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Radioactive Drum

Turning Nuclear Waste into “Perpetual” Batteries

Since the beginning of Nuclear power, the problem has been how to dispose of the radioactive waste. By refining this radioactive waste, then compressing it into a diamond and then surrounding it with a non-radioactive diamond this becomes an economical way to dispose of it. But the interesting thing about it is that the researchers found that in the process these radioactive diamonds become miniature batteries.

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China Vanadium Battery Factory

Move Aside Lithium – Vanadium Is The New Super-Metal

The lithium ride was a great one. Cobalt, too. All they needed was their Elon Musk moment, which came in the form of the Nevada battery gigafactory. The next Elon Musk moment won’t be about lithium at all—or even cobalt. It will be for an element that takes everything electric to its revolutionary finish line: Vanadium.

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Solar Hot Water

Will Solar Energy Finally Catch On?

The idea of using solar power is a popular one. Not only is it eco-friendly, but the hope is that it can also save your household a significant amount of money. But the idea of using solar power is not new. The first solar hot water heater was created by Clarence Kemp of Baltimore who painted a tank black and enclosed it in a wooden box thus creating the first known “batch water heater”.

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