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False Starts: The Story of Vehicle-to-Grid Power

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It occurred in the wake of the California electricity crisis of 2000 and 2001, when mismanaged deregulation, market manipulation, and environmental catastrophe combined to unhinge the power grid. By the 1950s, the grid was moving electricity across time zones and national borders, tying in diverse sources of supply and demand.

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Remembering the Legacy of Trailblazing Technologist Gordon Moore

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Intel supplied microprocessors to several companies, including IBM , helping it capitalize on the rapidly growing PC market and ushering in a 10-year period of unprecedented growth. So I wrote the article to try to get the point across: This is the way the industry is going to get things really cheap.” billion to charitable causes.

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ADB draft report says 3B Asians could become affluent by 2050; significant challenges

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Fast-growing economies like the People’s Republic of China (PRC), India, Indonesia, and Viet Nam cannot afford to fall into the middle income trap when seeking to move from resource-driven growth that is dependent on cheap labor and capital to growth based on high productivity and innovation, the report cautions. Energy consumption.

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Perspective: Despite Solyndra’s death, the future of solar energy is sunny

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Remember when the dot.com bubble burst in 2000 and, seemingly overnight, some companies ceased making millions hand-over-fist? With subsidies long in place for nuclear, coal and gas in the US along with the cheap cost of production for coal and natural gas, solar is essentially competing with that $0.10/kWh

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

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In addition, about 90% of the world’s supply of lithium is controlled by Chinese companies. Multiple auto makers are seeking a secure supply chain for battery materials. Read the C&EN research here Lithium right now is very expensive and Sodium is quite cheap. The world needs to do something about this.

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War in Ukraine: We Need to Talk About Fossil Fuels

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This war will have many long-term consequences, but possibly none more important than its effects on the future of the European energy supply. Rapid severing of Europe’s Russian supplies would create an unprecedented economic and existential emergency on the continent. European gas supplied three-fifths of the continent’s demand.

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The difference between lithium iron phosphate and lithium battery

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Lithium iron phosphate batteries have a long life and cycle life of more than 2000 times. Lithium iron phosphate batteries are green, non-toxic, non-polluting, raw materials from a wide range of sources, and cheap. Transportation power supply. Lithium cobaltate is currently the majority of lithium-ion battery cathode material.