Credit to Author: Tina Casey| Date: Mon, 13 May 2024 18:37:30 +0000
Perovskite solar cells are getting ready to make that giant leap from the lab bench to your rooftop array.
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Read moreCredit to Author: US Department of Energy| Date: Fri, 10 May 2024 12:23:01 +0000
Nearly 33 million electric vehicles (EVs) nationwide — that is the number of vehicles the Unites States should be prepared to support through a national charging network by the year 2030, researchers at the National Renewable Energy Laboratory (NREL) estimated in a recent landmark study. Improving reliable, equitable, and widespread … [continued]
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Read moreCredit to Author: Tina Casey| Date: Thu, 09 May 2024 14:45:40 +0000
The US Department of Energy has tapped six sites to host new vanadium flow batteries, aiming to replace fossil energy with renewables.
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Read moreCredit to Author: US Department of Energy| Date: Wed, 08 May 2024 21:45:37 +0000
A collection of seven technologies for lithium recovery developed by scientists from the Department of Energy’s Oak Ridge National Laboratory has been licensed to Element3, a Texas-based company focused on extracting lithium from wastewater produced by oil and gas production. The technologies were developed through the Critical Materials Innovation Hub, a … [continued]
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Read moreCredit to Author: US Department of Energy| Date: Wed, 08 May 2024 21:43:31 +0000
DOE Seeks Public Input on 10 Potential Locations, from Coast to Coast, That Present an Urgent Need for Expanded Transmission, Announces New Funding to Deploy Cleaner, Cheaper, Reliable Energy Across the Nation WASHINGTON, D.C. — In a continued effort to expedite the build out of a resilient and reliable electric … [continued]
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Read moreCredit to Author: Michael Barnard| Date: Tue, 07 May 2024 19:19:35 +0000
Three years ago, I published my projection of grid storage demand and solutions through 2060. At the time, various compressed gas electricity storage solutions such as compressed air, liquid air, and liquid carbon dioxide were in my also-ran technologies. My review of the literature over the preceding years had made … [continued]
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Read moreCredit to Author: US Department of Energy| Date: Tue, 07 May 2024 14:09:09 +0000
Scientists developed microcapacitors with ultrahigh energy and power density, paving the way for on-chip energy storage in electronic devices In the ongoing quest to make electronic devices ever smaller and more energy efficient, researchers want to bring energy storage directly onto microchips, reducing the losses incurred when power is transported … [continued]
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Read moreCredit to Author: US Department of Energy| Date: Sun, 05 May 2024 15:02:04 +0000
An Argonne partnership with a Minnesota mining company is taking waste from one battery production process and using it in another. Researchers investigate how to use mining waste in battery production. The U.S. Department of Energy’s (DOE) Argonne National Laboratory is developing a new process that could dramatically increase the … [continued]
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Read moreCredit to Author: Guest Contributor| Date: Fri, 03 May 2024 23:46:58 +0000
WASHINGTON — Today the U.S. Department of the Treasury and Internal Revenue Service (IRS) released final rules on the clean vehicle provisions of the Inflation Reduction Act (IRA) that are lowering costs for consumers, spurring a boom in U.S. manufacturing, and strengthening energy security by building resilient supply chains with … [continued]
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Read moreCredit to Author: Tina Casey| Date: Fri, 03 May 2024 17:17:05 +0000
Wooden wind turbine blades can outperform conventional composites while reducing costs and improving recycling rates.
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