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Ballard and GS Caltex partner on waste-to-energy fuel cell demo

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Ballard Power Systems has partnered with GS Platech, a subsidiary of GS Caltex, one of South Korea’s largest petroleum refiners, to demonstrate waste-to-energy power generation using zero-emission fuel cells and hydrogen produced from processing of municipal solid waste.

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Gravity Batteries, Green Hydrogen, and a Thorium Reactor for China

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2021 was a big year for energy-related news, what with the ongoing hunt for new forms of energy storage and cleaner if not carbon-free electricity and events and research that spotlighted the weak links in our power grid. IEEE Spectrum did its best to cover those developments, and these were the stories that our readers liked best.

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SGH2 building largest green hydrogen production facility in California; gasification of waste into H2

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It also solves our plastics and waste problems by turning them into green hydrogen, and does it cleaner and at costs far lower than any other green hydrogen producer. It can also provide lowest-cost long-term storage for electrical grids relying on renewable energy. —Lancaster Mayor R. Rex Parris.

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Climate impact of lithium-ion batteries & how to measure it 

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It has become a cleaner energy storage solution. For example, as per the Argonne’s latest update of GREET the assumption is that both NCM111 precursors and the rest of the battery are produced in the United States with electricity from the national grid mix, although the site data is taken from Chinese plants. kg CO2e/kWh.

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Fuel-cell Honda CR-V review, Genesis GV60 test, Fisker Ocean price cut: The Week in Reverse

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And that’s for China-built versions; those assembled in South Korea will arrive a bit later. Jeep Willys Dispatcher concept EVs are as clean as the grid from which they charge—and sometimes that can vary significantly by time of day. In many places, daytime EV charging is cleaner as utilities load up on renewables like solar.

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Can Alt-Fuel Credits Accelerate EV Adoption?

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friendly governments in Europe, Japan, and South Korea have criticized the plan for purportedly discriminating against non-U.S. How much cleaner are electric vehicles relative to internal combustion engines that are powered by fuels that fall under the RFS?” And although the plan seeks to reduce U.S. says Nunes.

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Drive Electric Submission on the Emissions Reduction Plan Discussion Document

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If we do not prepare ourselves, we risk becoming the dumping ground for the world’s dirtiest right hand drive vehicles, instead of a quick adopter of better, cleaner technologies. . This includes Norway and South Korea, by 2025. Policy and regulatory settings (including access to the grid, competition settings). .