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MARCH 23, 2016

Primus Green Energy Inc., Primus’ standardized modular GTL systems will convert low-cost Marcellus feedstock into methanol locally, thus saving its clients in the region both production and transportation costs. —Sam Golan, chief executive officer of Primus Green Energy.

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JULY 19, 2012

Together with novel vehicle functions like electrically assisted brakes and steering systems, or cabin pre-heating during key-off, micro-hybridization confronts the starter battery with substantially increased energy throughput by micro-cycling with a typical amplitude (depth of discharge, DOD) around a few percent state of charge (SOC) or less.

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MARCH 3, 2014

Comparison with conventional Cu/ZnO/Al2O3 catalysts revealed the same or better methanol synthesis activity, as well as considerably lower production of CO. In their paper, they suggested that this is a first step towards the development of small-scale low-pressure devices for CO 2 reduction to methanol.

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FEBRUARY 22, 2024

The deficit is driving up electricity prices, reducing grid reliability, and hobbling renewable energy deployment. Many Lines, Stable Power High-voltage transmission lines move large amounts of energy over long distances, linking power generation to consumption. Department of Energy reveals the severity of the problem.

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In any case, when we switch from fossil fuels to renewable energy, we reduce but do not eliminate environmental damage. Current versions of renewable energy such as solar cells and windmills do far less damage to the environment than oil rigs, fracking, and strip mining, but they do damage the environment.

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Green Car Congress

MARCH 12, 2015

Intelligent Energy is expanding its PEM fuel cell offerings with a new 100 kW automotive fuel cell architecture. The 100 kW platform takes full advantage of Intelligent Energy’s stack technology, which offers leading power density of 3.5 kW/kg (gravimetric), while being engineered for low cost, high volume series production.

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Green Car Congress

SEPTEMBER 25, 2013

Researchers at Arizona State University have shown that paper-folding concepts can be applied to Li-ion batteries in order to realize a device with higher areal energy densities. Recently, there has been much interest in the development of electronic and energy storage devices using paper and textile components. Click to enlarge.

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Green Car Congress

OCTOBER 24, 2017

million to participate in the US Department of Energy’s (DOE’s) Advanced Water Splitting Benchmarking Project. Proton OnSite, a wholly owned subsidiary of Nel ASA, has been awarded a contract for approximately US$1.8 Kathy Ayers, Proton’s Vice President of Research and Development, has been named overall project lead.

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Green Car Congress

AUGUST 14, 2015

Researchers in China have developed an approach for the cost-effective, energy-efficient, large scale synthesis of functional silicon electrode materials for Li-ion batteries (LIBs). To enable widespread application, it is desirable to develop scalable, cost- effective, and energy-efficient processes to produce Si nano-particles.

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Green Car Congress

DECEMBER 2, 2018

a developer of low-cost, high-performance polymers for electrochemical applications, announced its selection by the US Department of Energy’s Advanced Research Projects Agency-Energy (ARPA-E) for an award that will support the continued development of its alkaline exchange ionomers and membranes. Ecolectro Inc.,

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Green Car Congress

SEPTEMBER 17, 2012

Stanford University’s Precourt Institute for Energy (PIE), TomKat Center for Sustainable Energy and Precourt Energy Efficiency Center (PEEC) have awarded 9 faculty seed grants totaling $2.2 million for promising new research in clean technology and energy efficiency. PIs: William Chueh, MSE/PIE, and Nick Melosh, MSE.

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SEPTEMBER 2, 2012

million) to two UK fuel cell companies—ACAL Energy and ITM Power—to help deliver a step change reduction in the cost of the technology to about $35/kW. The Carbon Trust cost analysis applies to projected costs for the period 2030-2050, when fuel cell vehicles reach mass production quantities (500,000 units per year).

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FEBRUARY 2, 2016

Primus Green Energy Inc., The low-cost, modular systems can be trucked in and assembled onsite for easy deployment. The STG+ process has been validated through more than 7,500 hours of operation at Primus’ commercial testing plant.

