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Wind-to-Hydrogen Tech Goes to Sea

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Wind and solar parks produce a large portion of their energy. Then, as now, wind farms are operating off the world’s coasts—but not all of these offshore sites are connected to the mainland via underwater power cables. Some of the wind farms instead sit in clusters more than 100 kilometers out at sea.

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French electricity producer CNR and Renault enter partnership on recharging with renewable power, end-of-life battery secondary use

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The Compagnie Nationale du Rhône (CNR), France’s leading producer of 100% renewable electricity, and Renault signed a partnership agreement at the Lyon International Motor Show. CNR is France’s second largest electricity producer and its foremost producer of exclusively renewable energy.

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Fusion Is Having a Moment

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As Earth’s inhabitants suffer through what may wind up being the hottest year on record , there’s a Promethean spark of hope. There’s also a lot to learn from Iter , the world’s largest fusion experiment, which is now being built in southern France. That challenge can’t be met soon enough.

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Australia Goes All-in on Green Hydrogen

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The carbon-free rigs will pack 50 kilos of hydrogen zapped from water using electricity from the refinery’s dedicated solar power plant. Building every electrolyzer promised for 2030 would provide only about one-sixth of the green hydrogen required to meet climate targets, according to figures from the International Energy Agency in Paris.

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This Fusion Reactor Is Held Together With Tape

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The largest by far is Iter , a collaborative international effort to build a massive tokamak in Cadarache, France. We showed that we could basically hand-build 16 winding coils and assemble them into one high-performing magnet,” says Sorbom. national labs and universities as well as international research institutes.

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Travels with Perplexity AI

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He’d just handed me a bag of single-origin cascara, the dried flesh of coffee cherries, in his shop, Cafés Muda in Lille, France. Dawn and I used Perplexity as an on-demand travel guide throughout our tour of the Flemish region of Belgium and Northern France. Next: “Where can I buy distilled water near me right now?” (In

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SAE World Congress panel highlights progress on H2 infrastructure and fuel cell vehicle commercialization

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In order to prepare for the FCEV market, there have been three main areas where hydrogen infrastructure has started to roll out: Europe (Germany, France, UK and Scandinavia), the US (mainly in California) and in Japan. In terms of cost, Freese noted, most of the expensive parts are not entirely unique to fuel cells. Earlier post.).

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