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How My EV & Jackery Solar Generator Got Me Through A Long Power Outage

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Phoenix often approaches 120 degrees Fahrenheit (49C) and sometimes tops it, while other high desert lowlands spend days at a time with highs over 110F (43C). A Microburst Cuts Us Off From The Grid June is always very dry in most of the southwest United States, and it’s the hottest month of the year. Between […].

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US DOE Offers Abengoa Solar a Conditional Commitment for $1.45B Loan Guarantee for Concentrating Solar Power Plant

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billion loan guarantee to Abengoa Solar, Inc. The loan will support the construction and start-up of Solana, a 250 net megawatt (MW) concentrating solar power (CSP) plant in Arizona—the largest CSP plant worldwide to-date. The plant will be located 70 miles southwest of Phoenix, near Gila Bend, Arizona.

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Five Cool Tech Demos From the ARPA-E Summit

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The company developed the cold plate under an ARPA-E grant and is now measuring the energy savings of liquid cooling through an ARPA-E program. Phoenix Tailings —a startup based in Woburn, Mass.—extracts Emrgy’s timing takes advantage of the groundwork laid by the solar power industry.

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Chrysler/DOE Ram PHEV project exploring battery life modeling

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Putting this all together (merging calendar life, energy throughput and an operational temperature increase of 10 °C), resulted in product life estimates that vary by location and by miles driven. Battery packs in use in Los Angeles, Phoenix and Miami had the lowest estimated calendar lives, at 11.8, That dropped to 7.6,

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Is aviation the best application yet for hydrogen fuel cells?

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Well, let’s look at them from first principles and see, with the energy demands and the utilization of the vehicle that you have in aviation, what makes sense. When it comes to utilizing that energy, fuel cells are 50-60% efficiency. Biological organisms are not great at converting sunlight into energy.