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The information: The US Senate Democrats released a bill last week that might considerably minimize the nation’s carbon emissions. One of many invoice’s key elements is an extension of electrical automobile tax credit, that are designed…

Jet A-1, a straw-colored, kerosene-based gasoline utilized in most massive airplanes, is a troublesome substance to exchange. It’s filled with vitality; per unit of weight, a minimum of 60 instances as a lot because the lithium-ion…

For decades, scientists have wondered what to do with the liquid inside a lithium-ion battery. This electrolyte is key to how batteries work, shuttling ions from one end of the cell to the other. But it’s also cumbersome, adding weight…

Many years ago, the Samsung Galaxy Note 7 gained notoriety when its batteries caught fire in a series of incidents. There's been a steady stream of similar, though isolated, incidents ever since. However, despite the high-profile…

Compressing gases to store energy isn’t new: for decades, a few facilities around the world have been pumping air into huge underground caverns under pressure and then using it to generate electricity in a natural gas power plant. But…

Most automakers are dying to sell you—and the world—an electric car. But they’re up against the challenge of our global-warming time: dauntingly tight supplies of both batteries and the ethically sourced raw materials required to make…

Similar mismatches in supply and demand contributed to massive cascading blackouts in August 2003 in the northeastern United States and Canada, in July 2012 in India, and in March 2019 in Venezuela.The situation is unlikely to get…

Tesla CEO Elon Musk has suggested that the electric vehicle maker might get into the mining business. Patrick Pleul/POOL/AFP…

The first question to ask about the lithium shortage is whether there is a shortage at all.Lithium is an element that is at once everywhere and nowhere. Gather up a thimble of dirt in parts of western US states like Nevada, and chances…