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Batteries
Batteries are a key part of the energy transition. Here’s why
Powerful, safe and a model for the circular economy, batteries could be the key to decarbonizing global transport and energy sectors. An expert explains.
Digital Communications
This graphic shows what your smartphone is made of
While the combination of metals in a smartphone may vary, most smartphones can carry roughly 80% of the stable elements that are on the periodic table.
Batteries
How innovations in energy storage technology support climate goals
Blackouts due to climate change events are becoming commonplace. These tech innovations in energy storage can provide grid stability and eliminate CO2.
Africa
Closing the Loop on Energy Access in Africa
This report aims to advance the Global Battery Alliance’s 2030 vision to provide 600 million people with access to electricity via battery deployment.
Batteries
What is 'bioleaching' and how could it make EV batteries more sustainable?
Electric vehicles' batteries require metals like lithium. These can be recycled from existing batteries through bioleaching, using microbes to oxidise metal.
Batteries
Metal-free batteries could make the industry more ethical and sustainable
Only a small percentage of Li-ion batteries are recycled and in several well documented cases, the cobalt needed to make them is mined using child labor.
Batteries
A Framework for the Safe and Efficient Global Movement of Batteries
This white paper – published by the Global Battery Alliance with support from the World Economic Forum, White & Case, and SYSTEMIQ – presents a vision to transform the global value ch...
How to Save the Planet
Battery industry at the forefront of a sustainable economy
The next generation of battery technology can help reduce global carbon emissions, improve air quality, boost employment and contribute to a greener world.
Batteries
Consequences of a Mobile Future: Creating an Environmentally Conscious Life Cycle for Lead-Acid Batteries
This White Paper addresses the safe and environmentally responsible management of LAB recycling. It provides a series of recommendations for policy-makers, describes best practices for th...
Artificial Intelligence
These robots can store energy in 'fat reserves' like humans
Scientists from the University of Michigan have created 'biomorphic batteries' that allow robots to store energy like humans.
Electricity
Scientists discover how to use bricks as batteries
A new study in Nature Communications, has worked out how to modify red bricks to store enough electricity to power devices, using nanofiber technology.
The Ocean
Deep-sea minerals could meet the demands of battery supply chains – but should they?
Deep-sea mining has attracted controversy due to concerns of potential damage to delicate ecosystems before scientists have had chance to assess what is at stake.
Decarbonizing Energy
This electric plane has flown successfully for 30 minutes – is this the future of flying?
The worlds largest all-electric plane has just completed a half an hour flight in the United States. Could this be the future of short-haul air travel?
Batteries
The cobalt mining industry is a human rights failure - here's what needs to be done
The connection between the battery driven green economy and the exploitative conditions under which its essential commodity – cobalt – is mined is well known. Here's what needs to change ...
Future of the Environment
Zimbabwe bets big on battery storage to deal with power cuts
With drought affecting the country's hydroelectric output, industry is turning to solar panels and battery storage technology.