Cars That Think

APRIL 15, 2022

Scientists have been looking for solutions in gravity energy storage , thermal or geothermal storage , and also molten-salt batteries. A recent study from the Pacific Northwest National Laboratory (PNNL) looks at molten-salt batteries that can “freeze” their charge for months until required.

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AUGUST 14, 2013

Conventional separate pretreatment and saccharification of biofuel feedstock (a) entails water and waste disposal that the new one-pot system (b) eliminates. The ionic liquids that have emerged from this JBEI effort as a benchmark for biomass processing are imidazolium-based molten salts. Click to enlarge. Jian Shi, John M.

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Green Car Congress

FEBRUARY 7, 2014

The system would also capture waste heat from the solar cells, providing additional gains from the sun’s energy. The thermo-acoustic unit, which was originally designed for space missions, converts waste heat from the solar cell into sound waves that generate electricity using few moving parts. ARPA-E Power Generation Solar'

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Green Car Congress

MARCH 21, 2013

The facility will create biodiesel from renewable waste-based materials such as used cooking oil from restaurants. based in West Sacramento, was awarded $94,959 to determine the feasibility of using a catalyst to transform food waste into fuel in a single unit, thus simplifying production and lowering costs. C/e Solutions, Inc.

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AUGUST 19, 2014

Lignin is viewed as a waste stream that is typically burned to generate heat and electricity for the biorefinery, but if other uses for lignin could be found with higher economic value it would significantly improve the refinery’s overall economics. —Socha et al.

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MARCH 10, 2016

In the paper in Nature they showed that intermediate-temperature (200 to 350 ˚C) molten salts containing caesium or potassium cations enable carbonate ions (CO 3 2– ) to deprotonate very weakly acidic C–H bonds, generating carbon-centered nucleophiles that react with CO 2 to form carboxylates.

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Cars That Think

JANUARY 20, 2024

Researchers are considering three different types: a lead-cooled fast reactor, a uranium-fueled, helium-gas-cooled reactor, and a molten-salt-cooled reactor, shown here [below, at bottom]. One is a thorium-fueled molten-salt reactor. The reactors would be small, modular units.

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AUGUST 14, 2014

This project will develop high specific energy, high power and highly reversible Li-air batteries that are based on the concept of replacing traditional electrolytes in the air electrode with a stable inorganic molten salt electrolyte. University of Maryland. National Renewable Energy Laboratory. Eaton Corp.

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Green Car Congress

JULY 17, 2013

Category 1B seeks prototypes of advanced technology concepts for efficient high temperature topping devices that can produce electricity from incident solar energy while achieving high effectiveness in transferring the waste heat to a thermal fluid at T?400 inexpensive molten salt storage and/or the use of a steam Rankine turbine).

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Cars That Think

MAY 31, 2024

Salvaged mining waste also sequesters CO 2 Phoenix Tailings’ senior research scientist Rita Silbernagel explains how mining waste contains useful metals and rare earth elements and can also be used as a place to store carbon dioxide. Emily Waltz Mining leaves behind piles of waste after the commercially viable material is extracted.

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Cars That Think

JUNE 12, 2023

Don’t Waste Heat Energy While Cheesecake’s system is primarily an electricity-in, electricity-out storage device, there are other thermal energy storage companies that specialize in releasing stored energy as heat. An additional set of shipping containers will double the storage capacity, and so on.

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SEPTEMBER 30, 2011

wasted energy in plants into energy-dense fuel molecules. trough with molten salt system, this technology can reduce. Terpenoid Pathways Texas A&M University will address a major inefficiency of. photosynthesis, the process used by green plants to capture. light energy. Specifically, the team will redirect otherwise. generation.

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Baua Electric

JUNE 11, 2024

According to Gates, founder and chairman of TerraPower, Natrium will “be the most advanced nuclear facility in the world, and it will be much safer and produce far less waste than conventional reactors.” Once it comes online, the Natrium demonstration plant in Kemmerer, Wyoming, will be a fully functioning commercial power plant.

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Baua Electric

DECEMBER 30, 2023

Thermal Storage: Molten Salt Storage: This involves storing heat in molten salt and using it to generate steam, which then drives a turbine to produce electricity. Compressed Air Energy Storage (CAES): In CAES systems, excess electricity is used to compress air, which is then stored in underground caverns.

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JUNE 19, 2010

Progress in implementing plans for the disposal of high-level radioactive waste will also be essential. Molten Salt Reactor (MSR). A clear and stable policy commitment to nuclear energy as part of overall energy strategy is a prerequisite, as is gaining greater public acceptance for nuclear programs.

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