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World’s largest solar panel maker to slash thousands of jobs

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Photo by Los Muertos Crew on Pexels.com China’s LONGi Group is laying off up to 30% of its workers to accelerate cost-cutting, according to Bloomberg. Cheap Chinese solar panels are also making it hard for European and US solar panel makers to compete. The US added a record-setting 32.4 gigawatts (GW) of solar capacity in 2023.

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Sunfire, Fraunhofer, partners launch project to scale alkaline AEM electrolysis

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Technologies such as pressurized alkaline or high-temperature electrolysis are already being installed in industrial environments. In addition, AEM technology is characterized by its cheap and non-critical materials—similar to AEL technology. Another approach that shows promise is the anion exchange membrane (AEM) technology.

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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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Skylark Restaurants in Japan to offer free EV recharging at 900 locations

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The Skylark restaurant group in Japan plans to offer free EV public recharging at their 900 locations around Japan, with no obligation to be a customer of the restaurant. Theoretically you could tour the entire country paying nothing for your travel and eating cheap at Skylark’s restaurants. Integrity Exports.

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Porsche Whistleblower: “60% of all delivered Taycan have battery issues that caused replacements, damages and fires”

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To pretend to have done a repair that never happened and accept a lower battery capacity caused by a cheap Porsche onboard charger without informing the customer would be misleading, to say the least. The Taycan vehicles experiencing the charging problems are divided into three groups by Porsche and dealers, the whistleblower stated.

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11 Intriguing Engineering Milestones to Look for in 2023

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It’s about one-twentieth the size of the minibus-scale geostationary satellites already in orbit, allowing for cheap and quick deployment. The components are for startup NuScale , whose design promises to drastically reduce cost and installation time. But this satellite is the first of a new breed, dubbed microGEO.

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False Starts: The Story of Vehicle-to-Grid Power

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Then, as electricity entrepreneurs expanded power generation and transmission capacity, they faced the new problem of what to do with all the cheap off-peak, nighttime electricity they could now produce. With funding from the California Air Resources Board , the team installed an AC-150 drive in a Volkswagen Beetle.

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