Brian Westenhaus

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• Is This The Answer To The Lithium Shortage?

  Published 18 February 2018 | viewed 14,159 times

  University of Texas at Austin and Monash University researchers have recently discovered a new, efficient way to extract lithium and other metals and minerals from…

• New Breakthrough Boosts Solar Fuel Efficiency

  Published 21 January 2018 | viewed 20,929 times

  University of Twente researchers have made significant efficiency improvements to the technology used to generate solar fuels. This involves the direct conversion of energy from sunlight…

• Unexpected Phenomenon Observed In Lithium-Ion Batteries

  Published 17 January 2018 | viewed 22,335 times

  Brookhaven National Laboratory scientists have observed an unexpected phenomenon in lithium-ion batteries – the most common type of battery used to power cell phones and…

• EV Range Set To Triple With New Lithium Battery Breakthrough

  Published 20 December 2017 | viewed 45,530 times

  The University of Waterloo researchers breakthrough involves the use of negative electrodes (the anode) made of lithium metal, a material with the potential to dramatically…

• A Low-Cost Alternative To Lithium-Ion Batteries

  Published 25 November 2017 | viewed 23,991 times

  Forschungszentrum Juelich researchers with American Oak Ridge National Laboratory scientists have now successfully observed with nano-scale precision how deposits form at the iron electrode during…

• New Process Makes Ethanol Sustainable

  Published 11 November 2017 | viewed 14,633 times

  Sweden’s University of Borås doctoral student Ramkumar Nair has shown it is possible to produce bioethanol from agricultural and industrial waste in existing plants in…

• Submerged Turbines Could Replace 10 Nuclear Reactors In Japan

  Published 02 October 2017 | viewed 19,240 times

  Okinawa Institute of Science and Technology (OIST) researchers have developed turbines to convert the power of ocean waves into clean, renewable energy. Professor Shintake and the…

• Fuel Cell Breakthrough Lowers Costs And Ups Capacity

  Published 09 September 2017 | viewed 30,044 times

  University of Delaware (UD) scientists have created a new technology that could make fuel cells cheaper and more durable. Hydrogen-powered fuel cells are a green…

• Is This Country About To Revive Biofuels?

  Published 04 September 2017 | viewed 16,903 times

  Fundação de Amparo à Pesquisa do Estado de São Paulo researchers found the use of ethanol in vehicles reduces pollution by significantly lowering the number…

• This Is Why Your Lithium Battery Doesn’t Age Well

  Published 29 April 2017 | viewed 18,146 times

  An Argonne National Laboratory team of researchers has identified one of the major culprits in capacity fade of high-energy lithium-ion batteries. Scientists refer to a…

• “Grassoline” The Jet Fuel Of The Future?

  Published 08 April 2017 | viewed 22,316 times

  Belgium’s Ghent University researchers have developed a process that turns grass into biofuel. The press release is a little cute with the question, will we…

• New Technology Could Replace Lithium-Ion Batteries

  Published 26 February 2017 | viewed 18,767 times

  University of Southern California (USC) scientists have developed an alteration to the lithium-sulfur battery that could make it more than competitive with the lithium-ion battery.…

• The Race To Develop The Ultimate Battery

  Published 03 November 2015 | viewed 10,458 times

  University of Cambridge scientists have developed a working laboratory demonstrator of a lithium-oxygen battery which has very high energy density, is more than 90% efficient,…

• This Breakthrough Could Lead To More NatGas Vehicles On The Road

  Published 29 October 2015 | viewed 7,063 times

   University of California at Berkeley chemists have developed an innovative new storage material for methane that could lessen the complexity of filling up with natural…

• Could This Innovation Signal A Breakthrough In Fusion Energy

  Published 13 August 2015 | viewed 9,250 times

  Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) researchers are using advances in magnet technology to propose a new design for a practical compact tokamak fusion reactor. It’s…

• Andrea Rossi Vindicated? Cold Fusion Takes Another Step Towards Credibility

  Published 12 February 2015 | viewed 160,318 times

  Professor Alexander Parkhomov of Lomonosov Moscow State University has published a paper describing his successful replication of Andrea Rossi’s E-Cat LENR or cold fusion device.…

• Nanophotonic Material Beams Excess Heat Into Space

  Published 04 December 2014 | viewed 6,014 times

  Stanford University engineers have invented a material designed to help cool buildings. The material reflects incoming sunlight, and it sends the heat from inside the…

• Breakthrough In Wood To Gasoline Research

  Published 29 November 2014 | viewed 7,787 times

  Researchers at the Netherland’s KU Leuven’s Centre for Surface Chemistry and Catalysis have successfully converted sawdust into building blocks for gasoline. With the invention of…

• New Solar Material: The “Blackhole Of Sunlight”

  Published 30 October 2014 | viewed 8,442 times

  A multidisciplinary engineering team at University of California San Diego Jacobs School of Engineering (UCSD) has developed a new nanoparticle-based material designed to absorb and…

• Cleaning Up The Fracking Process

  Published 22 October 2014 | viewed 11,784 times

  Researchers at MIT and in Saudi Arabia say they have found an economical solution to cleaning out the biggest pollutant from hydraulic fracturing oil and…