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Heating Buildings With Solar Energy Stored in Sand

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This sponsored article is brought to you by COMSOL. 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. Sand is efficient, nontoxic, portable, and cheap!”. “We

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Why is Hydroelectricity So Green, and Yet Unfashionable?

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There is no end of gushing about China’s cheap solar panels—but when was the last time you saw a paean to hydroelectricity? Instead, that pure status is now reserved above all for wind and solar. The manufacture of solar panels involves the environmental costs from mining, waste disposal, and carbon emissions.

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Miniscule Sensing Suite is a Big Step Towards Robotic Gnats

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In the late 1980s, Rod Brooks and Anita Flynn published a paper in The Journal of the British Interplanetary Society with the amazing title of Fast, Cheap, and Out of Control: A Robotic Invasion of the Solar System.

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Northvolt postpones planned 60GWh battery production

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The company strategically places facilities in locations where cheap electricity is available. The Midwest offers copious amounts of wind power and some of the nation’s cheapest electricity, while areas like the South West and California offer a fantastic locations for solar. What do you think of the article?

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The Coming Construction Boom

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Imagine using cheap wind- and solar-generated electricity to pull carbon out of the atmosphere and turn it into feedstock for large-scale 3D printing of building components. This article appears in the March 2022 print issue as “Building Boom.”. Combine all these factors and a dazzling possibility emerges.

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Opinon: Lithium Market Set To Explode; All Eyes Are On Nevada

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These batteries make smartphones, laptops, tablets, electric cars and even solar energy practical.”. The lithium, found in salty water, or brines, is the most cost-effective on the market; it’s cheap and easy to extract, giving competing battery gigafactories new, affordable American lithium resources that will be a global game-changer.

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What Does It Take To Win The EV Race As A Country?

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In the last article we discussed ‘How to win the EV race’ as a company and today we are going to look at ‘How a Country can win the Electrification Race ‘ and get the most out of It. Remote places can use solar and wind energy, making it possible to distribute energy effectively.

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