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High-Efficiency Electrodes With Ultralight Current Collectors

Eight industrial and scientific entities in Germany have come together to pursue two key innovations in lithium-ion battery technology: the replacement of metal…

Energy Storage Battery

SWELL Project Aims to Recover Electrolyte Salts and Solvents From Lithium-Ion Batteries

In Germany, a project led by electrolyte company Elyte Innovations GmbH is pursuing the recovery of the non-metallic components—including lithium salts, solven…

Nuclear Power Plant

Contaminated Oklahoma Site to Be Made an EPA Priority

The Environmental Protection Agency has proposed adding the Fansteel Metals Superfund site in Muskogee, Okla., to the National Priorities List (NPL), the roster…

Energy Storage Battery

Team Finds Major Storage Capacity in Water-Based Batteries

Researchers at Texas A&M University have discovered a 1,000% difference in the storage capacity of metal-free, water-based battery electrodes.These batteries ar…

Electric Car

Mining.com EV Metal Index Shows Value of Battery Metals in Newly Registered Electrified Vehicles up 232% Y-O-Y in 2022

Mining.com’s EV Metal Index, which tracks the value of battery metals in newly registered passenger EVs (including full battery, plug-in and conventional …

Hydrogen Storage

EnerVenue Opening One-Million-Square Foot Gigafactory to Scale Production of Metal-Hydrogen Batteries

The one-million-square-foot manufacturing facility will enable the fast-growing clean energy company to meet current and future demand for its unique, non-lithi…

Energy Saving Products

Improving the Durability of Lithium Metal Batteries Using Carbon Fiber Paper as the Anode

Due to the worldwide growth of electric vehicles, there has been a rise in demand for next-generation secondary batteries with higher capacity and faster chargi…

Energy Saving

New Electrolyte Enables High Efficiency of Safe, Sustainable Zinc Batteries

Credit: Pixabay/CC0 Public DomainScientists led by an Oregon State University researcher have developed a new electrolyte that raises the efficiency of the zinc…

Geothermal Power Plant

KTB Deep Borehole in Bavaria, Germany to Be Site for Geothermal Research

The GEOREAL project under GFZ Potsdam will do research on the KTB boreholes to better understand hydraulic stimulation in low-permeability metamorphics.

United States

Meta Signs PPA on 240-Mw Texas Solar Project

AVANGRID, a sustainable energy company, has signed a power purchase agreement (PPA) with Meta, Facebook’s parent company, to procure renewable energy from…

Energy Storage Battery

Group Develops Framework for High-Energy-Density, Long Life-Cycle Rechargeable Lithium Metal Batteries

Research conducted by Purdue University's Vilas Pol Energy Research (ViPER) Group shows promise for developing high-energy-density rechargeable lithium-meta…

Hydropower Plant

Ground Broken on 1,375 MW Metarang Induk Hydropower in Indonesia

(photo courtesy Sarawak Energy)Joint venture developers of the 1,375 MW Mentarang Induk Hydropower Project (MIHEP) in North Kalimantan, Indonesia, celebrated th…

Solar Power Panel

Topcon Shingle Solar Cell Achieves 22.0% Efficiency via Thermal Laser Separation

Scientists from Germany’s Fraunhofer ISE and US panel maker Solaria have applied thermal laser separation and post-metallization passivated edge technology to …

Energy Saving Products

New 3D-Printed Superalloy Could Make Power Plants More Efficient

Sandia technologist Levi Van Bastian works to print material on the Laser Engineered Net Shaping machine, which allows scientists to 3D print new high-performan…

Nuclear Reactor

ČEz and šKoda JS Expand Use of 3D Printing

The Czech firms ČEZ and Škoda JS say that 4159 plastic and metal parts were produced using a 3D printer over the last year, helping to avoid delays caus…