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IEA: Estonia is pioneering technologies for more efficient and cleaner use of oil shale

Green Car Congress

Enefit’s modular design allows easy maintenance, process optimization and streamlined adaptability to the individual characteristics of different oil shale deposits. The efficiency of the technology comes from its 100% use of the mined oil shale. In the US state of Utah, Eesti Energia purchased Oil Shale Exploration Company in 2011.

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Greenlings: Benefits of charging stations vs. battery swaps vs. home charging

Tony Karrer Delicious EVdriven

And, you have to recognize that they pull a hell of a lot of power through the local grid: there will come a time when we will see utility transformers popping from all the current being drawn (imagine just a few dozen EVs fast-charging simultaneously, on 480V at 500A: wow). Think of a battery in laptops.