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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. When we turn up the heat in our homes and workplaces, we must balance our personal need for warmth with the global impact of burning fossil fuels like oil, gas, coal, and biomass. As we try to objectively study nature, we are often reminded of how natural forces affect us personally.

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3 Oil Majors That Bet Big On Renewables

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Despite the much-vaunted megatrend involving the global electrification drive and shift to renewable energy , the most ambitious pledges by Big Oil to pursue net-zero agendas remain weak at best. But Total is not just content to compete in the traditional renewable energy arena of wind and solar but is also giving Tesla Inc.

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Nitrogen-doped graphene nanoplatelets offer high catalytic performance in fuel cells and solar cells; possible replacement for Pt

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Researchers in South Korea have developed a simple, low-cost and eco-friendly method of creating nitrogen-doped graphene nanoplatelets (NGnPs) with excellent catalytic performance in both dye-sensitized solar cells and fuel cells to replace conventional platinum (Pt)-based catalysts for energy conversion. —Jeon et al. 1116897109.

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Toyota unveiled its first electric car bZ4X comes with roof-mounted solar panelĀ 

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Toyota unveiled its first electric car bZ4X comes with roof-mounted solar panel . The bZ4X sport utility vehicle (SUV) is the first of the seven BEVs-bZ (beyond Zero) sub-brand in a series of EV only models from Toyota which is planned to launch globally to have the zero-emissions market.

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Visiting Chinese trade official warns EU on greentech probe ā€“ ET Auto

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He cited the EU’s investigations into Chinese electric cars, solar panels and wind turbines as examples. He cited the EU’s investigations into Chinese electric cars , solar panels and wind turbines as examples. Earlier this week, Wang was in France where he met French Finance Minister Bruno Le Maire.

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Top CleanTechnica Stories Last Week ā€” Herbert Diess Fights On As Captain, XPengā€™s Global Vision, & More!

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An expanded version of this article was just sent out to subscribers of our weekly newsletter. The 10 most popular CleanTechnica stories of the past week are listed at the bottom of this article, but I actually want to start focusing these weekly updates on what […]. Want to receive our weekly newsletter? Sign up here.

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Pilot Project Sends Kelpā€“and Carbonā€“to the Seafloor

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This article is part of our special report Top Tech 2024. What sets it apart is its ambitious vision of fully automated, solar-powered, floating kelp farms to spur local economies and regenerate marine ecosystems while sequestering carbon. Unless they go into these product categories, it wonā€™t have much climate-mitigation benefits.ā€

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