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Why we shouldn’t give up on fuel cells. The Green Piece

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The DOE also announced a $5million Funding Opportunity Announcement to assist laboratory level research and development technologies to produce hydrogen from coal back in June (read ‘ Funding support for hydrogen projects ’). So do they have a future at all?

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Electric Cars and a Smarter Grid - Green Inc. Blog - NYTimes.com

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A key thing, he said, will be to recharge the batteries at an acceptable time for the electricity grid — to “make sure people aren’t charging at the very peak, peak time,” like late afternoon when the electricity grid is already weighted down by demands like air conditioning. Environmentalists see another advantage to local entities ?

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We Need More Than Just Electric Vehicles

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Manufacturing an EV battery using coal-based electricity results in more than three times the greenhouse-gas emissions of manufacturing a battery with electricity from renewable sources. 70 percent of lithium-ion batteries are produced in China, which derived 64 percent of its electricity from coal in 2020.