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For real: A new way to produce electricity

News: Energy Storage    March 8, 2010
It’s not every day that a new way to produce electricity is discovered…although it does seem there is a multitude of approaches. This one involves carbon nanotubes, those jacks-of-all-trades in the nanotech business, nanometer sized tubes of pure carbon. (In this case, think of them as ‘wires’ one-hundred thousandth of the thickness of human hair.) [...]
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A Piezo Patch: Body movement input, electricity output

News: Body Implants    January 28, 2010
Movement implies energy. When you move, it requires energy in the muscles to make the motion, but the motion itself contains energy (mechanical) and that can be transferred to something else. That something else could be a silicon rubber patch with an embedded piezoelectric material, recently developed by research at Princeton University (New Jersey, USA) [...]
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Go with the flow battery

News: Energy Storage    December 26, 2009
Did you know that one kind of battery can be refilled with a charge in much the same way as a gas tank? It’s not a new idea. One of the most efficient incarnations of what is called a redox flow battery was developed in the 1980s at the University of New South Wales, Australia. [...]
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