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Harvard team demonstrates new metal-free organic–inorganic aqueous flow battery; potential breakthrough for low-cost grid-scale storage

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Researchers at Harvard have demonstrated a metal-free organic–inorganic aqueous flow battery—a quinone–bromide flow battery (QBFB)—as an example of a class of energy storage materials that exploits the favorable chemical and electrochemical properties of a family of molecules known as quinones. Click to enlarge.

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Ham Radio Inspired This Scranton University Student to Pursue Engineering

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The contest was a great opportunity for me,” Piccini says, “to learn how to apply the skills I’ve been learning from classes into a project that I designed myself.” Piccini now is helping to develop a low-cost, low-power system to send a signal into the ionosphere and measure the time it takes to return.

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Where to Get the Most Bang for Your Buck

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It’s the backpacker’s call to India, the sunseeker’s attraction to Mexico, and the digital nomad’s drive to get to Thailand: Go where the dollar buys more. Getting around Australia by air isn’t cheap either, especially since the recent collapse of the low-cost carrier Bonza. Australia Currently, the U.S. dollar is worth about 1.50

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Stanford faculty awarded $2.2M for 9 energy research projects; high-performance batteries, promoting sustainable vehicles, wireless power transfer for moving vehicles

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This project explores the use of specially designed nanostructured polymers to make high-energy, low-cost, flexible and stretchable batteries. The project goal is to develop a low-cost technique for capturing atmospheric carbon dioxide using organic-inorganic hybrid materials. PI: Brian Knutson, psychology.

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Lectric ONE shockingly unveiled as low-cost premium e-bike with auto-shifting gearbox

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Positioned as a premium commuter e-bike in the budget space, the new model marks equally new territory for the low-cost e-bike company turned premium space competitor. Lectric Ebikes’ entire MO has been to find highly-demanded niches in the US e-bike market and then roll out new models at a fraction of the cost of competitors.

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ICCT-ClimateWorks: well-designed vehicle standards and fuel feeds could reduce combined US, China and EU CO2 emissions by 1.3 Gt in 2030, boost economy

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Performance standards produce predictable results because they require manufacturers to build more-efficient products, usually at very low cost—but in doing so, they make driving less expensive, which encourages consumers to drive more.

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Factor in V2G Revenue When Planning Fleet Electrification

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EVs of all classes offer fleet owners significant advantages over internal combustion engine (ICE) vehicles. They are quieter, cleaner, have better acceleration, and cost less to keep running because electricity is cheaper than diesel and EVs require less maintenance than their ICE counterparts.

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