Part 2: How To Repurpose Your EV Cargo Rack For Solar Panels

Credit to Author: Tina Casey| Date: Tue, 10 Dec 2024 14:44:32 +0000

The US startup DartSolar is developing DIY-friendly rooftop solar panels for a variety of electric vehicles, adding miles to the battery, running electric tools and equipment, or providing power in emergencies.

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CSIRO Study: Nuclear Energy Is Not The Savior Some People Say It Is

Credit to Author: Tina Casey| Date: Mon, 09 Dec 2024 14:27:27 +0000

New SMR technology or not, researchers have thrown cold water on the idea of launching the nuclear energy industry into Australia.

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Renewable Energy-On-Rails Scheme To Cure Transmission Line Blues

Credit to Author: Tina Casey| Date: Sun, 08 Dec 2024 01:57:33 +0000

SunTrain is planning a new mobile energy storage system that collects  renewable energy where available and ships it where needed, using existing railways instead of transmission lines.

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Superconducting Transmission CEO Talks Grids In Brussels

Credit to Author: Michael Barnard| Date: Fri, 06 Dec 2024 03:02:15 +0000

When I was in Brussels recently speaking at the launch of the second edition of Supergrid Super Solution, Eddie O’Connor and Kevin O’Sullivan’s handbook for Europe’s renewable power grid of the future, I had the opportunity to sit down with John Fitzgerald, CEO of Supernode, a startup developing superconducting transmission. … [continued]

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Purpose-Built Ship Deploys Wave Energy To Produce Green Ammonia Fuel At Sea

Credit to Author: Tina Casey| Date: Thu, 05 Dec 2024 16:35:47 +0000

A new floating green hydrogen and ammonia production facility will deploy flotillas of wave energy converters along with wind and solar power.

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A Flow Battery Stealth Attack Is Coming For Your Fossil Fuels

Credit to Author: Tina Casey| Date: Thu, 05 Dec 2024 04:53:52 +0000

Five electric cooperatives in the US will each host a new vanadium flow battery from the UK firm Invinity, in a long duration energy storage demonstration project overseen by the US Department of Energy

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Lessons For Europe & North America From Northvolt Collapse

Credit to Author: Michael Barnard| Date: Wed, 04 Dec 2024 04:50:39 +0000

The European Union lost a few things in the past week. The least of them was a couple of billion euros of loans and grants. A big one was a new supply of fresh and shiny Europe-made batteries. The biggest was a belief that anything China could do, they could … [continued]

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Finnish GTK Risks Credibility By Publishing Bad Minerals Study In Peer-Reviewed House Journal

Credit to Author: Michael Barnard| Date: Wed, 04 Dec 2024 03:02:17 +0000

A year ago I published an assessment of a quite remarkably bad, non-peer-reviewed paper by one of the Geological Survey of Finland’s (GTK) associate professors, Simon Michaux. The paper’s quite risible conclusions were that there wasn’t nearly enough metal in the ground to be able to electrify everything with renewables. … [continued]

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Extreme H Tests The Limits Of Fuel Cells, Green Hydrogen

Credit to Author: Tina Casey| Date: Tue, 03 Dec 2024 23:50:02 +0000

Fuel cells provide the power for the new Pioneer 25 Extreme H race car, featured in a publicity event in Monaco earlier this week.

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Iron-Air Energy Storage Finishes What Natural Gas Started

Credit to Author: Tina Casey| Date: Sun, 01 Dec 2024 20:00:29 +0000

Biggest solar power plant in the US to showcase new coal-killing long duration iron-air energy storage technology.

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