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"Just think how often your fancy new mobile phone or computer has become little more than a paperweight because the battery lost its zeal for doing its job," says John Chmiola, a chemist with the Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (Berkeley Lab). "At a time when cellphones can do more than computers could do at the beginning of the Clinton presidency, it would be an understatement to say that... Read more

EETD scientist Venkat Srinivasan has been writing a blog about batteries, advanced battery research and electric vehicles.... Read more

The U.S. Department of Energy has awarded Honeywell an $11.4 million grant to help Southern California Edison implement automated demand response under OpenADR, the Open Automated Demand Response Communications Specification.The grant was one of several Smart Grid Investment Grants awarded under the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act.OpenADR was developed by researchers at the PIER Demand... Read more