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Harvard team demonstrates new metal-free organic–inorganic aqueous flow battery; potential breakthrough for low-cost grid-scale storage

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AQDSH 2 refers to the reduced form of AQDS. Wide-scale utilization of flow batteries is, however, limited by the abundance and cost of these materials, particularly those using redox-active metals and precious-metal electrocatalysts. Cell schematic. Discharge mode is shown; the arrows are reversed for electrolytic/charge mode.

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Underground Coal Gasification Company In Partnership to Test Alkaline Fuel Cells for Power Generation

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million into AFC Energy stock at a price determined in reference to the market price at the time of exercise. For Linc Energy-owned sites, Linc Energy will pay to AFC Energy an upfront payment calculated on the cost of delivery of fuel cell systems, and a royalty based on profits generated from the use of AFC Energy fuel cells.

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Clearing the roadblocks to electrification of heavy-duty trucks

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If you don’t build something like that, people can’t refer to it. Those guys don’t have the wherewithal to finance a battery-electric truck that costs twice as much as a diesel truck, and they’re usually buying third- or fourth-owner diesels anyway, that are super-cheap. So WattEV is going to offer truck-as-a-service.

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Report from the REFF-Wall Street; Themes in Renewable Energy Finance

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Auerbach’s calculations project that “ In order to meet the administration’s renewable energy goals, $217 billion will be required by 2012. Attendees believe that renewable energy needs two elements to be successful: technical progress leading to lower costs and a price on carbon. China continues to defy easy classification.

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Slow start for charge of the electric cars - Times Online

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Cheap to run but expensive to buy, they offer theprospect of low or zero carbon emissions, but manufacturers won’t sell themunless motorists want to buy them – and motorists won’t buy unless the priceis right and there are enough places to charge the batteries.

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Perspective: Regional Greenhouse Gas Cap-and-Trade Programs May be the Solution

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That agreement calls for a program that will cover nearly 90 percent of the region’s greenhouse gas emissions when it is fully implemented (commonly referred to as an economy-wide program). The cap-and-trade program will begin regulating emissions in January 2012. Sources: In 2012–electricity generators and large industrial sources.

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