Murata shrinks footprints, increases functionality and extends battery life of mobile devices -
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james leading
Three energy efficient technologies from Murata have been unveiled at Electronica 2010 in Munich, Germany. The technologies are aimed at increasing mobile device functionality and reducing size while extending battery life. Murata has announced a tiny buck converter module to help reduce footprint, a new...
Electric Car Tax Breaks: Will Battery Makers Benefit? -
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james leading
In a minor sign of sanity on Monday among clean transportation stock investors, a major headline regarding corporate America calling for federal subsidies to support electric car purchases failed to cause lithium-ion battery makers to pop. Maybe all those quarterly losses and rising expenses have...
Soon, batteries that could store sun's heat instead of electricity -
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james leading
Washington, Oct 26 : MIT researchers have discovered how a molecule works to store and release heat on demand - a find that could form the basis of a rechargeable battery to store heat rather than electricity. The molecule called fulvalene diruthenium into a higher-energy...
Doubling Lithium-Ion Battery Storage -
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james leading
Battery startup Amprius says it has developed batteries capable of storing twice as much energy as anything on the market today, thanks to nanostructured silicon electrodes. The company says it is partnering with several as-yet unnamed major consumer electronics manufacturers to bring the batteries to...
