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Berkeley Lab releases 8th edition of databook on China’s energy and environment; finding the “missing” energy consumption

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The China Energy Group of the US Department of Energy’s (DOE’s) Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (Berkeley Lab) recently released the eighth edition of the China Energy Databook —the most comprehensive publicly available resource known to exist covering China’s energy and environmental statistics.

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Worldwatch Institute report finds global energy intensity increased in 2010 for second year in a row

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Global energy intensity, 1981-2010. Global energy intensity—defined as total energy consumption divided by gross world product—increased 1.35% in 2010, the second year of increases in the context of a broader trend of decline over the last 30 years, according to a new Vital Signs Online article from the Worldwatch Institute.

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EIA Annual Energy Outlook explores implications of behavior and demographics on light-duty vehicle energy demand

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The US Energy Information Administration (EIA) is in the process of staging the release of the full Annual Energy Outlook 2014 (AEO2014), its annual report on projected energy use and analysis of select energy topics. LDVs accounted for 61% of all transportation energy consumption in the United States in 2012—8.4

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

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In 2001, a team of engineers at a then-obscure R&D company called AC Propulsion quietly began a groundbreaking experiment. 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.

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Pioneer of Google’s Data Centers Dies at 58

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He left Compaq in 2001 to join Google in Mountain View, Calif., He devised a way to use low-cost components and energy-saving techniques to distribute Google’s programs across thousands of servers, instead of the traditional method of relying on a few powerful, expensive machines. as a software engineer.

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New catalysts enable photocatalytic version of water gas shift reaction for H2 production

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An open access paper on their discovery is published in the RSC journal Energy and Environmental Science. A conventional two-stage industrial gas shift is capable of converting approximately 96% of CO initially in the syngas, according to the US National Energy Technology Laboratory. Energy Environ. —Sastre et al.

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Berkeley Lab study suggests subsurface structures responsible for dendrite formation with Li metal anodes

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Researchers at Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory have shed new light on the formation of dendrites in high energy density rechargeable batteries with lithium metal anodes. This Article demonstrates the presence of subsurface structures within the lithium electrode that lie underneath the dendrites. 1 ), low density (0.59

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