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  1. 15 technology shifts in one briefing: encrypted prompt attacks, AI-targeted water systems, exposed MLflow and Zimbra servers, console spending, stacked chips, data-center backlash, Meta AI, Android malware, battery chemistry, NASA Swift, AI bias, Firefly audio, tactile robotics, and better video judges. #Tech #AI #Security

    #TechnologyNews #AI #Cybersecurity #Robotics #Space #EnergyStorage #Semiconductors

  2. #DYK that pumped storage hydropower is the largest #EnergyStorage technology globally? 46 GW capacity of pumped storage hydropower is installed in the EU, amounting to almost a quarter of the total global installed capacity⚡️ Learn more: link.europa.eu/MNyDTB
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    nitter.net/Energy4Europe/statu

  3. Silicon-Carbon Battery Tech Ends EV Range Anxiety 10-Min 0–80% Charge

    Imagine charging 80% of your electric vehicle’s battery in under 10 minutes and achieving over 400 miles on a single charge. Group14 Technologies’ silicon-carbon anode material, SCC55®, promises substantial advancements in EV battery capabilities, addressing some of the key barriers to mass adoption by improving both range and charging speeds…….Continue reading…. By Brian Iselin Source:  Autoblog . Critics: In the automotive industry, safety means that users, operators, […]

    onlinemarketingscoops.com/2026

  4. #GeneralMotors is expanding its #energystorage and #datacentre business by promoting #sodiumion #battery chemistry, which could lower costs and improve performance. The company is partnering with Peak Energy to develop these batteries, aiming for customer use after 2028. GM is also exploring vehicle-to-grid capabilities and partnerships with utility companies to help customers manage rising #energycosts. cnbc.com/2026/06/09/gm-batteri #tech #media #news

  5. The battery miracle online is doing the most

    All-solid-state battery diagram by Luca Bertoli, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons.

    Dear Cherubs, the internet has once again discovered a battery so perfect it sounds like it came from a pitch deck written by a caffeinated intern and approved by gravity itself. The specific 90-second charge, 99.7% storage retention, and 5,000-cycle package circulating online was not verifiable from primary sources I checked, so the smart move is to treat it as a viral claim, not a finished breakthrough.

    Reality check

    What is real is the bigger trend: solid-state batteries replace the flammable liquid electrolyte used in conventional lithium-ion cells with a solid ion conductor, which can improve safety and potentially raise energy density. MIT has been making that case for years, while also pointing out that the interface between materials is still the part where the dream gets stuck in traffic.

    That interface problem is not a footnote. MIT’s recent coverage says solid-state cells are still plagued by dendrites that can short-circuit the battery, and a 2020 MIT review lays out the rest of the mess: chemical stability, mechanical stability, processing, and long-term performance. In other words, the field is advancing, just not in the magical “plug in for 90 seconds and disappear for six months” way social media likes to sell it.

    DOE’s battery overview says solid-state batteries can be safer because they are less prone to leakage from damage or swelling in hot temperatures, but it also notes that some designs still use a little liquid at the cathode to reduce interfacial resistance. Translation: progress, yes. Fairy dust, no.

    Why it matters

    The good news is that the field is moving. In 2025, Stellantis and Factorial Energy said they validated automotive-sized solid-state cells with 375 Wh/kg energy density and fast charging from 15% to 90% in 18 minutes, with a demonstration fleet planned for 2026. That is not “two-minute EV charging,” but it is a serious step forward, which is how real engineering usually behaves when nobody is trying to go viral.

    So the right takeaway is not that battery problems have been solved. It is that researchers keep making the hard part less impossible. If the viral post was pointing at a real advance, it was probably one brick in a wall, not the wall itself. The upside is still huge: safer packs, longer life, and faster charging. The downside is that physics remains deeply committed to being inconvenient.

    Sources:
    MIT Department of Materials Science and Engineering — https://dmse.mit.edu/news/why-solid-state-batteries-keep-short-circuiting/
    MIT News — https://news.mit.edu/2017/toward-solid-lithium-batteries-0202
    MIT Review PDF — https://ecm.mit.edu/pubs/articles/10.1002_aenm.202002689.pdf
    U.S. Department of Energy — https://www.energy.gov/cmei/ammto/breaking-it-down-next-generation-batteries
    U.S. Department of Energy — https://www.energy.gov/cmei/ammto/breaking-it-down-next-generation-batteries
    Stellantis — https://www.stellantis.com/en/news/press-releases/2025/april/stellantis-and-factorial-energy-reach-key-milestone-in-solid-state-battery-development
    Wikimedia Commons image source — https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:All-Solid-State_Battery.png

    The Thisclaimer logo blends a classic warning symbol with a brain icon to represent critical thinking, curiosity, and thoughtful disclaimers. #batterySafety #batteryTechnology #cleanEnergy #climateChange #electricVehicles #energy #energyStorage #fastCharging #lithiumIon #mit #renewableEnergy #research #solidStateBatteries #sustainability #technology
  6. The next big #EnergyStorage device could be a 1000 °C #SandBattery

    With high specific heat, low thermal conductivity, and no risk of fire, sand-based energy storage systems are gaining traction in grid-scale and industrial heating applications.

    by Georgina Jedikovska, Jul 17, 2025

    Excerpt: "While at first glance, sand might not seem like the most high-tech solution for energy storage, its ability to capture and retain heat has been harnessed for millennia.

