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Heating Buildings With Solar Energy Stored in Sand

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This sponsored article is brought to you by COMSOL. In a region known for long, dark winter nights, Polar Night Energy is building a system in the city of Tampere that can heat buildings with stored solar energy — all day, all night, and all winter long. The apparent contradictions do not end there.

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Why is Hydroelectricity So Green, and Yet Unfashionable?

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There is no end of gushing about China’s cheap solar panels—but when was the last time you saw a paean to hydroelectricity? And some less affluent countries in Africa and Asia are still determined to build more such stations. There is no need to build megastructures, with their inevitable undesirable effects. GW) and Dasu (4.3

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Battle for ‘tech luxury’ in China as EVs get smarter – and cheaper – ET Auto

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China’s upstart electric brands, and even its state-owned, legacy automakers, are racing to pack technology and features once considered premium into EVs as cheap as USD 20,000 – less than half the cost of an average new car in the United States, now more than USD 48,000. “Why would I choose a foreign car?

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Just Calm Down About GPT-4 Already

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Brooks, who is now working on his third robotics startup, Robust.AI , has written hundreds of articles and half a dozen books and was featured in the motion picture Fast, Cheap & Out of Control. You wrote a famous article in 2017, “ The Seven Deadly Sins of AI Prediction. “ And it’s really cheap.

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Clearing the roadblocks to electrification of heavy-duty trucks

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When we were first starting off at Daimler Truck, trying to find a battery cell supplier that would build us a pack that was good in the truck was difficult. I was a big part of building the first-of-its-kind—at least in the Western world that we knew of—heavy-duty charging site in Portland, Oregon. Rustam Kocher: It is. It won’t work.

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False Starts: The Story of Vehicle-to-Grid Power

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Electricity is a commodity that is bought and sold, and yet unlike most other commodities, it cannot easily be stored. Then, as electricity entrepreneurs expanded power generation and transmission capacity, they faced the new problem of what to do with all the cheap off-peak, nighttime electricity they could now produce.

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Voltage surge and transient suppression in EV chargers

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The surge current drawn during turn-on stores energy in the inductance of the distribution network, and this is released once the motor comes up to speed. This article originally appeared in Issue 66: October-December 2023 – Subscribe now. The most obvious example of this is when a motor is switched on or off.

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