Cars That Think

DECEMBER 30, 2021

2021 was a big year for energy-related news, what with the ongoing hunt for new forms of energy storage and cleaner if not carbon-free electricity and events and research that spotlighted the weak links in our power grid. No battery is perfect, however, so engineers keep pushing for new and improved ways to store those electrons.

Hydrogen 104

Hydrogen Molten Salt Green China 104

Cars That Think

JUNE 12, 2023

The shipping containers, which house a Frankenstein-like assortment of machine parts—motors repurposed from Volvo truck engines, giant tanks of compressed air, huge silos of piping hot sand—are produced by a company called Cheesecake Energy. Getting a 100 percent decarbonized grid is nothing but an optimization problem.”—Matthew

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Energy Storage Energy Molten Salt Grid 96

Cars That Think

JULY 15, 2023

From Experiments to Fusion Power Plants As difficult as it will be, successfully producing an energy gain of 10 or more in a fusion experiment may still prove to be easier than the subsequent challenge of using nuclear fusion to put electricity on the grid. Among them is a means to extract heat from the device for generating electrical power.

Fusion 97

Fusion Molten Salt MIT Building 97

Green Car Congress

FEBRUARY 7, 2014

This grid-scale energy storage system could be coupled to a hybrid solar converter to deliver solar electricity on demand. The engine and solar cell are surrounded by salts that store heat as needed by melting when the sun shines and releases the heat to make electricity by solidifying when the sun is not shinning. 3,000,000.

Solar 300

Solar Conversion Hybrid Molten Salt 300

Cars That Think

MARCH 14, 2022

We use extruded plastic D-profile pipes, with mirrors on the flat side of the D, that just rest on the ground,” says Nicholas Kramer , cofounder and engineering head of Hyperlight. During winter, he adds, they can pull up the energy and generate zero-carbon electricity based on the demand curve.

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Oil Solar Convert Molten Salt 119

Green Car Congress

JULY 10, 2019

High-fidelity ignition models to boost engine thermal efficiency, $720,000 Convergent Science Inc., Development of low-cost magnetocaloric materials, $150,000 General Engineering and Research, L.L.C., Madison, Wis. Louisville, Colo. San Diego, Calif. SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory.

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Commercial San Jose San Francisco San Diego 247

Green Car Congress

JULY 17, 2013

The high cost of grid electricity storage makes it best suited for high-value, short-term, frequency regulation; the lower value market for peak-shifted photovoltaic electricity is largely unprofitable, except where geography provides suitable reservoirs for lower-cost pumped-storage hydroelectricity. —DE-FOA-0000949.

Solar 290

Solar Conversion Convert F-150 290

Green Car Congress

SEPTEMBER 30, 2011

The new ARPA-E selections focus on accelerating innovations in clean technology while increasing US competitiveness in rare earth alternatives and breakthroughs in biofuels, thermal storage, grid controls, and solar power electronics. Plants Engineered to Replace Oil (PETRO). Camelina will be engineered with. This will allow a.

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Energy Clean Cleaning Grid 294

Green Car Congress

OCTOBER 12, 2017

Even in cases where high-temperature fluids are used, such as gas turbines and rocket engines, the pumps and compressors are not operated at high temperatures. The material is still brittle and you have to be careful with the engineering, but we’ve now shown that it can work. —Asegun Henry.

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