    "Sand might not seem high-tech, but its thermal properties have been used since antiquity. #AncientEgyptians mixed sand, silt, and straw to construct homes that absorbed solar heat by day and slowly released it by night.

    "Today’s engineers are taking that principle further using refined materials, insulated steel silos, and precision heating systems to build high-temperature thermal energy reservoirs using sand."

    Read more:
    interestingengineering.com/ene

    Archived version:
    archive.ph/KW2T0

    #SolarPunkSunday #SandBatteries #RenewableEnergy #AncientTechnology

  7. How 2,000 Tons Of #Sand Stores 100 Megawatt-Hours And Slashes Carbon Emissions 70%

    By John Koetsier, Apr 14, 2026,

    "#PolarNight is doubling its size with a new 250 megawatt-hour facility in Vaaksy, #Finland, which will output 2 megawatts of energy consistently. That newer and bigger battery will use only slightly more sand – 2,400 tons – because the #SandBattery’s design renders it more efficient with size. What will become the new world’s largest sand battery is already under construction and is scheduled for completion in summer 2027."

    Read more:
    forbes.com/sites/johnkoetsier/

    Archived version:
    archive.ph/NklmC

    #SolarPunkSunday #SandBatteries #EnergyStorage

  8. Sodium‑ion batteries offer a practical and sustainable route to large‑scale energy storage: lower material costs, improved safety, and strong potential for grid and stationary storage. Our latest blog outlines the technology, market prospects, and remaining technical hurdles. Dive deeper: wix.to/DuZqVXI

    #SodiumIon
    #EnergyStorage
    #RenewableEnergy
    #Sustainability
    #CleanTech

  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. Fast-charging #SodiumIon battery uses anodes made from trees

    By C.C. Weiss
    June 09, 2024

    "A month after #NatronEnergy began its first-of-kind sodium-ion battery mass production, Swedish sodium-ion developer #Altris has identified a means of making the LithiumFree batteries even more sustainable. Together with partner #StoraEnso, it's adapting tree pulp-sourced carbon toward use as an anode material.

    "A byproduct of wood pulp manufacturing, #lignin has long been investigated for possible use as a more sustainable electrode material. Finnish renewable materials company Stora Enso made headlines in 2022 when it partnered up with Swedish battery manufacturer #Northvolt toward using its proprietary #Lignode material in lithium-ion battery anodes. Stora Enso describes Lignode as a hard carbon material refined from lignin.

    "By teaming with Altris, Stora Enso looks to go even more sustainable while further localizing the European battery supply chain. As we looked at when Natron Energy kicked off production a few weeks ago, sodium-ion batteries eliminate the need for rare minerals like lithium, cobalt and nickel, relying on abundant sodium that can be sourced locally without harmful #mining. "

    Read more:
    newatlas.com/energy/wood-based

    #SolarPunkSunday #EnergyStorage #SodiumIonBatteries #NewTechnology #GiantLeap #Reuse #WasteReuse

  11. #DYK that pumped storage hydropower is by far the EU's main #EnergyStorage method?

    46 GW capacity of pumped storage hydropower is installed in the EU, amounting to almost a quarter of the total global installed capacity!

    More on EU energy storage 👉 link.europa.eu/7fhrR8
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    nitter.net/Energy4Europe/statu

  12. love both #energyStorage and #sand :,D

    "#PolarNightEnergy has built an industrial-scale sand battery in Pornainen #Finland. The #battery is set to reduce #carbonemissions from the local #heating network by as much as 70%. At 42 feet tall and 50 feet wide, the battery can store up to 100 MWh, enough to heat the whole town for a week. The #sandbattery can hold a charge for months at a time, helping balance the energy #grid during periods of high demand."

    newatlas.com/energy/largest-sa

    #renewables

  13. Friday, July 11, 2025

    What Russian bombardment feels like in Kyiv — Ukraine, UK pen deal for Thales air defense missile supply — The day I first heard a Shahed drone buzzing overhead –Ukraine’s largest battery energy storage project enters final testing phase, set to power 600,000 homes … and more

    activitypub.writeworks.uk/2025

  14. LG Energy Solution is back in the game with a 152% Q2 profit boost, thanks to smart localization in the U.S., LFP battery expansion, and a massive EV deal with Chery Auto. While rivals struggle, LGES is leading the EV battery race.

    #LGES #BatteryBoom #EVbatteries #LFPtech #GreenEnergy #ElectricVehicles #TechRebound #TeslaCompetitor #EnergyStorage #TECHi

    Read Full Article Here :- techi.com/lg-energy-solution-q

  15. Researchers developed a new material for #solidstatebatteries that conducts #lithiumions more than 30% faster than any previously known material, setting a new world record: go.tum.de/983541👏

    #InorganicChemistry #EnergyStorage

    📷W. Schuermann