or do not properly respond to the hormone in order to move the body main energy sourcelucosento cells.
Weighing about 15 pounds, Mr. He ulti-functional suitcaseis powered by a lithium battery and can reportedly go as fast as 12 miles per hour.
Users can then keep track of their daily energy levels, ideally taking a break when their MEME notes their tiredness,
and runs on a rechargeable lithium-ion battery and offers about 8 hours of continuous use.
There will be an optional attery headbandavailable for purchase that will extend battery life to about 16 hours It is anticipated to be compatible with Mac, Windows, ios,
and dropped and it loses its energy more rapidly. This new technology is mechanical giving engineers the capability of creating a wave that could last for miles.
In the human arm of the research, the scientists gave a whole battery of cognitive tests to over 700 people with and without the gene variant.
#Germany generates 74%of power needs from renewable energy Germany impressive streak of renewable energy milestones continues, with renewable energy generation surging to a record portion nearly 75 percent of the country overall electricity demand
electricity prices actually dipped into the negative for much of the afternoon, according to Renewables International. In the first quarter of 2014, renewable energy sources met a record 27 percent of the country electricity demand,
thanks to additional installations and favorable weather. enewable generators produced 40.2 billion kilowatt-hours of electricity,
up from 35.7 billion kilowatt-hours in the same period last year, Bloomberg reported. Much of the country renewable energy growth has occurred in the past decade and,
as a point of comparison, Germany 27 percent is double the approximately 13 percent of U s. electricity supply powered by renewables as of November 2013.
Observers say the records will keep coming as Germany continues its Energiewende, or energy transformation, which aims to power the country almost entirely on renewable sources by 2050. nce again,
it was demonstrated that a modern electricity system such as the German one can already accept large penetration rates of variable but predictable renewable energy sources such as wind and solar PV power,
said Bernard Chabot, a renewable energy consultant based in France, via email. n fact there are no technical and economic obstacles to go first to 20 percent of annual electricity demand penetration rate from a combination of those two technologies,
then 50 percent and beyond by combining them with other renewables and energy efficiency measures and some progressive storage solutions at a modest level.
To reach the lofty goal of 80 percent renewables by 2050, Germany had to move quickly.
Despite being known for gray skies, the country has installed an astonishing amount of solar photovoltaic (PV) power setting multiple solar power generation records along the way.
At the end of 2012 Germany had installed considerably more solar power capacity per capita than any other country. The rapid growth has slowed,
however, with 3. 3 GW of PV installed in 2013, compared to 7. 6 in 2012.
Regardless, a recent analysis by the consulting firm Eclareon found that solar power has reached grid parity in Germany,
the price of commercial solar power is now equal to retail electricity rates. And wind power reached record output levels last year producing a massive 25.2 GW
and accounting for 39 percent of the electricity supply on a single day in December The unprecedented growth of solar PV in particular has been fueled in large part by policies that incentivize clean energy.
Germany simple feed in tariff (FIT) policy, which pays renewable energy producers a set amount for the electricity they produce under long-term contracts,
has driven the solar power boom. But as installations continued to outpace government targets, Germany announced last year that it would begin scaling back its feed in tariff.
The FIT is financed by a surcharge paid by utility customers, but a major part of the problem stems from the fact that industry is largely exempt from the renewables surcharge meaning the burden falls on households.
the government instead proposed A v self-consumption chargeon new photovoltaic systems, something Germany Solar Industry Association recently announced it plans to challenge in court.
Along with cutting out fossil fuel-generated energy to a large extent, the transition to renewables includes completely phasing out nuclear power.
These goals are only achievable in combination with greatly reduced energy demand. Instead, coal imports are increasing
in order to meet the country baseload power demands. And retail electricity rates are high and rising, putting pressure on lower income individuals in particular.
But many of the criticisms are largely overblown according to Amory Lovins of the Rocky mountain Institute.
The modest uptick in coal fired generation was substituting for pricier natural gas, not representative of a return to coal as it often mischaracterized.
as renewable energy production continued to grow and energy demand shrank, Germany largest utility chose not to renew two long-term contracts for coal fired power.
And while much is made of rising industrial electricity prices, Lovins points out that in fact, iant German firms enjoy Germany low and falling wholesale electricity prices,
getting the benefit of renewablesnear-zero operating cost but exempted from paying for them. And as for the impact on the consumer
he FIT surcharge raised householdsretail price of electricity seven percent but renewables lowered big industrieswholesale price 18 percent.
