Wireless Recharging Could Give Electric Cars Limitless Range
We knew of tests in Korea but now this German company claims 90% efficiency and readyness in 3 years!
Steven Chu on hydrogen: even Catholic saints only need three miracles
Chu — an advocate of alternative energy — has said hydrogen car technology needs four “miracles” to become widely adopted, and even Catholics saints “only need three,” the Post reported.
By the way, Joseph Romm (quoted in the article) claims that hydrogen needs five miracles (in the movie “Who killed the electric car?”).
Commercial Carbon Nano Tube batteries could turn battery-business upside-down.
IF this company is really capable of producing carbon nanotube batteries (2,5 times the energy content of Lithium) for a reasonalbe price than this could really put the battery market for electric vehicles on it’s head!
“EcoloCap Solutions, Inc. with its subsidiary Micro Bubble Technologies Inc will be establishing two initial production lines for the CNT-Battery, one to be dedicated to Next-Alternative for transportation applications, the other to Halo for industrial and commercial applications. Each line will have the ability to produce 25,000 batteries per month initially. CNT-Battery yields up to 8 times the reserve capacity of similar lead-acid batteries, recharges in less than ten minutes, and comes with a 5 year limited replacement guarantee if the battery is charged with the MBT designed charger system.”
The first actual demo I’ve seen.
So far, solar energy from space was strictly science fiction: you could dream about it, write about it and maybe even do a small study but it was not something that received any amount of serious money.
Sixteen Japanese companies have set aside 15 billion euro’s in the coming 4 years to develop technology to do just that.The cost have to come down hundred-fold before that becomes competitive so it’s not something that will happen overnight. The aim is to have a 1 GigaWatt (typical size) powerplant in space in 2030.
Interesting times ahead!