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Jason Croy, Materials Scientist, discusses battery research with Meinan He, Postdoctoral Appointee, in one of the energy storage discovery labs at Argonne National Laboratory.
Image credit: Wes Agresta
Engineers at the University of California San Diego have developed new electrolytes that enable lithium batteries to run at temperatures as low as -60 degrees Celsius with excellent performance -- in comparison, today's lithium-ion batteries stop working at -20 degrees Celsius. The new electrolytes also enable electrochemical capacitors to run as cold as -80 degrees Celsius -- their current limit is -40 degrees Celsius.
Press release: jacobsschool.ucsd.edu/news/news_releases/release.sfe?id=2235
Photo credit: David Baillot/UC San Diego Jacobs School of Engineering
From left to right: Argonne scientists Khalil Amine, Michael Thackeray and Chris Johnson co-developed battery materials currently in the Chevy Volt.
Photo by George Joch / courtesy Argonne National Laboratory.
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Materials research at Pacific Northwest National Laboratory is key to developing a secure energy future for the United States and the world.
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Bijels by NP-surfactants
Jill Hemman, graphic artist
Bijels (or bicontinuous jammed emulsions) are two liquids, incapable of mixing, that are bound together at an interface. Scientists using ORNL’s Spallation Neutron Source and Center for Nanophase Materials Sciences studied bijels of nanoparticle-surfactants—polymers and nanoparticles of complementary functionality that bind to one another. Bijels have potential applications for energy storage, catalysis, and more.
Visualization by Jill Hemman in support of research by Caili Huang, Weiyu Wang, and Kunlun Hong.
Argonne scientists Khalil Amine (at right) and Michael Thackeray, along with others at Argonne, co-developed battery materials improve battery range and reliability, while simultaneously improving safety and reducing manufacturing cost.
Photo by George Joch / courtesy Argonne National Laboratory.
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Researcher John Basco prepares for battery testing at Argonne’s Electrochemical Analysis and Diagnostics Laboratory (EADL). With the lab’s state-of-the-art, custom-built equipment, simulations are performed to provide information on battery characteristics such as life cycle and calendar life.
Photo courtesy Argonne National Laboratory.
Energy is stored in thermally dense ceramic bricks inside the furnace that are heated anywhere from 650 degrees Celsius for a room heater, and as high as 870 degrees C for a furnace. The energy is stored for up the three days. Photo David Dodge, GreenEnergyFutures.ca
Meinan He, Postdoctoral Appointee, mixes battery ingredients with a mortar and pestle in one of the energy storage discovery labs at Argonne National Laboratory.
Image credit: Wes Agresta
Researchers at PNNL and BPA have identified a site they call Yakima Minerals that is about 10 miles north of Selah, Wash., and could house an 83-megawatt geothermal compressed air energy storage facility.
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December 14, 2017- Dave Corbus , speaks about Grid integration and needs for storage at the "Workshop on the Present and Future of Energy Storage" held at NREL. (Photo by Dennis Schroeder / NREL)
The Department of Energy's Pacific Northwest National Laboratory and the Bonneville Power Administration have identified two locations in eastern Washington state that could store enough Northwest wind energy to power about 85,000 homes each month.
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Florence School of Regulation
Florence, 23 September 2011
Workshop: Electricity Storage
organized by Pippo Ranci \ FSR
Bryant Polzin fills a lithium-ion prototype cell with electrolyte at Argonne’s Cell Fabrication facility, which is housed in a 500-quare-foot dry room. With moisture content less than 100 parts per million, the atmosphere in the dry room plays a critical role in the assembly and performance of a finished cell.
Researchers John Basco (left) and Ira Bloom discuss battery test results in Argonne’s Electrochemical Analysis and Diagnostics Laboratory (EADL). With the lab’s state-of-the-art, custom-built equipment, simulations are performed to provide information on battery characteristics such as life cycle and calendar life.
Photo courtesy Argonne National Laboratory.
Florence, 23 September 2011
Badia Fiesolana - Teatro
European University Institute
Via dei Roccettini 8
50014 Fiesole
Italy
Storage of electricity is arousing fresh interest as a complement to intermittent generation and an alternative to costly grid expansion plans. Given the rapid increase in RES (mainly wind) generation and the obstacles to construction of new lines and even to an upgrading of the existing ones, TSOs and energy companies are looking for alternatives. Alternative solutions are:
1. Reinforcement of the networks
2. Greater flexibility of existing generators, e.g. CCGTs
3. Electricity storage via hydro systems (pumping stations)
4. Other techniques of electricity storage: compressed air and car-type batteries
5. Demand response (possibly accompanied by diffusion of electric vehicles)
Which alternative looks most promising?
