Cars That Think

JUNE 29, 2023

The future of carbon-free energy smells like teriyaki and sounds like a low-flying 737. If this doesn’t match your mental image of fusion power, you’re probably picturing the city-block-size ITER megaproject currently taking shape in southern France. Zap’s capacitor bank will store 1.5

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Green Car Congress

NOVEMBER 4, 2010

KTSi trackside flywheel systems provide voltage support to overtaxed sections of electric rail systems, eliminating slowdowns, as well as capturing, storing and reusing the regenerative braking energy of rail cars. Kinetic Traction was formed earlier this year in the wake of the collapse of advanced flywheel energy storage company Pentadyne.

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Energy Storage Energy DC London 249

EV Info

SEPTEMBER 21, 2021

Rush to switch to low carbon generation. With the demise of the North Sea production as the fields empty we are increasingly reliant on the pipe that winds its way across Europe pumping Russian gas into Germany, France and other on route. Most countries regards Gas as strategic and store plenty of the stuff to cover supply disruptions.

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Cars That Think

AUGUST 19, 2023

Many countries have met their climate goals and are on track to be completely carbon neutral. Chemical plants on dedicated platforms then process part of the hydrogen, combining it with nitrogen to make ammonia, or with carbon dioxide to produce substitutes for fossil fuels. Wind and solar parks produce a large portion of their energy.

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Wind Hydrogen Grid Gas-Electric 92

Cars That Think

JANUARY 26, 2023

The IEEE Life Fellow spoke during a session addressing the role of technology in delivering an equitable, sustainable, and low-carbon resilient world. We want to be a solution partner so we can have parties at the table to help solve this problem of high carbon emissions globally.” We don’t have enough solar energy and wind energy.”

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Climate Change Climate Coal Grid 105

Green Car Congress

SEPTEMBER 19, 2009

New research by MIT scientists suggests that carbon nanotubes could be used to create elastic energy storage systems with energy densities that could be three orders of magnitude higher than those of conventional steel springs, and comparable to Li-ion batteries with potentially more durability and reliability. Hill et al. Click to enlarge.

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Green Car Congress

NOVEMBER 17, 2015

This makes it possible for the waste heat from the electrical drive components to be made available to the interior of the Q7 e-tron quattro. While they store a high amount of energy compared to the other designs, their power output is comparatively low. The tanks can store around five kilograms (11.0 liters (1.0

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Audi PHEV Diesel Fuel 150

Tony Karrer Delicious EVdriven

APRIL 16, 2009

Cleantech Blog Cleantechblog.com, the premier cleantech site for commentary on news and technology relating to clean tech, greentech, energy, climate change and carbon, and the environment. Cleantech Crunched Top 10 Low Carbon Footprint Cars (and one SUV) for. Tree Planting as Carbon Offsets – Does Latitude Ma.

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Tony Karrer Delicious EVdriven

APRIL 16, 2009

And in a true smart grid, electric cars will not only be able to draw on electricity to run their motors, they will also be able to do the reverse: send electricity stored in their batteries back into the grid when it is needed. Every scrap of waste food, garden trimmings and even sewage would be used to ferment gas.

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Tony Karrer Delicious EVdriven

APRIL 21, 2009

Cheap to run but expensive to buy, they offer theprospect of low or zero carbon emissions, but manufacturers won’t sell themunless motorists want to buy them – and motorists won’t buy unless the priceis right and there are enough places to charge the batteries. So the car uses an electrical store to power the drive motor.

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Tony Karrer Delicious EVdriven

APRIL 16, 2009

V2G helps solve the major problem that demand for electricity is high during the day when everything from industrial plants to air conditioning is running full blast and then excess electricity is wasted at night. Several early models of passenger vehicles have enough energy stored in advanced batteries to power several homes for hours.

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