Remove Coal Remove Environment Remove Grid Remove Ireland
article thumbnail

Lean Software, Power Electronics, and the Return of Optical Storage

Cars That Think

It’s very similar to the infrastructure for electric cars because the idea, ultimately, for electric cars is that you also are revamping your grid to facilitate, whatchamacallit, intermittent renewable energy sources, like wind and solar, because having an electric car that runs off a coal-fired power plant is defeating the purpose, essentially.

Power 73
article thumbnail

Wind-to-Hydrogen Tech Goes to Sea

Cars That Think

Most of the activity is in Europe , where there are at least 10 major offshore wind and hydrogen projects , including demonstration systems being built or planned in the North Sea, the Atlantic, and off the coast of Ireland. That won’t be easy, given the extremely dynamic environment these platforms will have to function in.

Wind 90
article thumbnail

Inside the Global Race to Tap Potent Offshore Wind

Cars That Think

There’s good reason for this hustle: The United Kingdom wants to add 34 gigawatts of offshore wind power by 2030, en route to decarbonizing its grid by 2035. Ireland, South Korea, and Taiwan are among the other countries with bold floating wind ambitions. They are making sure that everything works in this moving environment,” he says.

Wind 125