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EV Guru: Sodium-Ion Batteries are Coming Sooner Than You think!

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By Kamlesh & Raphae Every major automaker has announced plans to build Lithium-Ion battery gigafactories. The aim is to build batteries at a large scale to reduce prices. Tesla, VW, BYD, Ford and others have plans to build giant gigafactories. Video: EV Guru: Sodium-Ion Batteries are Coming Sooner Than You think!

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China’s New Breeder Reactors May Produce More Than Just Watts

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is building two fast-neutron nuclear breeder reactors, the first of which is slated to connect to the grid in 2023, the second in 2026. Liquid sodium is used as a coolant because it does not slow down neutrons as much as water does. And they are building 250 additional silos. “So It is anything but.

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Radar Technology Pioneer Merrill Skolnik Dies at 94

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Picard Medal for Radar Technologies and Applications , in 2000. During his tenure at the company, he oversaw the design and construction of the Clinch River Breeder Reactor project, a sodium-cooled nuclear facility in Tennessee. He was IEEE secretary in 2000. He taught at the university until he retired in 2000.

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DOE Awarding $620M for Smart Grid Demonstration and Energy Storage Projects

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This effort will build on Austin Energy’s existing Smart Grid programs by creating a microgrid that will initially link 1,000 residential smart meters, 75 commercial meters, and plug-in electric vehicle charging sites. . Pecan Street Project (TX). 29,561,142. 125,006,103. Pacific Gas & Electric Company (CA). 25,000,000. 24,978,264.