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Battery Storage Could Boost Coal Consumption
More research shows that batteries aren't necessarily helping decarbonize the grid. In many cases, according to a team from the Rochester Institute of Technology, batteries are making it dirtier. The team, led by Naga Srujana Goteti of RIT’s Golisano Institute for Sustainability, found batteries installed on the Midcontinent Independent System Operator (MISO) grid led to a net increase in carbon emissions, by increasing coal consumption.
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Do we still need to require utilities to use other companies' clean energy?
Cypress Creek Renewables has been lining up farmland in Michigan for more than a year now. The object? Leases for enough land to install several hundred megawatts worth of new, emissions-free solar projects. Combined, that would equal the electricity output of a small coal-fired power plant.
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Electrical energy storage demands of electric devices
Electrical energy storage demands of electric devices (including-electric vehicles, laptop computers, load leveling for stationary power sources and cellular phones for example), coupled with fossil fuel economies and limitations demonstrate the growing need for rechargeable batteries with multiple performance capa-bilities including sufficient energy density, appropriate voltage and current capabilities, and perhaps most important very low safety requirements.Conventional liquid electrolytes lithium batteries suffer from the potential to fail catastrophically via electrolyte leakage, boiling, freezing, combustion or even explosion, of particular importance for in vivo applications
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Self-Driving Cars Have Power Consumption Problems
I recently chaired a UJA Tech Talk on “The Future Of Autonomous Cars” with former General Motors Vice-Chairman Steve Girsky. The auto executive enthusiastically shared his vision for the next 15-25 years of driving – a congestion-free world of automated wheeled capsules zipping commuters to and from work. Girsky stated that connected cars with safety assist (autonomy-lite) features are moving much faster toward mass adoption than fully autonomous vehicles (sans steering wheels and pedals). In his opinion, the largest roadblocks toward a consumer-ready robocar are the current technical inefficiencies of prototypes on the road today, which burn huge amounts of energy supporting enhanced computing and arrays of sensors. This makes the sticker price closer to a 1972 Ferrari than a 2018 Prius.
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Sodium-ion Batteries: Materials, Technologies And Global Markets To 2022
Sodium-ion batteries have sodium-ion charge carriers. Sodium-ion batteries have recently gained commercialization status, and the market is expected to grow with an impressive compound annual growth rate (CAGR) of 23.9% for the forecast period of 2017 to 2022. The report details various segments of the sodium-ion battery market. The market is segmented on the basis of technologies. The market by technology includes sodium-sulfur batteries, sodium-salt batteries, sodium-ion batteries and sodium-oxygen batteries.
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