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Study finds direct seawater splitting has substantial drawbacks to conventional water splitting, offers almost no advantage

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To meet this challenge and to satisfy the constant energy demand of society, electricity must be stored in times of overproduction to provide energy when little sunshine and wind is available. To store the green electricity in a highly scalable way, it must be converted into chemical energy. Diess et al.

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Bombardier (now Alstom) to convert AGC hybrid trains to full battery power

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Bombardier Transportation (now part of Alstom) introduced a variety of green innovations to reduce CO 2 emissions and pollution in the railway sector. The effort is part of France’s strategy to eventually phase diesel power out of its national rail fleet.

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DOE awards $56M to 21 concentrating solar power projects; $8M for reducing soft costs of rooftop PV systems

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DOE also announced the “America’s Most Affordable Rooftop Solar” competition to aggressively drive down the cost of rooftop solar energy system as well as $8 million in awards to nine small businesses to lower the cost of financing, permitting, and other “soft costs,” which can amount to nearly half the cost of residential solar systems.

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Nature editorial: environmental and human costs of Li-ion technology must be addressed quickly

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An editorial in the journal Nature calls on policy makers, industry leaders and researchers to mitigate quickly the environmental and human costs of Li-ion batteries. The market for Li-ion batteries is projected to grow from $30 billion in 2017 to some $100 billion in 2025.

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Power-to-Gas project awarded DECC grant funding

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million) to help develop innovative storage solutions for energy, as part of the £21-million (US$32.6 Up to £40,000 (US$62,160) was made available to cover parts of the costs of developing a detailed feasibility study for a 1MW power-to-gas facility to be built in the UK starting in the second half of 2013.

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New hydrogen storage material could enable smaller, cheaper, more energy dense systems for vehicles; Kubas binding

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The KMH-1 material also absorbs and stores any excess energy so external heat and cooling is not needed. The technology has been licensed by the University of South Wales to a spin-out company part owned by Professor Antonelli, called Kubagen. A paper on their work is published in the journal Energy and Environmental Science.

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Bosch on importance of renewable synthetic fuels to reach climate goals; e-fuels

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Legacy vehicles will also have to play their part in cutting CO? Bosch outlines seven reasons why renewable synthetic fuels should be part of tomorrow’s mobility mix: Time. Present studies suggest that a pure fuel cost of between €1.20 One path to achieving this is with renewable synthetic fuels (e-fuels). a liter (US$5.00

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