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Lithium-ion batteries opened the door to high-energy storage for renewables. However, their critical constituent materials are in limited supply, and…
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Lead-acid batteries weigh a fair amount. Ask anyone who has lifted one out from under an automobile hood, or hefted…
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Powerwalls Made from Old Laptop Batteries
Elon Musk’s Powerwall home-energy storage system introduced us to a new direction. It enabled us to store sufficient electricity to…
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What We Now Know of Nuclear Fusion
There is a substantial electrostatic energy barrier between two naked nuclei a distance apart. At large distances, their positively charged…
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Dream of Seeing Fusion in Our Lifetime
The earliest clues that fusion might be possible date from 1920, when a British scientist deduced combining hydrogen atoms to…