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Thermal Energy Storage Is No Longer Just Hot Air

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But even energy-dense lithium-ion batteries have limitations, says Xiaobing Liu , who leads the Thermal Energy Storage Group at Oak Ridge National Laboratory. Batteries that can hold large amounts of energy are large and expensive, requiring a substantial investment to install. They also consume 75 percent of all electricity used.

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UK power crisis – entirely the fault of regulators and ministers

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Or in other words we are reliant on Putin to keep the light on and at his mercy on the cost of the gas. Right now, production is low in Russia, so the cost has increased. The unit cost of Gas in the UK is 4 times the price of US Gas. – Why, simple the US embraced Fracking to produce bountifully supplies of cheap gas.

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Europe Expands Virtual Borders To Thwart Migrants

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If it were legal to deliver rescued migrants to Libya, it would be as cheap as sending rescue boats a few extra kilometers south instead of east. Meanwhile, legal scholars and civil-society groups are asking whether a hands-off border can really keep Europe’s hands clean. For example, a research group led by.

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The Business of Plugging In: Building the Full Ecosystem for a Successful Plug-in Vehicle Industry in the US

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To get around this, PG&E would like to install a 220 interface in garages with timers and also implement dynamic pricing to encourage customers to charge between 11 at night and 4-5 in the morning. Who is going to install that 240 volt charging system in the garage if that’s what somebody chooses to do? —Jon Lauckner.

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

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million: ALD Technical Solutions is developing light-weight, easy-to-install, long-lasting, and cost-effective structural composite reinforcement system which will be installed and cured-in-place around existing Aluminum Conductor Steel Reinforced transmission lines to increase power capacity and power efficiency, and also decrease sag.

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Clearing the roadblocks to electrification of heavy-duty trucks

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The site was built with maximum flexibility so that we could change things, swap out chargers, move things around and learn from the process of installing battery electric storage or putting solar on the site or what a megawatt charging unit would do under full power in partnership with the utility. What happens when we plug in 1.2-megawatt

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EV Chargers for All!

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“I asked about installing charging stations in our garage and was invited to bring the issue up before the HOA (homeowners association) board, where all good ideas go to die,” he said. They rejected my request to allow cyclists to hose off their bikes in the alley behind the building, which cost nothing.