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Rhodium Group estimates US GHG fell 2.1% in 2019, driven by coal decline

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Emissions from buildings, industry and other parts of the economy rose, though less than in 2018. All told, net US GHG emissions ended 2019 slightly higher than at the end of 2016. Natural gas generation made up much of the gap last year, as it has consistently in recent years, due to extremely cheap gas prices. year-on-year.

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Thermal Energy Storage Is No Longer Just Hot Air

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The company is building these shipping container systems, which work like giant batteries that store energy as heat and pressurized air , rather than a chemical reaction (Cheesecake’s name is derived from a nerdy acronym for their technology.) That’s why Liu’s Thermal Energy Storage Group at ORNL is focused primarily on buildings.

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Stanford, SLAC team cages silicon microparticles in graphene for stable, high-energy anode for Li-ion batteries

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This new method allows us to use much larger silicon particles that are one to three microns, or millionths of a meter, in diameter, which are cheap and widely available. Now the team will work on fine-tuning the process and on producing caged silicon particles in large enough quantities to build commercial-scale batteries for testing.

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Naysayer Alert – the hydrogen red herring

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The only by products are water and a fair degree of heat, the latter indicating a degree of inefficiency and wasted energy. Hence its supply would not be cheap, renewable nor sustainable in the long term. 2016) Elon Musk explains why hydrogen cars are ‘incredibly dumb’ Business Insider [link]. Fletcher, S., Hill and Wang.