Another Milestone For Solar Panels That Produce Green Hydrogen

Credit to Author: Tina Casey| Date: Sun, 22 Dec 2024 04:13:05 +0000

A US startup is producing green hydrogen from solar panels that deploy billions of specialized nanoparticles activated by sunlight, with scaleup anticipated by 2026.

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Germany Embraces Balkonkraftwerke — Balcony Solar For Apartments

Credit to Author: Steve Hanley| Date: Sat, 21 Dec 2024 22:23:54 +0000

Balcony solar is a big hit in Germany, which as seen 200 MW of new balcony based solar added this year alone.

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New Flow Battery To Take Up Housekeeping In Derelict Oil Tanks

Credit to Author: Tina Casey| Date: Sat, 21 Dec 2024 21:48:35 +0000

The US startup Quino aims to demonstrate that its new flow battery platform can repurpose former oil tanks for wind and solar energy storage.

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Another Day, Another Hydrogen Transportation Failure — Hyzon Edition

Credit to Author: Michael Barnard| Date: Sat, 21 Dec 2024 20:53:40 +0000

The other day I recorded the annual predictions wrap-up with Laurent Segalen and Gerard Reid of Redefining Energy. I’d joined the fun last year for the first time after starting up the Redefining Energy—Tech sub-channel, judging their predictions from the previous year and adding predictions of my own. One of … [continued]

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Rooftop Solar Kill Switch, or Sometimes the Sun Shines Too Much

Credit to Author: David Waterworth| Date: Sat, 21 Dec 2024 00:08:20 +0000

As Australia adds massive amounts of rooftop solar power per year, the discourse is turning from: “we need coal/nuclear because there isn’t enough solar to feed into the grid” to “we need to switch off solar to preserve grid stability.” The point is, though, that we do, but only as … [continued]

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Prefabricated Façade with Integrated Solar PV

Credit to Author: Zachary Shahan| Date: Fri, 20 Dec 2024 11:57:31 +0000

Fraunhofer ISE and Fraunhofer UMSICHT are out there innovating once more, as they tend to do. Could their latest advancement break through in a market that’s been hyped for at least a decade but never come to much? The sector I’m referring to is building-integrated solar PV (BIPV). In this … [continued]

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Canadians Can Cripple Hydrogen Greenwashing, But What About EU, USA, & Oz?

Credit to Author: Michael Barnard| Date: Fri, 20 Dec 2024 01:04:47 +0000

Recently I took a stroll through the implications of Canada’s anti-greenwashing improvements delivered through the truth in advertising provisions of Bill C-59. Originally, it merely caused all oil and gas firms and their lobbying and propaganda groups to magically disappear their entire social media presence and large parts of their … [continued]

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My View Of Clean Energy & Clean Transport, Across The US & Around The World

Credit to Author: Arthur Frederick (Fritz) Hasler| Date: Fri, 20 Dec 2024 00:57:39 +0000

These are some of the factors that help me write articles for CleanTechnica: I’ve been driving 4 different electric cars for almost 11 years. (See 3 of the 4 including the Tesla Model 3 that I’ve been driving the last 5 years in first figure below) I put solar panels … [continued]

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Trucking Will Electrify, But What Hills Must Be Flattened?

Credit to Author: Michael Barnard| Date: Fri, 20 Dec 2024 00:33:24 +0000

Key Takeaways Grid upgrades for high truck charging demands can take years Microgrids with buffering batteries and solar enable charging immediately Depots and truck stops require different charging technologies and have different energy profiles One of the primary challenges of electrifying freight trucks in the United States comes down to … [continued]

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