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Green Car Congress

NOVEMBER 19, 2018

A team at Imperial College London has examined the relative costs of carbon mitigation from a lifecycle perspective for 12 different hydrogen production techniques using fossil fuels, nuclear energy and renewable sources. An open-access paper on their work is published the RSC journal Energy & Environmental Science. Resources.

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Green Car Congress

JULY 8, 2013

A team from Japan’s RIKEN, led by Hye Ryung Byon, has developed a lithium-iodine (Li-I 2 ) battery system with a significantly higher energy density than conventional lithium-ion batteries. The high solubility of triiodide/iodide redox couples results in an energy density of ~ 0.33?kWh?kg Energy density was ~0.35 Zhao et al.

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FEBRUARY 2, 2015

Energy density comparison of the 3D nanotextile electrode and conventional LiMn 2 O 4 , LiCoO 2 , LiFePO 4 , and LiNi 0.5 The textiles showed a specific energy as high as 780 Wh kg –1 , 44–56% higher than those of conventional cathodes such as LiMn 2 O 4 , LiCoO 2 , and LiFePO 4. O 4 electrodes. Credit: ACS, Fing et al.

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Green Car Congress

JUNE 1, 2015

Stanford University scientists have created a new ultrahigh surface area three-dimensional porous graphitic carbon material that significantly boosts the performance of energy-storage technologies. c) Comparison of areal capacity and cycling life between HPG carbon/ sulfur electrodes and recently reported high-performance sulfur electrodes.

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MARCH 25, 2016

A team from the Shenzhen Institutes of Advanced Technology (SIAT) of the Chinese Academy of Sciences has developed a novel, environmentally friendly low-cost battery. A paper on the work is published in the journal Advanced Energy Materials. times), and energy density (~1.6-2.8 Energy Mater. and Lee, C.-S.

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Green Car Congress

SEPTEMBER 30, 2015

Anhui Jianghuai Automobile Group Co Ltd (JAC) and Ricardo are collaborating on a project to develop the Ricardo HyBoost concept ( earlier post )—a combination of low-cost technologies to deliver improved performance and fuel economy which featured recently in the Ricardo Centenary celebrations —into volume production on a JAC vehicle.

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MARCH 13, 2023

Tesla first used BYD's 10 GWh batteries last year for its low-end models in Europe, according to the report. Earlier this year, Tesla did not request the additional supply of BYD batteries for the standard, low-cost trim version of the Model 3 after its contract to supply them expired, the report said, citing industry sources.

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Green Car Congress

MAY 21, 2012

GreatPoint Energy and China Wanxiang Holdings have officially closed their investment and partnership agreement which was highlighted during an official signing ceremony between senior US and Chinese government officials in 2012. As part of the transaction, GreatPoint Energy has raised equity investment and secured project funding of $1.25

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In comparison, the Tesla Model Y starts at $36,482 (263,900 yuan) in China. The newly developed EV is equipped with BYD’s new energy tech. Denza claims it will be “the pioneer in building Chinese new energy luxury sedans into world-class vehicles.” Egger said, “The design is simultaneously spirited and deluxe.”

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Green Car Congress

OCTOBER 10, 2017

Stanford researchers have developed a sodium-ion battery (SIB) that can store the same amount of energy as a state-of-the-art lithium ion, at substantially lower cost. In addition, material sustainability is also a critical factor when considering the total economic and environmental benefits for grid-scale energy storage applications.

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Green Car Congress

MAY 15, 2015

Although lithium-ion batteries are currently the predominant battery technology in electric and hybrid vehicles, as well as other energy storage applications, sodium-ion could offer significant cost, safety and sustainability benefits. Faradion’s sodium-ion cells deliver a specific energy of more than 140 Wh/kg. Earlier post.).

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Green Car Congress

JULY 22, 2012

Unlike the majority of conventional fluorocarbon membrane materials which are expensive and require significant chemical plant to fabricate, ITM’s materials are low-cost hydrocarbons made by mixing together liquid chemicals to a particular recipe. US Department of Energy (DOE) is targeting $30/kW. Source: US DOE.

