Teslarati

JANUARY 27, 2024

Tesla is set to invest over $500 million into building a Dojo supercomputer at its New York Gigafactory, as announced during a state budget briefing this week. The post Tesla investing over $500 million to build Dojo supercomputer in New York appeared first on TESLARATI. Tesla will spend more than that on Nvidia hardware this year.

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Cars That Think

JANUARY 18, 2023

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. Out of Finland’s energy-related emissions, 82 percent come from heating domestic buildings (Ref.

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Baua Electric

MARCH 19, 2024

Photo: CSIRO Researchers led by Australia’s national science agency had an efficiency breakthrough with roll-to-roll flexible printed perovskite solar cells. Printed solar cells are highly efficient, flexible, and decreasing in cost. Printed solar cells are highly efficient, flexible, and decreasing in cost.

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Green Car Congress

DECEMBER 5, 2022

The company will build two plants with a total capacity of 2 GW to produce green hydrogen. To generate the renewable electricity needed to feed production of green hydrogen, Cepsa will develop a 3GW portfolio of wind and solar energy projects with an additional €2-billion investment.

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Green Car Congress

MAY 8, 2012

Balqon Corporation, a developer of heavy-duty electric vehicles, drive systems and lithium-ion battery storage devices, has installed a one MWh lithium-ion battery storage system at the University of California, Riverside (UCR); the system has gone operational, providing electric power to the Bourns College of Engineering building.

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AUGUST 30, 2013

Sandia National Laboratories and Arizona State University have signed a formal partnership agreement on renewable energy challenges. The goals of the memorandum of understanding are to encourage collaborative research, build educational and workforce development programs and inform policy endeavors.

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Teslarati

APRIL 20, 2022

A team of scientists from the University of Newcastle in Australia will be using a Tesla Model 3 as a means to test printed solar panels that they believe could be the next big thing in affordable, sustainable solutions. The printed solar panels would be rolled out beside the Tesla Model 3 to soak up the sunlight.

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Green Car Congress

NOVEMBER 9, 2016

Partners from Germany and Finland in the SOLETAIR project are building a compact pilot plant for the production of gasoline, diesel and kerosene from solar energy, regenerative hydrogen and carbon dioxide. The plant will be compact enough to fit into a shipping container. The plant consists of three components.

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Cars That Think

SEPTEMBER 30, 2021

Transparent solar cells can transform buildings into. A new approach by the University of Michigan in Ann Arbor might dramatically extend the working life of solar windows. A new approach by the University of Michigan in Ann Arbor might dramatically extend the working life of solar windows.

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Electrek

MAY 7, 2021

In today’s Electrek Green Energy Brief (EGEB): Brown University researchers find a way to strengthen a key weak point in perovskite solar cells. Ørsted and Polish energy company PGE to build 2.5 UnderstandSolar is a free service that links you to top-rated solar installers in your region for personalized solar estimates.

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Green Car Congress

APRIL 14, 2012

These consortia—led in theUS by the National Renewable Energy Laboratory (NREL), the University of Florida, and Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (LBNL)—will bring together experts from national laboratories, universities, and industry in both the US and India. MEMC Corporation; and Solarmer Energy Inc. Thermax Ltd.;

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CleanTechnica EVs

JANUARY 17, 2022

The race is on to build the solar-powered Evs of the future, and it looks like graphene and TMDs could get the ball rolling.

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Baua Electric

FEBRUARY 28, 2024

Photo: Kyoto University An MIT-led team revealed a “guidebook” for how to tune surface properties of perovskites, a silicon alternative – here’s why that’s huge for solar. Their versatility opens up new avenues for solar installations, from urban buildings to portable, off-grid applications.

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JUNE 2, 2023

The US Department of Energy’s (DOE’s) National Renewable Energy Laboratory (NREL) and Sandia National Laboratories, co-leads of the Heliostat Consortium , announced seven awardees from a request for proposals (RFP) aimed at achieving DOE’s goals for heliostat cost reduction, sustained multifaceted innovation, and improved solar field performance.

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MAY 7, 2021

A team of engineers at the University of California San Diego (UCSD) recommends expanding fast-charging stations for electric vehicles as campuses and businesses start planning for a post-pandemic world. —Jan Kleissl, senior author.

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Cars That Think

MARCH 14, 2022

One of the main impediments to harnessing solar energy is storage. Solar batteries work as a short-term solution, but not when it comes to long-term storage or to power, say, an entire city. Solar energy and oil wells might sound like an odd combination, but the principle is similar to how geothermal energy would be harnessed.

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Cars That Think

JULY 7, 2022

After more than 25 years’ work and technological hurdles beyond counting, the Webb team has launched and stationed its mammoth observatory in solar orbit—and brought its instruments below 40 kelvins (minus 233 ºC), cold enough to see the early universe more than 13.5 billion years ago. NASA/STScI Why five layers?

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APRIL 6, 2020

Researchers at the University of Southampton have transformed optical fibers into photocatalytic microreactors that convert water into hydrogen fuel using solar energy. Zepler Institute, University of Southampton. Computerized tomography of a MOFC, showing buildup of TiO 2 (light blue particles) in the triangular channels.

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JULY 20, 2019

Haldor Topsoe will build a 10 kg/hour methanol plant to demonstrate the company’s electrified and extremely compact eSMR Methanol technology for cost-competitive production of sustainable methanol from biogas. The technology heats the process using green electricity from wind turbines or solar panels instead of natural gas.

