16+ hour, 32+ min ago  (915+ words) Battery failures can escalate quickly: Heat accumulates, materials break down, and gases ignite in a chain reaction known as thermal runaway. Such events are rare thanks to carefully applied safeguards in material design and battery management systems. Still, continued research…...

4+ day, 13+ hour ago  (1003+ words) Michael Barnard is Chief Strategist at TFIE Strategy and publisher of Michael Barnard’s TFIE Strategy Briefing at briefing.tfie.io. He works with investors, infrastructure strategists, NGOs, startups, policymakers, and public-interest organizations on reality-based decarbonization strategy, investment-thesis testing, technology diligence,…...

2+ mon, 1+ day ago  (218+ words) Plants and algae make their fuel from sunlight. Perhaps we could do the same using semiconductors. A team of scientists at the National Laboratory of the Rockies (NLR) made strides in that direction. They discovered a silicon semiconductor coupled to…...

3+ mon, 11+ hour ago  (632+ words) Whelp, that was fast. US President Donald Trump’s war in Iran has barely been under way for six weeks, and the leading global defense supplier Rheinmetall has already proposed setting up hundreds of green hydrogen microgrids all across Europe. The…...

3+ mon, 4+ week ago  (784+ words) Sodium-ion batteries were once considered a joke because their energy density was too low to perform any meaningful tasks. They barely had enough power to pull the skin off custard. But once upon a time — and not so long ago…...

4+ mon, 2+ day ago  (1617+ words) Michael Barnard works with executives, investors, and policymakers to navigate the pathways toward decarbonization. He helps make sense of complex transitions by combining insights from physics, economics, and human systems, turning them into practical strategies and clear opportunities. His work…...

5+ mon, 3+ week ago  (843+ words) Sodium-ion batteries have been lingering around the fringes of the vehicle electrification movement for years. A breakthrough moment has finally arrived as the hurdles to commercial application have fallen. Even so, science never sleeps, and researchers are already on the…...

6+ mon, 5+ day ago  (842+ words) Unigrid is a San Diego-based startup founded in 2021, deploying sodium-ion battery research developed at the University of California – San Diego. The launch was assisted by a grant of $150,000 from the California Energy Commission’s CalSEED (California Sustainable Energy Entrepreneur Development) program…...

6+ mon, 2+ week ago  (448+ words) There are many questions about what is happening with sodium-ion batteries today. For example, to most people, news that CATL expects to commercialize sodium-ion batteries for EVs in 2026 with 310 mile range comes as quite a surprise. Using a layered oxide…...