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Arizona State University Professor’s Work to Stabilize the Grid Pays Off

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He was part of an IEEE task force that in 2020 issued a report that described how equipment used for storing energy, transferring power over long distances, and integrating renewable energy could impact power system stability. These issues required a reevaluation of how we had defined and classified stability in 2004,” Vittal says.

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New NASA Satellite Survey Reveals Dramatic Arctic Sea Ice Thinning

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ICESat measurements of winter multi-year ice cover in the Arctic Ocean between 2004 and 2008, along with the corresponding downward trend in overall winter sea ice volume, and switch in dominant ice type from multi-year ice to first-year ice. Courtesy of Norbert Untersteiner, University of Washington. Credit: Ron Kwok, NASA/JPL.

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New one-pot method for recharging ammonia borane opens up potential for viable on-board hydrogen storage

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Work at LANL and elsewhere has focused on chemical hydrides for storing hydrogen, with ammonia borane being of prime interest. Research for the project at UA, which was named a partner in the entity in 2004, is funded by some $2.2 Sutton, Anthony K. Burrell, David A. Dixon, Edward B. Garner III, John C.

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Sandia study finds fuel cell barges may be attractive lower-cost cold-ironing solution for some types of vessels at some ports

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This, the Sandia team said, is because their multi-megawatt power requirements and potentially long run times would necessitate multiple MW-class fuel cell units and impractically-large stores of hydrogen. At ports in Oregon and Washington, grid-based cold ironing infrastructure is limited or nonexistent. —Joe Pratt.

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Devil in the Details: World Leaders Scramble To Salvage and Shape Copenhagens UNFCCC Climate Summit

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May, 2007 : An international team of researchers concluded that the ability of the Southern Ocean to absorb carbon dioxide had slowed by about 15% per decade since 1981 ( earlier post ), and projected that at the present rate of deterioration, it will have lost two-thirds of its ability to store carbon by 2050.

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How Carmakers Are Responding to the Plug-In Hybrid Opportunity

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Several dozen prototypes on 15-passenger van since 2004; now in second generation development; no production plans. DaimlerChrysler has presented plug-in hybrids in commercial vans that have enough room to store the batteries, but the technology is not quite ripe for cars."Plug-in chief executive, said yesterday in Washington.

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