Energy for Electric Vehicles Dealt a Blow by Bolivian Lithium Production
Thursday 11th of March 2010 08:27:23 PM
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| Just over a year ago, and spurred by an article in Time, I wrote a post on the possible global supply of lithium, which is used in renewable batteries, and a major choice for use in the batteries of electric vehicles, such as the Chevy Volt. Since the story has acquired more recent interest this week, and with new information, it is worth re-visiting the topic. Since we also look at processing, I became curious about where and how the lithium is mined. Recently, however, h/t to JoulesBurn, there was an article by Jack Lifton explaining some additional production issues.... |
Energy for Electric Vehicles Dealt a Blow by Bolivian Lithium Production
Thursday 11th of March 2010 08:27:23 PM
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| Just over a year ago, and spurred by an article in Time, I wrote a post on the possible global supply of lithium, which is used in renewable batteries, and a major choice for use in the batteries of electric vehicles, such as the Chevy Volt. Since the story has acquired more recent interest this week, and with new information, it is worth re-visiting the topic. I began the original post by noting that our first introduction to these batteries was in our role as an Explosives Lab when we found out - in a series of experiments a long... |
Why Nissan's Electric Car Will Flop
Thursday 11th of March 2010 08:27:23 PM
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| The question isn't whether the world is ready for the Leaf. It's whether the Leaf is ready for the world. The most daring gamble in the automobile world is Nissan's electric car, the Leaf. But is this car, coming at the end of the year, really ready for prime time? Undoubtedly Nissan (NSANY) can sell some in the U.S.--a few thousand a year, perhaps 10,000 or 20,000 or 30,000. Some people always want something new. But the Leaf is more likely to be a sales failure than a sales success. It's not pleasant to rain on someone's parade before Job... |
Winter Olympics Electric Zamboni Fail
Thursday 11th of March 2010 08:27:23 PM
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| The electric Zambonis — part of Canada's attempt at a green Vancouver Olympics — failed multiple times this evening, causing a massive delay in in the middle of the Men's 500-meter speedskating event. Hmm, wethinks it needs more internal combustion! |
Israeli gas stations to swap Better Place car batteries
Thursday 11th of March 2010 08:27:23 PM
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| Electric-car services company Better Place has announced deals in Israel with corporate fleet operators and a gas station company, steps toward launching a nationwide network for all-electric cars next year. Ninety-two companies in Israel plan to host charging stations for Better Place electric cars, the company said Sunday, and a gas station operator will host battery switching stations. A charging point for electric vehicles in Israel. (Credit: Better Place) With the deals in place and support from the Israeli government, Better Place projects that it will be operating a nationwide network of thousands of charging stations by 2011, according to... |
Lithium-Ion Battery Life Could Reach 20 Years
Thursday 11th of March 2010 08:27:23 PM
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| Japanese research and development firm Eamex claims to have found a new way to increase the typical average life of a high-capacity lithium-ion battery. Eamex's new technology will allow the demanding batteries to sustain over 10,000 recharges over the course of 20 years. This rather dramatic increase in performance is made possible by new techniques such as a stabilization process of the battery's electrodes, which in-turn puts less stress on the battery's tin. This maintains the bonding of particles for a longer period of time and reduces the overall deterioration process. The result is a battery that lasts up to... |
The battery's dead: Scientists invent wafer-thin plastic that can store electricity
Thursday 11th of March 2010 08:27:23 PM
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| The battery, which has powered our lives for generations, may soon be consigned to the dustbin of history. British scientists say they have created a plastic that can store and release electricity, revolutionising the way we use phones, drive cars - and even wear clothes. It means the cases of mobiles and iPods could soon double up as their power source - leading to gadgets as thin as credit cards. |
Death of the Electric Car: Li-ion Batteries Too Valuable for Plug-In Vehicles
Thursday 11th of March 2010 08:27:23 PM
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| In November 2006, a slick issue-oriented documentary asked the provocative question "Who Killed the Electric Car" and argued that General Motors' EV1 project was terminated because of collusion between the auto and oil industries. The truth is nobody killed the electric car. It died in infancy from congenital birth defects and the same flaws that killed the EV1 will probably kill Tesla Motors, Fisker Automotive, Nissan's (NSANY) Leaf and GM's Volt. This is not a question of cost, performance, abuse tolerance or cycle-life. It's a fundamental flaw in the economics of using batteries to replace a fuel tank; a flaw... |
A Battery Made With Paper
Thursday 11th of March 2010 08:27:23 PM
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| Paper has been getting beat by electronics for years. But it may be about to stage a comeback. Researchers are reporting that they've made batteries and other energy-storage devices by printing layers of carbon nanotube–based ink atop standard photocopy paper. The result is a highly conductive sheet that can carry a charge and be easily incorporated into a flexible battery. Because of paper's low cost, that could help lower the price of batteries used in electric vehicles, wind farms, and other renewable sources. The idea of using paper to make a lightweight, flexible battery isn't new. Researchers led by Robert... |
Digital Quantum Battery Could Boost Energy Density Tenfold
Thursday 11th of March 2010 08:27:23 PM
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| This figure shows the energy density and the power density of nano vacuum tubes in comparison to other energy storage devices. Credit: H?bler and Osuagwu. (PhysOrg.com) -- Physicists theorize that quantum phenomena could provide a major boost to batteries, with the potential to increase energy density up to 10 times that of lithium ion batteries. According to a new proposal, billions of nanoscale capacitors could take advantage of quantum effects to overcome electric arcing, an electrical breakdown phenomenon which limits the amount of charge that conventional capacitors can store. In their study, Alfred Hubler and Onyeama Osuagwu, both of the... |
PREDICTION: Shift to electric vehicles could create 1 million jobs by 2020 (We're Saved!)
