The Grouse: Assault on Batteries
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View ArticleDOE Announces $620 Million in Smart Grid Project Grants
The Dawn of a New Energy Era?While the Smart Grid we needed years ago is still years away, the Obama administration took a step forward today as Energy Secretary Steven Chu announced $620 million in...
View ArticleDOE Announces $620 Million in Smart Grid Project Grants
The Dawn of a New Energy Era?While the Smart Grid we needed years ago is still years away, the Obama administration took a step forward today as Energy Secretary Steven Chu announced $620 million in...
View ArticlePanasonic Will Market First Li-Ion Storage Battery for Home Use in 2011
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View ArticleIn Stores Soon: Graphene-Enhanced Li-ion Batteries That Charge In Minutes
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View ArticleVideo: Electric Version of Tiniest Manned Plane Ever Takes to the Skies
Electric CricketEADSAn ultralight kit plane designed in the 1970s has become the first four-engined electric plane to take to the skies. Weighing in around 387 pounds -- including the pilot -- the...
View ArticleMarines in Afghanistan Find That Solar Panels Save Soldiers' Lives
Marines With ExFOB Marines and sailors of India Company, 3rd Battalion, 5th Marine Regiment pose with their Afghan national army counterparts in front of a solar power generator at Patrol Base Sparks,...
View ArticleTiny Battery Embedded In a Nanowire Is the Smallest Battery Yet
Nanowire Nanobattery Hybrid electrochemical energy storage devices combine the advantages of battery and supercapacitors, resulting in systems of high energy and power density. ACS Nano...
View ArticleThe Grouse: Assault on Batteries
Assault on Batteries Courtesy iStockPhoto Perusing the deluge of overheated press releases from the CES conference a few weeks ago, one in particular, for Panasonic's new line of EVOLTA batteries, got...
View ArticleNokia Working On Infinite Cellphone Battery
Infinite Power Who hasn't missed an important call or woke up at the wrong time because you forgot to charge your cellphone over night? Well, Nokia hopes to make that a thing of the past by developing...
View ArticleDOE Announces $620 Million in Smart Grid Project Grants
The Dawn of a New Energy Era? While the Smart Grid we needed years ago is still years away, the Obama administration took a step forward today as Energy Secretary Steven Chu announced $620 million in...
View ArticlePanasonic Will Market First Li-Ion Storage Battery for Home Use in 2011
Panasonic's Lithium-Ion Storage Battery Panasonic Bringing power storage to the people, Panasonic will bring a home-use lithium-ion storage cell to market in fiscal 2011, making it possible for homes...
View ArticleIn Stores Soon: Graphene-Enhanced Li-ion Batteries That Charge In Minutes
Graphene-Enhanced Batteries Pacific Northwest National Laboratory scientist Jie Xiao prepares to test lithium ion batteries. The laboratory is working with a Princeton University spinoff firm to...
View ArticleVideo: Electric Version of Tiniest Manned Plane Ever Takes to the Skies
Electric Cricket EADS An ultralight kit plane designed in the 1970s has become the first four-engined electric plane to take to the skies. Weighing in around 387 pounds -- including the pilot -- the...
View ArticleMarines in Afghanistan Find That Solar Panels Save Soldiers' Lives
Marines With ExFOB Marines and sailors of India Company, 3rd Battalion, 5th Marine Regiment pose with their Afghan national army counterparts in front of a solar power generator at Patrol Base Sparks,...
View ArticleTiny Battery Embedded In a Nanowire Is the Smallest Battery Yet
Nanowire Nanobattery Hybrid electrochemical energy storage devices combine the advantages of battery and supercapacitors, resulting in systems of high energy and power density. ACS Nano Letters...
View ArticleThe Grouse: Assault on Batteries
Perusing the deluge of overheated press releases from the CES conference a few weeks ago, one in particular, for Panasonics new line of EVOLTA batteries, got me thinking. And…
View ArticleNokia Working On Infinite Cellphone Battery
Who hasn't missed an important call or woke up at the wrong time because you forgot to charge your cellphone over night? Well, Nokia hopes to make that a thing of the past by…
View ArticleDOE Announces $620 Million in Smart Grid Project Grants
While the Smart Grid we needed years ago is still years away, the Obama administration took a step forward today as Energy Secretary Steven Chu announced $620 million in stimulus awards for 32 Smart...
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