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  1. How #chemists turned #bourbon waste into #supercapacitors
    Hydrothermal carbonization can directly convert #stillage into hard or #ActivatedCarbon. Cossio & Guzman used activated carbon as #electrodes, creating double-layer #capacitors by putting liquid electrolyte between them. Proof-of-concept devices were able to store as much as 48W/kg. Built a hybrid device, with one activated carbon electrode and one hard carbon electrode, stored as much as 25 times the energy per kg
    arstechnica.com/science/2026/0

  2. How #chemists turned #bourbon waste into #supercapacitors
    Hydrothermal carbonization can directly convert #stillage into hard or #ActivatedCarbon. Cossio & Guzman used activated carbon as #electrodes, creating double-layer #capacitors by putting liquid electrolyte between them. Proof-of-concept devices were able to store as much as 48W/kg. Built a hybrid device, with one activated carbon electrode and one hard carbon electrode, stored as much as 25 times the energy per kg
    arstechnica.com/science/2026/0

  3. How turned waste into
    Hydrothermal carbonization can directly convert into hard or . Cossio & Guzman used activated carbon as , creating double-layer by putting liquid electrolyte between them. Proof-of-concept devices were able to store as much as 48W/kg. Built a hybrid device, with one activated carbon electrode and one hard carbon electrode, stored as much as 25 times the energy per kg
    arstechnica.com/science/2026/0

  4. How #chemists turned #bourbon waste into #supercapacitors
    Hydrothermal carbonization can directly convert #stillage into hard or #ActivatedCarbon. Cossio & Guzman used activated carbon as #electrodes, creating double-layer #capacitors by putting liquid electrolyte between them. Proof-of-concept devices were able to store as much as 48W/kg. Built a hybrid device, with one activated carbon electrode and one hard carbon electrode, stored as much as 25 times the energy per kg
    arstechnica.com/science/2026/0

  5. How #chemists turned #bourbon waste into #supercapacitors
    Hydrothermal carbonization can directly convert #stillage into hard or #ActivatedCarbon. Cossio & Guzman used activated carbon as #electrodes, creating double-layer #capacitors by putting liquid electrolyte between them. Proof-of-concept devices were able to store as much as 48W/kg. Built a hybrid device, with one activated carbon electrode and one hard carbon electrode, stored as much as 25 times the energy per kg
    arstechnica.com/science/2026/0

  6. #SodiumIonBatteries offer an alternative to tricky #lithium

    Oct 26th 2023

    Excerpt: "Fortunately, lithium is not the only game in town. As we report this week, a clutch of firms are making batteries based on sodium, lithium’s elemental cousin. Since sodium’s chemical properties are very similar to those of lithium, it too makes for good batteries. And sodium, which is found in the salt in #seawater, is thousands of times more abundant on Earth than lithium and cheaper to get at. Most of the companies using sodium to make batteries today are also Chinese. But pursuing the technology in the West might be a surer route to energy security than relying heavily on lithium.

    "Besides its abundance, sodium has other advantages. The best lithium batteries use #cobalt and #nickel in their electrodes. Nickel, like lithium, is in short supply. #Mining it on land is #EnvironmentallyDestructive. Proposals to grab it from the #seabed instead have caused rows. A good deal of the world’s cobalt, meanwhile, is extracted from small mines in the #DemocraticRepublicOfCongo, where #ChildLabour is common and working conditions are dire. Sodium batteries, by contrast, can use #electrodes built from #iron and #manganese [and wood #lignin], which are plentiful and uncontroversial. Since the chemical components are cheap, a scaled-up industry should be able to produce batteries that cost less than their lithium counterparts.

    "Sodium is not a perfect replacement for lithium. It is heavier, meaning sodium batteries will weigh more than lithium ones of an equivalent capacity. That is likely to rule them out in some cases where lightness is paramount. But for other applications, such as #GridStorage or #HomeBatteries, weight is irrelevant. Several Chinese carmakers are even beginning to put sodium batteries in #ElectricVehicles."

