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ARPA-E to award up to $5M to investigate extracting rare earth and other critical minerals from macroalgae

Green Car Congress

REEs and PGMs are critical in the manufacture of modern energy and national security technologies, including high-performance magnets required for wind turbines, electric vehicles, high-energy-density battery electric storage, high efficiency lighting, solar panels, and other technologies either core or ancillary to the renewable energy industry.

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Groupe Renault creating first European factory dedicated to the circular economy of mobility in Flins

Green Car Congress

The implementation of this industrial and commercial ecosystem will take place gradually between 2021 and 2024, replacing the production of new vehicles. To meet this demand the division will work on developing new services (renewal, heavy repairs, etc.) By 2030, it will employ more than 3,000 people in dedicated professions.

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DLR team integrates solar heat into solid oxide electrolyzer for highly efficient hydrogen production

Green Car Congress

In the context of a wider use of renewable energy sources such as wind, photovoltaic and solar thermal power chemical energy carriers are needed for electricity storage due to the intermittent availability of renewable energy sources to maintain the high stability of the electricity infrastructure. 2019.01.059.

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Thermal Energy Storage Is No Longer Just Hot Air

Cars That Think

It’s a somewhat overlooked form of energy, but critically important—energy in the form of heat is how half of the total energy use in the world is consumed, as much as electricity and transportation combined. Their system can take electricity or heat as input and releases hot air or steam in the range of 170 to 400 degrees Celsius as output.

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Mad Power thoughts

EV Info

Everybody knew then that renewables were unreliable: that wind power fully works less than one-third of the time, and that solar power is unavailable at night (of course) and less efficient on cloudy winter days. So, ironically, renewables have in some ways hastened the decline of nuclear power. This was plain wrong.

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How clean is EV battery manufacturing?

Electric Auto Association

Whereas, battery EVs fueled on average grid electricity emit 105–124 g CO2 eq./km, UCS also reported that once the grid is fully renewable, the number for EVs is reduced to 41 g CO2 eq./km. years if the car is charged using renewable energy. km, 49% lower than the CO2 production of a comparable gasoline car.

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How clean is EV battery manufacturing?

Electric Auto Association

Whereas, battery EVs fueled on average grid electricity emit 105–124 g CO2 eq./km, UCS also reported that once the grid is fully renewable, the number for EVs is reduced to 41 g CO2 eq./km. years if the car is charged using renewable energy. km, 49% lower than the CO2 production of a comparable gasoline car.

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