Millions Must Get Solar and Batteries or Live Without Utility Power
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California electrical utilities and government has failed on forest management and failed on managing the electrical grid.
Perhaps you have already experienced short blackouts and have prepared for them – but what about a power outage that lasts for weeks or even months? It's important to understand what a long-term blackout entails in order to fully prepare for it.
Swiss company Innolith claims that an electric vehicle equipped with its lithium battery would run for up to 600 miles (966 km.) That level of performance blows its Tesla counterpart away
A widely-used gas that is currently produced from fossil fuels can instead be made by an "artificial leaf" that uses only sunlight, carbon dioxide, and water--and it could eventually be used to develop a sustainable liquid fuel alternative to pe
If four-year-old Chevys, Fords or Toyotas were bricking - going inert, not moving - and needed thousands of dollars of repairs to get going moving again - the people who owned them would demand a recall and other people would never buy a Chevy
Imagine if you will a lightweight, inexpensive power source with 9 times the energy density of a lithium-ion battery. Got your mind wrapped around that concept?
One week ago, PG&E (California electric utility) cut power to about 2 million people in Northern and Central California, saying the outages were needed due to high winds and dry conditions that could spark wildfires. The power was for days for many c
Experts know that a strange species of bacteria found in oxygen-deprived sediment and soil can generate electricity. But they only recently learned that the microorganism achieves this through a method that differs from that used by other electric ba
Tesla bought, Hibar Systems, a Richmond Hiller, Ontario-based battery maker. Hibar is a world leader in the development of battery manufacturing technology.
It looks like Minnesota will have a very expensive mess to clean up when the wind turbines currently operating in the state reach the end of their 20 year useful lifetimes.
Helion Energy has been working to make a pulsed commercial nuclear fusion generator 1,000 times smaller, over 500 times cheaper, and realizable 10 times faster than other approaches. Helion Energy received $10.6 million in 2015.
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It could help address the world's looming water crisis...People have been trying to turn seawater into drinking water for thousands of years, but the process is not usually energy-efficient or affordable.
Denmark, with a landscape as flat as a pancake, might be a new whimsical destination for skiing, thanks to Copenhagen's new power plant. That's right. Last weekend in Copenhagen, an 8-year dream was realized when the first paying skiers took t
PG&E has cut power to hundreds of thousands of customers.
With nearly 800,000 customers affected in the largest shutdown this year, the utility is hoping to avoid a devastating fire season
Pacific General & Electric (PG&E) is cutting power across large swaths of Northern California, including the Bay Area, in a drastic bid to prevent wildfires.
PG&E is shutting off power to 800,000 Californians today and tomorrow. More than 1 million California homes are already soaking up sunshine with solar panels to generate electricity.
The solution could provide up to 40 miles a day of range without having to plug in the car.
Big things are happening at CERN, the European Organization for Nuclear Research.
Big things are happening at CERN, the European Organization for Nuclear Research.
ARC 100, Modular Reactor, Passes First Phase of Canada's Nuclear Safety Commission Vendor Design Review
They can have seven times the energy density of the best Li-Ion battery possible.
Lithium-carbon dioxide batteries are attractive energy storage systems because they have a specific energy density that is more than seven times greater than commonly used lithium-ion batteries.
Currently superconductors are used for Terahertz telescope detects but new graphene terahertz detectors will use less than 0.1% of the power.
P3Tek presented the results of a 10-month study of the ThorCon thorium/uranium-fueled molten salt reactor (MSR) power plant.
An inexpensive thermoelectric device harnesses the cold of space without active heat input, generating electricity that powers an LED at night, researchers report September 12 in the journal Joule.
Dahn has already put the battery cells through extensive testing.
The Netherlands' Nuclear Research and Consultancy Group (NRG) has completed a major milestone irradiation test of molten nuclear fuel salts in its High Flux Reactor at Petten 37 mi (60 km) north of Amsterdam.
The avant-garde architecture of Beijing-based MAD Architects has merged with Hyperloop's futuristic transportation technologies to unveil a new, solar-powered rapid transit system. Designed with an emphasis on sustainability, the elevated, tube-bas