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solarsurfer
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Considering i live across from Hyndai NA HQ, we get the best tech here first. Fountain valley has a closed loop wastewater to tap system in place, 1st in country, with a H2 pump out front.
H2 is derived from the natural gas produced during bio treating the water. Game changer Once this catches on that our waste water plants can be fueling stations. The plants will be profit centers for municipalities and convert their fleets. Big Oil better jump on board biofuels quick or get left holding worthless oil reserves.
Report: Hyundai to boost production of new fuel cell vehicle 15x to 3,600 units
Citing “industry sources,” Business Korea reports that Hyundai has decided to boost production of a new fuel cell vehicle (earlier post)—to be released early next year—by 15 times to 3,600 units. Hyundai sold 242 fuel cell vehicles last year; Toyota, the market leader with its Mirai, is targeti...
They are swimming through the valley river of death, hopefully this extra fuel product will pull them over the hump to real funding. Truth is these great strides we make with bio fuels will be squelched by the Orange man in the white house.HE is beholden to big oil like no other president.
Edeniq secures $5M in growth equity; 27 plants in cellulosic ethanol pipeline
Edeniq, Inc., a cellulosic technology company, has secured commitments for $5 million in additional equity to support existing customer workload, rapidly grow the pipeline, and roll out technology enhancements. Edeniq has raised more than $12 million over the past 12 months. Edeniq’s Pathway Tec...
Engineer-poet why are you so harsh on a superior technology.
The weight efficiency of Hydrogen blows lithium out of the water. Recharge time 3min vs 4 hrs.
The conversions do not cost 2 million a piece.
adding an island to an existing Shell costs a fraction.
You are always trolling here, work for trump he needs more bigots.
California Energy Commission awards $17M to expand hydrogen refueling infrastructure
During its latest business meeting, the California Energy Commission approved more than than $17 million was approved for nine new hydrogen stations that will expand the refueling infrastructure network in California. FirstElement Fuel, Inc. will develop eight hydrogen refueling stations. Five o...
California is doing similar scale project 30 going to 100 sites. US needs to build out an interstate refilling points geographic dispersed so long trips can be made . Huge selling point in the hydrogen versus battery battle is long distance travel. A $50k H2 car like the Mirai versus $120K Tesla X or $80k Tesla., is already price competitive. forget the Bolt , not designed to long trips.
Audi and BMW should have viable hydrogen cars on market soon.
Its the heavier H2FC SUV scale vehicles that will benifit most from the H2 station buildout.
It would viable to have smaller containers of H2 in solid state media for sale at the interstate sites that are not ready for high pressure pumps, but that would make too much sense. We do have a considerable research effort underway to fufill this scenario at DOE Hymarc.
The oil glut is not helping this cause.
H2 Mobility partners open two new H2 stations in the Rhine-Main Area; linking north to south through Germany
The joint venture H2 Mobility Deutschland and its partners Air Liquide, Daimler, Linde and Shell officially opened two new hydrogen refueling stations in Frankfurt and Wiesbaden. The German federal state of Hesse now has a total of five H2 filling stations for fuel cell vehicles. With these new ...
Tesla needs to open its chargers to other EV's, hopefully Honda will be smart and use the new Panasonic cells that Tesla is building. OEM the charge controllers so the Rapid DC voltage is all the same.
Hydrogen may actually win if they can't get all the EVs on the same common infrastructure. Hydrogen will be so cheap to make from your roof in this decade, that PV charging batteries will never make sense. Lithium batteries innovation in density already asymptoped. To hit the target LCOE mobile batteries need to drop below $100/kw, be recharged in 15min and retain cycle life above 90% to compete.
Honda to focus on PHEVs, development of battery-electrics in addition to fuel cell vehicles; 2/3 of sales electrified by 2030
At a press meeting in Tokyo, Honda Motor Co., Ltd. President & CEO Takahiro Hachigo discussed the future direction of Honda, including various products and technologies and the company’s new 2030 Vision. Hachigo said that Honda aims to electrify two-thirds of global automobile unit sales in 203...
They key point is the glass waste can be reformed into a better battery that won't explode from flooring it. fuel cells only scale higher then this anode chemistry.
Enjoy they few breakthroughs we get
Trump's chumps are trying send us back to flinstones, 6gal / mile chevy trucks
I can hear that smug Drill baby ,kill the dept of Enegy rant coming.
UC Riverside team fabricates nanosilicon anodes for Li-ion batteries from waste glass bottles
Researchers at the University of California, Riverside’s Bourns College of Engineering have used waste glass bottles and a low-cost chemical process to fabricate nanosilicon anodes for high-performance lithium-ion batteries. Coin cell batteries made using the glass bottle-based silicon anodes...
