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Researchers at Stanford and the University of Mannheim report that reversible fuel cells can be an economically viable source of backup electricity during periods of surging prices.

In a chapter in the new book, Frontiers of Social Innovation, Stefan Reichelstein, professor emeritus at Stanford Graduate School of Business, proposes a framework called the Intertemporal Corporate Carbon Reporting standard, to make the distinction between corporate spin and real impact. 

Inês Azevedo, a lead author of the energy chapter in the United Nations' new report on climate mitigation, discusses changes necessary to keep global warming below 2 degrees Celsius. “We have the technologies needed to have net-zero energy systems.

One of the main themes of the university's Long Range Vision is embedding ethics across research and education. Kathleen Creel, seen here at left, is the inaugural Embedded EthiCS fellow training the next generation of entrepreneurs and engineers to identify and work through various ethical and moral problems they will encounter in their careers. “The objective is to weave ethics into the curriculum organically so that it feels like a natural part of their practice,” said Creel. 

Researchers imagined, designed, and tested an elegant lens device that can efficiently gather light from all angles and concentrate it at a fixed output position. These graded index optics also have applications in areas such as light management in solid-state lighting, laser couplers, and display technology to improve coupling and resolution.

This industry brief provides a cross-section of key research – at HAI and across Stanford – that leverages AI methods into new algorithms for human robot interaction and robot navigation. Discover how researchers are designing intelligent robots that learn and adapt to human demonstration, and how they could be used to disrupt and create markets in a wide range of industries including manufacturing, healthcare, autonomous vehicles, and many more.

Resonant Link, a startup led by Stanford and Dartmouth trained engineers, is reimaging wireless charging for vehicles and medical devices. Resonant Link aims to teach EVs how to power nap to get quick, frequent charges of energy for slim batteries rather than the overnight charge for bulky batteries of today. Frequent, rapid charging could reduce battery size and in turn lower the cost of EVs enabling a faster transition to a fossil fuel-free transportation fleet. 

Gustavo Cezar wears two colorful hats as an engineer with SLAC’s GISMo lab. In addition to his work on the farm where his team installed smart fans, solar panels, batteries, electricity meters and weather sensors, his lab - GISMo for Grid Integration, Systems and Mobility - is currently modeling the ways in which the increasing number of EVs in California will affect the grid's total load, infrastructure and reliability.

A new mathematical model has brought together the physics and chemistry of highly promising lithium-metal batteries, providing researchers with plausible, fresh solutions to a problem known to cause degradation and failure.