Innovation

Toyota scrambles to ready solid-state battery for EVs

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Solid-state battery offers more capacity, better safety Toyota is feverishly working to solve remaining issues with its solid-state battery technology, which the company hopes will help cut costs of building electric cars. The solid-state batteries are high-capacity energy storage devices that will better lithium-ion batteries, and replace the liquid or gel-form electrolyte with a solid, […]

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Toyota solid-state battery tech a game changer, but company committed to hydrogen cars

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Solid-state battery could improve driving range Toyota says its solid-state battery technology under development could be a game changer for electric vehicles, but the Japanese automaker says it is not shifting entirely away from hydrogen-powered fuel-cell vehicles. The pivot is likely due to China’s push to promote electric vehicles as the world’s largest car market

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Mazda engine could prolong life of ICEs, improve hybrids

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Mazda engine uses combustion ignition technology Mazda’s SKYACTIV-X engine is 30 per cent more efficient than diesel engines and is being hailed as a major breakthrough in internal combustion engines (ICE). The newly developed Mazda engine is fuelled by gasoline.  According to Reuters, it uses a spark plug to ignite a high-pressure “fireball” inside the

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Industry-led effort designed to cut costs through digital oilfield revolution

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Digital technology advances creating an almost unlimited range of possibilities – and risks Industries ranging from health care to oil refining have been radically changed by the digital revolution, according to a University of Houston press release. A new initiative has been launched to help accelerate the same digital transformation for exploration and production of

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Canadian innovator alert: Open call for oil/gas technology development proposals by international funder

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Technologies can be at concept stage or be ready for market development, open to Canadian innovators The Industry Technology Facilitator (ITF) has issued its annual open call for proposals and this year all global developers of innovations in the oil and gas industry are welcomed at any technology readiness level, according to a press release.

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Shale producers applying microbe DNA sequencing to improve oil and gas economics

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Biota successfully analyzed DNA for over 200 wells Biota Technology, the oilfield DNA sequencing pioneer achieved a critical milestone on path to commercialization: the diagnostic has been deployed by a majority of the top 20 U.S. shale producers in the U.S., according to a press release. “Biota is pioneering DNA sequencing in the energy industry. We

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Solution for oil sands tailings ponds? Miracle fungus discovered by Saskatchewan researchers

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Fungus has potential to clean up Alberta’s oil sands mining tailings ponds – Prof. Kaminskyj A natural strain of fungus discovered in Saskatoon by University of Saskatchewan (U of S) researchers could have the power to return life to Alberta’s oilsands, according to a press release. “The current methods of restoring these sites are not

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First ever Co2 capture turns carbon from air into rocks

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Plant near Zurich filters 900 tons of CO2 from atmosphere and supplies local greenhouse Switzerland-based Climeworks has installed one of its direct carbon capture modules on-site in Iceland that captures carbon dioxide from ambient air for permanent storage underground, according to a press release. The EU-backed collaborative research project centres around one of the world’s

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Devastation in Puerto Rico could produce a revolutionary power grid

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Weeks after Hurricane Maria, only 15 per cent of Puerto Rico has electricity By Lewis M. Milford and Mark Muro Disasters often lead to unexpected and swift technology innovation. The calamitous collapse of Puerto Rico’s electricity system might be the next example of that phenomenon. As we know, Hurricane Maria devastated the island. Now, just a few weeks

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