As long-term contracts expire, the past few yearssharply lower wholesale prices could finally reach retail customers
and start sending householdstotal electricity prices back down. What more, n Germany you have the option of earning back your payments,
and far more, by investing as little as $600 in renewable energy yourself, Lovins writes. itizens, cooperatives, and communities own more than half of German renewable capacity, vs. two percent in the U s. Challenges aside,
Energiewende rooted in the acknowledgement that a fossil fuel-based energy system is not sustainable is remarkable for its scope and its widespread support,
a Berlin-based energy expert and journalist, told Voice of america earlier this year. he last time when an energy supply was changed was the industrial revolution;
this is something that has never been done before. r
#Japanese startup unveils a long-lasting and safer dual-carbon battery A young Japanese startup called Power Japan Plus,
or PJP, has a new type of battery under development that lasts longer, is safer,
charges faster and is less expensive than a standard lithium ion battery. The year-old company uses carbon for both the anode
and the cathode portion of the battery and hopes to start producing it later this year.
A battery is made up of an anode on one side and a cathode on the other, with an electrolyte in between.
In a lithium ion battery lithium ions travel from the anode to the cathode through the electrolyte, creating a chemical reaction that allows electrons to be harvested along the way.
While lithium ion batteries are the dominant batteries these days for laptops, cell phones and early electric cars,
they have some shortfalls. For example, the batteries degrade pretty quickly over time (which explains why your laptop battery dies every couple of years),
and they can catch on fire under extreme impact. Theye also relatively expensive if you need a bunch of them to power an electric car,
which is why Tesla cars are only really attainable by the wealthy right now. An all-carbon battery A battery that uses carbon for both the anode and the cathode could be safer than a lithium ion battery
because it removes the highly flammable lithium oxide. While battery fires have been rare for electric car companies, Tesla,
GM and others have seen all a handful of cars with punctured batteries catch on fire, and have faced PR hiccups as a result.
Thermal runaway intense, long-lasting fires caused by lithium oxide catching on fire has long been the Achillesheel of lithium ion batteries.
A carbon battery also doesn degrade as quickly as a lithium ion battery over time. While a standard lithium ion battery with a two-year lifetime could have around 500 cycles of charging and discharging
Power Japan Plusdual-carbon battery could last for 3, 000 cycles, the company executives told me in a phone call.
They also say that because of the carbon chemistry, their battery can charge 20 times faster than a standard lithium ion battery.
Because the battery only uses carbon for its main active material, it could cost less than standard lithium ion batteries,
though executives declined to name its price. Lithium ion batteries have continued to drop in price and Tesla says it reducing the cost by 30 percent with its planned battery factory.
Finally, an all-carbon battery could be recycled more easily at the end of life than a lithium ion battery because it doesn contain rare earth materials and metals.
Activated carbon can come from a variety of low cost, easily-available sources. The idea for a dual carbon battery has been under development by Japanese researchers since the 1970s.
Around six or seven years ago, scientists at Kyushu University started working on nanotechnology and material breakthroughs in the laboratory of applied chemistry professor Tatsumi Ishihara that could raise the capacity (how much electric charge can be delivered at a certain voltage) of those early dual carbon batteries.
Now Power Japan Plus co-founded by Japanese tech entrepreneurs Dou Kani (the CEO and president) and Hiroaki Nishina (the COO) is looking to commercialize the research done at Kyushu.
While neither Kani or Nishina has a long background with battery chemistry (they hail from the telecom
and software sectors theye brought on Japanese battery cathode expert Kaname Takeya, who developed the cathode tech used today in the Toyota prius
and the Tesla Model S. Takeya splits his time between San francisco and Japan and is the company CTO and CEO of its U s. operations.
He just finished a project for Argonne National Labs, and previously also worked on some battery startups including Quallion and Enerdel.
Other companies are looking at ways to engineer carbon to make batteries better. Energ2 is one of those startups,
and the company has developed carbon materials for a variety of battery applications. Because Power Japan Plusinnovation is in the development of the carbon material
the company is also looking into a side business of selling its carbon to third parties.
Early stage While the tech has been under development for several years, the founders incorporated just a year ago,
and now employ only eight people. To date theye been bootstrapping the company, but are hoping to raise funding to help them begin moving into early production later this year.
could prove to be difficult for an early stage battery manufacturer, given all of the battery startups that have struggled over the years.
It a difficult market because scaling up battery production can take a long time and potentially, a lot of money.
