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DOE awards $2.7M to U Florida, Synhelion to support production of hydrogen from concentrated solar

Green Car Congress

Synhelion and its partner the University of Florida announced that their joint project has been awarded US$2.7 For this project, Synhelion and University of Florida (UF) will jointly develop a solar reactor powered by high-temperature solar thermal energy to produce hydrogen gas from water and sunlight.

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A Florida utility ditches coal, doubles its solar, and leaves out a big part of its story

Electrek

Florida utility Tampa Electric Co. more… The post A Florida utility ditches coal, doubles its solar, and leaves out a big part of its story appeared first on Electrek. more… The post A Florida utility ditches coal, doubles its solar, and leaves out a big part of its story appeared first on Electrek.

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SpaceX begins stacking Florida Starship launch tower

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SpaceX has begun stacking Starship’s first Florida launch tower. For Florida’s first Starship launch tower, SpaceX has spent more than three months assembling and meticulously outfitting the first six of nine prefabricated tower sections before the first stack. lb) of liquid methane (LCH4).

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SpaceX to ship Starship ‘deluge’ hardware from Florida to Starbase

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SpaceX appears to be preparing to ship a huge collection of hardware – including parts of a possible launch deluge system – from Florida to Texas. The most interesting part of the shipment is arguably a group of giant metal tubes. Starship’s Florida deluge Some part of SpaceX knows that.

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SpaceX preparing giant crane to assemble Starship’s first Florida launch tower

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SpaceX has begun staging and assembling parts of a giant crane it will soon need to stack Starship’s first East Coast launch tower and install other major launch pad components. More parts of this crane were brought in this morning, including the cabin for the operator. Plenty of parts are still missing, of course.

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SpaceX installs rocket-catching arms on Starship’s Florida launch tower

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SpaceX broke ground on Starship’s first Florida OLS in late 2019. In late 2021, SpaceX finally began constructing the second iteration of Starship’s first Florida pad. Mechazilla’s simplest part is a third arm that is vertically fixed in place but capable of swinging left and right.

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Apparently We Need To Talk About Evacuations & EVs (Part 2)

CleanTechnica EVs

Continued from Part 1… Would Charging Time Kill You? This has led to idiotic posts saying that it would take a week to get out of Florida in […]. Another common lie about EVs is that they’d take forever to escape the danger zone because they don’t go very far and take 8+ hours to charge.

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