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Power and Protection for Modern BMS

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Blog: MIT Develops a New Technique to Extract Lithium from Spodumene Rock

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(Image Credit: Wikimedia Commons) MIT researchers recently created a new method to extract lithium from spodumene rock using a low-temperature process. A bathroom renovation inspired the research. At the time, Yet-Ming Chiang, MIT’s Kyocera Pr...
- 12 Jun 2026
Blog: Researchers Develop Water Battery That Can Be Safely Disposed

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Comparing the neutral pH 7 with other battery technologies. (Image Credit: nature) Researchers at the City University of Hong Kong have developed an aqueous battery with a pH 7 electrolyte. The battery system is built with water-based materials and ...
- 21 May 2026
Blog: A Modeling Study Predicts That Solar Farms Could Produce Rainfall

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A solar farm. (Image Credit: TheOtherKev/pixabay) Is that bad? In the UAE, where water is harder to come by than oil, cloud seeding or desalination plants produce freshwater for everyone living there. Now, a 2024 modeling study says huge solar farms...
- 24 Apr 2026
Blog: Deep Fission is Burying Nuclear Reactors One Mile Deep

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Deep Fission is a startup focusing on the burial of nuclear reactors as a cheaper, simpler alternative to traditional above-ground power plants. (Image Credit: Deep Fission) Nuclear power is becoming more complex and costly, and one startup wants to...
- 8 Apr 2026
Alt Energy Solutions & Tech: Chinese Researchers Replicate Photosynthesis Using a New Catalyst

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Diagram on the left represents a natural photosynthesis system. Meanwhile, the diagram on the right represents the team’s proposed catalyst system. (Image Credit: nature communications) Researchers at the Chinese Academy of Sciences created a ...
- 3 Apr 2026
Blog: Engineers Build a Alt Energy Device That Generates Power at Night

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Render and data show radiative cooling of the top plate to the night sky and warming of the bottom plate to the ground. This produced a temperature difference that powered the engine. (Image Credit: ScienceAdvances) Engineers at the University ...
- 4 Mar 2026
Blog: Japan’s Sidewalks Converts Human Footsteps into Useable Electricity

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(Image Credit: Wikimedia Commons) Wind and sunlight are the most common sources of renewable energy, powering turbines and solar panels worldwide. Japan and other countries are now tapping a subtler source: footsteps on piezoelectric sidewalks to ge...
- 3 Mar 2026
Blog: Japan is Working on Three Surprising Hydrogen Projects

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Rendering of the co-firing hydrogen engine built by Kawasaki Heavy Industries. (Image Credit: Kawasaki) Kawasaki Heavy Industries constructed the first-ever 8MW KG Series co-firing hydrogen engine, which generates electricity. It operates on natural...
- 20 Feb 2026
Blog: Japan Extracts Rare Earth Elements from Seabed Mud

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Japan’s Chikyu deep-sea drilling vessel recently extracted samples of rare earth elements from seabed sediment. (Photo By Gleam - Photo taken by Gleam., CC BY-SA 3.0) Japan is starting to take action on a decade-old plan to move away from Chi...
- 9 Feb 2026
Blog: Energy left in "dead" batteries?!

Attila Tőkés

Hi Element14 Community! Traditional alkaline batteries tend to "die" at the most inconvenient times. I used to I have them in devices like wireless mouse and keyboards, and it felt that the batteries were draining fairly quickly, catc...
- 1 Feb 2026