Researchers Create Flexible Battery That Can Run On Salt Water

Source: engadget.com Published: August 11, 2017 They could be powered by body fluids like sweat or tears in the future. Hoxton/Ryan Lees via Getty Images Mallory Locklear When it comes to making batteries for wearables or implantable medical devices,...

Revolutionary Graphene Polymer Batteries for Electric Cars

Source: cbw.ge Published: December 29, 2015 According to a report from a Chinese website, The Spanish Graphenano, along with the University of Cordoba and Grabat Energy, developed a polymeric graphene battery, especially suited for electric cars, that will be cheaper...

Fast-Charging Everlasting Battery Power from Graphene

Source: phys.org Published: July 19, 2016 by Han Lin, Fresh Science Swinburne University researchers have invented a new, flexible energy-storage technology that could soon replace the batteries in our cars, phones and more.  Han Lin’s new super battery (actually, a...

The Biggest, Strangest ‘Batteries’

Source: nytimes.com Published: June 3, 2017 What if you need a battery? A really big one — big enough to run a city? By Diane Cardwell and Andrew Roberts It’s a question that inventors have been tackling for decades. No one wants the fridge, or the hospital, going on...

Making Batteries from Waste Glass Bottles

Source: eurekalert.org Published: April 19, 2017 IMAGE: Waste glass bottles are turned into nanosilicon anodes using a low cost chemical process. Credit: UC Riverside UCR researchers are turning glass bottles into high performance lithium-ion batteries for electric...

India Looks to Battery Storage to Supplement Its Solar Boom

Source: indeseem.org Published: March 14, 2016 Image Source: Green Tech Media Written by: Mike Stone. Posted on: March 14, 2016 For the first time ever, India is putting out the call for energy storage developers. The state-run Solar Energy Corporation of India (SECI)...

Tesla Moves Beyond Electric Cars with New California Battery Farm

Source: theguardian.com Published: January 31, 2017 The Tesla battery farm will be used to store energy and meet spikes in demand – like on hot summer afternoons when buildings start to crank up the air conditioning. Photograph: Katie Fehrenbacher Katie Fehrenbacher...