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Thermal Energy Storage Is No Longer Just Hot Air

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Energy storage has two main factors—how fast it can be charged and discharged (the spigot) and how much total energy it can hold (the bathtub). Batteries have a powerful spigot, but that comes at the cost of a small tub. Heating Up the Grid On some level, getting value from energy storage systems is an optimization problem.

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ARPA-E awards $33M to 13 intermediate-temp fuel cell projects; converting gaseous hydrocarbons to liquid fuels

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Redox’s new material configuration also allows the operating temperature to be reduced when incorporated into commercially fabricated fuel cells. Colorado School of Mines. UCLA’s new materials also have high catalytic activity, which will lower the cost of the overall system. The University of South Carolina.

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