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California makes first investments in $100M energy research & development program; also biogas and H2

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EPIC is a multi-year, research investment program focused on electricity-related innovations, finding new energy solutions and bringing clean energy ideas to the marketplace. University of California, Davis: $1 million to improve the accuracy of short-term forecasting of wind power production in the Tehachapi Wind Resources Area.

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MIT researchers propose subsea version of pumped hydro for renewable energy storage

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Researchers at MIT are proposing using a variation on pumped hydroelectric systems for storage of electricity produced by offshore wind farms. The key to this Ocean Renewable Energy Storage (ORES) system is the placement of 30-meter-diameter hollow concrete spheres on the seafloor under the wind turbines. Earlier post.).

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Audi e-gas plant qualified to participate in balancing market to stabilize grid

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However, regional expansion of wind and photovoltaic generation plants leads to increasingly larger load fluctuations. One of the ideas behind the plant and its location was to obtain the CO 2 required for methanation from the biogas plant.

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Lotfi Zadeh and the Birth of Fuzzy Logic

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His choice of subject for his master’s thesis, though, marked one of the first times he would sail against the prevailing technical winds. He had heard from a colleague that Zadeh had been toying with the idea of leaving Columbia. At the time, though, he had no clear idea how this would work. That idea came in July 1964.

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New UNEP report says bridging emissions gap to meet 2-degree target doable, outlines pathways to 2020

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Other measures include sectoral improvements ranging from increased penetration of public transport and more fuel efficient vehicles to ones in areas such as, agriculture and waste management. Up to 9% of total primary energy in 2020 would come from non-biomass renewable energy (solar, wind, hydroelectricity and the like).

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Hyundai Introduces i-flow Diesel Hybrid Concept at Geneva; New Blue Drive Vehicles and Technologies

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The i-flow is a test bed for new energy harvesting ideas, ranging from flexible solar panel roofing to a thermo-electric generator. Another technique introduced in collaboration with BASF is thermoelectric waste heat recovery. Hyundai’s first diesel-electric hybrid powertrain uses the new U2 1.7-liter

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The Future of Fission Reactors May Be Small

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When it comes online in 2026, Linglong One will have a capacity of 125 megawatts of electricity (MWe)—equivalent to around 40 onshore wind turbines. Even more discouragingly, nuclear’s per-unit cost increased 26 percent between 2009 and 2019—while solar and wind power prices plummeted instead.

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