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Australia Goes All-in on Green Hydrogen

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They’ve been studying up on renewable energy, hydrogen power, and electric vehicles, preparing for the big day in April when their remote-controlled vehicles will rumble for 4 hours in Gladstone, a port city in Queensland. Welcome to Australia, where a green-hydrogen boom is in full swing.

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Sandy solution for renewable energy storage; Thermal Energy Storage System

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Sand is emerging as a key ingredient in the race to develop a viable electricity storage system for renewable energies. Australia-based Latent Heat Storage has developed a low cost thermal energy storage system based on the latent heat properties of silicon derived from sand.

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Alcoa outlines technology roadmap to decarbonize aluminum industry

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From the environmental perspective, it will be designed around two technologies: mechanical vapor recompression (MVR) and electric calcination, which allows for a self-enclosed calciner operating environment that captures steam and allows the calciner to be connected to a renewable-powered electric grid. Earlier post.)

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Varley Electric Vehicles to build electric buses in Queensland

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Varley Electric Vehicles is a division of The Varley Group, one of Australia’s oldest specialty vehicle manufacturers and has recently celebrated 125 years of service. Varley’s products cater to a broad range of clients, including the Queensland Police Service and the Commonwealth of Australia.

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IEEE Power & Energy Society President Dies at 69

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Williams was granted 27 U.S. An expert in power electronic converters, electrical machines, and novel grid components, he spent almost his entire career in academia, conducting research in power electronics. He worked there for a year before joining ESD Australia , in Cloverdale, as a systems engineer. He was granted 15 patents.

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Why Hydrogen power is not the answer

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It is classified as low carbon hydrogen; Green: made by using electricity from renewable sources to split water molecules into hydrogen and oxygen. Here, they open up an unlimited trove of research grants and subsidies, and tap into abundant buckets of ill-directed “green” capital. This is classified as carbon free hydrogen.

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AMPECO CEO discusses the software that makes large-scale EV charging systems work in comprehensive Q&A

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They often tie this into energy management and how they match the charging with energy generation, matching it by cost or by type of energy production for example matching it to the availability of renewables. Charged : What about bidirectional charging and vehicle-to-grid tech?