But big corporations that are interested in ultimately owning or licensing advanced battery tech might still be interested in providing early funding.
Power Japan Plus says it is less capital-intensive than other battery companies because its battery can be manufactured on existing battery production lines.
Because the batteries don use rare materials and have only one active material, execs say the supply chain is extremely simple,
which also reduces costs. Additionally, executives told me that while they want to do some early pilot line production themselves,
they know they need a large manufacturing partner if they want to scale up production to offer batteries to electric cars.
Power Japan Plus intends to first launch batteries for the medical device and satellite industries, which are focused hyper on safety.
Later down the road, they could try to tackle electric cars. An electric car with a battery pack of dual-carbon batteries could charge much faster and last much longer on the road, giving it a higher resale value.
Currently the team is supplying batteries for a Go-cart in a transportation proof-of-concept partnership.
In the immediate future, electric cars at least from dominant players Tesla and Nissan are betting on lithium ion chemistry for batteries.
But farther down the line, other types of chemistries will need to be investigated to provide power for the next generation of electric cars h
When Tesla suddenly ran into a very public problem with its batteries, it installed Semantria in minutes
#The next Great Space Race Space-Based Power stations Futurist Thomas Frey: Earth appetite for power continues to grow.
Since the 1960s, power consumption has quadrupled around the globe, with many countries opting to build large oil
an in depth review concluded the most viable long-term strategy was to focus on spaced-based power systems.
For this reason, the Japan aerospace exploration agency (JAXA) recently announced its 25-year plan to build the world first 1-gigawatt power plant in space.
The vision of harvesting solar power from space and beaming it to earth has been around ever since Dr. Peter Glaser first proposed it in 1968.
What most people don realize is that solar panels in space are 10 times more efficient than those on earth
Many other countries won be comfortable with Japan having the world only expertise in building space-based power stations.
The island itself will be glistening from the massive net studded with billions of tiny rectifying antennas designed to convert microwave energy into DC power Next to the antennas is a large substation that sends vast amounts of power through an underwater cable to Tokyo,
Space-based power stations have been the subject of research and a common theme among the sci-fi authors for decades.
This is about the same output as a typical nuclear power plant. Every year of technological advancement brings a drop in the cost of building it.
2-MW satellite experiment 2028 200-MW demonstration power station COMMERCIAL PHASE (2031040) 2031 1-GW full-scale power station 2037 Commercial space-based
solar power industry (one launch per year. Powering the Entire Solar system At first blush, most will imagine a space-based solar array powering our energy hungry businesses on earth,
but that only part of the equation. It can be used to power an entire solar-system of devices,
It has the potential not only to continuously deliver limitless amounts of solar energy to markets On earth,
Mastering Six Critical Disciplines The JAXA power station is estimated to weigh more than 10,000 metric tons and when fully deployed, stretch several miles across.
To construct and operate an electricity-generating satellite, JAXA will have to demonstrate mastery of six critical disciplines:
The reason for converting energy to microwaves is because it impervious to weather condition and water in the upper atmosphere.
The two mirrors will be untethered from the solar panels and the separate transmission unit, requiring a far more advanced navigating system to keep them properly aligned.
Creating the first space-based power system will be no exception. With U s. influence eroding across Europe and Asia,
a space-based power station has the potential to reinvigorate NASA and give a needed dose of excitement to the thousands of space companies that support it.
Scientists are predicting that the HCPVT could provide sustainable energy and fresh water to communities all around the world.
Current solar technologies on the market today are too expensive and slow to produce, require Rare earth minerals and lack the efficiency to make such massive installations practical.
which is attached to a tracking system that determines the best angle based on the position of the sun. Such system can be applied profitably in sunny regions where sustainable energy,
This in turn means the cost of the energy itself could be as low as 10 cents per kilowatt hour (KWH.
and Australia with the possibility of moving into further markets such as tourism where energy supply is scarce or low r
produce energy, provide food, and maintain and enhance human health and our environment. Scientifically viable in 2013;
Cree has announced just the release of a new type of tube light designed to tackle one of the biggest energy hogs in Corporate America:
Except, however, that the new Cree uses LED rather than inert gas which allows it to turn on instantly (regardless of how cold the weather is) without flickering as well as operate at a 30 percent energy savings over the traditional method.
However, these bulbs are rated DLC compliant (the business version of the Energy star program) which means that installing them could earn you a hefty rebate (anywhere from $5-15 per lamp) off your company monthly utility bill in addition to the inherent energy savings v
and other components needed for tiny lithium-ion batteries. Other projects include printed sensors fabricated on plastic patches that athletes could one day wear to detect concussions and measure violent impacts.
