Cars That Think

NOVEMBER 1, 2023

The best-known wearable energy-harvesting tech today is, of course, solar, which pulls down electrons from sunlight or ambient light. But solar is just the opening gambit. A backpack with a giant solar panel might work technically, but not in reality. volts for about 60 hours. Leveraging watch tech for…bisons?

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Plug In India

MARCH 15, 2023

The interesting thing is before electric cars were popular, no one in the auto industry or mainstream media even questioned where petrol or the metals used in engines are coming from. The reality is these mines are not even in use by the battery industry and they are not Lithium Mines. Graphite and Silicon are used in the Anode.

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Chile Li-ion Petrol India 59

Green Car Congress

OCTOBER 15, 2020

Cyclonatix, Inc is developing an industrial-sized motor/controller to operate with either DC or AC power sources, for applications in electric vehicles, solar-powered pumps, HVAC&R, gas compressors, and other commercial and industrial machines which require high efficiency, variable speed/torque, and low cost.

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Clean Cleaning Energy Solar 371

Green Car Congress

JULY 28, 2021

In addition, Jadar will produce borates, which are used in solar panels and wind turbines. This is a significant moment for the lithium industry. Jadar will be one of the largest industrial investments in Serbia, contributing 1% directly and 4% indirectly to GDP, with many Serbian suppliers involved in the construction of the mine.

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Serbia Carbon Water Sodium 397

Green Car Congress

NOVEMBER 25, 2009

Los Angeles Department of Water and Power. The project will provide additional visibility for operators, which will increase the system’s capacity to integrate on-site energy technologies, such as solar photovoltaic energy systems, plug-in hybrid electric vehicles or battery storage. Pecan Street Project (TX). 24,063,978. 48,127,957.

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Energy Storage Grid Energy Wind 270

Green Car Congress

FEBRUARY 5, 2009

Among its findings, the report notes that in DOE’s assessment, “ although significant progress has been made ”, fuel cell cost is still too high and durability still too low to enable industry to meet the deployment goal of 100,000 hydrogen-fueled vehicles by 2010, as specified in EPACT. Market development RFI. Report to Congress.

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Congress Hydrogen Market Fuel 150

Green Car Congress

JANUARY 22, 2020

However, lithium is sourced almost exclusively from other countries, either concentrated using a solar evaporation process from natural brine sources or recovered from ore. These plants pump hot water from geothermal deposits and use it to generate electricity. Those brines can contain as much as 250 to 300 parts-per-million lithium.

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Waste Water United States Davis 314

Green Car Congress

APRIL 12, 2015

Other work focuses on sodium as an earth-abundant alternative to lithium, but while it could lower cost, sodium ions also carry just a single charge. Because solar and wind energy are intermittent, producing energy only when the sun shines or the wind blows, a method to capture and store energy for later use is needed.

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MIT Li-ion Batteries Battery 150

Green Car Congress

OCTOBER 26, 2009

Direct Solar Fuels (5 projects). Water (1 project). Eagle Picher, in partnership with the Pacific Northwest National Laboratory, will develop a new generation of high energy, low cost planar liquid sodium beta batteries for grid scale electrical power storage applications. DIRECT SOLAR FUELS. Biomass Energy (5 projects).

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