about purchasing a fully [...]
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New Form of Carbon Offers Promise for Batteries
And you thought carbon was just carbon. Scientists have now created a new type of carbon that could make the batteries in our phones, tablet computers and laptops safer, more [...]
Grid-Level Storage: Are We Missing the Boat?
By Jim Fiske Editor’s Note: This is the first in a series of guest columns on innovative energy technologies, discussing current trends and new solutions. This article [...]
EVs and Child Labor: Time for a More Ethical Battery
[Image source: CBS News] As green energy becomes an increasingly hot topic in our modern world, a few vital questions have emerged that deserve our attention: What are the [...]
Squeezing Solar: Tracker Innovation Boosts Market
The per watt decline in cost of solar cells has led to unprecedented growth in solar energy generation. While the industry is nowhere near to overtaking fossil fuel energy, [...]
Revised Recipe for Redox Doubles Effectiveness
Here at Cleantech Concepts we’re a proponent of educating the industry about the virtues of redox flow batteries as a grid-scale storage solution. We are seeing [...]
Playing Ball Creates High-Capacity True Lithium Battery
Lithium ion batteries have become the go-to energy storage medium for everything from EVs to renewable energy reservoirs at the substation level. While flow batteries and [...]
Hybrid Tugs To Push Energy Savings into Brazil Harbors
When it comes to the environmental costs of transporting manufactured and agricultural goods we typically think of the fuel expended by large freighters. One associated [...]
First 100% Solar Train Shines in Australia
Chalk this one up to the accelerated growth of efficient solar technology. In Australia, a railroad company has restored a derelict heritage train to run completely on [...]
Outsmarting Smartphone Batteries
What if you never had to charge your smartphone, which is probably the most used piece of equipment you have? No battery concerns, no cables, no searching for outlets at the [...]
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