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This is an undeniable result of the far-reaching stupidity of Donald Trump.
Supreme Court curbs EPA authority to regulate CO2 from power plants
The Supreme Court of the US (SCOTUS) has ruled in West Virginia v. EPA that the EPA lacks the authority to set emission standards for power plants so strict as to force a shift of power generation from fossil fuels. The opinion (6-3) applied the “major questions doctrine”, which requires Congre...
"Why not use a carbon fiber rod....."
A hollow carbon rod of course.
German Agency for Disruptive Innovation supporting development of high-altitude on-shore wind turbines
Among the projects being funded by the German Agency for Disruptive Innovation (SPRIND) is an effort by Horst Bendix to develop a high-altitude, on-shore wind turbine. The higher a wind turbine is installed, the more efficiently it will work, because the wind is much steadier and blows with grea...
@ mahonj:
Why not use a carbon fiber rod instead of a belt? Such a rod could consist of 30 to 50 mtr. segments and have guide-bearings every 25 mtrs. or so. Might be more expensive but certainly more durable.
German Agency for Disruptive Innovation supporting development of high-altitude on-shore wind turbines
Among the projects being funded by the German Agency for Disruptive Innovation (SPRIND) is an effort by Horst Bendix to develop a high-altitude, on-shore wind turbine. The higher a wind turbine is installed, the more efficiently it will work, because the wind is much steadier and blows with grea...
More than likely, it was Lindner's attitude (from the FDP) opposing the EU-Commission's decision to discontinue production of ICEs in the EU after 2035; that eased Ford's decision to establish a future BEV production site in Valencia, Spain. That leaves Saarlouis, Germany holding the short end of the stick. A great political achievement. Congrats Mr. Lindner to your mental prowess.
Ford choses Valencia, Spain plant for next-gen EV architecture
Ford in Europe has chosen its plant in Valencia, Spain, as the preferred site to assemble vehicles based on a next-generation electric vehicle architecture. Pending product approval, the Valencia plant could produce the electric and connected vehicles beginning later this decade. Ford is also m...
@ SJC:
So what?! You're ignoring all the measures and subsequent financial impacts necessary to produce H2 and keeping it liquid at a steadily increasing environmental temperature rise. Completely absurd!
ZeroAvia & Otto Aviation partner to deliver first new airframe design with hydrogen-electric engine option
Hydrogen-electric aviation company ZeroAvia will collaborate with Otto Aviation, LLC, to develop a hydrogen-electric powertrain to power Otto’s Celera aircraft. Celera Under the agreement, Otto and ZeroAvia will work to integrate ZeroAvia’s ZA600 zero-emission engines to Otto’s Celera aircr...
Plasma ignition, laser ignition, fart ignition ......all these innovations? are for the birds. Fact is, that anyone with a bit of common sense has already provided a coffin for the ICE. RIP
FEV testing finds Transient Plasma ignition system increases fuel efficiency and decreases emissions
FEV, a leading service provider in vehicle and propulsion system development and testing, has evaluated the performance of the Transient Plasma Systems Inc. (TPS) nanosecond pulsed power ignition system (earlier post) on the current Toyota 2.5-liter, direct and port fueled injection, inline 4-c...
@ Davemart:
"Presumably you imagined that you posted that once, not twice."
Just to reassure you, I posted my comment only once and not twice. If you 'd waste a glance at the date and time you'd realize that they're exactly the same. Someone else and not me made a boo-boo.
I may be getting on in age but am all else than senile. Apart from my mother tongue, I'm fluent in two other languages and still know when I'm thinking, speaking and / or writing in which language I'm presently navigating. How about you?
Westinghouse, Bloom Energy to accelerate large-scale hydrogen production in nuclear industry; high-temperature integrated electrolysis
Westinghouse Electric Company and Bloom Energy Corporation have entered into a Letter of Intent to pursue clean hydrogen production in the commercial nuclear power market. The companies are teaming to identify and implement clean hydrogen projects across the nuclear industry. Westinghouse and...
@ Davemart:
You sound like Trump advising the broad public to drink some liquid anti-septic as a remedy against a corona infection.
Westinghouse, Bloom Energy to accelerate large-scale hydrogen production in nuclear industry; high-temperature integrated electrolysis
Westinghouse Electric Company and Bloom Energy Corporation have entered into a Letter of Intent to pursue clean hydrogen production in the commercial nuclear power market. The companies are teaming to identify and implement clean hydrogen projects across the nuclear industry. Westinghouse and...
