Cars That Think
MARCH 4, 2025
The IEEE Climate Change website provides engineers and technologists with articles, research papers, a list of upcoming events, and other resources. The IEEE Standards Association develops technical guidelines that support sustainability in power systems, smart grids, energy efficiency, and environmental protection.
Cars That Think
FEBRUARY 29, 2024
As more power stations adopted the clocks, the frequency regulation allowed them to share electricity and create an interconnected power grid. But by the 1950s, clocks with improved batteries and oscillating quartz crystal resonators began to replace consumer electric clocks that synchronized with the power grid.
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Green Car Congress
NOVEMBER 24, 2011
Much recent research on batteries, including other work done by Cui’s research group, has focused on lithium-ion batteries, which have a high energy density; however, energy density really doesn’t matter for storage on the power grid. Nature Communications 2, Article number: 550 doi: 10.1038/ncomms1563. —Colin Wessells.
Green Car Congress
AUGUST 31, 2020
Further, natural gas can be used to keep the power grid stable as solar and wind power fluctuate. Link to original article: [link]. Natural gas does produce about 28% less CO2 emissions than heating oil and 50% less than coal for the same amount of energy when burned.
Green Cars News
MARCH 27, 2013
No sooner has it launched than the Renault ZOE electric car is being blamed with threatening France’s power grid. In an article in the Daily Mail today, there is a stark warning from the head of R&D at French power infrastructure firm RTE, that the rising prominence of electric cars on the road could put [.].
Green Car Congress
MAY 25, 2010
Another concern associated with EVs is that they could increase emissions of criteria pollutants like SO 2 and NO x because power plants are believed to be the largest contributor to China’s SO 2. Generation mix of the six interprovincial power grids in 2008. Article ASAP doi: 10.1021/es100520c. and NO x emissions.
Cars That Think
MAY 25, 2024
IEEE Spectrum spoke with Yilu Liu , who has been researching EMPs at Oak Ridge National Laboratory, in Tennessee, about the potential effects of the phenomenon on power grids and other electronics. How do EMPs damage power grids and electronic equipment? What are the differences between various kinds of EMPs?
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