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Novel nuclear battery design delivers high efficiency and durability
Aug 20, 2025 (SPX)
The innovation relies on a waveguide light concentration (WLC) structure, integrating multilayer-stacked GAGG:Ce scintillation waveguides with strontium-90 radi...
Finding the shadows in a fusion system faster with AI
Aug 15, 2025 (SPX)
Known as HEAT-ML, the new AI could lay the foundation for software that significantly speeds up the design of future fusion systems. Such software could also en...
New perovskite solar cells achieve record indoor light efficiency
Aug 13, 2025 (SPX)
Unlike traditional silicon panels, perovskite can be tailored to absorb the specific wavelengths from indoor lighting. However, the material's crystal structure...
New transmitter could make wireless devices more energy-efficient
Aug 06, 2025 (SPX)
The compact, flexible system could be incorporated into existing internet-of-things devices to provide immediate gains, while also meeting the more stringent ef...
The complex relationship between fusion fuel and lithium walls
Jul 30, 2025 (SPX)
According to new research from a global collaboration spanning nine institutions, the dominant driver of fuel retention is co-deposition: a process where fuel i...
Battery sharing model boosts savings for local energy communities
Jul 22, 2025 (SPX)
The model was validated using real-world data from a 200-home community powered in part by a wind turbine. Even after factoring in battery rental costs, the fin...
US to impose steep anti-dumping duty on battery material from China
Jul 18, 2025 (AFP)
Final determinations regarding duties on graphite are expected in early December, according to the US Commerce Department. Its investigation came after a petiti...
China tightens export curbs on some battery technologies
Jul 15, 2025 (AFP)
The two economic superpowers have traded barbs this year over export curbs, with Washington notably raising the threshold for selling high-end semiconductors to...
In Indonesia, a start-up captures coolants to stop global warming
Jul 10, 2025 (AFP)
Ari and his colleagues will spend 12 hours capturing AC refrigerant to stop this "super-pollutant" -- thousands of times more potent than carbon dioxide -- from...
Indonesia begins $5.9 bn EV battery project despite environment fears
Jun 29, 2025 (AFP)
Indonesia is the world's largest nickel producer and it is trying to capitalise on its vast reserves, with a 2020 export ban spurring a domestic industrial boom...
Environment fears over $6 bn Indonesia EV battery project: NGOs
Jun 26, 2025 (AFP)
Indonesia is both the world's largest nickel producer and home to the biggest-known reserves, and a 2020 export ban has spurred a domestic industrial boom. Indo...
Chinese-Moroccan joint venture inaugurates EV battery parts plant
Jun 25, 2025 (AFP)
The complex will ultimately have a production "capacity equivalent to 70 GWh per year, enough to equip nearly one million electric vehicles annually", according...
Europe's lithium quest hampered by China and lack of cash
Jun 20, 2025 (AFP)
Even the bloc's broader energy security and climate goals could depend on securing a steady supply of the key mineral, used in batteries and other clean energy ...
Tesla to build first grid-scale power plant in China
Jun 20, 2025 (AFP)
The project will help with the flexible adjustment of grid resources, and "effectively solve pressures relating to urban power supply," Tesla said in a post to ...
MXene infused printed nanogenerator advances ecofriendly wearable energy systems
Jun 17, 2025 (SPX)
TENGs, which convert mechanical energy into electrical power using the triboelectric effect, were originally developed by Prof. Zhong Lin Wang at Georgia Tech. ...
Wendelstein 7-X Achieves Fusion Milestone with Record-Breaking Triple Product
Jun 04, 2025 (SPX)
Unlike tokamaks, which are simpler and have historically led in fusion research, stellarators employ complex magnetic fields to confine plasma within a donut-sh...
Major demo keeps Quaise Energy on track to power the world with clean, renewable geothermal energy
Jun 04, 2025 (SPX)
"Geothermal energy is available everywhere on massive scales," said Araque. "If you take all fossil, all nuclear, and all other forms of renewable energy combin...
EV battery recycling key to future lithium supplies
Jun 02, 2025 (SPX)
"Batteries are an enormous new source of demand for lithium," said Alissa Kendall, the Ray B. Krone endowed professor of Environmental Engineering at UC Davis a...
MIT physicists discover a new type of superconductor that's also a magnet
May 26, 2025 (SPX)
In a paper appearing today in the journal Nature, the physicists report that they have discovered a "chiral superconductor" - a material that conducts electrici...
SwRI sets new benchmark in high temperature pressure testing for sCO2 turbines
May 21, 2025 (SPX)
The achievement stems from a $6.4 million U.S. Department of Energy project initiated in 2020, focused on developing a direct-fired sCO2 oxy-fuel turbine. The e...
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