Should the solution be left to market forces or are there regulatory choices to be made?
Argonne chemist Christopher Johnson studies materials for batteries.
Photo by George Joch / courtesy Argonne National Laboratory.
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From left to right: Mark Keenum, President, Mississippi State University, and Peter Littlewood, director of Argonne National Laboratory, sign a memorandum of understanding for a collaboration to develop new technologies that address next-generation energy storage challenges. Read more »
August 13, 2015
Argonne scientists Ira Bloom (front) and Javier Bareño prepare a sample of battery materials for Raman spectroscopy, which is used to gather information regarding the nature of the materials present in the sample.
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Photo David Dodge, Green Energy Futures
www.greenenergyfutures.ca See Episode 50 Morgan Solar - twice as efficient, half the cost www.greenenergyfutures.ca/episode/50-morgan-solar
Inspired by the webcomic xkcd, the U.S. Department of Energy held a contest for its 46 Energy Frontier Research Centers scientists to explain their work in only the 1000 most commonly used words in the English language.
Scientists from Argonne's Center for Electrical Energy Storage won an award for Best Science Lesson with their entry, "Not Your Normal Power Box."
Authors/Artists: Oya Okman, Marta Baginska, Elizabeth MC Jones, Stephen J Pety, Tae Wook Lim, Joshua A Kaitz, Hefei Dong, Daniel R Vissers, Nancy R Sottos, Scott R White, Jeffrey S Moore, Michael M Thackery, Paul A Fenter, Lynn Trahey, Sana Sandler, Mark C Hersam, Aaron J Kapper
Find out more about the Center for Electrical Energy Storage by visiting their website at www.anl.gov/energy-storage-science
Argonne scientist Ira Bloom prepares to open a lithium-ion cell in the Post-Test Facility. Prior to opening the cell, a thermocouple is attached to provide information on its temperature.
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Rajaram Narayanan, a nanoengineering graduate student at UC San Diego Jacobs School of Engineering and lead author of the Nano Letters paper
Photo David Dodge, Green Energy Futures
Top Five Stories of 2013: Tom Rand and the MaRS Cleantech Fund www.greenenergyfutures.ca/episode/51-tom-rand-and-mars-cl...
04.12.2018 Electromobility Day - Infrastructure, transport, energy storage
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Looking at the dark coloured buildings, streets and paving in Melbourne and for that matter any city in the World, it is not difficult to see why we are plagued by global warming.
Unfortunately, the message of what is the real cause of global warming is not getting through to the politicians, the planners and the developers... They fail to realize that sunlight is converted to HEAT by dark building materials, sand, soil and rocks etc... This is a perfect example of why our cities are at least 10 degrees hotter than a nearby forest... And the land is heating up, because there are ever decreasing numbers of trees left to shade the ground and store the solar energy that now simply heats the ground... Plus, we are also generating heat by virtue of all the fuel that we burn and the energy that we use.
We need to also be clear, that nature did not cut-down the trees that stored the energy from the sun and shaded the ground and stoped the sun from heating the ground... And that nature did not build the towns and cities and the houses, buildings and structures that are now simply being heated by the sun... And that nature did not clear the threes that stored the solar energy, from the land to make way for the towns, cities, mines, roads, structures, farms, pastures and recreational facilities that no longer store the solar energy... And that nature did not mine and extract the fuels that we burn, from the ground... NO, WE did all that !!!
The most compelling evidence of all... that we are responsible for the current episode of global warming... Is that all increases of global temperatures of one degree Celsius, in the past, have taken forty thousand years and longer to produce... And that this time, since the appearance of mankind on Earth... for the first time, it has taken less than one hundred years to produce a one degree Celsius increase in global temperature !!!
If councils and governments at all levels were really serious about stopping global warming, they would legislate that all buildings, structures, paths and roads etc. must be WHITE or at least shaded by WHITE reflective material, in order to reflect sunlight back into space, before it is converted into HEAT here on Earth. Or we must cover ALL structures with solar cells, in order to at least make use of the solar energy that is falling on our structures... to generate all our electricity and hydrogen to replace ALL the fossil fuels that we are now using !!!
We can ONLY stop global warming and climate change by stopping the excess heat being generated in the first place... We can't stop global warming by cutting or stopping our carbon emissions without FIRST stopping the excess heat being generated by the sun due to all the physical changes that we have made to our planet... changes that are generating the excess heat that is now placing life on Earth in grave peril !!!
