Rechargeable batteries

Wind turbine and solar panels

Someday, you may store your solar or wind power in a ‘rhubarb battery’ from Harvard

Environment

Researchers at Harvard University say their organic flow-battery would be affordable and efficient.

Wind turbine and solar panels

Someday, you may store your solar or wind power in a ‘rhubarb battery’ from Harvard

Environment

Electric cars could produce efficiencies for national electric grid

Environment

Boeing Dreamliner problem deeper than safety concerns

Environment

Lead poisoning in developing countries

Health & Medicine
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Cool Fix / Air Batteries

Scientists are developing a new lightweight car battery made partly of air.

The World

Science Note/Salt-Sized Batteries

Researchers at the University of California, Los Angeles, are developing nano-batteries, the largest of which will be no bigger than a grain of salt.

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Molten Metals to Green the Grid

MIT professor Don Sadoway thinks massive batteries made from liquid metals might let us use more renewable energy. If his revolutionary batteries could store the energy produced by wind and solar power, we could then use that electricity at times when the

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Lead in the Developing World

Environment

The U.S. recycles almost all car batteries, but that’s not true in many developing countries. Sifting through waste to retrieve lead is a major source of income, and lead exposure, for many people in poorer countries. Living on Earth reports.