You might be right but different chemistry like hydrogen fuel cells.
Batteries will never catch up to fuel cells, once the platinum catalyst is replaced like in SOFC
Sub 30k SUV will be normal that run on $2 kg H2 you can make from your roof.Tesla shows that it takes 70k in batteries to run a fast SUV.
DOE JCESR team significantly improves Li-S performance under lean electrolyte with soft swellable gel
Researchers from Pacific Northwest National Laboratory (PNNL) and Sandia National Laboratories, all members of the DOE’s Joint Center for Energy Storage Research (JCESR), have significantly improved the performance of Li-sulfur batteries under lean electrolyte conditions by using a soft PEO10LiT...
Gorr, you must be a climate denier. Toyota and Honda have production hydrogen cars, GMand Audi also will be releasing theirs to mainstream. The main limitation was hydrogen filling sites,but now there 35 stations in California ,Hi, Texas, many will be renewable sourced.
USC team demonstrates novel hydrogen storage system; amine reforming of methanol
A team at the Loker Hydrocarbon Research Institute and Department of Chemistry, University of Southern California, has demonstrated a novel hydrogen storage system based on the release of hydrogen from catalytic dehydrogenative coupling of methanol and 1,2-diamine. The hydrogen-generating step o...
This could better tech the previous record set by NREL imm pec .
Go hydrogen . Hopefully the White House will recognize we can jumpstart our economy by transitioning to hydrogen fuels instead of carbon fuels . We do not need Middle East oil for hydrogen just sun.
KAUST team alters atomic composition of MoS2 to boost performance as water-splitting catalyst for H2 production
Researchers at KAUST have developed and used a novel way of increasing the chemical reactivity of a two-dimensional molybdenum disulfide material to produce a cheap and effective catalyst for water splitting to produce hydrogen. This technique may also have potential benefits for other manufact...
The key is get hydrogen made onsite especially on your roof , no more gas station , lcoe below $2.00. Hyper solar has a product nearing market for this model. $10.00/kg H2 is equivalent of 4.00 unleaded mileage by the way. Shear economics will drive hydrogen fuel cell vehicles, the replacement of platinum in the catalyst is on its way now. By not having to buy a 60 kWh battery the price point can hit sub $30k market. Additionally the whole uber/left fleets will gravitate towards the hydrogen fuel source skipping the long recharge downtime
NREL sets new world efficiency record for solar hydrogen production: 16.2%
Scientists at the US Department of Energy’s (DOE) National Renewable Energy Laboratory (NREL) recaptured the record for highest efficiency in solar hydrogen production via a photoelectrochemical (PEC) water-splitting process. The new solar-to-hydrogen (STH) efficiency record is 16.2%, topping ...
Solar fuels will negate alot of the crude demand. The economics for Solar production of hydrocarbons is both carbon neutral and cheaper. See JCAP at caltech, or even self production of hydrogen with Hypersolar in the back yard.
Elon Musk is determined to make it cheaper to put a roof built of solar tiles paying for itself. The demand for transportation fuels may increase but the portion drilled out of the ground will shrink as will production from overdrafting the resevoirs.
BP Energy Outlook: 30% growth in global demand to 2035; fuel demand continues to rise, even with EVs & fuel efficiency
The 2017 edition of the BP Energy Outlook, published today, forecasts that global demand for energy will increase by around 30% between 2015 and 2035, an average growth of 1.3% per year. However, this growth in energy demand is significantly lower than the 3.4% per year rise expected in global ...
why are they not using the new Pt 111 catalyst from DOE?
They could make the fuel cell so much cheaper witha fraction of the platinum.
Ballard-powered fuel cell electric buses exceed 10M km of revenue service
Ballard Power Systems fuel cells have powered buses for more than 10 million cumulative kilometers (6.2 million miles) of revenue service. This fuel cell industry milestone has been achieved across the company’s seven generations of its FCveloCity fuel cell engine, which have been deployed in b...
Harvey , what taxi company ? in Manhattan?
The only way taxis will be competitive is to go upscale, electric ,criminal Screened, Scoffer service.
Just imagine what hyperloop would do to this model.
MIT CSAIL, Cornell study finds rides-sharing theoretically could cut taxi traffic in NYC by 75%
A new modeling study by a team from MIT CSAIL (Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory) and Cornell suggests that using ride-sharing from companies like Uber and Lyft theoretically could reduce the number of taxis on the road in New York City by 75% without significantly impacti...
