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Energy

Energy independence turns the gears of the visionary’s imagination, and grants us individual control of our modern lives. No meaningful alternative to the Crown’s system can be achieved without exploring decentralized energy production and storage.

How does an Electric Motor work? (DC Motor)

Electric motors can seem very mysterious! How do they use electricity to start rotating? Let's break it down step by step to understand how it works. Topics covered in this video: circuits, current, magnets, electromagnets, armature, commutator, br

OFF GRID No Electricity Air Conditioning in the Desert | Making a Solar Chimney

A solar chimney can be a possible solution as an off grid air conditioning that requires no fan, motors, or electricity. Using the power of the sun, we're trying to create a method to help passively cool the inside of the shed. Come along on this uni

Quick rant about "solar generators" (AC50S/Jackery) and my future DIY build that will kill

Does off-grid solar confuse you? Check out my website for solar system blueprints, suggested components and much more

New Electric Car Batteries Can Fully-Charge in 5 Minutes, Like Filling Your Car With Gas.

One of the major barriers to entry of electric vehicles may be set to disappear, as an Israeli startup is now mass-producing car batteries that can deliver 100 miles of charge in just five minutes.

The UK Is Developing Nuclear-Powered Space Exploration for Faster Mars Trips

The UK Space Agency and Rolls-Royce are teaming up to hopefully get humankind deeper into space.

GM Unveils Cadillac Flying Car For Rich People

General Motors stole the show on Tuesday after unveiling the Cadillac Vertical Take-Off and Landing (VTOL) vehicle and electric shuttle concepts in a virtual presentation at the CES expo, according to PCMag.

Gigafactories With New Solar PV Module Tech Might Cause Solar Glut in 2021

China-based PV manufacturing industry has possibly over built new Solar PV Module technology for 2021. If global installs follows the 20% annual global growth of recent years then the world will installs 145GW to 160GW of solar.

Oak Ridge Research Next Generation Cathode Free Lithium Ion Batteries

Oak Ridge National Laboratory researchers have developed a new family of cathodes with the potential to replace the costly cobalt-based cathodes typically found in today's lithium-ion batteries that power electric vehicles and consumer electronics.

The Plan to Build a Global Network of Floating Power Stations

A lot of thermal energy is trapped in the ocean. An ex-NASA researcher has figured out how it might generate unlimited clean power for aquatic robots.

#4 Wiring Schematic for 6,400W DIY Off Grid Solar System

Part 4 Complete wiring schematic for our 6,400 off grid solar system. Red uses the wiring schematic to explain the system as a whole, with special emphasis on the minor components including connectors, cables, breakers, and fuses.

Oak Ridge Research Next Generation Cathode Free Lithium Ion Batteries

Oak Ridge National Laboratory researchers have developed a new family of cathodes with the potential to replace the costly cobalt-based cathodes typically found in today's lithium-ion batteries that power electric vehicles and consumer electronics.

$433 280Ah LiFePO4 Cells Tested: Cheaper than lead acid!

These are new lishen 272Ah cells, not eve 280Ah. I used the barcode under the covers for verification. These cells were resleeved and had the same overpressure valve as the older eve cells, and same dimensions, and same capacity, so I figured they we

Scientists stretch diamond to improve its electronic properties

Diamond is a famously hard material, but now scientists at City University of Hong Kong have managed to stretch it further than ever before.

#2 Cost of Components DIY Off-Grid Solar System Overview & Description List of Parts

KSTAR fusion device maintains 100 million degrees for record 20 seconds

While harnessing the power of the Sun has progressed in leaps and bounds in recent years, harnessing the process that powers the Sun is proving a tough nut to crack.

Tesla Model 3's IPM-SynRM Electric Motor Explained

The use of Internal Permanent Magnet Synchronous Reluctance Motor improves efficiency by a few percent compared to an induction motor.

Research Progress Toward Better Hydrogen Production

Researchers led by chemistry professors Sen Zhang and T. Brent Gunnoe have produced a new form of catalyst for more efficient hydrogen hydrogen using the elements cobalt and titanium.

Full-throttle electric snow bikes quietly tear up Alpine powder

Electric cars and trucks may be the hottest topic in e-mobility, but quiet, clean-running electric drives have the ability to revolutionize all kinds of vehicles and machinery.

Magnix working towards all-electric Cessna Caravan STC

Magnix, a specialist for aeroplane electrification, is working with Sidney Seaplanes and Dante Aeronautical to convert a Cessna to zero-emission drive. The partners want it to become the first all-electric aircraft certified by the Australian Civil A

Lithium Batteries, Chargers, Solar Storage | Electric Cars Parts Company

We are experts in EV lithium batteries & packs, management systems, J1772 chargers & sockets, DC-DC Converters

Indonesia Could Justify Molten Salt Nuclear Reactor Development to Get a Nuclear Navy

In July, 2020, ThorCon and Indonesia's Defense Ministry signed a memorandum of understanding (MOU) to study developing a 50 MW thorium molten salt reactor (TMSR) for either power generation or marine vehicle propulsion.

Breakthrough Electronic Amoeba Analog Computer For Approximate Solving Traveling Salesman Problems

Many important and valuable planning and scheduling problems in logistics and automation are combinatorial optimization problems. The most famous problem of this type is the traveling salesman problem.