    Read more:
    economist.com/leaders/2023/10/

    Archived version:
    archive.ph/7x6JX

    #SolarPunkSunday #EnergyStorage #SodiumIon #NewTechnology #GiantLeap #Reuse #WasteReuse #NoLithiumMining #NoMining

  7. #SodiumIonBatteries offer an alternative to tricky #lithium

    Oct 26th 2023

    Excerpt: "Fortunately, lithium is not the only game in town. As we report this week, a clutch of firms are making batteries based on sodium, lithium’s elemental cousin. Since sodium’s chemical properties are very similar to those of lithium, it too makes for good batteries. And sodium, which is found in the salt in #seawater, is thousands of times more abundant on Earth than lithium and cheaper to get at. Most of the companies using sodium to make batteries today are also Chinese. But pursuing the technology in the West might be a surer route to energy security than relying heavily on lithium.

    "Besides its abundance, sodium has other advantages. The best lithium batteries use #cobalt and #nickel in their electrodes. Nickel, like lithium, is in short supply. #Mining it on land is #EnvironmentallyDestructive. Proposals to grab it from the #seabed instead have caused rows. A good deal of the world’s cobalt, meanwhile, is extracted from small mines in the #DemocraticRepublicOfCongo, where #ChildLabour is common and working conditions are dire. Sodium batteries, by contrast, can use #electrodes built from #iron and #manganese [and wood #lignin], which are plentiful and uncontroversial. Since the chemical components are cheap, a scaled-up industry should be able to produce batteries that cost less than their lithium counterparts.

    "Sodium is not a perfect replacement for lithium. It is heavier, meaning sodium batteries will weigh more than lithium ones of an equivalent capacity. That is likely to rule them out in some cases where lightness is paramount. But for other applications, such as #GridStorage or #HomeBatteries, weight is irrelevant. Several Chinese carmakers are even beginning to put sodium batteries in #ElectricVehicles."

    Read more:
    economist.com/leaders/2023/10/

    Archived version:
    archive.ph/7x6JX

    #SolarPunkSunday #EnergyStorage #SodiumIon #NewTechnology #GiantLeap #Reuse #WasteReuse #NoLithiumMining #NoMining

  8. #SodiumIonBatteries offer an alternative to tricky #lithium

    Oct 26th 2023

    Excerpt: "Fortunately, lithium is not the only game in town. As we report this week, a clutch of firms are making batteries based on sodium, lithium’s elemental cousin. Since sodium’s chemical properties are very similar to those of lithium, it too makes for good batteries. And sodium, which is found in the salt in #seawater, is thousands of times more abundant on Earth than lithium and cheaper to get at. Most of the companies using sodium to make batteries today are also Chinese. But pursuing the technology in the West might be a surer route to energy security than relying heavily on lithium.

    "Besides its abundance, sodium has other advantages. The best lithium batteries use #cobalt and #nickel in their electrodes. Nickel, like lithium, is in short supply. #Mining it on land is #EnvironmentallyDestructive. Proposals to grab it from the #seabed instead have caused rows. A good deal of the world’s cobalt, meanwhile, is extracted from small mines in the #DemocraticRepublicOfCongo, where #ChildLabour is common and working conditions are dire. Sodium batteries, by contrast, can use #electrodes built from #iron and #manganese [and wood #lignin], which are plentiful and uncontroversial. Since the chemical components are cheap, a scaled-up industry should be able to produce batteries that cost less than their lithium counterparts.

    "Sodium is not a perfect replacement for lithium. It is heavier, meaning sodium batteries will weigh more than lithium ones of an equivalent capacity. That is likely to rule them out in some cases where lightness is paramount. But for other applications, such as #GridStorage or #HomeBatteries, weight is irrelevant. Several Chinese carmakers are even beginning to put sodium batteries in #ElectricVehicles."

    Read more:
    economist.com/leaders/2023/10/

    Archived version:
    archive.ph/7x6JX

    #SolarPunkSunday #EnergyStorage #SodiumIon #NewTechnology #GiantLeap #Reuse #WasteReuse #NoLithiumMining #NoMining

  9. #SodiumIonBatteries offer an alternative to tricky #lithium

    Oct 26th 2023

    Excerpt: "Fortunately, lithium is not the only game in town. As we report this week, a clutch of firms are making batteries based on sodium, lithium’s elemental cousin. Since sodium’s chemical properties are very similar to those of lithium, it too makes for good batteries. And sodium, which is found in the salt in #seawater, is thousands of times more abundant on Earth than lithium and cheaper to get at. Most of the companies using sodium to make batteries today are also Chinese. But pursuing the technology in the West might be a surer route to energy security than relying heavily on lithium.

