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China’s first large-scale sodium-ion battery charges to 90% in 12 minutes

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Photo: China Southern Power Grid Energy Storage China’s first major sodium-ion battery energy storage station is now online, according to state-owned utility China Southern Power Grid Energy Storage. Once the project reaches 100 MWh, it could release 73,000 MWh of clean energy each year. Get started here. –

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Energy Harvesting for Wearable Technology Steps Up

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Wearable devices, like nearly every other piece of tech, need energy. Fortunately, though, at wearables’ modest power budgets, energy is effectively everywhere. It’s in the sun’s rays and radio waves, the skin’s sweat and body heat, a person’s motion and their footfalls. But solar is just the opening gambit. milliwatts.

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The world’s only coal-to-nuclear reactor plant just broke ground in Wyoming

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Construction will begin in 2025 on the “energy island,” where the steam turbines and other machinery that generate power will be. TerraPower is in a private-public partnership with the US Department of Energy on this project, as well as with power company PacifiCorp. Get started here.

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Solvay to produce silica from rice husk ash for tires in Europe, expansion plans in N America

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Solvay is investing at its Livorno, Italy site to launch the company’s first unit of circular highly dispersible silica (HDS) made with bio-based sodium silicate derived from rice husk ash (RHA). Solvay currently offers a wide range of HDS for sustainable mobility and energy-efficient tires.

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ANL team develops new class of Li- and Na- rechargeable batteries based on selenium and selenium-sulfur; greater volumetric energy densities than sulfur-based batteries

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Researchers at Argonne National Laboratory have developed selenium and selenium–sulfur (Se x S y )-based cathode materials for a new class of room-temperature lithium and sodium batteries. The Se systems provide higher output voltages than S and, accordingly, higher energy densities, a key advantage in commercial applications.

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Researchers call for integration of materials sustainability into battery research; the need for in situ monitoring

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In their paper, they discuss key advances in both more sustainable chemistries and operando techniques, along with some of the remaining challenges and possible solutions, as we personally perceive them. Substantial progress in battery technology is essential if we are to succeed in an energy transition towards a more carbon-neutral society.

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PARC building cleantech portfolio; co-extrusion printing of novel battery electrodes and carbon-neutral renewable liquid fuels from atmospheric CO2

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PARC (Palo Alto Research Center), the home of a long line of technology innovations, including laser printing, object-oriented programming, and personal workstations with graphical user interfaces (e.g., PARC is developing a non-biological approach for producing liquid fuels from renewable energy, air, CO 2 and water. Energy Environ.

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