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Solid-state sodium batteries could be safer, cheaper, more powerful option

We rely on batteries now more than ever, from our phones and laptops to electric vehicles. But the ones powering today's ...
Power Engineering

GE to invest $100m in sodium-metal halide battery factory in New York state

13 May 2009 – GE is to invest $100m in a factory to build high-tech batteries for heavy equipment, which it believes could be a $1bn business over the next decade. The largest U.S. conglomerate plans ...
JSTOR Daily

The impacts of new street light technologies: experimentally testing the effects on bats of changing from low-pressure sodium to white metal halide

Artificial light at night is a major feature of anthropogenic global change and is increasingly recognized as affecting biodiversity, often negatively. On a global scale, newer technology white lights ...
Nature

Sodium Naphthalenide–Alkyl Halide Chemiluminescence

WE wish to report the production of violet chemiluminescence when alkyl halides are reacted with sodium naphthalenide at room temperature under anaerobic conditions. This effect, which can be detected ...
Magazine

Lunera's HID LED 360 lamp replaces both metal halide and high-pressure sodium lamps

Santa Clara, Calif., – Lunera Lighting, Inc. is proud to announce the Lunera HID LED 360 lamp for architectural post top fixtures, which are commonly used to illuminate walking pathways and building ...