Green Car Congress

FEBRUARY 7, 2014

These solar cells will extract as much energy as possible from the highest-energy portion of the solar spectrum when used in the next generation of hybrid solar converters. The system would also capture waste heat from the solar cells, providing additional gains from the sun’s energy. Earlier post.). 'The Earlier post.).

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JANUARY 20, 2024

Having an energy source that you can fit onboard a ship and does not compete with shore energy is a very high priority.” Researchers are considering three different types: a lead-cooled fast reactor, a uranium-fueled, helium-gas-cooled reactor, and a molten-salt-cooled reactor, shown here [below, at bottom].

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DECEMBER 6, 2022

According to the European Carbon and Graphite Association (ECGA), there are only two small mines in the EU—located in Austria and in Germany—but the mined grades are not suitable for energy storage applications. The process is powered by either wind, solar or hydro energy resulting in a carbon negative production line.

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SEPTEMBER 3, 2020

The US Department of Energy announced $29 million in funding for 14 projects as part of the Galvanizing Advances in Market-aligned fusion for an Overabundance of Watts (GAMOW) program, which is jointly sponsored by ARPA-E and the Office of Science–Fusion Energy Sciences (SC-FES). Earlier post.). University of California, San Diego.

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AUGUST 25, 2022

An international team of researchers led by Quanguan Pang at Peking University and Donald Sadoway at MIT reports a bidirectional, rapidly charging aluminum–chalcogen battery operating with a molten-salt electrolyte composed of NaCl–KCl–AlCl 3. A paper on the work is published in Nature.

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JULY 10, 2019

The US Department of Energy (DOE) announced more than $24 million in funding for 77 projects supported by the Office of Technology Transitions (OTT) Technology Commercialization Fund (TCF). The TCF was created by the Energy Policy Act of 2005 to promote promising energy technologies. Amesbury, Mass. El Centro, Calif.

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MARCH 10, 2016

However, generating these required intermediates requires high-energy reagents (such as highly reducing metals or strong organic bases), carbon–heteroatom bonds or relatively acidic carbon–hydrogen (C–H) bonds. But making FDCA from furfural and CO 2 typically requires hazardous chemicals that are expensive and energy-intensive to make.

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MARCH 14, 2022

One of the main impediments to harnessing solar energy is storage. The California-based Hyperlight Energy will be piloting an installation where they plan to use existing oil wells as solar thermal wellsprings, with the stored energy being converted back to clean electricity when required.

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OCTOBER 21, 2011

Zaghib currently serves as Administrator of the energy storage and conversion unit at Hydro-Québec. It primarily exploits renewable generating options, in particular hydropower, and supports the development of wind energy through purchases from independent power producers. Karim Zaghib at Hydro-Québec’s research institute, IREQ.

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MAY 1, 2009

Solar energy produces both heat for gasification and H 2 via electrolysis. Researchers at the Norwegian University of Science and Technology (NTNU) are proposing a new process for producing synfuel from biomass using concentrating solar energy as its main energy source. Energy conversion efficiency (%).

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APRIL 10, 2013

An innovative oil-upgrading technology that can increase the economics of unconventional petroleum resources has been developed under a US Department of Energy-funded project. Flowchart of molten salt gasification process. The remaining product is elemental sulfur. Source: Field Upgrading. Click to enlarge.

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JULY 17, 2013

The primary goal of this funding opportunity ( DE-FOA-0000949 ) is to provide disruptive new solar conversion and storage technology options to enable a much higher penetration of solar energy generation into the US energy mix. of US primary energy, and the deployment of these technologies is growing only slowly.

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OCTOBER 12, 2017

A ceramic-based mechanical pump able to operate at record temperatures of more than 1,400 ˚C (1,673 K) can transfer high-temperature liquids such as molten tin, enabling a new generation of energy conversion and storage systems. —Amy et al.

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SEPTEMBER 30, 2011

The Department of Energy’s Advanced Research Projects Agency-Energy (ARPA-E) has selected 60 research projects for up to a combined $156 million in funding from the Fiscal Year 2011 budget. million in funds to approximately 120 energy projects within seven program areas. HEATS: High Energy Advanced Thermal Storage ($37.3

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DECEMBER 30, 2014

In short, STEP uses solar thermal energy to increase the system temperature to decrease electrolysis potentials.). A paper on the new work is published in the journal Advanced Energy Materials. In general, we have found an energy advantage in applying STEP to liquid, molten electrolyte cells. Energy Mater.

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AUGUST 14, 2014

The US Department of Energy (DOE) is awarding more than $55 million to 31 new projects to accelerate research and development of vehicle technologies that will improve fuel efficiency and reduce costs under a program-wide funding opportunity announced in January. (DE-FOA-0000991, DE-FOA-0000991, earlier post.) Alcoa, Inc. Xtalic Corp.

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