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2023’s Top Stories About Energy

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NASA Battery Tech to Deliver for the Grid EnerVenue’s nickel-hydrogen battery cells are 1.8 meters long, weigh 62 kilograms, and store 3 kilowatt-hours. EnerVenue If you don’t discharge and then recharge them all the way, lithium-ion batteries can last for thousands of charge-discharge cycles.

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€20M European research alliance focuses on liquid metals; energy applications

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Liquid metals are used in numerous industrial branches, for example, in steel and light metal castings, and are becoming increasingly significant for technologies such as new liquid metal batteries for energy storage, CO 2 -free hydrogen production, or the manufacture of solar cells.

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Solaris to present new generation hydrogen bus

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The vehicle will be also fitted with one of Solaris’ small High Power traction battery of 29.2 The battery will be charged with power from the fuel cell. Batteries constituted the basic drive source of the buses showcased four years ago. This year, 10 such vehicles will drive across the capital of Latvia in total.

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