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Energy Harvesting for Wearable Technology Steps Up

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Wearable devices, like nearly every other piece of tech, need energy. The best-known wearable energy-harvesting tech today is, of course, solar, which pulls down electrons from sunlight or ambient light. Leveraging watch tech for…bisons? Fortunately, though, at wearables’ modest power budgets, energy is effectively everywhere.

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Can We Extend the Life of EV Batteries and Reduce Fire Risks?

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Known as a gel polymer electrolyte, the material contains silica, nanoparticles and liquid electrolytes. Other ideas in development include sodium-ion batteries, batteries with solid-state electrolytes , seawater batteries and nickel-cobalt-manganese-aluminum batteries, which produce more stable cells.

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DOE Awarding $620M for Smart Grid Demonstration and Energy Storage Projects

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Develop and deploy a 25kWh prototype battery system based on Seeo’s proprietary nanostructured polymer electrolytes. 44 Tech Inc. (PA). Demonstration of Sodium Ion Battery for Grid Level Applications. . $16,080,554. Seeo, Inc (CA). Solid State Batteries for Grid-Scale Energy Storage. 10,792,045. 10,000,000.

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ARPA-E Awards $151M to 37 Projects for Transformative Energy Research

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Eagle Picher, in partnership with the Pacific Northwest National Laboratory, will develop a new generation of high energy, low cost planar liquid sodium beta batteries for grid scale electrical power storage applications. UTRC will team with Columbia University, CM-Tech, Hamilton Sundstrand and Worley Parsons in this program.

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Electric Car Manufacturers Inspire New Paradigms -- Seeking Alpha

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The electric car features three different battery options, two different Lithium-based (LI) systems – A123Systems and Enerdel as well as a Sodium-Nickel battery Zebra (Mes-Dea). The modular, front-wheel-drive battery electric car has dent-resistant polymer-plastic body panels mounted on an aluminum frame and a steel chassis.