Spring brings new growth, new possibilities, and, best of all, a new spaghetti diagram from Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory (LLNL) at the Department of Energy. Every year, LLNL produces a ...

Each year, the Department of Energy’s LLNL releases a Sankey diagram that tracks the nation’s consumption of energy resources. The 2012 Energy Flow Chart estimates, based on data from the ...

Capturing energy from the Sun with solar panels is only half the story – that energy needs to be stored somewhere for later use. In the case of flow batteries, storage is relegated to vats of ...

A group of researchers at MIT has designed a cheap and high-performance membraneless flow battery, that could provide the grid infrastructure to help unpredictable wind and solar energy produce a ...

Solar-flow battery to capture, store solar energy at record efficiency. An all-in-one device capable of capturing, storing and using energy from the sun is getting closer to viability, according ...

Abengoa recently secured yet another contract to build a salt-based 110 mega-watt solar storage plant in Chile, which should be able to store 17 hours of energy in reserve.