We are in for a major setback with trumps cabinet, The NSF and DOE are due to be chopped down ,if it is not a military applilcation , it will be shut ddown tll, the next round democrats can offset the poor judgement bing laid down our environment. Too bad Solar is already the cheapest source of power . Subsized solar rooftop power and wind farms may be the most endangered species now. Every scientist and educator needs take a stand against tyranny, that is about ensue. There is only hope that Republicans see their supporters benefit most from electric cars and solar roofs not forgeting all the red states that generate the most windpower. Farmers in Iowa and Texas now have ddual incomes and tax benefits. West Virginia and Kentucky need to o move on like Pennsylvania and ohio did.
Materials science as key enabler for clean energy transition
Materials science as key enabler for clean energy transition Former US Secretary of Energy Steven Chu, Yi Cui and Nian Liu, all currently at Stanford University, write in a Perspective piece in Nature Materials that research in materials science is contributing to progress towards a sustainable ...
Ucla has built a system to pull CO2 out gas flues from power plants to make 3D printed concrete. Carbon fiber is stronger then steel especially if graphene layers are used. Some genius like Elon Musk is going to figure out to make alot of money on these building technologies and actually curb the CO2 cycle.
ITM Power to launch 100 MW electrolyzer plant designs at Hannover Messe 2017
ITM Power will showcase a series of large scale electrolyzer configurations up to 100MW in size at Hannover Messe 2017 (24 - 28 April). This is in response to utility and oil and gas industry demand for larger scale industrial installations. ITM Power has sold a number of MW-scale plants over...
California being the testbed for any car fleet, really needs to give hydrogen and alternative fuel cell vehicles a leg up.
There needs to be a consumer grade hydrogen compressor for use at a solar powered home. Most of the solar electricity get wasted on the grid, it would be way better if it was consumed generating hydrogen to fuel their car. Toyota is trying to be the next Tesla with hydrogen fuel cells instead of batteries, but it may be too early for this technology here. When people discover they can power their home at night though the power outlet in the trunk of their Mirai, the litium battery craze will crash. Japan figured this out with Fukisima earthquake blackouts. A rooftop solar array should be able power a couple of kilograms of hydrogen, 8kw system would generate about 1- 1.5 kg of hydrogen/day in summer months. 7 kg a week is 500 miles of driving. This would really change the economics of fuel cell cars and rooftop solar paired together. Its actually apart department of energy long term vision for future home owners.
Proton OnSite to supply 13 MW-scale electrolyzers to provide hydrogen for fuel cell bus fueling in China
Proton OnSite signed a contract with Guangdong Synergy Hydrogen Power Technology Co., Ltd. to provide megawatt-scale Proton Exchange Membrane (PEM) electrolyzers for the deployment of fuel cell-powered buses in the cities of Foshan and Yunfu, China. Three of the megawatt systems will ship thi...
Ammonia is a great storage medium, considering the midwest windfarms generate more power then needed during winter. The extra Ammonia could be generated and stored in the local fertilizer coops that run up along the Mississippi river. What ever surplus from the summer fertilizer usage could be used to for peak power events through out the midwest ISO.
ARPA-E awards $35M to 16 REFUEL projects for energy-dense carbon-neutral liquid fuels; leveraging ammonia
The Energy Department’s Advanced Research Projects Agency-Energy (ARPA-E) has selected 16 projects for a combined $35 million in funding under the new program “Renewable Energy to Fuels Through Utilization of Energy-Dense Liquids (REFUEL)”. (Earlier post.) The 16 REFUEL projects seek to develop...
Nick if read the last 6 months , nuclear is not price competitive . Also not worth the billions it costs to renew the operating permit considering it is siting on an active fault bisecting san luis obispo.We should be pushing for offshore and onshore wind farms there is in a very high percent utilization.
Hydro power storage would also work at Diablo.
Unless they could convert the reactor to safer fuels like Thorium, which would make alot more sense then paying to clean up the radio active site.
Read up on Thorium at Oakridge national laboratory. The government blocked it because they needed reactors to make nuclear weapons.
California ARB releases discussion draft of plan to cut GHG by 40% by 2030
The California Air Resources Board (CARB) released its initial draft plan to reduce greenhouse gas emissions by 40% below 1990 levels by 2030—the most ambitious target in North America. The 2030 Target Scoping Plan Discussion Draft builds on the state’s efforts to reach its more immediate goal o...
Tesla will have to start making cars else where because trump will take away the $7500 tax credit/BEV car. Freemount plant staff is becoming more robotics engineers instead assembly technicians. which may explain why they are not a union shop. If the few strike a new robot gets deployed.
Tesla to acquire Grohmann Engineering to boost automated manufacturing capabilities
Tesla has entered into an agreement to acquire Grohmann Engineering, a world-renowned engineering company in Prüm, Germany, which will become Tesla Grohmann Automation. Led by founder and CEO Klaus Grohmann, Grohmann Engineering is one of the world leaders in highly automated methods of manufac...
