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Tesla’s solar neighborhood in Austin could help TX learn if renewables are viable

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Last week, Elon Musk announced Tesla’s first involvement in a major housing development project in Austin, Texas. Easton Park is a 2,400-acre community southwest of Austin-Bergstrom International Airport, as per the Austin Business Journal. Tesla Energy takes a stand against coal and gas generators in Australia.

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Opinion: Why Buffett Bet A Billion On Solar: Miles Per Acre Per Year

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The average US residential customer pays 12 cents per kilowatt-hour (kWh) , which means the cost to drive one mile in an EV is somewhat less than 4 cents. By contrast, at 25 miles per $3 gallon of gasoline, those miles cost 12 cents each. Coal still supplies more power in the US than anything else, with natural gas next.

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DOE Awarding $620M for Smart Grid Demonstration and Energy Storage Projects

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This project will develop and implement an Energy Internet microgrid, located in a large mixed-use infill development site in Austin, Texas. Demonstrate 1 MW vanadium redox battery (VRB) storage system at the 32 MW municipal coal fired power plant in Painesville. Pecan Street Project (TX). 16,080,554. Seeo, Inc (CA). 7,487,153.

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2022—The Year the Hydrogen Economy Launched?

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In the United States, sweeping legislation capped a series of moves by the country’s Department of Energy (DOE) over the past year to drive down the cost of low-carbon hydrogen and stimulate demand for the fuel. Costs of gray hydrogen vary but are roughly $2 a kg in the U.S. So that’s why the community is so excited.”

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DOE selects 10 projects for $5M in funding to conduct advanced turbine technology research

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The 10 projects are valued at a total of $6,314,361, with DOE contributing $4,998,319 and the remaining cost of $1,316,042 provided by the recipients. University of Texas at Austin. The following are brief descriptions of the projects: Topic Area 1: Research and Development in Combustion. Texas A&M University.

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Devil in the Details: World Leaders Scramble To Salvage and Shape Copenhagens UNFCCC Climate Summit

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Australia is the world’s largest exporter of coal and one of the world’s highest per-capita emitters of greenhouse gases. Although technological yield gains had offset the losses, the study established a clear and simple correlation between increasing temperatures and crop yields.

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UT Austin poll finds majority support development of natural gas and renewables; declining support for environmental issues

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The University of Texas at Austin Energy Poll has found that US consumers strongly support increased production of energy from domestic sources, particularly natural gas and renewables. The energy resources seen as providing the most jobs are oil, 34%; renewable energy, 13%; coal, 12%; natural gas, 11%; and nuclear, 3%.

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