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Thermal Energy Storage Is No Longer Just Hot Air

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That’s why interest in unconventional solutions for energy storage has taken off in recent years. Some companies have landed on thermal storage. Storing Energy in Air and Sand The mixed-use development in Colchester will operate its own microgrid, which gets electricity from an 8 megawatt solar farm on its property.

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Clearing the roadblocks to electrification of heavy-duty trucks

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Here at Charged , we’ve been covering the commercial EV market for a decade. After many discussions with players in the commercial EV field, we realized that the problem was proving the performance of EVs. However, the electric road ahead is not exactly clear. Rustam Kocher has been a pioneer in the commercial EV field.

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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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Vanadium is used in the most commercially advanced flow-battery technology now in development, but it sets a rather high floor on the cost per kilowatt-hour at any scale. First, scalability: AQDS contains only the Earth-abundant atoms carbon, sulphur, hydrogen and oxygen, and can be inexpensively manufactured on large scales.

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