Category Archives: Battery
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 [...]
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) [...]
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, [...]