@ Davemart:
You sound like Trump advising the broad public to drink some liquid anti-septic as a remedy against a corona infection.
Westinghouse, Bloom Energy to accelerate large-scale hydrogen production in nuclear industry; high-temperature integrated electrolysis
Westinghouse Electric Company and Bloom Energy Corporation have entered into a Letter of Intent to pursue clean hydrogen production in the commercial nuclear power market. The companies are teaming to identify and implement clean hydrogen projects across the nuclear industry. Westinghouse and...
@ Davemart:
"I fancy Nuscale's SMR solution, - here is a video from 'Engineering with Rosie'"
For all proponents of SMRs, the following link is a "must to read".
https://www.powermag.com/researchers-say-smrs-will-produce-more-waste-than-large-nuclear-reactors-nuscale-disputes-claim/
Westinghouse, Bloom Energy to accelerate large-scale hydrogen production in nuclear industry; high-temperature integrated electrolysis
Westinghouse Electric Company and Bloom Energy Corporation have entered into a Letter of Intent to pursue clean hydrogen production in the commercial nuclear power market. The companies are teaming to identify and implement clean hydrogen projects across the nuclear industry. Westinghouse and...
Combining TEGs with solar panels has a two-way effect. During hot summer days, the temperature rise on the solar panels has a negative impact on the efficiency of the panels. Cooling the panels with a TEG maintains the efficiency or even increases the panel efficiency. Additionally, the TEG production of e-power may be low but every little bit adds up. Besides that, the TEGs respond to temperature difference and remain productive at night at a low level when the sun is not shining.
https://solvoltaics.com/thermoelectric-generators-vs-solar-panels/
Yamaha and Sumitomo demo on-board thermoelectric generator for CO2 reduction
Yamaha Corporation and Sumitomo Corporation Power & Mobility Co., Ltd., a Sumitomo Corporation Group company, jointly demonstrated a new waste heat recovery system based on a thermoelectric generator (TEG), which generates electrical power via exhaust gas heat. The TEG, which is installed i...
Next year, a year from now, VW will start to equip their first test vehicles with SSBs from Quantumscape. With the introduction of these batteries, the feared incendiary risks will disappear.
RVK orders up to 100 more hydrogen buses for Cologne
Regionalverkehr Köln GmbH (RVK), the public transport operator for Cologne, Germany, has ordered up to 100 hydrogen-powered fuel cell hybrid buses in the first phase of a procurement. This order was enabled by the recently announced funding from Germany’s Federal Ministry of Digital Affairs and ...
"How are electric bus fires like the one recently in Paris working for you?"
Just as appealing as the two fossil gas hogs that recently burned down in Mannheim, Germany.
RVK orders up to 100 more hydrogen buses for Cologne
Regionalverkehr Köln GmbH (RVK), the public transport operator for Cologne, Germany, has ordered up to 100 hydrogen-powered fuel cell hybrid buses in the first phase of a procurement. This order was enabled by the recently announced funding from Germany’s Federal Ministry of Digital Affairs and ...
@ EP:
I know that your favorites are SMRs. Apart from the two that have been built from Russians and employed in two ice-breakers, there are, to my knowledge, none in operation. Besides that, they are "dirty" as most everything that is produced from Russians.
NIF has incorporated the same principle as used in HB11 but instead of using Hydrogen they have resorted to Deuterium and Tritium. Fusion is easier to achieve with these elements than with Hydrogen. NIF expects to commercialize their variant in two to three years. The disadvantage of using heavy or super heavy Hydrogen is the resulting radioactive waste. However this waste has a rather short life. I would prefer such a solution any time to fission products The best of all would be success of HB11 fusion.
Researchers in China develop new method to enrich uranium in seawater by membrane filtration
Researchers at the Institute of Modern Physics (IMP) of the Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS) have developed an innovative method of pre-enriching uranium in seawater by membrane filtration. Uranium is the vital source for nuclear power generation. There are about 4.5 billion tons of uranium ...
