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• Future of electric cars hinges on better batteries
  Oct. 7, 2011 - Dana Hull - mercurynews.com
  
  Electric cars are a game-changing technology with an Achilles' heel — the battery.
Current batteries are expensive and have limited range, making it hard to drive from San Jose to San Francisco and back without stopping to recharge. Experts agree consumers will never fully embrace electric vehicles until they can travel as far as a gas-powered car on a single charge.


• Large scale energy storage technologies to capitalise on renewables
  Sep 21, 2011 - engineerlive.com
  
  All Western European countries have targets aimed at boosting the contribution of renewable energy. Such high use of renewable energy is possible through efficient energy storage methods, creating huge opportunities for market growth.
  
  
• Molten Metal Batteries Return for Renewable Energy Storage
  Feb 6, 2011 - Peter Behr and ClimateWire - ScientificAmerican.com
  
  New ideas for making sodium sulfur batteries could make them the answer for taming the variability of wind and solar power
  
  
• MIT Harnesses Molecule Power
  Mar 8, 2010 - Michael Kanellos -greentechmedia
  
  In the future, we could be helped by flaming nanotubes and hot plastics.
  
  
• Breakthrough in Energy Storage: Isentropic Energy
  Feb 23, 2010 - Eric Wesoff - greentechmaedia.com
  
  Isentropic Energy’s pumped-heat electrical energy storage could disrupt the large-scale electrical energy storage market.
  
  
• Beacon Integrates Additional MW of Flywheel Storage on New England Grid
  Dec 21, 2009 - RenewableEnergyWorld.com
  
  Beacon Power Corporation has successfully connected and integrated an additional megawatt (MW) of flywheel energy storage on the New England power grid. This brings the company's total installed capacity to 3 MW, all of which are operation and earning revenue from frequency regulation services.
  
  
• Nanotech Batteries for a new energy future
  Mar 22, 2009 - ScienceDaily
  
  Researchers at the Maryland NanoCenter at the University of Maryland have developed new systems for storing electrical energy derived from alternative sources that are, in some cases, 10 times more efficient than what is commercially available.
  
  
• Conference panelists see car battery breakthrough
  Jul 21, 2008 - The Associated Press
  
  The lithium-ion battery, already a fixture in personal electronic devices, soon will become the answer to high oil prices and environmental concerns as it bulks up to power rechargeable electric vehicles, government, university and industry panelists predicted Monday.
  
  
• Reclusive green-tech startup whispers a eulogy for the battery
  Sep 3, 2007 - The Associated Press
  
  AUSTIN, Texas: Millions of inventions pass quietly through the U.S. patent office each year. Patent No. 7,033,406 did, too, until energy insiders spotted six words in the filing that sounded like a death knell for the internal combustion engine.
  
  
• Study: Plug-in hybrids could reduce greenhouse gas emissions
  Jul 19, 2007 - Ken Thomas - Associated Press
  
  If motorists used rechargeable "plug-in" hybrid-electric vehicles in large numbers, the U.S. could see a significant drop in greenhouse gas emissions by the middle of the century, says a study released Thursday.
  
  
• Ford and Southern California Edison Partner on PHEV Research
  Jul 13, 2007 - Clean Edge News
  
  Ford and Southern California Edison are combining resources to explore ways to make plug-in hybrid (PHEV) vehicles more accessible to consumers, reduce petroleum-related emissions and improve the cost-effectiveness of the nation's electricity grid.
  
  
• New battery packs powerful punch
  Jul 5, 2007 - Paul Davidson -USA TODAY
  
  Batteries have long been vital to laptops and cellphones. They are increasingly supplying electricity to an unlikely recipient: the power grid itself. Until recently, large amounts of electricity could not be efficiently stored. Thus, when you turn on the living-room light, power is instantly drawn from a generator. A new type of a room-size battery, however, may be poised to store energy for the nation's vast electric grid almost as easily as a reservoir stockpiles water, transforming the way power is delivered to homes and businesses.
  
  

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