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Heating Buildings With Solar Energy Stored in Sand

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In a region known for long, dark winter nights, Polar Night Energy is building a system in the city of Tampere that can heat buildings with stored solar energy — all day, all night, and all winter long. This means that storing and distributing energy is as important as its generation. The apparent contradictions do not end there.

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California achieves 100 days of 100% electricity demand met by renewables

Baua Electric

The 100 days of continuity means not that renewables are powering the grid for the entire day, but that it’s happening consistently on a daily basis – and that’s unprecedented. All of these factors reduced the use of fossil gas on the grid by close to 40% during the period.

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EV Guru: Sodium-Ion Batteries are Coming Sooner Than You think!

Plug In India

” Musk pointed to data from the information service World of Statistics showing that the price of lithium hydroxide had risen to $78,032 per metric ton from $6,800 in 2019. The big issue with sodium-ion batteries is that they can store only about two-thirds of the energy of Li-ion batteries of equivalent size.

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NREL: battery second use offsets EV expense, improves grid stability; recommendations

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Researchers at the US Department of Energy (DOE) National Renewable Energy Laboratory (NREL) are identifying battery second use (B2U) strategies capable of offsetting vehicle expenses while improving utility grid stability. Even with these variables, the system has been operating successfully since late 2013.

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Novel Approaches for Forecasting Electricity Demand

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BluWave is a cloud-based, AI-enabled platform that optimizes the operation of smart grids, microgrids, and electric-vehicle fleet operations. The challenge was hosted by IEEE DataPort , a platform that allows researchers to store, share, access, and manage their data sets in a single trusted location. Winners were announced in May.

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Using the PHEV (Plug-In Hybrid Electric Vehicle) to Transition Society Seamlessly and Profitably From Fossil Fuel to 100% Renewable Energy

Green Car Congress

At present, PHEV technology alone is equipped to improve the current electric grid. The car can refuel during periods of low demand on the grid, and if equipped with a bi-directional charger, can actually replenish the grid with excess energy gleaned from a renewable resource. Appendix D: Vehicle Driving Statistics.

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Xerox Parc’s Engineers on How They Invented the Future—and How Xerox Lost It

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Structured VLSI design, now taught in more than 100 universities. And unlike university research laboratories, PARC had one unifying vision: it would develop “the architecture of information.” Pake was executive vice chancellor, provost, and professor of physics at Washington University in St. Laser printers. Frame buffer.

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