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Now available via Kickstarter: An off-grid battery & solar kit ??? Cleantech News and Analysis
via gigaom.com “Fenix sees its battery ??? and the secret sauce of the software that manages the charging ??? as a platform for enabling these energy applications. In the U.S., Fenix wants to encourage the creation of a developer community that will u…
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The story of how Bill Gates discovered (& backed) a battery startup ??? Cleantech News and Analysis
via gigaom.com “Bill Gates started taking a class from Liquid Metal Battery founder and MIT Professor Don Sadoway via MIT???s online open-course program. Gates took Sadoway???s 34-lecture series on batteries and contacted Sadoway by email to meet with…
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Filling up an electric car battery like a gas engine ??? Cleantech News and Analysis
via gigaom.com “A battery is made up of an anode on one side and a cathode on the other, with an electrolyte in between. For a zinc battery, zinc ions travel from the anode to the cathode through the electrolyte, creating a chemical reaction that …
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25 battery breakthroughs for gadgets, electric cars & the grid ??? Cleantech News and Analysis
via gigaom.com “And there???s hundreds of researchers, entrepreneurs, universities and large companies working on battery breakthroughs. Here???s 25 you should know about…”
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Northwestern University Researchers Create Breakthrough Batteries That Could Give EVs 500 Mile Range, 10 Minute Charge Time | Inhabitat – Green Design Will Save the World
via inhabitat.com “Researchers led by professor Harold Kung at Northwestern University have just developed a breakthrough battery technology that could allow electric cars to run 10 times longer and recharge 10 times quicker. The new lithium ion b…
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13 Energizing Batteries: Mini Nukes to Hand Cranks
[ By Steph in Gadgets & Geek Art & Green Technologies & Technology & Futurism. ] The batteries we use in dozens of gadgets every day have stayed more or less the same for many years, but that doesn’t mean designers aren’t dreaming up innovative and sometimes perplexing new versions. From human-powered rechargeable alkaline batteries […]
