Cars That Think
DECEMBER 25, 2022
The carbon-free rigs will pack 50 kilos of hydrogen zapped from water using electricity from the refinery’s dedicated solar power plant. Welcome to Australia, where a green-hydrogen boom is in full swing. And while coal plants still supplied over half of Australia’s power in 2021, change is afoot.
Green Car Congress
JULY 12, 2022
By replacing the coal-fired blast furnaces with direct reduction plants in which iron ore is reduced with low-carbon hydrogen, thyssenkrupp Steel intends to make steel production climate-neutral in the long term. It is developing both blue and green hydrogen production projects around the world, including in the UK and Australia.
Cars That Think
AUGUST 19, 2023
Many countries have met their climate goals and are on track to be completely carbon neutral. Then, as now, wind farms are operating off the world’s coasts—but not all of these offshore sites are connected to the mainland via underwater power cables. Imagine this hopeful, and not impossible, energy scenario for the year 2040.
Cars That Think
OCTOBER 19, 2021
And this was on top of a 2018 fire season that burned more than 700,000 hectares of land in California, and a 2019-to-2020 wildfire season in Australia that torched nearly 18 million hectares. Power companies trim trees and inspect lines on a regular—if not particularly frequent—basis.
Cars That Think
SEPTEMBER 16, 2023
The winds had barely died down when electric-power specialists and others began calling for a radical overhaul of Puerto Rico’s electricity networks, one that would emphasize renewable energy, distributed generation, and, critically, microgrids. A microgrid is like a miniaturized, tightly controlled version of a power grid.
Tony Karrer Delicious EVdriven
APRIL 16, 2009
A key thing, he said, will be to recharge the batteries at an acceptable time for the electricity grid — to “make sure people aren’t charging at the very peak, peak time,” like late afternoon when the electricity grid is already weighted down by demands like air conditioning. While utilities such as E.ON
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