If only every battery exceeded it’s life expectancy the way those used for the Hubble Space Telescope have. After going an astounding 19 years without requiring a battery replacement, the Hubble will finally receive a fresh new set of nickel hydrogen batteries. On Monday, May 11; NASA will be returning to one of it’s most [...]
You can go ahead and add the market for nano-enabled batteries among those within the battery industry currently being forecast to see substantial growth in the coming years. Last week, a report by the independent electronic research and advisory firm Lux Research stated the expected growth of the current $19 million thin-battery market would put [...]
“Little attention has been given to massive electricity storage that is a key to making the use of renewable energy possible on a broad scale. In America today, there is an almost total absence of public awareness of the need.” -American Institute of Chemical Engineers (AICE) The ability to harness and disperse energy taken from [...]
At first glance, urine-powered rechargeable batteries such as the NoPoPo are typically looked upon as a joke or some sort of gimmick. If you’ve seen any one of the hundreds of articles surrounding this technology, you’re probably aware of the 6th grade bathroom humor approach many have taken in covering this new type of battery. [...]
Inventor Knut Karlsen has released a prototype for a new kind of rechargeable battery, one that recharges itself with a little help from the sun. Karlsen is calling it the SunCat, and with the consciousness of the planet turning green, the demand for earth friendly products such as this is growing fast. With Suncat, electric [...]
“The battery race will be decided in the next decade” Wolf-Henning Scheider, Robert Bosch- President of Gasoline Systems “European and Asian suppliers will fight a head-to-head battle in lithium-ion technology” Karl-Thomas Neumann, CEO- Continental Heavy words are being used as the competition to effectively manufacture lithium ion batteries, especially for automobiles, continues to heat up. [...]
The need for new, renewable energy sources has us looking high and low, and in places that many would never even begin to think of. One of the latest energy-harnessing technologies being talked about is the discovery made by a group of MIT undergraduates of a way to recover energy that is lost from vehicle [...]
A 20 yr. old Chinese man is dead after the battery inside his cellular phone, which he was unfortunately carrying inside of his chest pocket, exploded unexpectedly Sunday evening. Because of the location of the phone upon explosion, the young man’s vital arteries were severed, resulting in massive blood loss and leaving the young man [...]
I have a hard time taking anything that includes the words “extreme” and “moped” in it’s name seriously. With that being said, the new X-Treme XM-5000Li Electric Moped is looking like a great way to add a little green to your life. Our friends at Wattcycle are boasting the XM-5000Li as the “first of it’s [...]
In what looks to be another case for added motivation to see automobile manufacturers move from acid-lead batteries to lithium-ion, Associated Press reporter Heidi Vogt just released a tragic story of an African town who has seen some of its citizens suffer from lead poisoning. Pets and farm animals were the first to feel the [...]
