Category Archives: Storage
Department of Energy – Research Areas: Fuels from Sunlight
Fuels from Sunlight To access the Fuels from Sunlight FOA (reference number DE-FOA-0000214) please direct your browser to: https://www.fedconnect.net/FedConnect/PublicPages/PublicSearch/Public_Opportunities.aspx and search for “Fuels from Sunlight” in the search box (note that the search flag should be set to “Title” or “Title/Description”). After nearly 3 billion years of evolution, nature can effectively convert sunlight into energy-rich [...]
ARPA-E Launches New Round of Game Changing Energy Funding
Written by Tina Casey Published on January 5th, 2010 The first round of federal ARPA-E funding for future energy kick-started a stunning range of 37 different projects last year, from fuel-secreting bacteria to liquid batteries and a way to create solar energy by mimicking photosynthesis. Now the agency has launched a new round that narrows the target down to just [...]
$122 mil DOE RFP: Fuels from Sunlight, R&D Hub
The U.S. Department of Energy requests proposals for the Energy for Innovation Hub – Fuels from Sunlight. The purpose of the Hub will be to assemble the most talented scientists and technologists to focus intense research and development efforts on the development of an effective solar energy to chemical fuel conversion system. The system should operate at [...]
Technology Review: Cheaper, Stronger Lithium-Ion Batteries for Electric Vehicles
A British company is testing new chemistry that could boost the performance of batteries. By Duncan Graham-Rowe MONDAY, JANUARY 04, 2010 A British defense technology company, Qinetiq, is testing a new type of lithium-ion battery for hybrids and electric vehicles that could be substantially cheaper and more powerful than existing batteries. Packing power: The new battery [...]
2nd Annual Workshop on Electrochemistry, UT Austin, February 6-7
Second Annual Workshop on Electrochemistry University of Texas at Austin February 6-7, 2010 “Mechanistic Electrochemistry and Electroanalysis” Online Registration is now available. The 2010 CEC Electrochemistry Workshop “Mechanistic Electrochemistry and Electroanalysis” will be held at the AT&T Executive Education and Conference Center on the University of Texas campus at Austin, Texas. The Center For Electrochemistry (CEC) [...]
VIDEO: CALMAC Energy Storage at Greenbuild
CEO Mark MacCracken shares why energy storage is going to be critical in the future to making renewables possible. via YouTube – CALMAC Energy Storage at Greenbuild.
MIT Technology Review: The Year in Energy
Liquid batteries, giant lasers, and vast new reserves of natural gas highlight the fundamental energy advances of the past 12 months. By Kevin Bullis MONDAY, DECEMBER 28, 2009 With many renewable energy companies facing hard financial times (“Weeding Out Solar Companies“), a lot of the big energy news this year was coming out of Washington, DC, [...]