    "Besides its abundance, sodium has other advantages. The best lithium batteries use #cobalt and #nickel in their electrodes. Nickel, like lithium, is in short supply. #Mining it on land is #EnvironmentallyDestructive. Proposals to grab it from the #seabed instead have caused rows. A good deal of the world’s cobalt, meanwhile, is extracted from small mines in the #DemocraticRepublicOfCongo, where #ChildLabour is common and working conditions are dire. Sodium batteries, by contrast, can use #electrodes built from #iron and #manganese [and wood #lignin], which are plentiful and uncontroversial. Since the chemical components are cheap, a scaled-up industry should be able to produce batteries that cost less than their lithium counterparts.

    "Sodium is not a perfect replacement for lithium. It is heavier, meaning sodium batteries will weigh more than lithium ones of an equivalent capacity. That is likely to rule them out in some cases where lightness is paramount. But for other applications, such as #GridStorage or #HomeBatteries, weight is irrelevant. Several Chinese carmakers are even beginning to put sodium batteries in #ElectricVehicles."

    Read more:
    economist.com/leaders/2023/10/

    Archived version:
    archive.ph/7x6JX

    #SolarPunkSunday #EnergyStorage #SodiumIon #NewTechnology #GiantLeap #Reuse #WasteReuse #NoLithiumMining #NoMining

  10. #SodiumIonBatteries offer an alternative to tricky #lithium

    Oct 26th 2023

    Excerpt: "Fortunately, lithium is not the only game in town. As we report this week, a clutch of firms are making batteries based on sodium, lithium’s elemental cousin. Since sodium’s chemical properties are very similar to those of lithium, it too makes for good batteries. And sodium, which is found in the salt in #seawater, is thousands of times more abundant on Earth than lithium and cheaper to get at. Most of the companies using sodium to make batteries today are also Chinese. But pursuing the technology in the West might be a surer route to energy security than relying heavily on lithium.

    "Besides its abundance, sodium has other advantages. The best lithium batteries use #cobalt and #nickel in their electrodes. Nickel, like lithium, is in short supply. #Mining it on land is #EnvironmentallyDestructive. Proposals to grab it from the #seabed instead have caused rows. A good deal of the world’s cobalt, meanwhile, is extracted from small mines in the #DemocraticRepublicOfCongo, where #ChildLabour is common and working conditions are dire. Sodium batteries, by contrast, can use #electrodes built from #iron and #manganese [and wood #lignin], which are plentiful and uncontroversial. Since the chemical components are cheap, a scaled-up industry should be able to produce batteries that cost less than their lithium counterparts.

    "Sodium is not a perfect replacement for lithium. It is heavier, meaning sodium batteries will weigh more than lithium ones of an equivalent capacity. That is likely to rule them out in some cases where lightness is paramount. But for other applications, such as #GridStorage or #HomeBatteries, weight is irrelevant. Several Chinese carmakers are even beginning to put sodium batteries in #ElectricVehicles."

    Read more:
    economist.com/leaders/2023/10/

    Archived version:
    archive.ph/7x6JX

    #SolarPunkSunday #EnergyStorage #SodiumIon #NewTechnology #GiantLeap #Reuse #WasteReuse #NoLithiumMining #NoMining

  11. An improved existing technology by integrating a flexible, #phosphorescent #polymer layer and transparent #electrodes made from MXene nanomaterial. The result is an #OLED that can be stretched to 1.6 times its original size, while maintaining most of its #luminescence
    #Technology #Nanotechnology #MaterialScience #sflorg
    sflorg.com/2026/01/tech0114260

