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Researcher Describes Conceptual Cold Fusion Battery, or Small Power Unit

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Fuel for fusion comes from ordinary seawater, and estimates indicate that 1 gallon of seawater packs the energy equivalent of 16 gallons of gasoline at 100 percent efficiency for energy production. The number of presentations on the topic at ACS National Meetings has quadrupled since 2007. of SRI International in Menlo Park, Calif.,

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This Dutch City Is Road-Testing Vehicle-to-Grid Tech

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In 2007, Berg landed a contract to install rooftop solar at a local school, with the idea to set up a microgrid. The morning before Eerenberg sat down with me at city hall to explain Utrecht’s charge-station planning algorithm, war broke out in Ukraine. Gasoline has reached $6 a gallon (if not more) in some places in the United States.

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We Need More Than Just Electric Vehicles

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The total cost of purchasing and driving one—the cost of ownership—has fallen nearly to parity with a typical gasoline-fueled car. grid to charge a typical 2018 EV would produce between 80 and 120 grams of carbon dioxide per kilometer traveled, compared with about 240 to 320 g/km for a gasoline vehicle. EVs have finally come of age.