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German power-to-gas facility opens green methanation plant; €28M STORE&GO project

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million) STORE&GO research project. This stored energy is then available as backup whenever there is an insufficient supply of solar and wind power. The wind-to-gas pilot plant “WindGas Falkenhagen” was constructed in 2013 to store wind energy in the natural gas grid.

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Prominent gas station sells thousands of stores to fund EV charging

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TotalEnergies will sell its 1,198 stations in Germany and its 392 stations in the Netherlands to Canadian convenience store chain Couche-Tard. Total has also sold its gas stations in Italy, Switzerland, and the U.K. The post Prominent gas station sells thousands of stores to fund EV charging appeared first on TESLARATI.

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Leclanché, eCAMION and SGEM to build and operate network of 34 fast-charging stations along Trans-Canada Highway

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Leclanché North America, part of Switzerland's Leclanché SA; eCAMION, based in Toronto; and SGEM, based in Geneva; will partner to develop and to install a network of 34 fast-charging stations along the Trans-Canada Highway (TCH). The project, designed to encourage the adoption of electric vehicles in Canada, entails an investment of C$17.3

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Is Europe’s Nuclear Phaseout Starting to Phase Out?

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Switzerland is doing the same , albeit with a hazy timetable. Scientists from the EU Joint Research Centre agreed, reporting that nuclear power doesn’t cause undue environmental harm, despite the need to store nuclear waste. The obvious answer might be solar and wind. Spain plans to start phasing out in 2027.

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IBM releases fifth annual Next Five in Five list of near-term significant innovations; personalized routing for commuting/transportation makes the cut

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Batteries today have a number of problems, chiefly, the heavy metal-oxides used inside the battery greatly limit the amount of energy it can store, IBM notes. Some wrist watches use this today—they require no winding and charge based on the movement of the wearer’s arm. shake and dial.

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IEEE Discusses 6 Simple Solutions to Climate Change at COP27

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Another method to make coal-fired power plants more environmentally friendly is to capture the exhausted carbon dioxide and store it in the ground, Rahman said. We don’t have enough solar energy and wind energy.” France sells energy to Italy, Spain, and Switzerland,” Rahman said. Many countries already do so.

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2022—The Year the Hydrogen Economy Launched?

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The other is that the hydrogen provisions are technology-neutral, meaning that there is no distinction between hydrogen produced by electrolysis with electricity from, for example, a wind farm or a nuclear power plant. These would be facilities where low-carbon hydrogen would be produced, stored, used, and transported elsewhere. “In

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