If you know me or read all this blog you might know that I look forward to the time of electric car. And maybe solar power as well. There are lots of improvement to be made. Battery life, price and power should be improved for electric car. Solar power also has a lot of potential but if it cannot be stored it is not worth much (hence we go back to the battery issue)(it needs to be stored to be used at nigh, on cloudy day or whenever it is needed), not to mention it should be cheaper and more efficient as well. And the grid need to be improved to transport it, as renewable energy takes lot of space and renewable energy power station are bound to be far from the cities.

Anyway in most of these fronts many breakthrough keeps happening lately! I don’t know if it’s simply due to my increase awareness or if the times are ripe!

So, here are some interesting bits of information:

(Note: from one article to an other on the same topic I often found number discrepancy, so while I take some general information from the article, I usually don’t grant too much attention / faith to the numbers they provide)

A ‘Lithium ion – Air’ battery, a new concept which has the potential to dramatically increase all lithium  batteries!

A new cathode for batteries which can greatly improve… their overall performance: http://www.treehugger.com/files/2008/11/battery-life-breakthrough.php

A123 System (a leading manufacturer in Li-ion battery) announced it is going to build in a new factory in America.

The “Project better place” which aim to speed up electric battery market, had an agreement with the Australian government, they should be here by 2012, yoohoo!!

Here apparently First Solar Inc. broke the $1 per watt barrier in solar energy power generation.

Researcher have created a device which capture a much bigger range of the light spectrum.

Researchers have found a paint coating which can be used to capture solar power.