SmartEnergy Designline Blog
Anne-Francoise Pele
7/30/2012 4:07 PM EDT
Fraunhofer researchers claimed they have developed a coolant for electric vehicle batteries that can absorb three times as much heat as water, and can prevent batteries from overheating.
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M. Oza
How would CryoSolplus be incorporated in a cooling system where the engine coolant is circulated to ...
Updated: Valeo makes your car engine hybrid
Anne-Francoise Pele
7/25/2012 9:45 AM EDT
Valeo engineers claimed they have developed an electrification solution that enables car manufacturers to turn a traditional engine –diesel or gasoline- into a hybrid engine.
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steve.freestone
And put it on a motorcycle! Take that, Honda GoldWing! (1800 cc 6 cylinder boxer)
Prisoners made to pedal for power
Leslie Langan
7/23/2012 1:47 PM EDT
At the Santa Rita do Sapucaí Penitentiary in Brazil, prisoners have been given the opportunity to shorten their sentence by becoming human power generators
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WKetel
Good Grief, there are a lot of liberal sociologists around! Using a stationary bike to charge ...
Anti-aging elixir for solar cells
Anne-Francoise Pele
7/20/2012 5:29 AM EDT
Researchers from the Fraunhofer Center for Sustainable Energy Systems and Dow Corning Corporation are working on materials to protect solar cells from environmental influences. Silicone appears as one of the most promising materials.
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I_B_GREEN
Silicoln in hollow glass spheres imbededin protective film..crack /stress releases silicoln to fill ...
Scientists to develop aqueous lithium-ion battery
Anne-Francoise Pele
3/1/2012 10:44 AM EST
As the global energy demand continues to increase, a team of researchers at the Ruhr University Bochum, in Germany, is developing a water-based lithium-ion battery.
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prabhakar_deosthali
This is a good idea. The objective of this project should be, apart from reducing the cost, to make ...
Design opportunities abound in renewable energy for military
Patrick Mannion
10/6/2010 2:29 PM EDT
Yesterday’s article in the New York Times about the U.S. military’s need to move away from fossil fuel reminded me of an interesting email exchange I had recently with Terry Bollinger, a technology analyst at MITRE Corp., concerning the military’s interest in renewable energy.
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Startup alert: Nanotecture promises tripling of energy-storage performance
Patrick Mannion
9/28/2010 12:26 PM EDT
Given the burgeoning need for improved storage methodologies, whether in batteries or supercapacitors, Nanotecture’s new nanoporous technology is really exciting. Here’s a quick synopsys.
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Hot debut in even hotter market: Oree's LED-based planar lighting
Patrick Mannion
8/13/2010 5:06 PM EDT
LEDs are hot, really hot. So when I got a call asking if I’d spend a few minutes with a startup claiming to have the next big thing in LED lighting, I jumped on it. And I wasn’t disappointed.
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takenmark
Yeah,i can not agree with you any more about I’d spend a few minutes with a startup claiming to have ...
Reality check needed: New technology doubles solar conversion efficiency
Patrick Mannion
8/9/2010 11:02 AM EDT
Researchers at Stanford have developed a cesium-coated gallium nitride PETE device that converts both light and heat into electrical energy, potentially doubling the efficiency of solar panels.
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p_g
No direct benefit but this will help them reduce power consumption.. may be reduce electricity price ...
China passes U.S. in energy use, but hold on a second...
Patrick Mannion
7/19/2010 3:00 AM EDT
China passed the U.S. in energy used, but what's not noted is that it's also passed the world in net renewable energy generated.
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Silicon_Smith
A couple of points: One, the statistics not only reflect how the 1.3 B Chinese have grown but also ...