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Wind-to-Hydrogen Tech Goes to Sea

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Wind and solar parks produce a large portion of their energy. Then, as now, wind farms are operating off the world’s coasts—but not all of these offshore sites are connected to the mainland via underwater power cables. Some of the wind farms instead sit in clusters more than 100 kilometers out at sea.

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Wind Turbine Blades Destined for the Afterlife

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This group of wind-turbine fan blades, fresh from Siemens Gamesa’s new RecycleBlade manufacturing process at England’s largest such factory, await shipment to the various points around the globe where they will serve 20- to 30-year stints generating electricity at wind farms before they’re recalled and reincarnated. What’s Next?

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Space-based Solar Power: A Great Idea Whose Time May Never Come

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The scene: A space-based solar power station called the Converter being commissioned some time in the Future. It’s pretty clear Asimov had no idea how a system like the Converter would actually work, except in the most basic terms. Space-based solar power will remain sci-fi fodder for the foreseeable future.

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Energy storage: the key to a decarbonised future

Setec Powerr

We are transitioning from fossil fuels to renewable energy sources such as wind and solar, and the use of energy storage is becoming more widespread. This article will answer your confusion. chemical, kinetic, or thermal) and convert them back to useful forms of energy like electricity. Lithium batteries: the future of storage.

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Old empires could be the key to a new car future – ET Auto

Baua Electric

Parking an electrolyzer near a wind farm, solar array or hydroelectric dam would be ideal because you can use renewable energy to deliver clean electricity directly to the hydrogen-production facility. By the end of 2024 Hyundai it expects to have another plant convert sewage into hydrogen.

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The Future of Charging: Bidirectional V2G

MyEVOnline

Whether you know about them or not, we will explain this new technology in great detail in the following article. After you connect your car’s battery to a DC rapid charging station, AC or alternating current from the grid is converted and stored inside the vehicle in the form of DC or direct current. Uses of Bidirectional Charging.

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Bosch Powers the Automotive Sector Toward an Electrified Future

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This sponsored article is brought to you by COMSOL. As the automotive industry races toward an electrified future, Bosch is accelerating its R&D into the essential building blocks of electric drivetrains. We also find the complete AC loss distribution through the capacitor windings or internal busbar.

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