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Wind-to-Hydrogen Tech Goes to Sea

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Longer term, California, the Canadian province of Nova Scotia, Japan, and Western Australia are all looking to the sea to help meet their demands for hydrogen. The technology to produce hydrogen by electrolyzing water has been around for more than 200 years. Airplanes, for example, won’t be able to fly long distances on battery power.

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Four Startups Aim to Change the Climate Tech Game

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As someone living in California, I immediately flashed on all the oil pumpjacks I pass on the drive from the Bay Area to Los Angeles, so he didn’t have to convince me that the infrastructure exists. There are 2.6 million idle wells, Gregory continued, “with an average depth 5000 feet.” “There are 2.6 Renewell recently received a $2.7

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Mercedes-Benz to present G-Class-derived fuel-cell SUV concept

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The Mercedes-Benz Advanced Design Studio in Carlsbad, California evolved the vision of a police version into a civilian version and built a 1:1-scale model. The Ener-G-Force emits nothing but water and has an operating range of about 500 miles. The Ener-G-Force design concept. Click to enlarge.

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Energy Harvesting for Wearable Technology Steps Up

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Wearable devices, like nearly every other piece of tech, need energy. The best-known wearable energy-harvesting tech today is, of course, solar, which pulls down electrons from sunlight or ambient light. Wei Gao/Caltech California Institute of Technology’s Wei Gao developed a self-powering “electronic skin.”

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DOE announces $11.5M in Phase 1 funding for carbon capture and storage program; ARPA-E FLECCS

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The post-combustion outlet gas is more easily separated into water and CO 2 to the pipeline, thereby lowering the electricity costs of grids with high levels of VRE. UNO MK3 allows CO 2 to be withdrawn and stored as solid potassium bicarbonate during high energy demand, eliminating stripper energy and enabling profitable regeneration.

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China is testing more driverless cars than any other country – ET Auto

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million cars, eight-lane expressways and towering bridges over the muddy waters of the Yangtze River. The company that operates them, tech giant Baidu, said last month that it would add another 1,000 of the so-called robot taxis in Wuhan. California regulators later suspended the company’s state license.

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Earth Day and the Importance of Green Energy

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In this celebration, we acknowledge the future of green technology is not only healthier for the planet and its residents, but more high-tech than more archaic, higher polluting options. Earth Day and Green Tech. These new choices are often termed “green tech.”. Earth Day is a celebration of our planet.

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