Green Car Congress

AUGUST 25, 2009

Coal supplies nearly 50% of domestic electricity. In order for low-cost electricity from coal-fired power plants to remain available, the DOE said, economical methods for capturing and storing the greenhouse gas emissions from these plants must be developed. Monitoring, Verification, and Accounting (MVA).

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CO2 Coal Austin Store 225

Green Car Congress

APRIL 30, 2010

This process is less than 1% efficient at converting sunlight to stored chemical energy. The critical barrier to wider deployment of electric vehicles is the high cost and low energy of today’s batteries. of Colorado-Boulder, Univ. Batteries for Electrical Energy Storage in Transportation. Applied Materials Inc.

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Carbon Batteries Battery Li-ion 249

Green Car Congress

OCTOBER 26, 2009

Eagle Picher, in partnership with the Pacific Northwest National Laboratory, will develop a new generation of high energy, low cost planar liquid sodium beta batteries for grid scale electrical power storage applications. Low Cost, High Energy and Power Density, Nanotube-Enhanced Ultracapacitors. DOE grant: $7,200,000).

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Energy Grant Low Cost Li-ion 231