Panasonic’s Li-ion Battery Can Store Electricity for One Week of Use
When we talk about energy storage and batteries, we often think of those devices which helps us to power our gadgets. So, we use batteries for mobile phones, laptops, but could we use batteries to power an entire building? Panasonic Company says “Yes”! They recently announced the launch of a lithium-ion storage battery for home use. After they bought 50% stake in Sanyo, Fumio Otsubo, president of Panasonic said: “We’ll be the first to bring to the market a storage battery for home use, which can store sufficient electricity for about one week of use.”.
Green Treasure – Algae Being Used For Making Ultra-Thin Batteries
Algae come in great variety and are one of the most abundant life forms on the planet, so it would be very unpractical, not to find a use for them, even in today’s technologized world. But people have acknowledged the great potential of this organism, and after trying to develop a algae-based biofuel or building solar cells out of single-celled algae its time for the algaes to get involved in creating biodegradable batteries.
IceBank – Storing Wind Energy As Ice
People are always searching for more efficient and economical solutions, always trying to keep things simple but also with a thought on energy costs. From an early time, man used ice to keep their food cooled. The ice was collected at so called “ice harvesting” sites and was the only way to refrigerate food, until the discovery of electricity.
High-Energy Storage – Rechargeable Zinc-Air Batteries To Be Soon Available
Some recent developments have brought to life new technologies for building a more efficient battery. ReVolt, a Swiss company announced that they managed to develop a rechargeable zinc-air battery that can store, by volume, three times more energy than the common lithium-ion battery, but in the same time, reducing the costs by half.
France to spend $2.2 Billion In A Charging Network For EV’s
The ever-rising demand for finding an alternative to the oil-based industry has brought the potential of the electricity into more light and many world governments seem to appeal to this solution. As one of the first reactions, the French government has recently announced the intentions to spend $2.2 billion (~€1.5 billion) on building a charging network for electric vehicles to cover the whole country, in efforts to rise the interest for more environmental and clean means of transportation.
Solar Roadways Could Power The Entire World
We all know how hot and how much heat the roads dissipate during summer times. We all have seen the hot road mirage on the highways, where the road seems soaked in a pool of water. Well, what if this heat and energy can, in some way be extracted and stored as electrical energy ? This was the idea that captivated Scott Brusaw’s imagination since childhood. Now, as a grown man, after he acknowledged the dangers of global warming, he came up with the concept that enables him to use this, once lost, energy. After years of development, together with his wife, they introduced Solar Roadways, a company designed for a fully digitized roads, that could ,theoretically, someday power the entire world.
Nissan’s New Electric Car
The Japanese car manufacturer, Nissan, announced today it’s latest electric car prototype, a model similar to the existing car, Tiida, with improved performances. The car’s design will be made public on the second of august, at the company’s HQ from Yokohama.This zero-emission car will be available in the USA and Japan next year, with plans for the European market for 2012. It will be a five-seat family hatchback with four doors .
Wind-Harnessing Device Sol-Air Use Hand Winder System If Wind isn’t Blowing
Nowadays, electricity is a necessary element, a very used element in many activity fields, for example, in telecommunications(mobile phones). Not only mobile phones,but any other electronic devices such mp3 players, ipod’s, laptops need power when we are outdoor. For these devices were created many models of chargers, with alternative energy, solar, kinetic, and wind energy.
Wind – capable of powering the entire world
The solution to planet’s energy problems is right at hand. Although this might come as a surprise to some, according to a study conducted by the National Academy of Sciences, if the world turned to wind for it’s energy demands, there would be so much of it available, that would make the search for other sources seem senseless.
In the study, the Earth was divided into surfaces of 3,300 square kilometers (1,274 square miles) to be able to appreciate the wind power capability, while monitoring wind velocity every six hours. Excluded from the calculations were “areas classified as forested, areas occupied by permanent snow or ice, areas covered by water, and areas identified as Read more
Hybride Solar/LED lightning saves up to 85% energy
The newly founded Visible Light Solar Technologies announced the Vector line of hybrid solar/LED lighting systems to help replace the many millions of street lights as well as the industrial and commercial interior/exterior lighting systems from the US and reduce energy costs for the average tax payers. The new technologies provide energy savings and reduces maintenance costs. Measurements show that municipalities, businesses and consumers could save up to 189 terawatt hours of energy by switching from conventional HID(high-intensity discharge) or normal incandescent bulb lights to LED illumination, or in other qualities as saving $20 billion in electricity costs or taking 16 million homes off the grid.
The company has already started installing Vector lightning systems at 12 sites, such as Osuna Business Park ,Bosque School and DKD Electric. Besides greatly
Green Treasures – Solar Project DESERTEC – a real possibility
Some important investors such as Siemens AG, Deutsche Bank or the Energy supplier Eon, have shown keen interest in the DESERTEC Concept. The project is designed to build large wind farms and solar parks and other alternative energy sources such as Geothermal around the North African continent coastlines and mainly on desserts. It will cost about 400 billion euros (that is $552 billion) and and will be capable of delivering electricity to Europe and other areas in ten years.
The Project will use the available technologies that have already been proven to work efficiently.