Liquid hydrocarbons are not the worst fuel, its how terrible inefficient the internal combustion engine is, If we could do work withe the thermal waste we would be doing 100 MPG, pretty much making all battery EV noncompetitive. People will long for the roar of the cyclinders detonating for accelerations. people will feel like they golfing instead of driving with electric propulsion.
rather the cooling the dang engine use peltier thermocouplers to power 48v hybrid motors and electo turbos. Since they make cars that only last 100,000 miles, the uptake will be faster of better ICE/ hybrid.
Just remember who elected Trump, Chevy Truck drivers, Probably the last vehicle to go electric. Ford will eventually get their F150 into the 30 mpg with aluminum chassis and 48v hybrid technology, but need really high compression engines to handle carrying loads and towing.
Point is people buy trucks , so make trucks that take advantage of electric propulsion running on much smaller high compression engines, CO2 will drop dramatically.
ORNL-led team developing breakthrough high-temperature, high-strength Al alloy for advanced light-duty engines
A team led by researchers from Oak Ridge National Laboratory (ORNL) is developing a lower-cost cast aluminum (Al) alloy capable of at least a 50 ˚C temperature increase over the current cylinder head alloys 319 and 356 for use in light duty engines. The new alloy is also targeting a better than...
Can these caps achieve a price point below $100/ kWh
or pairing with high density storage could make the average family car at $30k price point. That pays for itself in fuel cost savings.
The dynamic feel of ICE will be the hardest thing synthesize.
Nesscap Energy introduces 3V, 3400-farad ultracapacitor
Nesscap Energy Inc. has introduced its new N60 3V 3400-farad ultracapacitor cell. The new N60 delivers 40% more energy and 42% greater power density compared with Nesscap’s 2.7-volt 3000-farad cell, all within the industry-standard 60mm cylindrical form factor. The cell’s rugged mechanical de...
The main issue is the current fleet of ICE and fuel turbines need liquid hydrocarbons. A massive bolt on technology breathrough like in wheel electric motors is the only way we migrate off liquid hydro carbons. It would take 30 years to replace all the ICE fleet with BEV's. Trump my setback the whole conversion process here to electric propulsion, Rich people cant stay rich if people can make their own cheap Joules. Europe and Japan will have to be trailblazers for now. So this technology makes since with our renewable surpluses during lowest demand. Since renewable's are mostly distributed enabling locating these renewable liquid hydrocarbons closer to consumers.
Compact pilot plant for solar to liquid fuels production
Partners from Germany and Finland in the SOLETAIR project are building a compact pilot plant for the production of gasoline, diesel and kerosene from solar energy, regenerative hydrogen and carbon dioxide. The plant will be compact enough to fit into a shipping container. The plant consists o...
This would be amazing if the 405 was impregnated with this
Infrastructure. We would have to build thousands of solar plants to keep the voltage up
But say I 15 had this technology. Travel to to vegas would be worry free and be powered by the dozens of solar plants bordering the I-15 coridor
SAE J2954 Wireless Charging on track to make decision for WPT 2 (7.7kW) in January; planned commercialization in 2020
In a program track on Charging Infrastructure at the World of Energy Solutions Conference in Stuttgart, Germany this week, Jesse Schneider (BMW), SAE Taskforce Chair, Wireless Power Transfer and Alignment Methodology, presented the recently published SAE TIR, Wireless Power Transfer (WPT) for L...
These will blow away lithium batteries someday.
Maxwell Technologies unveils 51-Volt ultracapacitor module for hybrid buses
Maxwell Technologies, a leading developer and manufacturer of ultracapacitor-based energy storage and power delivery solutions, has introduced a 51-volt (51V) module, the newest addition to its ultracapacitor product offerings for rugged applications. The 51V module uses Maxwell’s leading 2.85V...
There needs to be a bolt 48v in wheel motor
This would vastly simplify and lighten the vehicles weight.
Far cheaper to make and add to the car .
The all electric drive can be extended moderly.
Want to go on long trip rent a larger battery pack mounted in trunk.
Most city dewellers will stop buying cars when they figure out that Uber is considerably less .
Schaeffler presents high-performance 48V concept mild hybrid vehicle at Aachen
As part of the 25th Aachen Colloquium this week in Germany, Schaeffler is unveiling the “Schaeffler High Performance 48 Volt” concept vehicle. The 48V mild hybrid, based on an Audi TT, features an electric rear axle equipped with a 20 kW motor complementing the internal combustion engine which ...
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