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Glad to announce our annual “show and tell” IRI
Exhibit Booth #23 at the Natural Living Expo ( Expo Page ) which is
fast approaching and we are so excited to see all of you next
Sunday, October 8th, at The College Park Marriott Hotel
& Conference Center, which is located near to the
University of Maryland at 3501 University
Blvd., Hyattsville, MD 20783. We will
have most of our products, books, DVDs, and reports on display,
along with a Premier
4000 “Tesla High Voltage Energy Chair” for
free sessions.
Story #1
is an exciting miniature Nano rocket thruster that is hard to
believe. The principle function is a tiny electrolyzer running on
water so the gases provide the thrust. Certainly is Interesting
Engineering to me.
Story #2
gives us a more practical look at energy storage novelty using a
building’s cement foundation perhaps. Basically the
supercapacitors are made from carbon and cement, developed by MIT
and the Wyss Institute. Storing 10 kWh of energy in a 3 ½ meter
cube is pretty impressive. The complete journal paper explains
the details: https://www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/pnas.2304318120
Story #3 is a breakthrough since only heat is being
used to split water with the help of UC at Santa Barbara. The
thermochemical invention is being touted as “the world’s cheapest
green hydrogen” and a
NewHydrogen innovation. The company uses renewable heat
sourced from geothermal or concentrated solar which can be much
cheaper than even renewable electricity. The possibility of using
waste heat is also part of their business plan. A
short video explains the process.
Story #4
has to be the best news in the battery business yet to come. The
largest deposit of lithium has been found right in the United
States! Hopefully, all of the initial hurdles can be overcome to
let such a stabilizing discovery become a mainstream business
employing thousands of workers and lithium-ion batteries soon.
Interestingly, the Related Articles all present a differing
picture of the issues surrounding the volcanic find along the
Nevada-Oregon border.
Story #5
is very inspiring, if for no other reason than the Paris
Agreement was initiated in the city of Paris, France which is now
aiming for an emission-free status by 2050. Using rooftop solar
installations and lots of electric vehicles, the “SolarEV City
Concept” also has the potential to store surplus electricity
generated by solar panels. Integrating EVs as energy storage
units within the city offers the prospect of supplying
approximately 60 percent of the electricity needed and a possible
23% reduction in energy costs by 2030.
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1) Nano rocket thruster can run on water, fit on a
fingertip
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Interesting
Engineering September 2023
A team
of researchers from Imperial College London has developed a tiny
rocket engine that runs on water, which could be used to maneuver
small satellites in space.
The
engine called the Iridium Catalysed Electrolysis CubeSat Thruster
(ICE-Cube Thruster) is based on electrolysis, a process that
splits water into hydrogen and oxygen using an electric current.
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2) Cement-based supercapacitor makes a novel energy
storage system
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Physics
World September 2023
A new
cost-effective and efficient supercapacitor made from carbon black
and cement could store a day’s worth of energy in the concrete
foundation of a building or provide contactless recharging for
electric cars as they travel across it. The device could also
facilitate the use of renewable energy sources such as solar, wind
and tidal power, according to the researchers at the Massachusetts
Institute of Technology (MIT) and the Wyss Institute, both in the
US, who developed it.
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3) Carbon Cleanup can spur Innovation
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Hydrogen
Fuel.News, Sept. 2023
NewHydrogen,
Inc. (OTC: NEWH) announced it has entered a research agreement with
University of California, Santa Barbara and is working with a team
of UC Santa Barbara experts to develop a more efficient way to
split water into cheap green hydrogen using a thermochemical
approach. The groundbreaking technology uses heat instead of
electricity to generate hydrogen.
The
thermochemical approach uses heat instead of electricity to split
water into hydrogen and oxygen. This method is different from the
conventional approach of producing green hydrogen, which is via
electrolysis by using electrolyzers with renewable energy, such as
solar or wind, to split water into hydrogen and oxygen.
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4) Lithium discovery in US volcano could be the biggest
deposit ever found
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Chemistry
World September 2023
A
world-beating deposit of lithium along the Nevada–Oregon border
could meet surging demand for this metal, according to a new
analysis.An estimated 20 to 40 million tonnes of lithium metal lie
within a volcanic crater formed around 16 million years ago. This is
notably larger than the lithium deposits found beneath a Bolivian
salt flat, previously considered the largest deposit in the world.
Mining at the site is, however, contested by Native Americans for
whom the area is sacred, and is believed to be where a massacre took
place in 1865.
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