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Electricity vs Hydrogen: Why is electrification the first choice for fleets?

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Universality In the U.S., With technological advancements, we can now convert various primary energies into electricity more flexibly and efficiently, providing a cleaner and more efficient energy supply chain for electric cars. Electricity is abundant, relatively cheap, and can be easily delivered to any place with a plug.

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UK researchers use graphite to waterproof perovskite solar cells

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A cheaper, cleaner and more sustainable way of making hydrogen fuel from water using sunlight is closer with new research from the University of Bath’s Centre for Sustainable Chemical Technologies. The Bath team instead used commercially available graphite, which is very cheap and much more sustainable than indium.

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Heating Buildings With Solar Energy Stored in Sand

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When you ask people about cleaner energy, they think of electricity,” says Tommi Eronen, CEO of Polar Night Energy. A Battery for Heat Made from Sand Noted chemical engineer Donald Sadoway is quoted as saying: “If you want to make a dirt-cheap battery, you have to make it out of dirt.” But we also have to cut emissions from heating.”

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Swansea team develops faster, greener way of producing carbon spheres

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A fast, green and one-step method for producing porous carbon spheres—a component for carbon capture technology and for new ways of storing renewable energy—has been developed by Swansea University researchers. Credit: ESRI, Swansea University. It uses a cheap and safe feedstock which is readily available in the market.

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Optimus: The Tesla Bot Here’s What We Know…Or, At Least Been Shown

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Given Tesla’s degree of mechanical ability, we can expect these to be completely adequate, but nothing here is crazy small, cheap, efficient, powerful, or anything else. Not noteworthy, but Tesla must manufacture its actuators if it requires a large number of them, which it allegedly will. The Hurdles.

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Georgia Tech team develops high-performance intermediate-temperature sold-oxide fuel cell

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A team from Georgia Tech, with colleagues at the university of Kansas, has designed a high-performance solid-oxide fuel cell that operates directly on nearly dry (only ~3.5 Our cell could make for a straightforward, robust overall system that uses cheap stainless steel to make interconnectors.

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The Why, How, and Maybe Not of Geoengineering

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So based on that, science was proposed in the 90s, maybe you could create a sort of cleaner, more intentional form of this kind of low atmospheric cloud cooling. Like the marine cloud brightening effort, I know that’s going on at the University of Washington and Xerox PARC, and they’ve got some cool on the ground experiments.

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