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Cheap solar panels from China are all over Europe – and everyone is freaking out

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Photo by Pixabay on Pexels.com Europe is installing more solar panels than ever before, thanks to a flood of cheap Chinese solar panels, driving installations by 40% last year. European local solar panel manufacturers have reached a crisis in that they say they can’t compete with cheap imports and oversupply.

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Ninth annual Green Innovation Index finds California light-duty vehicle emissions spike; major challenge to 2030 climate goals

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California has experienced tremendous success implementing policies that incentivize innovation in business, technology and carbon reduction. The state has become the most energy-productive major economy in the world, moving up three spots from 2013 to 2014, while also reducing its carbon intensity by 4.5%. below their 2006 levels.

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Solar and Battery Companies Rattle Utility Powerhouses

Cars That Think

The batteries get charged when power is cheap; when there's low wind and no sun, energy prices may start to spike, and the batteries can discharge the power back into the grid, balancing the constant change of supply and demand, and trading on the difference to make a business. Without it, you are not going to get there."

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Mad Power thoughts

EV Info

When David Cameron’s energy bill was being discussed in Parliament in 2013, the word on everybody’s lips was ‘trilemma’: how to ensure that energy was affordable, reliable and low-carbon. Gas is the only answer. So that leaves gas with the task of keeping the lights on. Then came the shale gas revolution, pioneered in Texas.

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Roskill: Green magnesium moving to commercial reality; China’s dominance under threat?

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While China remains, for now, the world’s leading magnesium producer, alternative green technology-driven projects elsewhere are attracting attention as the industry in general looks to reduce its carbon footprint, and even China starts to close inefficient capacities, according to Roskill Information Services.

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New high-power, fast-charging, safe and long-life Li-ion battery

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Researchers from Sweden, Italy and Germany have proposed and demonstrated a novel full Li-ion cell that is able to cycle for thousands of cycles at 1000 mAg −1 with a capacity retention of 65% at cycle 2000. The cell uniquely combines a nanostructured TiO 2 -based anode with a tailored 1-D tubular morphology; a LiNi 0.5 V of the LFP-LTO cell.

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Solar-to-Hydrogen Water Splitter Outlasts Next Best Tech By 14x

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Hydrogen today comes primarily from natural gas, which pumps out a lot of carbon and methane pollution into the atmosphere. Devices aren’t cheap, efficient, or durable enough yet to move out of the lab. . Now Japanese researchers say they’ve made an important step toward durability. But it has proven challenging to do on a large scale.

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