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Green Car Congress

APRIL 2, 2013

Lithium-sulfur batteries are of great interest for electromobility applications, among others, due to their high specific energy and relatively low cost, but are challenged by significant capacity decay over cycling. Over the long term, the Fraunhofer team expects to reach a practical energy density of up to 600 Wh/kg.

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APRIL 7, 2009

A new high-energy cathode material that can greatly increase the safety and extend the life-span of future lithium-ion batteries has been developed through the close international collaboration of researchers led by the US Department of Energy’s (DOE) Argonne National Laboratory and Hanyang University in South Korea. SEM of Li[Ni 0.64

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NOVEMBER 1, 2017

It is a simple, low-cost approach that can be applied to a broad range of alloy systems with various working ions such as Li, Na, or Mg. By comparison, realized capacity in a graphite/copper composite anode is only ~ 150 mAh g -1. The research was published in the journal ACS Energy Letters. Kreder, III, Brian T.

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APRIL 2, 2016

b) Comparison of tensile strength and strain to failure (elongation) of Ti-185 alloy with other commercially available Titanium alloys. However, wide scale adoption of β-titanium alloys in transportation applications has been limited due to its high cost. a) Ultimate tensile and yield strength of Ti-185 for three STA conditions. (b)

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AUGUST 26, 2019

The primary hurdles for widespread thermoelectric harvesting have been efficiency and cost, he said. Thermoelectric generation has been expensive, both in terms of cost per device and cost per watt of energy generated. —Prof. He turned to Lee and UT Dallas to further study what the devices could do.

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Green Car Congress

AUGUST 30, 2013

The photocatalytic water splitting opened up by titanium oxide (TiO 2 ) has attracted much attention because the energy of sunlight can be converted into clean gaseous fuel. By comparison, no gas was generated from pure water itself under the same irradiation conditions. The irradiation photon energy of 2.3 mL volume of water.

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JUNE 28, 2012

In testing reported in the ACS journal Nano Letters , the hybrid MnO 2 /Mn/MnO 2 sandwich-like nanotube arrays exhibited an excellent rate capability with a high specific energy of 45 Wh/kg and specific power of 23 kW/kg and excellent long-term cycling stability (less 5% loss of the maximum specific capacitance after 3,000 cycles).

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AUGUST 2, 2017

The work ultimately demonstrates that VO 2 (B) is a highly promising energy storage material and has no intrinsic hindrance in achieving superior cyclability with a very high power and capacity in a Li-ion conductor. In addition, the theoretical capacity and energy density of VO 2 (B) (323 mAh/g at a redox voltage of 2.6

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JULY 30, 2014

The researchers suggested that the inherent safety and stability features of such devices make them very promising for many applications, especially for large-scale static energy storage. Magnesium is low-cost, safe and environmentally benign. Interest in rechargeable magnesium batteries has increased due to a number of factors.

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Green Car Congress

APRIL 9, 2013

The advantage of LaunchPoint’s technology lies in the high-speed mechanism that recovers the valve’s kinetic energy at the end of each transition from open to closed and vice versa. The stored energy is then released to accelerate the valve on the next transition while also ensuring a soft landing. LaunchPoint Technologies, Inc.

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MARCH 23, 2010

The Aluminum-air battery, a metal-air battery system which uses a catalytic air cathode in combination with an electrolyte and an aluminum anode, offers a theoretical specific energy of 8.1 The work was published online 22 March in the ACS journal Energy & Fuels. Energy Fuels , Article ASAP doi: 10.1021/ef901344k.

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MAY 1, 2018

Currently, liquid electrolyte still [dominates] the commercial LIB market since they are low cost, easy to prepare and [feature] high ionic conductivity. a) Comparison of full state-of-charge curves of the LiNi 0.6 Nail-penetration tests showed that LiNi 0.6 The resulting hybrids were labelled SSE-5 and SSE-10.

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