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Thermal Energy Storage Is No Longer Just Hot Air

Cars That Think

The shipping containers, which house a Frankenstein-like assortment of machine parts—motors repurposed from Volvo truck engines, giant tanks of compressed air, huge silos of piping hot sand—are produced by a company called Cheesecake Energy. Batteries have a powerful spigot, but that comes at the cost of a small tub.

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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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In a paper in Nature , they suggest that the use of such redox-active organic molecules instead of redox-active metals represents a new and promising direction for realizing massive electrical energy storage at greatly reduced cost. Paying for 50 megawatts of power capacity when only 1 megawatt is necessary makes little economic sense.

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Clearing the roadblocks to electrification of heavy-duty trucks

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Most commercial trucks are engineered for 1.2 Most commercial trucks are engineered for 1.2 million miles, so the engineering that goes into making those vehicles be able to perform and last that long has to apply to the battery pack as well. Power to them for seeing it, understanding it, and being willing to be a first mover.

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Dodge Circuit EV First Drive: electric car makes grand promises on Earth Day

Tony Karrer Delicious EVdriven

Still, the instant torque of the electric motor is a rush you get to experience all the time in city driving; each time you pull away from a red light and stop sign youre wondering why gasoline engines ever became popular. I think electric cars are the furture and this unit has some real world experience. from coal.

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Slow start for charge of the electric cars - Times Online

Tony Karrer Delicious EVdriven

Home Business Industry Sectors Engineering MY PROFILE SHOP JOBS PROPERTY CLASSIFIEDS From The Sunday Times April 19, 2009 Slow start for charge of the electric cars Ray Hutton Electric cars need a boost. The widespread adoption of electric cars would put a considerable extra strainon the power-genera-tion industry.