article thumbnail

Heating Buildings With Solar Energy Stored in Sand

Cars That Think

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. This means that storing and distributing energy is as important as its generation.

Store 90
article thumbnail

Ricardo launching curated services on hydrogen developments

Green Car Congress

As industry, governments and regulators strive to decarbonize transportation of all kinds, hydrogen is becoming the focus of significant additional interest both as a fuel and as an energy vector and store. RiCK News Hydrogen includes headlines together with article summaries and links to the original sources.

Hydrogen 268
article thumbnail

“Charging Station” — Is That the Location or the “Charger”?

EV Adoption

This requires simple, easy-to-understand terms without jargon, and that leverage consumer’s existing reference point of the gasoline refueling experience. Below is a simple and typical example of the confusing and inconsistent use of the term “charging station” from a news article shared on Twitter. Charging Station Twitter Poll.

Charging 105
article thumbnail

China to introduce credit pool for NEV dual credit system that is expected to facilitate credit trading

CN EV Post

When the supply of credits is less than the demand, automakers can release the stored positive credits to regulate the supply and demand in the credits market. For more articles, please visit CnEVPost.

China 109
article thumbnail

The difference between kW and kWh | EV Basics

Setec Powerr

So, a kWh refers to the amount of 1000 watts of energy your household consumes per hour. The total output energy produced by a solar system, as well as the amount stored in solar batteries is measured this way. And kWh refers to how much energy a vehicle can store. To calculate the kWh your solar panel produces.

F-150 52
article thumbnail

NREL study finds high-pressure hydrogen pipeline system could potentially make hydrogen cost-competitive with gasoline

Green Car Congress

This article compares the economics of various existing hydrogen-delivery methods with the economics of a novel variation on pipeline delivery: a high-pressure, scalable, intra-city pipeline system referred to here as the “HyLine” system. —Penev et al.

Hydrogen 298
article thumbnail

The Most Hackable Handheld Ham Radio Yet

Cars That Think

I’m using K5 here to refer to both the original K5 and the new K5(8) model.) But Quansheng stores the K5’s firmware in flash memory and made it possible to rewrite that memory with the same USB programming cable used to assign frequencies to preset channels. Like Baofeng’s 5R, Quansheng’s K5 as a radio transceiver is fine.