  12. An improved existing technology by integrating a flexible, #phosphorescent #polymer layer and transparent #electrodes made from MXene nanomaterial. The result is an #OLED that can be stretched to 1.6 times its original size, while maintaining most of its #luminescence
    #Technology #Nanotechnology #MaterialScience #sflorg
    sflorg.com/2026/01/tech0114260

  13. An improved existing technology by integrating a flexible, #phosphorescent #polymer layer and transparent #electrodes made from MXene nanomaterial. The result is an #OLED that can be stretched to 1.6 times its original size, while maintaining most of its #luminescence
    #Technology #Nanotechnology #MaterialScience #sflorg
    sflorg.com/2026/01/tech0114260

  14. An improved existing technology by integrating a flexible, #phosphorescent #polymer layer and transparent #electrodes made from MXene nanomaterial. The result is an #OLED that can be stretched to 1.6 times its original size, while maintaining most of its #luminescence
    #Technology #Nanotechnology #MaterialScience #sflorg
    sflorg.com/2026/01/tech0114260

  15. An improved existing technology by integrating a flexible, #phosphorescent #polymer layer and transparent #electrodes made from MXene nanomaterial. The result is an #OLED that can be stretched to 1.6 times its original size, while maintaining most of its #luminescence
    #Technology #Nanotechnology #MaterialScience #sflorg
    sflorg.com/2026/01/tech0114260

  16. Floating power: How scientists are turning raindrops into renewable energy

    Often associated with refreshing a sense of being renewed and a peaceful calmness, raindrops may soon become tiny…
    #NewsBeep #News #Environment #CleanEnergy #Electrodes #environment #GreenGoodNews #Powergenerators #renewableenergy #research #Science #UK #UnitedKingdom #Water
    newsbeep.com/uk/239234/

  17. Floating power: How scientists are turning raindrops into renewable energy

    Often associated with refreshing a sense of being renewed and a peaceful calmness, raindrops may soon become tiny…
    #NewsBeep #News #Environment #CA #Canada #CleanEnergy #Electrodes #GreenGoodNews #Powergenerators #renewableenergy #research #Science #Water
    newsbeep.com/ca/256121/

  18. Muir Vidler: Stereo EEG Self-Portrait, 2023

    This was taken after a surgical procedure to implant #electrodes into Vidler’s #brain. The procedure is carried out on people who have #epilepsy that can’t be controlled by medication and is used to identify which area of the brain is causing the seizures, and can determine whether they are eligible for brain surgery. Vidler took this picture on the first day that the electrodes were inserted, and he had to keep them in for seven days

    @photography

  19. Muir Vidler: Stereo EEG Self-Portrait, 2023

    This was taken after a surgical procedure to implant #electrodes into Vidler’s #brain. The procedure is carried out on people who have #epilepsy that can’t be controlled by medication and is used to identify which area of the brain is causing the seizures, and can determine whether they are eligible for brain surgery. Vidler took this picture on the first day that the electrodes were inserted, and he had to keep them in for seven days

    @photography

  20. Muir Vidler: Stereo EEG Self-Portrait, 2023

    This was taken after a surgical procedure to implant #electrodes into Vidler’s #brain. The procedure is carried out on people who have #epilepsy that can’t be controlled by medication and is used to identify which area of the brain is causing the seizures, and can determine whether they are eligible for brain surgery. Vidler took this picture on the first day that the electrodes were inserted, and he had to keep them in for seven days

    @photography

  21. Muir Vidler: Stereo EEG Self-Portrait, 2023

    This was taken after a surgical procedure to implant #electrodes into Vidler’s #brain. The procedure is carried out on people who have #epilepsy that can’t be controlled by medication and is used to identify which area of the brain is causing the seizures, and can determine whether they are eligible for brain surgery. Vidler took this picture on the first day that the electrodes were inserted, and he had to keep them in for seven days

    @photography

  22. Muir Vidler: Stereo EEG Self-Portrait, 2023

    This was taken after a surgical procedure to implant #electrodes into Vidler’s #brain. The procedure is carried out on people who have #epilepsy that can’t be controlled by medication and is used to identify which area of the brain is causing the seizures, and can determine whether they are eligible for brain surgery. Vidler took this picture on the first day that the electrodes were inserted, and he had to keep them in for seven days

    @photography