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Researcher Describes Conceptual Cold Fusion Battery, or Small Power Unit

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The number of presentations on the topic at ACS National Meetings has quadrupled since 2007. Vysotskii is a scientist with Kiev National Shevchenko University in Kiev, Ukraine. discusses an unconventional cold fusion device that uses phenanthrene, a substance found in coal and oil, as a reactant. Tadahiko Mizuno, Ph.D.,

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We Need More Than Just Electric Vehicles

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Manufacturing an EV battery using coal-based electricity results in more than three times the greenhouse-gas emissions of manufacturing a battery with electricity from renewable sources. 70 percent of lithium-ion batteries are produced in China, which derived 64 percent of its electricity from coal in 2020.