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Greener Batteries

The move from disposable to rechargeable batteries isn't going as well as it might. Maybe it's because the effort, on an individual basis, seems to have such a small impact. But the hundreds of thousands of discarded batteries sent to landfills every year are threatening the environment with toxic heavy metals. The technology to slow that flow is being constantly improved, but it doesn't work when it's sitting on a shelf. >More


Green Living With Battery Technology - The NiMH Battery

To live without batteries nowadays is nearly impossible; but since only few batteries are green - that is to say manufactured and usable in a way that doesn't affect the environment -, and those who are tend to be quite expensive, most people concerned with energy conservation and pollution are in a difficult situation. Nonetheless, there is a solution for green living with battery technology that is neither expensive nor inaccessible: the NiMH (Nickel Metal Hydride) battery. >More


Eco-Friendly Innovations In Battery Technology - HP's Green Laptop Batteries

Battery technology innovations are strongly driven by the green movement that gradually takes over the world. Researchers from renowned universities, especially from the United Kingdom and the United States, are ceaselessly working on developing new techniques in battery manufacturing that try to make batteries greener without altering their efficiency. But while their research is making a slow but steady progress, some companies are already introducing better battery products on the market, which, even though not revolutionary, are greener than conventional batteries. One of these companies is Hewlett-Packard; its offerings include the Enviro series batteries which are compatible with a wide range of HP laptops. >More


New Breakthroughs and Developments in Battery Technology

There is currently a lot of work done by scientists all around the globe on maximizing how long a battery lasts. These projects already show promising results. Scientists try to reduce the time required to charge a battery to a few minutes while increasing the lifespan to a couple of years. The major drawback of their work up to this point is size. Outstanding results have been achieved on a small scale but at the moment the technical developments do not permit the implementation of these new generation batteries on a large scale. However, scientists are optimistic and claim that in a few years we might have these ultra efficient batteries in our mobile devices, laptops, or even electric cars. >More


Pure Energy Understands the Importance of Pure Energy

Luckily for us and all of those poor batteries, there are corporations like Pure Energy who are more than happy to live up to their name by creating eco friendly batteries. Not only are the batteries produced by Pure Energy usually clean running, they also happen to be rechargeable. Not every battery is meant to be recharged. Usually once the juice is used up, there are only so many times that you can bring out an adequate enough power surge to run any type of electronic before the battery is just no good anymore. That's just one of the reasons why companies have been creating batteries that can be charged over and over again without decreasing in the amount of power that they can output. Batteries like that are sort of like a cup that can be filled again and again and Pure Energy has created its own unique sort of cup. >More


Leading a Greener Life With the Latest Advancements in Technology

People who use electronic devices on a daily basis simply cannot do without batteries. However, today's batteries, while affordable and easy to procure, remain environmental hazards. Governments are active in implementing policies that promote the recycling of batteries but unfortunately that does not solve the whole problem. >More


How Eco-friendly Are Lithium Batteries?

In the European Union the regulations concerning the disposal of lithium-ion batteries are tighter than in the US and European citizens are advised to recycle their batteries. The UN believes lithium-ion batteries have a recycling value because of the materials they contain and, since the lack of landfill space is also an issue in some European countries, it considers that throwing them away is bad. For example, cobalt is one of the metals used in manufacturing lithium-ion batteries that can be recycled. It represents up to 13% of a battery's weight. >More


Environmentally Friendly and Noncombustible Battery

A project that began in 2007 at Stanford University with a goal to build a better battery now shows some promising results. Researchers from the renowned American university have been working hard in the last couple of years to create a lithium-sulfur battery which is expected to be the successor to the currently indispensable lithium-ion battery. >More


Green Batteries That Just Keep Going and Going

Right now the need that green people (again, think concept not color) seem to have that manufacturers are trying to compensate for, is the need for batteries that not only help the environment, but are also long lasting. >More


