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Thermal Energy Storage Is No Longer Just Hot Air

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Cheesecake is part of a cohort of companies trying to meet a growing need for alternative forms of energy storage. As countries transition away from fossil fuels to green sources of energy like wind and solar, there will be natural lulls in energy production due to weather conditions.

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MIT researchers propose subsea version of pumped hydro for renewable energy storage

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Researchers at MIT are proposing using a variation on pumped hydroelectric systems for storage of electricity produced by offshore wind farms. The key to this Ocean Renewable Energy Storage (ORES) system is the placement of 30-meter-diameter hollow concrete spheres on the seafloor under the wind turbines. Slocum, A.H.;

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BMW i home energy storage system integrates 2nd-life i3 vehicle batteries

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BMW i announced a home stationary energy storage system solution integrating its BMW i3 vehicle battery at EVS 29 in Montréal. Utilizing real-time energy readings, the system can measure the available energy supply and demand, making the necessary calculations to determine the optimal time to charge or discharge the system.

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DOE to award $12M to support extraction and conversion of lithium from geothermal brines

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Applied Research & Development for Direct Lithium Extraction from Geothermal Brines: R&D projects to advance emerging direct lithium extraction process technologies to increase efficiency, reduce waste generation, and/or reduce cost. Life-cycle analyses may be required to validate the assessment. Topic 2 is limited to partnerships.

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ULEMCo delivers first hydrogen dual fuel road sweeper to Aberdeen City Council

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ACC will be able to refuel the sweepers at the state of the art Aberdeen City Hydrogen Energy Storage (ACHES) hydrogen station, which makes hydrogen from renewable electricity, on a daily basis. In September 2017, ULEMCo reported completing the first hydrogen fuel conversion for a UK commercial waste company.

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Optimizing Solar EV Charging Setups for Your Home | EVBox

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Battery storage – how will you capture surplus solar energy to ensure no electricity is wasted? Return on investment – how will you make the cost of optimization work for your budget? Smart home charging – can you enhance solar efficiency with a solar panel management system?

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Faraday Institution commits a further $31M to battery research to deliver commercial impact

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Accurate simulations of batteries will provide battery makers with the ability to design advanced batteries without incurring the costs of creating numerous prototypes to test every new material, or new type and configuration of the cells which make up a pack.