Redox flow battery will be refillable

Imagine that you're driving your future electric car down the road, and it gives you a low battery warning. What do you do? Instead of spending a few hours at a recharging station, new battery technology being developed by the Fraunhofer Institute in Germany would let you pull into a service station and refill the battery with an electrolytic liquid.

The Fraunhofer Institute is using a redox flow battery, a type of cell that uses two electrolytic fluids exchanging protons through a membrane. This process generates electricity. Although this type of battery isn't new, the Fraunhofer Institute improved the energy density, making it equivalent to that of a lithium- ion battery.
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Hello Kitty solar charger phone strap

It's not the first time Sanrio's famous mouthless export has shed its pink to go green. But if you love the cat and the environment in the same breath, this latest solar charger on a strap could let you and your Kitty pals squeal "kawaii neh!" collectively over it and feel good about the planet all at the same time. Fortunately for the rest of the less enamored crowd, this Kitty solar charger retails mainly in Japan. It takes 7 to 11 hours of sun worshipping before our feline is fully powered up, and about 40-60 minutes on mains through the supplied AC adapter.
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Singapore showcases its first Zero Energy Building

Going by the axiom that action speaks louder than words, the Singapore authorities have on Monday unveiled the country's first Zero Energy Building as a project to test the waters. The Government has tasked itself with developing green technologies to meet the goal of making 80 percent of all buildings in the island state green by 2030.

This is also the first such green building in Southeast Asia.
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Solar curtains to tap those rays

More clever ideas to incorporate solar panels into your home, the Some Shine Solar Energy Storage System by designer Ming-Ching Hsueh hangs, literally, at the window. There's a lot of common sense at work here, which should appeal to the pragmatic Asian homeowner. To harvest all that sun power, a battery pack plugged at the base of the hanging soaks up those solar energy to be used later juice up your gadgets via USB.
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Eco-friendly Samsung Blue Earth gets official

We first saw the Samsung Blue Earth earlier this year during the Mobile World Congress in Barcelona. In June, we had a hands-on with the product when the chaebol showed it off at CommunicAsia in Singapore. Today, the Korean company released full specifications and availability. Aside from the integrated solar panel, its main differentiating factor, this handset comes with HSDPA connectivity, a full touchscreen display, 3.2-megapixel camera and even Wi-Fi and Bluetooth.

According to the press release, the Samsung Blue Earth ships first to Sweden this month and "will soon launch" in other parts of Europe and Asia, though no pricing information was given. More specifically, Singapore will get the phone in November with other parts of Asia to follow thereafter. Click here for more details and our first impressions.

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