Green Car Congress
APRIL 7, 2013
Current interest areas in sustainable energy technologies are as follows: Biomass Conversion, Biofuels & Bioenergy. Photosynthetic processes used by plants or algae use sunlight to convert atmospheric CO 2 to energy-rich metabolites (carbohydrates, lipids, or hydrocarbons) which can be processed into transportation fuels.
Green Car Congress
APRIL 30, 2010
Today’s technologies for making biofuels all rely on photosynthesis—either indirectly by converting plants to fuels or directly by harnessing photosynthetic organisms such as algae. This process is less than 1% efficient at converting sunlight to stored chemical energy. Electrofuels: Biofuels from Electricity. Engineering E.
Green Car Congress
MAY 14, 2010
One compartment contains a metallic lithium electrode (anode) in an organic solvent (1m LiClO 4 in ethylene carbonate/dimethyl carbonate), while the other contains an aqueous electrolyte solution (LiNO 3 /H 2 O) with a carbon-based hydrogen generation electrode (cathode). Simultaneously, hydrogen gas is generated on the cathode.
Green Car Congress
SEPTEMBER 13, 2013
These are the iron, carbon and VB 2 molten air batteries with respective intrinsic volumetric energy capacities of 10,000 (for Fe to Fe(III)); 19,000 (C to CO 3 2- ) and 27,000 Wh liter -1 (VB 2 to B 2 O 3 + V 2 O 5 ), compared to 6,200 Wh liter -1 for the lithium-air battery. Earlier post.] —Licht et al.
Green Car Congress
JUNE 5, 2013
The new catalyst, reported in an open source paper in Nature Communications , could pave the way for reliable, economical metal-air batteries and alkaline fuel cells, providing for practical use of wind- and solar-powered electricity, as well as enhanced hybrid and electric vehicles. —Piotr Zelenay, corresponding author.
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SEPTEMBER 25, 2023
Some other Battery news are, New developments and experiments in battery chemistries like lithium-air and magnesium-ion are going on. The batteries that use sodium instead of the pricey and rare lithium are the ones that are the closest to being on the market.
Green Car Congress
JUNE 12, 2012
The top two awards, one of $9 million to a project led by Dow Chemical, and one of $8.999 million to a project led by PolyPlus, will fund projects tackling, respectively, the manufacturing of low-cost carbon fibers and the manufacturing of electrodes for ultra-high-energy-density lithium-sulfur, lithium-seawater and lithium-air batteries.
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