Thursday 11th of March 2010 08:27:23 PM
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| Just how electric vehicles will change the world is an evolving debate, but one new analysis says that EVs and connected industries could be a $300 billion business by 2020 and create over a million jobs globally along the way. In the U.S., somewhere between 125,000 and 300,00 jobs could be created, with the higher number only being reached if the U.S. adopts more "concerted and aggressive efforts" to promote EVs. These predictions come from global management consulting firm PRTM and are based on widespread adoption of the recently-released Electrification Roadmap that ambitiously foresees BEVs and PHEVs making up a... |
Parent Attacks Teacher With Stapler In Ind. School
Thursday 11th of March 2010 08:27:23 PM
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| GARY, Ind. -- Authorities said an angry parent attacked a fourth-grade teacher with a stapler at a Gary school while students watched. Police arrested the woman shortly after the attack Thursday afternoon at Beveridge Elementary School. Gary Community School Corp. spokeswoman Sarita Stevens said the woman entered the school from an unlocked door. Stevens said the woman, who is expected to face assault charges, was upset over the teacher's disciplinary tactics with her child. Stevens said the teacher was treated for head wounds at a local hospital. A message requesting more information on the charges filed was left Saturday with... |
City letter carrier involved in assault (Connecticut)
Thursday 11th of March 2010 08:27:23 PM
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| WOLCOTT — A U.S. Postal Service letter carrier, assisted by two friends, delivered a strong message to a man accused of getting drunk at a house party and kissing a 10-year-old girl. Andy S. Markure, 28, of 10 Francis Drive, was at a party on County Road when he allegedly went into the bedroom of the 10-year-old, started whispering to her and then kissed her on the cheek, according to court documents obtained Wednesday. The party, on Sept. 5, was to celebrate the return of a friend from military service. During the party, Markure drank about 12 beers, he told... |
Utility-Scale Energy Storage Migrates Towards the Grid Edge
Thursday 11th of March 2010 08:27:23 PM
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| ELECTRIC UTILITIES HAVE BECOME INCREASINGLY INTERESTED TO TAKE ADVANTAGE OF THE BENEFITS of energy storage systems. This has been influenced by advances in storage technologies as well as an increased need to buffer the adverse impacts of the rapidly increasing penetration of renewable energy resources. Advances in smart grid technologies are also helping utilities to aggregate and control distributed storage units as a very responsive and flexible fleet. A look at the historical deployment of energy storage in utilities indicates a migratory pattern from large central storage units to broadly distributed smaller systems. For decades, electric utilities have been storing... |
The YESS Storage Battery is Your Energy Storage Solution (Sounds like EESTOR)
Thursday 11th of March 2010 08:27:23 PM
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| EIN Presswire / The YESS Storage Battery is Your Energy Storage Solution! ERRA Incorporated, San Antonio, TX, USA has acquired all rights and patents to a breakthrough battery technology to be marketed as the YESS Battery from ERRA, Inc. "Our acquisition of this battery technology for all fields of use enables us to deploy the battery in hundreds of existing applications that will prove to be truly game changing. In addition to those existing markets, this battery will create new markets that did not previously exist. It will have significant impact for the entire clean / renewable energy industry." Jim... |
A red hot electric car (VIDEO)(Not a Tesla!)
