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Nevada put big battery energy storage where a coal plant used to be

Baua Electric

Nevada utility NV Energy’s largest battery energy storage system sits on a former coal-fired power plant site and will save customers a lot of money. The new BESS is on the site of the former 557-megawatt (MW) coal-fired Reid Gardner Generating Station, which was demolished in 2019. Energy Vault will maintain the system.

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Tesla drivers have smoke blown in their faces | Opinion

EV Central

There is, of course, some kind of cursed crossover in the Ven diagram that includes both the Rick rollers of coal and the people who hate science, but anyway, let’s digress. I wouldn’t say he sounds smug and self-satisfied, because I hate understatement too much, but I would say he seems unlikely to buy an electric car any time ever.

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This will be the first geothermal energy storage system on the Texas grid

Baua Electric

The EarthStore system will be in Christine, Texas, south of San Antonio, near the SMECI lignite coal power plant. Sage will operate as a merchant, buying and selling electricity to the ERCOT grid. The project is expected to come online later in 2024. Get started here.

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EIA releases report on CO2 emissions by state; California led in 2010 with transportation-sector emissions

Green Car Congress

Energy-related CO 2 emissions buy state, 2010. tonnes of CO 2 per person), followed by North Dakota (80.4 tonnes/person) and Alaska (54.6 tonnes/person). For example, some states are located near abundant hydroelectric supplies, while others contain abundant coal resources. Source: EIA. Click to enlarge.

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‘Hatchbacks are here to stay; no guarantee that SUVs will remain popular in the future’: RC Bhargava | Autocar Professional

Baua Electric

So, the more you can make that into an enjoyable event for the buyer, the more excited he becomes about buying a product for whatever reason, whether it’s looks or performance. However low the cost of operations becomes; the buyer still has to find the money to buy the car initially. What are the potential solutions?

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How Efficient Is Your EV? It’s Complicated

Cars That Think

We'll be interested in how much carbon-based fuels such as coal and natural gas went into the electrical energy that charged our batteries. And we'll eventually want to know how environmentally friendly that battery chemistry is for any car we buy. Personally, I won't miss the smell of nitromethane at all. To perhaps 0.04

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The Chain Reaction That Propels Civilization

Cars That Think

In the 18th century, the United Kingdom built a network of canals that enabled, rather suddenly, the delivery of raw materials, coal for power, and access to ports for the finished goods. We have various electronic communication networks (the autocatalytic system) and some early personal computers (the catalyst).

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