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Johnson Matthey, Echion, Britishvolt and UCL to develop eLNO cathode, niobium anode demonstrator cells in CASCADE

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Johnson Matthey (JM), Echion Technologies , (Echion), Britishvolt (BV) and University College London (UCL) are grant recipients in the latest round (Round 4) of the Faraday Battery Challenge in the UK. Echion is a high-growth company spun-out of Cambridge University in 2017 to commercialize niobium oxide-based materials for anodes.

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New safety test environment for high-speed flywheels for energy storage systems; new high-speed imaging techniques

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The Ricardo-led FlySafe research collaboration—involving a range of leading industrial and academic partners including the University of Brighton’s Centre for Automotive Engineering—has delivered an innovative flywheel safety test environment to enable the development of next-generation flywheel energy storage systems.

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One Way to Stop the Social Spread of Disinformation

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When you encourage people to spread falsities to get advertising and make money, then this thing kind of builds on itself. Alma mater: University of British Columbia, in Vancouver. Alamouti says tokens, enabled by distributed ledgers, could replace cash as a method of exchange, with low-cost transaction fees.

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UK Carbon Trust report says fuel cell vehicles could take more than 30% of mid-sized car market by 2050

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Imperial College and University College London have developed a novel stackable cell architecture that uses low cost materials and manufacturing techniques with breakthrough potential in terms of cost reduction. They are also easy to assemble, and can be made using low-cost, high capacity manufacturing techniques.

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Could Zinc Gel Chemistry Outperform Flow Batteries?

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Gelion founder and inventor of the new technology, Professor Thomas Maschmeyer at the University of Sydney, describes how it works. Zinc-bromine technologies can do well due to the low cost of materials." That compares well, he says, to the $135 million it costs to build a greenfield gigawatt hour per year lithium-ion factory.

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Could Zinc Gel Chemistry Outperform Flow Batteries?

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Gelion founder and inventor of the new technology, Professor Thomas Maschmeyer at the University of Sydney, describes how it works. Zinc-bromine technologies can do well due to the low cost of materials." That compares well, he says, to the $135 million it costs to build a greenfield gigawatt hour per year lithium-ion factory.

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CPT Brings TIGERS Technology to VIPER Project for Enhanced Energy Recovery

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The VIPER project will build on CPT’s involvement in the Ricardo-led HyBoost program ( earlier post ), which is similarly part funded by the UK Technology Strategy Board (TSB). Other consortium members include Ford, IAV, BP, University of Nottingham and Imperial College London. —CPT engineering director Guy Morris.

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