Green Car Congress
MAY 18, 2010
GE Energy Storage Technologies, a unit of GE Transportation, introduced its Durathon sodium-metal halide battery ( earlier post ) for critical backup power. Sodium-metal halide cell basic chemistry. GE has also introduced Durathon batteries for applications in the telecom and utility industries. Click to enlarge.
Green Car Congress
JUNE 4, 2023
Russia-based Nornickel, the world’s largest producer of palladium and high-grade nickel and a major producer of platinum and copper, presented its eleventh review of the nickel and platinum group metals (PGM) markets based on the fundamental analysis of world economic and industry data. The deficit forecast for 2023 was revised to 0.2
Green Car Congress
JULY 13, 2023
Mitsubishi Heavy Industries, Ltd. MHI will oversee both the conceptual design as well as research and development (R&D) for the sodium-cooled fast reactor in partnership with Mitsubishi FBR Systems, Inc. MFBR), an MHI Group engineering company that handles the development and design of fast reactors.
Green Car Congress
MARCH 3, 2015
Lygos was the first company to spin out of the Department of Energy’s Joint Bioenergy Institute (JBEI), a research center established in 2007 to pursue breakthroughs in the production of cellulosic biofuels. The most commonly used microbes in industry and academia, E. coli and S.
Green Car Congress
JULY 21, 2010
LanzaTech uses proprietary bacteria to convert industrial waste gases into fuels and chemicals. Since its Series A funding in 2007, LanzaTech has proven its process using unconditioned gas streams directly from a NZ Steel mill in Auckland to make fuel ethanol. Gary Reischel.
Green Car Congress
JUNE 19, 2010
Total electricity production in the scenario more than doubles, from just under 20,000 TWh in 2007 to around 41,000 TWh in 2050. The obstacles to more rapid nuclear growth in the short- to medium-term are primarily policy-related, industrial and financial. Sodium-cooled fast reactor (SFR). Concepts for Gen IV Systems.
Green Car Congress
OCTOBER 31, 2010
In North America, a high-profile hybrid locomotive product (Railpower’s Green Goat, earlier post ) faced a serious setback in the mid-2000s that still haunts the industry today. Several Green Goats are still being used for light duty service, Pike notes, but the vehicles have not been available since 2007.
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