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Green Car Congress

JANUARY 17, 2012

Separately, AECOM Technology Corporation and REC Solar unveiled a 1.16 MW installation at the California State University, Fullerton (CSUF) campus. The three solar systems are installed on the rooftops of two CSU Fullerton buildings and a parking structure carport under contract to AECOM. The funding, approved Jan.

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JUNE 4, 2012

The team of the University of Maryland is the winner of the 2012 Hydrogen Student Design Contest, announced on Sunday by the US Department of Energy at the Young Scientist Symposium of the World Hydrogen Energy Conference 2012 in Toronto, Canada. At the awards ceremony, the theme for the next Contest was announced as well.

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Green Car Congress

SEPTEMBER 16, 2020

in close collaboration with GTI and The University of Texas at Austin, has launched a US Department of Energy project, Demonstration and Framework for H2@Scale in Texas and Beyond. Frontier Energy, Inc., The project is supported by DOE’s Hydrogen and Fuel Cell Technologies Office within the Office of Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy.

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NOVEMBER 30, 2015

Researchers at Stanford, with colleagues at University College Cork in Ireland, have shown how to increase the power of corrosion-resistant solar cells, setting a record for solar energy output under water. Instead of pumping electricity into the grid, the power these cells produce would be used in the production of solar fuels.

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Cars That Think

JULY 14, 2022

This spurred Julie Angus to cofound the startup Open Ocean Robotics to design, build, and operate oceangoing uncrewed surface vehicle (USV) drones. The startup offers marine data as a service using its solar-powered Data Xplorer ocean drones, which eliminate the need for traditional crewed vessels. She is the company’s CEO.

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Green Car Congress

NOVEMBER 3, 2015

The Center for Urban Energy (CUE) at Ryerson University in Canada is testing a 150 kW Li-ion battery provided by Electrovaya in collaboration with Toronto Hydro to prove how off-peak electricity can be stored. Generally, peaks demand occurs from 6 pm to 7 pm when solar generation is also minimal. Click to enlarge.

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Cars That Think

JULY 15, 2021

Dozens of solar farms in the country’s southeastern region are slated to use “ hydrogen batteries ” in coming years. Operators can use the systems to store energy from solar panels and deliver power to the grid during cloudy days or at night. All together they’ll represent a 300-megawatt solar installation.

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Green Car Congress

OCTOBER 6, 2011

GE Energy Industrial Solutions has reached a partnership agreement to work with Inovateus Solar, a US solar-power distribution and integration company, to build new solar carports with electric vehicle (EV) chargers.

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Green Car Congress

JANUARY 30, 2019

Because of this, the new power consumers not only present an additional load on the power grid, but can potentially serve as flexible storage devices in the context of the variable availability of solar and wind power. The ultimate aim of EEBUS is to develop a standard that is universally applicable.

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Green Car Congress

MAY 15, 2014

The University of California, Riverside is opening its Sustainable Integrated Grid Initiative to research the integration of: intermittent renewable energy, such as photovoltaic solar panels; energy storage, such as batteries; and all types of electric and hybrid electric vehicles. Solar carport. Click to enlarge.

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MARCH 17, 2021

The University of Michigan and Ford Motor Company are opening a new advanced robotics facility. U-M’s Ford Motor Company Robotics Building is a four-story, $75-million, 134,000-square-foot complex situated on the north campus. The new facility brings together U-M researchers from 23 different buildings and ten top-10 programs.

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JULY 6, 2020

The US Department of Energy (DOE) is awarding $100 million in funding for 10 Energy Frontier Research Centers (EFRCs) to accelerate the scientific breakthroughs needed to build a twenty-first-century energy economy.

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NOVEMBER 29, 2012

Air Products has been awarded a contract with India’s University of Petroleum and Energy Studies (UPES) to build the country’s first solar-powered renewable hydrogen fueling station. Once complete, the UPES project will mark the third Air Products hydrogen fueling station operating in India.

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JULY 31, 2020

The Center for Hybrid Approaches in Solar Energy to Liquid Fuels (CHASE) , led by the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, seeks to develop hybrid photoelectrodes for fuel production that combine semiconductors for light absorption with molecular catalysts for conversion and fuel production.

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NOVEMBER 5, 2011

Solar radiation management (SRM) is one of the geoengineering techniques proposed as a potential means of offsetting some of the anthropogenic radiative forcing of climate as a means to reduce climate change. To take geoengineering methods like solar radiation management seriously, we need to build realistic models.

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JANUARY 8, 2021

Researchers in China led by a team from Fudan University have demonstrated the electrochemical reduction of CO 2 toward C 2+ alcohols with a faradaic efficiency of ~70% using copper (Cu) catalysts with stepped sites. However, the researchers noted, building alcohol-selective CO 2 RR electrocatalysts is a challenge.

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OCTOBER 30, 2020

DERConnect will address an outstanding national need for large-scale testing capabilities across universities, national labs, industry, utility companies and Independent System Operators to validate future technologies for autonomous energy grids in real-word scenarios. UC San Diego is building on experience from NODES, a three-year, $2.88

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DECEMBER 19, 2012

The US Department of Energy (DOE) issued a Funding Opportunity Announcement ( DE-FOA-0000772 ) for up to $20 million for the CSP [concentrating solar power] Heat Integration for Baseload Renewable Energy Development (CSP HIBRED) program to support advancement of the hybridization of CSP technologies with existing fossil fuel plants.

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