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CalSEED awards $4.2M to early-stage clean energy innovations

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Five of the 28 innovations will help protect the grid from wildfires/PSPSs, four of these five will provide climate and weather risk prediction to electric infrastructure and services, and one is a hard tech innovation to reinforce transmission lines. Leap Photovoltaics Inc.

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Can Flow Batteries Finally Beat Lithium?

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An example, she says, is the task of balancing energy flows in the power grid. At the depot, the spent fuel could be recharged with electricity from any source—solar, wind, hydroelectric, nuclear, or fossil fuels. and an expert in flow batteries. Their energy density is as little as 10 percent that of lithium-ion batteries.

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Electric Car Manufacturers Inspire New Paradigms -- Seeking Alpha

Tony Karrer Delicious EVdriven

The electric car features three different battery options, two different Lithium-based (LI) systems – A123Systems and Enerdel as well as a Sodium-Nickel battery Zebra (Mes-Dea). Creature comforts include air conditioning, power steering, sunroof, and electric windows and mirrors. safety requirements.