Cleantech Forum Diary Day One: A Fighting Stance
Enthusiastic Business Community Focuses on Economic Opportunity SAN FRANCISCO, January 24, 2017 — It’s not often that you walk into a business conference where [...]
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Amorphous Silicon Cracks Open Advances for Lithium Ion Batteries
Given the dominance of lithium-ion chemistry in the storage market, research efforts to increase capacity, performance and safety are intensifying. Now a team at Shangdong [...]
The Grid: A Biography of America’s Electricity Infrastructure (book review)
Some think the biggest obstacle to renewable energy is Big Oil. Others blame conservative climate deniers. The real culprit may be an old, old friend, the electrical [...]
Energy Innovators Light Up Northwest’s Cleantech Showcase
(Editor’s Note: a diamond ♦ indicates link to Cleantech Concepts article on the specified company) There’s a lot of energy in clean tech in the Pacific Northwest. [...]
Long-Duration Energy Storage Set to Take Off on Zinc-Air
As the sun sets on your solar energy installation, don’t be surprised when the power stays on, thanks to a new flow battery based on Zinc-air chemistry. As we’ve reported [...]
New Membranes May Help Utilities Go with the Flow Batteries
Energy storage is the key to balancing the challenges of renewable energy, particularly the variable output and the mismatch between peak power generation times and peak [...]
NASA Unveils Electric Research Plane
On the heels of the Solar Impulse trip around the world, NASA has committed to development of an electric aircraft for research purposes (not a solar aircraft, however). With [...]
Cambridge University: Moving closer to the ‘ultimate’ lithium-air battery
Lithium-air, or lithium-oxygen, batteries have been hailed as the ‘ultimate’ battery due to their theoretical energy density, which is ten times that of the [...]
Recycled Tires Power EV Batteries
Recycled tires could see new life in lithium-ion batteries that provide power to plug-in electric vehicles and store energy produced by wind and solar, say researchers at the [...]
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