Batteries of the future set to be cheaper and better : r/Futurology
Scientists develop thermal camouflage that can fool infrared cameras - Invention can make an object appear to have the same temperature as its background : r/Futurology
It's Official: Solar Is the Cheapest Electricity in History : r/Futurology
Developer Of Aluminum-Ion Battery Claims It Charges 60 Times Faster Than Lithium-Ion, Offering EV Range Breakthrough : r/Futurology
Tesla battery researcher unveils new cell that could last 1 million miles in 'robot taxis' - “cells of this type should be able to power an electric vehicle for over 1.6 million
PV-driven air conditioner coupled with ice thermal storage : r/Futurology
Energy firm says its nuclear-waste fueled diamond batteries could last thousands of years : r/Futurology
Electricity-free air con: Thermoacoustic device turns waste heat into cold using no additional power - claimed to take heat and turn it into sound, before then turning that sound into cold, all
A developer of Russian military spacecraft shows the first pictures of a massive nuclear-powered space transport undergoing assembly at the company's facility in St. Petersburg : r/Futurology
The tough calculus of emissions and the future of EVs - From materials and batteries to manufacturing, calculating the real carbon cost of EVs is just getting started : r/Futurology
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Physicists initially appear to challenge second law of thermodynamics, by cooling a piece of copper from over 100°C to significantly below room temperature without an external power supply, using a thermal inductor.
World's first working thermal battery" promises cheap, eco-friendly, grid-scalable energy storage - a device with a lifetime of at least 20 years that can store six times more energy than lithium-ion batteries
Tesla's sustainability focus is evident down to the Model Y's thermal system : r/Futurology
Peter Theil Funds Atmospheric Vortex Engine for controlled tornado power : r/Futurology
World's first working thermal battery" promises cheap, eco-friendly, grid-scalable energy storage - a device with a lifetime of at least 20 years that can store six times more energy than lithium-ion batteries
$100 Billion => 1TW Solar PV annual capacity. $100 Billion => 2.6TWh LFP Batteries annual capacity. Roughly. : r/Futurology
A new inorganic material with the lowest thermal conductivity ever reported – it conducts heat almost as badly as air – could be a boon to technologies that convert waste heat into
If we 'oversize' wind+solar by ~1.5 times peak demand, and add 3 hours worth of batteries, all but 200 hours of electricity demand per year would be fully met in 42 major
Long life aluminium-air battery resolves rechargeable challenges : r/ Futurology
Using molten salt to store electricity isn't just for solar thermal plants - its thermal pumped storage system can be located anywhere, expanded easily, and unlike chemical batteries, such a system is
Korean artificial sun sets the new world record of 20-sec-long operation at 100 million degrees : r/Futurology
GM Unveils Battery with Capacity Twice as Big as Tesla's : r/Futurology
Nuclear waste could be recycled for diamond battery power : r/Futurology
Did QuantumScape Just Solve a 40-Year-Old Battery Problem? Earlier this year, the startup claimed to have a revolutionary solid-state lithium-ion cell that could change EVs forever. Now it has data to prove
Scientists Just Figured Out How to Turn Your Body Into a Battery : r/ Futurology
New "heat diode" - material conducts heat one way while insulating in the opposite direction - the thermal conductivity of just a few microscopic layers insulates as well as air : r/Futurology
