Knowledge and Technology

With the world’s largest station for iron-chromium flow battery tested on Tuesday in north China, the country has paved a new path for renewable energy storage. An iron-chromium flow battery is a new energy storage application technology utilizing the chemical properties of iron and chromium ions in the electrolyte. It …

University of Surrey researchers have found that a type of metal-free catalysts could contribute to the development of cost-effective and sustainable hydrogen production technologies. The results entitled ‘First-Principles Microkinetic Modeling Unraveling the Performance of Edge-Decorated Nanocarbons for Hydrogen Production from Methane’ have been published at ACS Applied Materials & Interfaces. …

Russia will reportedly replace German-made hydropower-plant turbines with Iranian-made ones as Western sanctions have halted operations of Siemens in Russia since February 2022. As RT reported, MGT-70 gas turbine units are copies of Siemens hardware, developed by the Islamic Republic. The country attained a license for their assembly and localized …

The Ames Laboratory at Iowa State University has announced a new hybrid catalyst that converts carbon dioxide into ethylene in one pot. The catalyst was developed by scientists from Ames National Laboratory, Iowa State University, University of Virginia, and Columbia University. This catalyst supports the world net-zero carbon initiative by …

The United States plans to test a spacecraft engine powered by nuclear fission by 2027 as part of a long-term NASA effort to demonstrate more efficient methods of propelling astronauts to Mars in the future, the space agency’s chief said on Tuesday. NASA will partner with the US military’s research …

United Arab Emirates renewable energy company Masdar, state oil firm Abu Dhabi National Oil Company (ADNOC) and oil major BP, reports Reuters. BPL agreed to conduct a joint feasibility study on exploring the production of sustainable aviation fuel (SAF) in the UAE, Masdar said in a statement on Friday. The …

The U.S. Department of Energy on Tuesday will announce that scientists at a national lab have made a breakthrough on fusion, the process that powers the sun and stars that one day could provide a cheap source of electricity, three sources with knowledge of the matter said. The scientists at …

A University of Tokyo team of researchers has discovered a new mechanism to stabilize the lithium metal electrode and electrolyte in lithium metal batteries. This new mechanism, which does not depend on the traditional kinetic approach, has potential to greatly enhance the energy density of batteries increasing the amount of …

A key component of what will be the world’s largest nuclear fusion experiment has been manufactured in China, marking a breakthrough in an international project that’s edging ever closer to completion. The fusion reactor in question, known as ITER (Latin for “the way”), is under construction in France and will …

American and European start-ups are racing to develop new batteries using two abundant, cheap materials — sodium and sulphur — that could reduce China’s battery dominance, ease looming supply bottlenecks and lead to mass-market electric vehicles. Today’s EVs run on lithium-ion batteries — made with lithium, cobalt, manganese and high-grade …