Thursday 11th of March 2010 08:27:23 PM
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| Paradigm smasher This guy is going to ruin everything for the global warming/carbon tax crowd. Non-polluting cars that are high performance and fun? Tell me it ain't so Big Al (Gore). How are we supposed to wallow in "inconvenient truths" if trouble-makers like this mess things up by smoking the car companies with superior home brew engineering? Remember, the personal computer was the creation of a bunch of unfunded individuals, not the military-industrial complex. |
New rechargeable zinc-air batteries coming soon
Thursday 11th of March 2010 08:27:23 PM
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| The Swiss company ReVolt, from Staefa, plans to release the new batteries next year, initially as small batteries for use in hearing aids, and later for cell phones. Eventually much larger batteries are planned for electric vehicles. The new battery was developed in Trondheim in Norway by the SINTEF Group, the largest independent research institution in Scandinavia, and ReVolt was formed to market the device. Zinc-air batteries need oxygen from the air to generate the current. They are safer than lithium-ion batteries because they do not contain volatile materials, and therefore do not catch fire. Non-rechargeable zinc-air batteries have been... |
Old-School Beetle Runs on Batteries and Biodiesel
Thursday 11th of March 2010 08:27:23 PM
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| Link only due to copyright............. http://www.wired.com/autopia/2009/10/biodiesel-hybrid-bu/ |
Breakthrough : New Israeli battery provides thousands of hours of power
Thursday 11th of March 2010 08:27:23 PM
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A new kind of portable electrochemical battery that can produce thousands of hours of power - and soon replace the expensive regular or rechargeable batteries in hearing aids and sensors and eventually in cellphones, laptop computers and even electric cars - has been developed at Haifa's Technion-Israel Institute of Technology. The unique battery is based on silicon as a fuel that reverts to its original sand. The battery can also be left on the shelf for years and inserted into a device to provide immediate power. It was developed over the last two-and-a-half years by Prof. Yair Ein-Eli of the...
Two words: Nuclear Batteries
Thursday 11th of March 2010 08:27:23 PM
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| (snip> Now comes word that nuclear batteries may actually become an honest-to-God reality, no foolin'. Researchers at the University of Missouri say they've achieved the unthinkable, and that a pint-sized power cell based on radioactive decay can last a ridiculously long time: a million times as long as a conventional battery, enough to keep putting out a charge for hundreds of years. Nuclear batteries already exist, but historically they have been quite large (and used only on things like spacecraft). The new design involves the use of a liquid semiconductor, which is less susceptible to damage from nuclear radiation than... |
Super-thin batteries made from paper and algae
Thursday 11th of March 2010 08:27:23 PM
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| Algae, paper and salt-water are the key components of thin and flexible new batteries, report Swedish researchers. Cellulose obtained from the bright green Cladophora algae proved to be key to the project, as it boasts a unique nanostructure with a high surface area. Although the batteries have lower voltage and power density than conventional batteries, their low cost and flexibility hold great promise for applications where metal-based batteries are impractical. The research is the product of a collaboration between two teams at Uppsala University in Sweden: Maria Strømme's group, who identified the potential of the algal cellulose, and Leif Nyholm's group, who... |
LG Battery Possible FIRE HAZARD
Thursday 11th of March 2010 08:27:23 PM
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| ALERT ALERTThe LG battery that was in my wife's Verizon cellphone shorted out and became EXTREMELY HOT TO THE TOUCH and causing other items in the purse to get HOT. The battery is an LG Lithium Ion 3.7v 1000mAh, part number of LGIP-520B We contacted Verizon and I put a report into the Consumer Product Safety Commision website. I couldn't find anything online about this problem with this battery. |
New battery could change world, one house at a time
Thursday 11th of March 2010 08:27:23 PM
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| In a modest building on the west side of Salt Lake City, a team of specialists in advanced materials and electrochemistry has produced what could be the single most important breakthrough for clean, alternative energy since Socrates first noted solar heating 2,400 years ago. The battery breakthrough comes from a Salt Lake company called Ceramatec, the R&D arm of CoorsTek, a world leader in advanced materials and electrochemical devices. Inside Ceramatec's wonder battery is a chunk of solid sodium metal mated to a sulphur compound by an extraordinary, paper-thin ceramic membrane. The membrane conducts ions -- electrically charged particles --... |
Will Electric Cars Crash The Grid?
Thursday 11th of March 2010 08:27:23 PM
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| Conservation: The Chevy Volt is said to be able to get 230 miles per gallon. That's if it's continually plugged into a fragile and overburdened power grid. Where will you be when the lights go out? Since most U.S. electricity generation is not carbon-free, the Congressional Research Service agrees. The "widespread adoption of plug-in hybrid vehicles through 2030 may have only a small effect on, and might actually increase, carbon emissions," it observes. "If you are using coal-fired power plants and half the country's electricity comes from coal powered plants, are you just trading one greenhouse gas emitter for another?"... |
Leaked Conversation Suggests EEStor's Battery-Killing Ultracapacitor Is Nearly Complete
Thursday 11th of March 2010 08:27:23 PM
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| We've been closely following EEStor's potentially game-changing ultracapacitor--a technology that could allow for electric cars that charge almost instantaneously and drive hundreds of miles on a single charge. And if a purportedly "leaked" phone conversation from EEStor CEO Richard Weir currently making the rounds is legit, the long-in-development ultracapacitor has hit a breakthrough, and could be unveiled within months. ... EEStor's ultracapacitor works more or less exactly like the capacitors found in electronics today, briefly holding and releasing small charges, only on a much larger scale; it would be able rapidly take on enough juice to power a car for... |
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