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Una nueva batería de alto rendimiento de “aluminio-litio”podría ser el avance técnico necesario para impulsar la toma de control de la energía renovable. Es seguro, utiliza abundantes materiales de bajo costo, se recarga en un minuto y soporta muchos miles de ciclos de recarga.

Si esta nueva batería está a la altura de las expectativas, podría impulsar un nuevo capítulo en la toma de control de la oferta de energía renovable del mundo.

Científicos de la Universidad de Stanford han inventado la primera batería de aluminio de alto rendimiento que es de una carga rápida, de larga duración, de bajo costo y segura.

How soon after the Big Bang could water have existed? Not right away, because water molecules contain oxygen and oxygen had to be formed in the first stars. Then that oxygen had to disperse and unite with hydrogen in significant amounts. New theoretical work finds that despite these complications, water vapor could have been just as abundant in pockets of space a billion years after the Big Bang as it is today.

“We looked at the chemistry within young molecular clouds containing a thousand times less oxygen than our Sun. To our surprise, we found we can get as much water vapor as we see in our own galaxy,” says astrophysicist Avi Loeb of the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics (CfA).

Up to 64 percent of above-ground biomass in selectively logged forests may consist of dead wood left over from logging damage, argues a paper published this week in Environmental Research Letters. 

As well as being a beautiful species capable of changing its colour, shape and even gender, new research published today shows that parrotfish, commonly found on healthy coral reefs, can also play a pivotal role in providing the sands necessary to build and maintain coral reef islands.

The capacity to deliver continuous electricity for refrigeration is one of the central planks of the modern-day food distribution system.

Using fossil fuel-generated energy to refrigerate and freeze foods around the clock produces a lot of pollution – carbon and greenhouse gas emissions that are warming the global climate, as well as emissions of a range of potentially toxic chemicals that deplete the ozone layer and wind up in our waterways and soil.