Category: Green Electronics
Halocell – Australian Photovoltaics Just Got Better
Halocell and Photovoltaics Photovoltaics is quite a mouthful. But you already know them as Solar Panels and Solar Cells. But I deliberately went away from using those terms because of what it immediately conjures to mind. In practice, Photovoltaic = anything that takes Light (photons) and turns that into a Voltage. I was very pleased…
Glass Battery Improves Over Time
Glass Battery Construction A big issue with batteries is that they deteriorate. So loss of battery capacity over time is generally accepted. When there are claims that a battery can improve its capacity over time, there is a great deal of skepticism. The claims come from a laboratory that belongs to one of the most…
Hydrogen Fuel from Ammonia
Hydrogen Fuel Hydrogen Fuel has a lot of great positives. It has been used to he moon and to power spacecraft. But it does have an annoying problem. Hydrogen is the smallest atom and the H2 molecule is the smallest molecule. So it is hard to keep hold of. It leaks. A recent breakthrough…
Renewable Energy Cleans Up Coal
Renewable Energy On The Rise Renewable Energy is having a big impact all over the world. I was particularly pleased to hear that a new deal on energy prices in the USA offered solar electricity generation at $0.0199 per kWh and electric energy from storage batteries at $0.013. You can read the details for yourself…
Sodium Ion Batteries
Battery Technology Batteries have come a long way. There are still a lot of things we can do with existing technologies and this was covered in Making Batteries Better. Lithium Ion Battery The leading Rechargeable Battery Technology at present is the Lithium Ion Battery because of the high energy density and reduced weight compared…