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UNSW, H2Store to develop hydrogen storage for renewables; residential and commercial P2G

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Professor Kondo-Francois Aguey-Zinsou and his team at UNSW’s School of Chemical Engineering have developed a system that provides cheap storage and transportation of hydrogen which they expect will provide a new alternative for energy storage within two years.

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Molten-Salt Battery Freezes Energy Over a Whole Season

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Especially for sources like wind and solar, which have discontinuous availability. In their proof of concept, the researchers reported that the battery retained 92 percent of its capacity over three months. “We As Li points out, this proof-of-concept was just to see if the technology was possible. “If

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New MIT metal-mesh membrane could solve longstanding problems with liquid metal displacement batteries; inexpensive grid power storage

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A battery, based on electrodes made of sodium and nickel chloride and using thea new type of metal mesh membrane, could be used for grid-scale installations to make intermittent power sources such as wind and solar capable of delivering reliable baseload electricity.

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CalSEED awards $4.2M to early-stage clean energy innovations

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The California Sustainable Energy Entrepreneur Development (CalSEED) program announced that the fourth cohort of innovative clean energy concepts has been approved by the California Energy Commission (CEC); 28 companies out of 212 were selected to receive grants of $150,000 each. CalSEED is administered by New Energy Nexus.

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The Why, How, and Maybe Not of Geoengineering

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Well, taking carbon dioxide out of the atmosphere and potentially other gases like methane is a really sensible concept in principle because that would accelerate the process of moving back to the sort of pre-industrial sustainable climate that we have. Another concept is based on observation of something that’s happening now.

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The Turbulent Past and Uncertain Future of Artificial Intelligence

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To this very day, Lenat and his team continue to add terms (facts and concepts) to Cyc's ontology and explain the relationships between them via rules. In the late 1980s, the cold winds of commerce brought on the second AI winter. By 2017, the team had 1.5 million terms and 24.5 million rules.

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Greentech Media | ECOtality CEO: Fast Charging and Why Battery Swapping Is Doomed

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Given the cost of oil and the economic, geopolitical and ecological effects of our continued reliance on petroleum, electric transportation will be cheap. Project Better Place, along with Renault-Nissan and now Daimler , are advancing the concept of swapping out charged batteries for empty batteries.