Ecology & Battery Technology

But all of that is only partially related to actual batteries (though if research permits these fuels could be compacted into types of batteries later on down the road). The real breakthrough in ecology and battery technology is Zinc-Air. These batteries are a combination of air and zinc. Free of pollution, these batters store electricity efficiently and were founded by PowerZinc Electric Inc. >More


A Battery That Can Live Forever

A battery with unlimited shelf life is a dream that will never die out. Unless of course, someone actually makes the dream come true. While currently there are no unlimited batteries on the shelves, there are a number of ways to keep your current batteries going strong until a breakthrough is made on the whole battery-with-eternal-life thing. >More


A123: Changing the Way the World Moves

A123 Systems is an innovative company dedicated to changing the lives of people around the world. Technology advances have helped skyrocket this company recently. Founded in 2001, A123 is dedicated to new technology developments to improve the world. Most notable for the latest lithium batteries, this company is definitively leading business in robotic technology. The products made by this company operate from aviation to portable products. This is just the beginning of the next generation in robotic technology. The company is dedicated to helping the environment while improving our daily lives. >More


A Battery Break Through?

Move over li-ion batteries, there is a potential new sheriff in town. EEstor, a company located in Texas is creating a new power system that it hopes will be able to replace the batteries that we typically use in everything from our cars to our personal laptop computers. >More


Ultracapacitors: The Arch Nemesis of the Old Fashioned Battery

The ultracapacitor may be the answer to a world that wants smaller, lighter and faster wireless chargers and portable devices. We want more options and features, but we do not want to increase the size or the bulk of the device we are putting them into. >More


Wind to Battery Technology By Xcel

Xcel Systems has installed one of the first utility systems in the United States that uses a giant battery system to store wind power. A series of sodium sulfur batteries from the Japanese company, NGK Insulators, LTD., is said to create about seven megawatt hours of power. >More


Battery Powered Locomotives Released

The United States has a locomotive fleet of over 20,000 units. The average lifespan of these locomotives is forty years with major overhauls done on the vehicle roughly five times on average during its lifetime. The power of these locomotives can vary from around 2000 horsepower for the switchers to around 4000 horsepower for the passenger or hauling locomotives. >More


A Zinc Car Battery Developed by a Taiwan Energy Company

One of the biggest cost factors in buying an electric car is in the battery itself. The current types can run from $15,000-20,000 for a compact car. That is a lot of money for the average family to come up with and does not include the cost of the car itself. >More


Deeya Energy: Landing Funds for a Flow Battery

The hopes of Deeya Energy is that eventually the redox flow battery will replace diesel generators and will be able to store both wind and solar energies. Right now the battery is being developed to serve as a battery backup for commercial uses such as big telecommunications towers as well as grid storage. >More


LifePo4 Battery: Using the Best of Both Worlds

The LifePo4 Battery is a very viable option for use in most electronics as well as in digital applications. Using lithium ion phosphate makes this the best choice in a large capacity battery for higher powered applications including lap top computers, many power tools, electric wheel chairs, and electric bikes. >More


GE and A123 Team to Expand the Development of the Li-Ion Battery

With the planned expansion of development of the li-ion battery for consumer and hybrid car use as well as new, wider reaching smart grid capabilities, GE and A 123 have been able to make an important contribution to automotive technology. >More


Sodium Batteries: Throwing Salt into the Utility Woe Wounds

There are alternatives to the growing energy crisis-alternate energy sources and alternate energy storage methods-but they must be given a chance before they can ever succeed. >More


Lithium-Ion Batteries: The Green Standard

The lithium-ion (Li-ion) battery is touted as the battery of choice for the green world. This means that it is considered to be the greenest of the battery choices, and this has been the case for some time. >More


New Green Technology: Nickel-Zinc Battery by PowerGenix

Nickel-zinc (NiZn) batteries have the technology to deliver not only the recycling ability of other nickel-based battery types, but they also deliver a full 1.5 volts of power. >More

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