Comparatively, Google acquisitions and exclusive deals with third parties provide it with everything from the rich trove of geospatial data that powers Google maps to the energy use
while fossil fuel-or battery-powered unmanned aircraft are expensive to run and possess a shorter range.
Solar s influence Titan Aerospace caught Google s attention thanks to its innovative dragonfly-shaped drones that are powered by its wing-mounted solar panels
and onboard battery storage that allows the planes to fly at night. The drones are huge aircraft the smaller model,
whether the solar technology is advanced currently enough to deliver the kind of long-range reliability that Google will require.
At night you are not collecting energy from the sun and it takes a lot of power to broadcast internet signals.
Also since lithium-ion battery costs have dropped, electric car prices have dropped also, meaning that there are now several electric cars with price tags around $30, 000.
Philip Cullom. e are in very challenging times where we really do have to think in pretty innovative ways to look at how we create energy,
how we value energy and how we consume it. We need to challenge the results of the assumptions that are the result of the last six decades of constant access to cheap unlimited amounts of fuel.
#Israeli startup Storedot charges smartphone batteries to full in 30 seconds Storedot It possible that youl be able to plug the smartphone in
according to a report by the Wall street journal. An Israeli startup by the name of Storedot revealed the technology at Microsoft Think Next Conference using standard smartphone batteries,
Fast battery chargers already exist, but theye expensive, unwieldy things for special batteries. Storedot, however, claims that its technology will only cost around twice as much as traditional chargers.
Batteries traditionally charge quickly during the first 80 percent of the charge, but slow to a trickle for the last 20 percent
so as not to overload the battery. Storedot has apparently found a way around this limitation,
and that itl even work with existing technology. Unfortunately, production won even begin until sometime in 2016.
#Altaeros Energies floating wind turbine churns out electricity and Wi-fi This floating turbine, developed by Altaeros Energies could someday travel to every remote corner of the globe.
There, they could deliver electricity and Internet connectivity to people and villages living off-the-grid.
Video) Think of these floating turbines as the wind farms of the future and you won be that far off.
and deployed, these floating power plants can generate twice the output of a ground-based turbine.
The tethers that keep the turbine anchored in place also send that energy ground-ward. While in the air, the turbines can also serve as Wi-fi, cell service hubs,
you instantly get data coverage, electricity and local weather data, even if your previous system involved a sun dial and carrier pigeons.
Such initiatives must impact numerous areas, from the provision of transport, energy, and healthcare services, to the state of public safety and government services.
These are used to reduce energy and water consumption and pollution. Dubai, United arab emirates Although in the early stages yet, Dubai announced plans last year to turn itself into a smart city.
energy and public safety services can improve both the local economy and the quality of life for the city citizens.
#Wireless electricity is here In the house of the future, wire-free energy transfer could be as easy as wireless internet.
When Katie Hall saw a light-bulb glowing in the middle of a room with no wires attached she was shocked.
wee not actually putting electricity in the air. What wee doing is putting a magnetic field in the air. It works like this:
Hall assures that the magnetic fields used to transfer energy are erfectly safein fact, they are the same kind of fields used in Wi-fi routers.
In the house of the future, wire-free energy transfer could be as easy as wireless internet.
and TVS by attaching resonator coils to batteries and an electric car refueller is reportedly in the works.
which have so far been held back by limited battery lives. he idea of eliminating cables would allow us to redesign things in ways that we haven yet thought of,
AA-sized wirelessly rechargeable batteries. For Hall, the applications are endless: always say kids will say:
As Witricity have mentioned on their website the Highly Resonant Wireless power transfer technology they have developed is also distinct from Tesla creations and
#Tesla s plans for world s largest battery factory will be a game changer Tesla motors, the electric car maker, hasn blazed just its own trail
the battery. This week Tesla revealed more details about its plans to build a massive the largest of its kind in the world battery factory in the U s. that will produce enough lithium-ion batteries by 2020 to outfit 500,000 electric cars.
While Tesla only released a few details of the plan, the company said that by 2020 the battery cell output of the factory would be 35 gigawatt hours per year,
and battery pack output would be 50 gigawatt hours per year. Let put these production numbers in perspective.
As Tesla has said itself its cars are constrained by global battery production, and it would need to use all of the batteries produced for electric cars in 2013
(and then some) to make those 500,000 per year by 2020. According to Navigant Research analyst Sam Jaffe, Tesla already used half of all the batteries made for electric cars in the world in 2013 for its Model S car (22,477 cars sold.
