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IEA: Estonia is pioneering technologies for more efficient and cleaner use of oil shale

Green Car Congress

To increase and improve the sector, Estonia is not only spending heavily on RD&D for biomass-based energy, wind and solar power, but it is also pursuing solutions such as fuel cells and electrolyzers as well as computer-based energy management technologies for buildings, power storage and grid development.

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UK power crisis – entirely the fault of regulators and ministers

EV Info

Right now, production is low in Russia, so the cost has increased. We also need more power storage in the form of batteries and other technologies to store power when the sun shines and the wind blows. Or in other words we are reliant on Putin to keep the light on and at his mercy on the cost of the gas. No Fracking.

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Electric Cars and a Smarter Grid - Green Inc. Blog - NYTimes.com

Tony Karrer Delicious EVdriven

The vision is fuelled by the fear of climate change and the need to find green alternatives to dirty coal, unpopular nuclear power and unreliable gas imports from Russia. An embryonic movement is growing in Europe to build “smart cities&# that will challenge the status quo.

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