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Enrich and expand solar, wind, hydro, and geothermal energy generation and utilization. Adopt new technologies and solutions for recycling and converting waste to energy, and develop and use more biodegradable materials. Sustainable infrastructure. Circular economy and waste management.
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will acquire in a stock-for-stock exchange all of the outstanding common shares of Schneider Power, a Canada-based wind and solar power generation company. Quantum Solar will use the investment proceeds to establish a solar photovoltaic module manufacturing facility in Irvine, California, with an expected annual capacity of 45 MW.
(MHI) successfully conducted ground demonstration testing of “wireless power transmission,” a new technology presently under development to serve as the core technology of space solar power systems (SSPS). In case of microwave based SSPS (M-SSPS), the solar energy must be converted to electricity and then converted to a microwave beam.
is developing a pilot plant in Falkenhagen in the north east of Germany to convert power from wind energy into hydrogen which can then be stored in the country’s gas grid. We need new storage capacities so that we can further increase the share of weather-dependent wind power in our generation portfolio in coming years.
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Rodox Power Systems and Oak Ridge National Laboratory aim to use high performance computing to reduce the energy and cost in the manufacturing of Solid Oxide Electrolyzer Cells (SOEC) which convert steam into hydrogen by modeling sintering using pulse thermal processing (PTP). Solar Turbines. The Timken Company.
Quantum will use the motors in its Ford F-150 PHEV program to convert the gasoline powered light-duty pickup trucks to plug-in hybrid operation. Remy International, Inc. signed an agreement to supply its HVH250 motors to Quantum Fuel Systems Technologies Worldwide Inc.
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