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Electrifying stuff: your clothes could power your gadgets – and soon. Stephen Poff

Smarty pants: wearable electronics will recharge your life

By Adam Best, CSIRO

Imagine having a wafer-thin touchscreen on your sleeve which, like a scene out of a Philip K. Dick novel, gives you all the functionality of a smartphone without the awkwardness of a cumbersome battery…
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Australia’s hydro energy storage systems are getting long in the tooth: maybe it’s time to look at liquid air. Michael Mazengarb

The missing link: why Australia needs energy storage

By Richard Williams, University of Birmingham

In visiting Australia regularly for the last two decades I have never quite understood why greater value is not placed on the nation’s latent solar and nuclear energy assets. Perhaps it is because Australia…
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Prime minister Julia Gillard takes an electricity pricing reform package to COAG this week – but could the answer be in addressing congestion pricing for the network? AAP

Congestion power pricing might provide an answer to network gold plating

By Stephen King, Monash University

Electricity network pricing has been a hot topic in the last six months. The key issues have been regulation and demand side management. On regulation, Prime Minister Julia Gillard is taking a package…
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New research has uncovered significant environmental benefits in converting to a water-based battery. oakridgelabnews/Flickr

Water-based battery a step up for renewable energy

By Manickam Minakshi-Sundaram, Murdoch University and Danielle Meyrick, Murdoch University

Energy storage will be critically important as we work towards sustainable living. Developing cost-effective ways to store large amounts of electricity from wind turbines and solar farms will be essential…
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Battery research is improving renewable energy’s ability to provide power around the clock. Argonne National Laboratory

Explainer: storing renewable energy

By Maria Skyllas-Kazacos

Storage is one of the highest technological barriers to the spread of renewable energy. When the sun is shining, the tide turning or the wind howling, how do we collect that energy and keep it to use when…

Research Briefs (4)

Call to arms to capture energy

Stanford University

Storing electricity to use later is critically important to the energy sector and in reducing carbon emissions. In the US…

Batteries get the MRI treatment

New York UNiversity

Batteries could become lighter, safer and more versatile by examining their insides with new MRI techniques, claim scientists…

Long-lasting lithium-ion batteries.

Northwestern University

Extending the life of lithium-ion batteries tenfold may now be possible thanks to researchers at Northwestern University…

Sulphur improves battery capacity

Nano Letters

A battery that uses sulphur-coated nanofibers could improve storage capacity. Sulphur-coated hollow carbon nanofibers and…

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