We have already cut-down 80% of the trees that once stood on this planet... the trees that stored solar energy and kept the Earth cool... If we really want to STOP global warming... then we need to stop all land clearing and deforestation that is not absolutely necessary and immediately replant all the trees that are harvested... We need to replace timber building materials with metal, carbon fibre, fibreglass and other materials... We need to stop using timber to make cardboard and paper and use other fibrous plants such as hemp and what is left off rice, wheat and sugar-cane plants etc. after the commodities have been removed...
It is also absolutely essential that we NOW replace ALL the trees that we have lost... As the land that is required, is now occupied and used for other purposes... we need to use the only land that is left -- our deserts -- and provide the necessary water by all means possible !!!
The Carnegie Corporation Ltd. - www.carnegiecorp.com.au - has developed technology that converts wave energy into base‐load zero‐emission electricity, as well as producing desalinated water... This needs to be investigated by governments and considered as an option for providing fresh water and the power to pump this water to where it is needed... We need to also build the infrastructure to capture all storm-water and pump it to storage lakes where it is needed... We also need to build floating islands and pontoons and anchor them out in the ocean... The surfaces of these structures must be kept wet at all times, in order to speed-up and increase evaporation... This will help shade the ocean and reduce the heating of the ocean... It will also increase cloud cover and rainfall needed to re-establish the vegetation canopy of the Earth... And the additional cloud cover will also reduce the Earth's temperature by reflecting more sunlight off the clouds !!!
We can't stop global warming by reducing carbon emissions, because the atmospheric carbon is NOT producing the heat... It only blocks the heat generated on Earth, from dissipating out into space... Because, the carbon also blocks heat from the sun from reaching the Earth, atmospheric carbon is only a minor contributing factor and not the cause of global warming... The real cause of global warming -- is the excess heat being generated on Earth, as a result of all the physical changes that we have made to this planet...
We can only STOP global warming by compensating for the changes that we have made and by realizing that the total heat energy coming in from the Sun and reaching the Earth + the heat generated from solar and other energy on Earth must = the potential heat contained in the energy being stored on Earth + the potential heat in the energy reflected back out into space + the heat energy dissipating back out into space... – In other words. –
The total heat coming in + the heat generated on Earth – MUST EQUAL – The total heat going out + the potential heat that is in the energy being stored here on Earth !!!
We can only STOP global warming by adopting the right strategy to re-balance the energy equation !!!
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After APS finishes testing the energy storage system at the substation in Flagstaff, the system will be moved to the Doney Park Renewable Energy site to test energy storage and renewable energy.
Photo David Dodge, Green Energy Futures
Top Five Stories of 2013: Morgan Solar www.greenenergyfutures.ca/episode/50-morgan-solar
Summerside has 13.5 megawatts of diesel generation including this 33 year-old 4.2 megawatt generator that provide back-up capacity on demand. Ten years ago these generators were running 24/7, which is very expensive. Today they provide about 1% of Summerside's electricity on an annual basis. Photo David Dodge, GreenEnergyFutures.ca
The new 500 sqm solar collector at the Australian National University - the biggest heliostat in the world. It is currently used as a test bed for ammonia based energy storage of solar thermal heat, enabling it to harvest solar energy when there is sun, and releasing it on demand.
(and in case you're wondering why the sun is in the wrong spot - the dish was tilted down and away for some maintenance as far as I could tell)
More information here:
solar-thermal.anu.edu.au/high-temperature/500-m2-dish/
(I am not affiliated with this project in any way, just an enthusiastic observer... :) )
Florence School of Regulation
Florence, 23 September 2011
Workshop: Electricity Storage
organized by Pippo Ranci \ FSR
ADI Solar's revolutionary high-temperature chemical storage solution provides dispatchable energy using the chemical energy stored in calcium hydride. Calcium and hydrogen provide a thermally reversible high temperature storage solution using the heat of formation in calcium hydride.
Energy Department Image | Photo by Quentin Kruger (Contractor)
What's not to like? Summerside PEI offers a 5 cent per kilowatt hour discount to residents who get involved with their Heat for Less Now program. The furnaces and hot water heaters store energy and help the utility use more cheap wind energy. In return Summerside gives the discount. The creative program has netted 99% customer satisfaction. Photo David Dodge, GreenEnergyFutures.ca
Florence School of Regulation
Florence, 23 September 2011
Workshop: Electricity Storage
organized by Pippo Ranci \ FSR