In terms of global lithium ion and advanced battery production beyond just for electric cars Tesla so-called igafactoryis still massive;
it jaw-dropping actually. According to Navigant figures, battery factories in the world produced close to 27 gigawatt hours of advanced batteries (the vast majority of these,
over 90 percent, are lithium-ion batteries) in 2012. The bulk of those batteries 23 gigawatt hours were for consumer electronics,
like our laptops and cell phones. Given Tesla production goals outline above, the planned factory would more than double the current entire world lithium ion battery production.
Of course, global lithium ion battery production would also ramp up outside of Tesla as well as more gadgets and cell phones are sold
and more devices get connected. And now if you look beyond just batteries, Tesla factory could be the largest factory of any kind,
anywhere in the world in terms of inputs in and outputs out, said Jaffe, though he notes that such a thing is pretty hard to measure.
The country that made the most advanced batteries in 2012 was produced China, which about 13 gigawatt hours of batteries.
Chinese batteries traditionally have been the cheapest in the world, but theye also been of lower quality compared to those made in Japan, Korea and the U s. However, battery expert and founder and CEO of battery startup GELI,
Ryan Wartena, told me that he seen the quality of Chinese batteries go up substantially over the past year.
Chinese battery giants also have been trying to boost production as well, and Chinese lithium battery manufacturer Thunder Sky Group had been looking to build a battery factory in Russia working with Russian state run agency RUSNANO this would have been the largest lithium ion battery factory in the world (I not sure of the current
status of this factory). The second largest producer of batteries in the world in 2012 was Japan, with about 7 gigawatt hours.
South korea follows with about 2 gigawatt hours. The U s. had about 1. 2 gigawatt hours
and that following the attempts of Obama stimulus package to boost battery production in the U s. through companies like A123 Systems and LG Chem.
So as you can see, Tesla plans to generate 35 and 50 gigawatt hours per year in cells and packs, just in the U s,
. all of a sudden tilts the world lithium ion battery production in favor of the U s.,which has never been much of a battery manufacturing powerhouse.
No doubt, all of the states in the running including Arizona, Nevada, Texas and New mexico will be vying for those 6, 500 jobs.
Tesla factory will also be a competitive threat to Chinese battery production dominance and will help lower the overall price of lithium ion batteries globally. ust the threat of (Tesla CEO) Elon musk building this huge factory will lower prices,
says Wartena, as the companies will be willing to lower their margins to compete. Like Tesla has done with many of its strategies
it taking a novel approach to working with partners to build the battery factory. Tesla is selling debt (convertible senior notes) to the tune of between $1. 6 billion to $1. 8 billion to fund part of the battery factory,
but Tesla said its partners will likely poney up the extra $2 billion to $3 billion (though,
it could be even higher). Panasonic is Tesla chief battery supplier, but in recent months Tesla has also beentalking with Samsung SDI for batteries.
Traditionally auto makers have multiple suppliers for core components so that they can get the best price and use the other suppliers as leverage.
It should be noted that Tesla hasn confirmed that Panasonic is the battery supplier partner for the planned factory.
Musk even told Bloomberg that the Panasonic deal wasn done 100 percent. Essentially Tesla is keeping its options open for other suppliers to come in
and it using an unusual way of working with Panasonic. Navigant Jaffe called the method unique combination of carrot and stick.
Tesla said that it intends to use some of the battery output for stationary energy storage, which means batteries used for buildings, the grid and even homes.
As wee reported before, Tesla and solar financier and installer Solarcity (Musk other energy company) have been quietly selling small volumes of Tesla batteries as energy storage paired with Solarcity solar projects.
If Tesla is able to reduce the cost of lithium ion batteries by a third with its new factory,
it could make energy grid storage much more economical. Batteries for the grid at current prices are largely too expensive for most projects.
There a handful of companies that are trying to innovate around using batteries for grid storage
but if Tesla could get the battery price low enough it can potentially disrupt grid storage, too.
Lower-cost lithium-ion batteries could make clean energy much more viable. Pairing battery farms with wind and solar panel farms would enable clean power to store energy
when the wind stops blowing and the sun goes down. The end goal for Tesla is that cheap batteries could help Tesla deliver its $35, 000 third generation electric car.
It might not be able to get to that price with battery cost reductions alone, but it gets Tesla a whole lot closer t
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