Electric cars and smartphones have created growing demand – and volatile prices – for once obscure metals.
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Saving power to use later lets consumers, businesses and utilities generate energy when it’s cheap and deliver it when they need it most. There’s not much of it today, but the industry is growing fast.
A new rechargeable ‘proton battery’ - made chiefly from carbon and water - promises to outperform conventional lithium-ion batteries, while also being more environmentally friendly.
‘Virtual power plants’ offer extra power to the grid by tweaking the operation of batteries and appliances right across the network. But even this might be too blunt a tool for our future energy needs.
Our energy system puts consumers more or less at the mercy of business and regulators. What if the future of energy meant putting the power back in the hands of households?
Demand for energy storage is increasing – both in Australia and around the world. But issues with the production of lithium-ion batteries mean the search is on for alternatives.
Boron is the hidden ingredient in a lot of our technology. Get to know this plucky little element.
The UK is about to miss an opportunity if it tries to take on the giants of the lithium-ion battery industry.
High energy, high power and endless life cycles: not all batteries are created equal.
We need to think about the raw materials of batteries – where they come from and their environmental cost.
Batteries that can self-sustain are needed for long-term animal tracking as well as shipping and logistics.
Emerging industries, from energy storage to electric cars, will need longer lasting batteries. Watching batteries in action will help us build them.
Tesla’s new battery will be big enough to power thousands of homes, but it’s likely to be just the first of many such installations.
Wireless charging means these cars could run off much smaller and cheaper batteries.
Many believe we can stabilise the power supply by asking customers to help - but there’s a problem.
Plan to develop long-lasting supercapacitors would provide a faster, safer alternative to lithium batteries.
Batteries aren’t the only type of storage, and all types of storage have their role to play in the future grid.
Hundreds of thousands of battery fires in Samsung Galaxy Note 7 handsets is a red hot opportunity to better understand what went wrong.
Alternative technologies are already leaving Tesla’s batteries in the slow lane.
Tesla are taking bold steps to make their production as eco-friendly as possible – but it’s not as simple as they hope.
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Director of Energy Lancaster and Professor of Physical Chemistry, Lancaster University
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Co-Founder at Relectrify | Graduated PhD in Battery Storage, The University of Melbourne
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Research Group Leader & Senior Research Scientist, CSIRO
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Professor of Energy and Environmental Economics and International Affairs, Penn State
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Senior Lecturer, Department of Economics, Macquarie University
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Professor of Sustainability, Curtin University
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Associate Professor in Energy and Power Systems; Co-Director - Future Energy, University of Tasmania
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University of Southern Queensland
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Professor, Kyoto University
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Associate Professor of Mechanical Engineering, Carnegie Mellon University
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Professor of Science Communication and Chemistry, University of Hull
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Senior Research Fellow, College of Engineering and Computer Science, Australian National University
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Researcher, National Renewable Energy Laboratory