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Vanadium: 'The element that could change the world'

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Through its Green Giant Project in Madagascar, Uranium Star has discovered what could be the largest deposit of the valuable mineral.

 

The evening of Feb. 27, 2008, was a dark moment for clean energy.

 

Texas is the biggest producer of wind power in the United States, normally generating 1.7 gigawatts. But on that day a cold front moved in and the winds died around suppertime. Had they had vanadium redox batteries installed, this emergency situation could have been prevented.
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The Element That Could Change the World

Making green energy work may depend on three unlikely heroes: an Australian engineer, a battery, and the element vanadium.

by Bob Johnstone

From the October 2008 issue; published online September 29, 2008

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VRB-powered EV? The Fraunhofer Institut wants to give it a try.

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Fraunhofer ICT Working on New Redox Flow Batteries with Improved Capacity for EV Applications

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Researchers from the Fraunhofer Institute for Chemical Technology ICT in Pfinztal near Karlsruhe are developing improved redox flow batteries for automotive applications in an attempt to address storage capacity and charging time limitations of current Li-ion battery solutions for electric vehicles.

 

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Sunday, September 5th 2010

Science

  • Novel nanotechnology collaboration leads to breakthrough in cancer research

    One of the most difficult aspects of working at the nanoscale is actually seeing the object being worked on. Biological structures like viruses, which are smaller than the wavelength of light, are invisible to standard optical microscopes and difficult to capture in their native form with other imaging techniques.

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  • Transition metal catalysts could be key to origin of life, scientists report

    One of the big, unsolved problems in explaining how life arose on Earth is a chicken-and-egg paradox: How could the basic biochemicals—such as amino acids and nucleotides—have arisen before the biological catalysts (proteins or ribozymes) existed to carry out their formation?

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  • MIT moves toward greener chemistry

    Phosphorus, a mineral element found in rocks and bone, is a critical ingredient in fertilizers, pesticides, detergents and other industrial and household chemicals. Once phosphorus is mined from rocks, getting it into these products is hazardous and expensive, and chemists have been trying to streamline the process for decades.

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