Moltex Nuclear Would Work in a World With Abundant Solar Energy

Moltex Energy calculated that abundant solar and wind energy will mean nuclear energy needs low capital and fixed operating costs to be profitable at 30-50% capacity factor in unsubsidized competition with fossil fuels. Radical innovation will slash

Indonesia Could Justify Molten Salt Nuclear Reactor Development to Get a Nuclear Navy

In July, 2020, ThorCon and Indonesia's Defense Ministry signed a memorandum of understanding (MOU) to study developing a 50 MW thorium molten salt reactor (TMSR) for either power generation or marine vehicle propulsion.

Solid-State Batteries Break Out, Toyota EV Coming Soon, Aptera Launches

InsideEVs is proud to present the thirtieth episode of its weekly podcast.

New silicon/perovskite solar cell world record nears 30% efficiency

Silicon has long been the gold standard for solar cells, but it's beginning to reach its limit. Perovskite is emerging as a promising partner, and now engineers have achieved a new efficiency record closing in on 30 percent for this kind of tandem

Turn Your Car Into a Plug-In Hybrid for $3,000

Students at the University of Middle Tennessee have installed a full plug-in hybrid kit in a stock 1994 Honda Accord. The setup gives between 50 and 100 percent better gas mileage with two electric motors delivering power directly to the rear wheels,

DRIVING THE FUTURE OF ELECTRIC VEHICLES

We are the world leader of in-wheel motor technology for passenger cars, light commercial vehicles and future transport solutions

Aptera Is Getting Sandy Munro's Help To Spread Efficiency's Gospel

The resurrected efficiency champion uses 2170 cells and targets 20,000 sales per year.

This Is Not Cheese: It Is A Single-Crystal Ni-Rich Cathode In Action

Researchers from PNNL may have found a stable solution for better Li-ion batteries.

Perovskite Tandem Solar Will Start Taking Solar to 43% Energy Conversion

Perovskite Tandem Solar Will Start Taking Solar to 43% Energy Conversion

New method quickly converts natural gas into solid form for storage

Engineers at the National University of Singapore (NUS) have developed a new way to convert natural gas into a solid form, allowing it to be stored and transported more safely and easily.

Aptera opens orders on 1,000-mile solar EV that never needs charging

Since electric vehicles first started hitting the mainstream, people have been asking "why doesn't that have a solar panel roof?"

What Is A Gigafactory?

It's giga and it's a factory, but what does Gigafactory really mean?

Williams and Oxis take lithium-sulfur battery tech to the high seas

Two heavyweights in the world of high-performance battery technology are teaming up to create the world's first lithium-sulfur battery-powered luxury boat.

Stanford Increases Solar Cell Production Rates by Four Times and Up to Ten Times Lower Cost

Using rapid-spray plasma processing, the Stanford team was able to produce 40 feet (12 meters) of perovskite film per minute – about four times faster than it takes to manufacture a silicon cell.

Cerebras Trillion Transistor AI Wafer-Chip Crushes GPU Supercomputer by 200 Times

Researchers at the National Energy Technology Laboratory (NETL), Cerebras showed that a single wafer-scale Cerebras CS-1 can outperform one of the fastest supercomputers in the US by more than 200 X.

Australian eVTOL prototype debuts a new spin on the tilt rotor

An Australian company has popped out of stealth mode to reveal a new electric VTOL aircraft that is already at the pre-flight prototype stage. AMSL Aero's Vertiia aircraft can fly up to 800 km (500 miles) on hydrogen, and it'll start out as an air am

Sandy Munro Reveals His Tesla 4680 Battery Pack Mock-Up

Sandy Munro would love to tear down a Tesla 4680 battery pack for all of us all to enjoy. However, it may be some time before that's possible. Rather than keep us on the edge of our seats, Munro simply designed his own mock-up to share.

Driving A Tesla Roadster Can Only Be Explained As 'Insane'

This Tesla owner can't wait to get his hands on his own Tesla Roadster.

These New Solar Panels Don't Need Sunlight to Produce Energy

The solar panels, developed by student Carvey Maigue, won this year's Dyson Sustainability Award.

New Heating Concept To Save Up To 6% Of EV Range

It should also help to reach the desired temperature in shorter time.

Breakthrough Material Enables No Electricity Sterilization Will Save Thousands of Lives

Optically transparent aerogel is essentially a lightweight foam made of silica, the material of beach sand, and consists mostly of air. It reduces the rate of heat loss by tenfold.

Ultra-Low Power Nonvolatile FeFET Memory

Ferroelectric Memory Company has $20 million in funding for sub-7 nanometer FeFET memories.

NawaStitch promises to make carbon composites even lighter and stronger

France's Nawa Technologies is setting up operations in the United States, and bringing its fast, affordable vertically aligned carbon nanotube (VACNT) manufacturing process into a new application: making carbon fiber composites much stronger.

Homemade Electric Airplane MK4

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Nuscale Will Get 25% More From Modular Nuclear Reactors For Breakthrough Economic Value

NuScale used advanced testing and modeling to determine the NuScale Power Module™ (NPM) can generate an additional 25 percent more power per module for a total of 77 MWe per module (gross), resulting in about 924 MWe for the flagship 12-module powe

Microwave Water Splitting for Breakthroughs for Making Hydrogen, Oxygen and Fast Battery Charging

Water was reduced via reaction with non-equilibrium gadolinium-doped CeO2 that was previously in situ electrochemically deoxygenated by the sole application of microwaves. The microwave-driven reduction was identified by an instantaneous electrical c

Microwave Water Splitting for Breakthroughs for Making Hydrogen, Oxygen and Fast Battery

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Tesla Cybertruck Vs GMC Hummer EV Off-Road Comparison And Review

Which upcoming electric 'Supertruck' will be more capable?
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