Energy Storage Wars: Battle of the automakers


7 June, 2016
Daimler/Mercedes Mercedes producer, Daimler, is fresh off of releasing their new home and businesses powering lithium-ion batteries to Germany and have now created a dedicated branch that will assist with further innovation in the energy sector. The new entity's name is Mercedes-Benz Energy GmbH. The entity will be leading the charge...Read More

Engineering vs Science: Is engineering in trouble?


7 June, 2016
Is engineering suffering a lack of interest in the world today? Is science the new normal for students who desire a career in a profitable STEM industry? STEMJobs.com defines the divide between engineering and science quite nicely: "Engineering boils down to how things work...Scientists observe the world...Science creates questions, while...Read More

Energy Storage Wars: The world’s largest battery unveiled in China


6 June, 2016
Who has the world's largest battery in the world? The answer will soon be China. A battery that will help with grid stability in what is known as the Dalian peninsula in Norther China. The companies behind the large battery are UniEnergy Technologies and Rongke Power. The battery will be...Read More

Energy Storage Wars: The world’s largest battery unveiled in China


6 June, 2016
Who has the world's largest battery in the world? The answer will soon be China. A battery that will help with grid stability in what is known as the Dalian peninsula in Norther China. The companies behind the large battery are UniEnergy Technologies and Rongke Power. The battery will be...Read More

Robot Revolution: "Some jobs are just not going to come back," says Obama


6 June, 2016
Industrial automation is slowly making humans redundant. We have recently seen Foxconn (an electronics manufacturer) let go of 60,000 human workers due to their assembly line becoming fully automated. We are seeing restaurant industries replacing their waiters, waitresses and their kitchen staff for robots in fast food companies in the...Read More

Higher density lithium-ion batteries? It’s all in the oxygen


6 June, 2016
Lithium-ion batteries are the lifeblood of the energy storage movement, without them the current climate of moving towards renewable energy would be one limb short. However, improving lithium-ion batteries is also something that engineers concern themselves with so that we can utilize batteries to their full potential. Researchers at Lawrence...Read More

Higher density lithium-ion batteries? It’s all in the oxygen


6 June, 2016
Lithium-ion batteries are the lifeblood of the energy storage movement, without them the current climate of moving towards renewable energy would be one limb short. However, improving lithium-ion batteries is also something that engineers concern themselves with so that we can utilize batteries to their full potential. Researchers at Lawrence...Read More

Engineering new lenses for cameras, smartphones and telescopes


6 June, 2016
Researchers at Harvard John A. Paulson School of Engineering and Applied Sciences (SEAS) have announced a new lens that could see improvements to oversized lenses prevalent in cameras and telescopes. They call it an ultra-thin planar "metalens" that would revolutionize the world of optics in lenses. The lens would be...Read More

Engineering new lenses for cameras, smartphones and telescopes


6 June, 2016
Researchers at Harvard John A. Paulson School of Engineering and Applied Sciences (SEAS) have announced a new lens that could see improvements to oversized lenses prevalent in cameras and telescopes. They call it an ultra-thin planar "metalens" that would revolutionize the world of optics in lenses. The lens would be...Read More

Toyota will make cloud-connected cars by 2020


6 June, 2016
The first carmaker to jump onto the Internet of Things industrial revolution bandwagon has announced a new network it plans to connect all its vehicles to. Toyota in collaboration with Japanese telecommunications company, KDDI Corp., will be connecting vehicles to the cloud. The companies want to design a "uniform data...Read More