Green Energy

Dyson is mostly known as a prominent manufacturer of vacuum cleaners and hand dryers, and that’s fine. But in September it announced it wanted to get into the electric car business, and it had $4 billion with which to do it. Now here’s more details on how it plans to do it, and how it […]

Cobalt is hitting historically high prices fuelled by the automobile industry, which needs the rare metal to make light and durable electric batteries.   The price per tonne of cobalt rose to $82,000 on the London Metal Exchange in mid-February, its highest level since it began tracking the commodity in 2010, and has almost tripled […]

Using computational tools and data mining, researchers have discovered a new type of phosphor material for white LEDs that is not only inexpensive but also easy to fabricate. Headed by engineers at the University of California San Diego, the researchers used the new phosphor material to build prototype white LED light bulbs which displayed better color […]

Australia is on the brink of a renewable energy boom thanks to lowering storage costs and an appetite for clean power, according to a new Climate Council report. The study, Fully Charged: Renewables and Storage Powering Australia, says that the cost of lithium-ion battery storage has dropped by 80% since 2010, and will halve again by […]

The €17 million storage project is Enel’s first of its type in Germany and the first 2MW section of the site is expected to begin operating by April. The lithium-ion battery will be located in Brandenburg, north-east Germany, and used to provide grid-frequency services and reduce wind curtailment from Enertrag’s projects. A special purpose vehicle […]

Toyota Motor Corp. is readying electric motors that include as much as 50 percent less in rare earths amid concern of a supply crunch as automakers race to expand their electric-vehicle lineups. Asia’s biggest carmaker has developed a magnet for the motors that as much as halves the use of a rare earth called neodymium and […]