@ Davemart:
Take a thorough look at this and you might change your opinion on nuclear fission.
https://newatlas.com/energy/hb11-laser-fusion-demonstration/
Researchers in China develop new method to enrich uranium in seawater by membrane filtration
Researchers at the Institute of Modern Physics (IMP) of the Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS) have developed an innovative method of pre-enriching uranium in seawater by membrane filtration. Uranium is the vital source for nuclear power generation. There are about 4.5 billion tons of uranium ...
The first oil crisis in 1973 prompted me to mentally tinker with a serial hybrid configuration. I was unable to raise the slightest interest in such a venture other than being scoffed at; since then opinions have changed.
I've been driving BEVs for several years now and no one had to convince me of the advantages. Other anxieties frequently raised never bothered me in the least. I'm absolutely convinced that in ten years from now the populace will question how stupid their ancestors were to drive around in gasoline guzzling stinkers.
J.D. Power: EV consideration in US is up but skepticism still exists
Auto shoppers in America are more likely than ever before to consider buying a fully electric vehicle (EV), and new EV entries are responsible for much of the added consideration. These new entries, many from long-established vehicle manufacturers, are turning EV skeptics into likely EV conside...
Some individuals seem to suffer from a short memory. For my part, I can still recall very plainly the distressing incidents of Chernobyl, Fukushima and Three Mile Island. Besides these incidents, there is the everlasting problem of secure storage of radioactive wastes for thousands of years, Maybe someone is so kind to offer his backyard for storage purposes?
I think that the Germans had sufficient foresight and were not dumb at all on the contrary to the stupid Russians that just recently barely managed to scrape by a catastrophe in Chernobyl.
Poll finds strong local and statewide support for extending operations of California’s Diablo Canyon Nuclear Power Plant
Newly released polling shows strong local support for extending the operations of the Diablo Canyon Nuclear Power Plant, California’s largest source of carbon free energy generation. Statewide support for extending operations of the plant was also strong, according to the poll conducted by FM3 ...
@ sd:
I could not agree more with your comment.
Renault Scénic Vision hydrogen hybrid concept offers 75% smaller carbon footprint than a conventional BEV
Renault unveiled its new Scénic Vision concept-car at the ChangeNOW summit in Paris. Its hybrid electric and hydrogen powertrain aims to reduce downtime related to energy recharging while reducing the carbon footprint, including the battery. Renault Scénic Vision is zero emission in production a...
From an electric engineering point of view, I wouldn't object to a board voltage of 48 ( multiple of 12V) volts; but that could have been implemented decades ago.
At a higher voltage with the same power rating the current is lower and offers more advantages than drawbacks. Buses and many trucks also military vehicles have been designed for 24 V which is better than 12V any day.
Eaton introduces DC-DC converters for 48V commercial vehicle architectures
Power management company Eaton introduced a family of 48-volt DC-DC converters for diesel-powered commercial vehicles that can be used to power accessories such as antilock brakes and lighting. Unlike competitive offerings, Eaton’s DC-DC converters are operational in ambient temperatures up to 8...
"....and boast 97% design efficiency. "
There are several international suppliers of Si-carbide converters that boast an efficiency = / > 99.2 %; so 97% is really nothing to boast about.
Eaton introduces DC-DC converters for 48V commercial vehicle architectures
Power management company Eaton introduced a family of 48-volt DC-DC converters for diesel-powered commercial vehicles that can be used to power accessories such as antilock brakes and lighting. Unlike competitive offerings, Eaton’s DC-DC converters are operational in ambient temperatures up to 8...
That is a question you should raise to BASF; they might even give you an answer.
BASF introduces new color-stable polyamide for electromobility applications
With the introduction of Ultramid A3U44G6 DC OR (PA66 - GF30 FR), BASF is expanding its portfolio of flame-retardant engineering plastics for the eMobility market. In the case of already proven Ultradur (PBT) products, color stability can be largely guaranteed, especially in orange (RAL 2003) w...
The source of all acute problems associated with environmental pollution is the overpopulation of our planet but is being explicitly ignored.
New Emissions Analytics study suggests pollution from tire wear now 1,850 times worse than exhaust emissions
In early 2020, UK-based independent testing firm Emissions Analytics published a study claiming that tire particulate wear emissions were 1,000 times worse than exhaust emissions (earlier post). Since that study, which was transparently designed to quantify the worst-case tire emissions under le...
I'd refrain from arguing if $100/ton or $500/ton would be justifiable. However, I know for sure that the higher the penalty, the faster a transition would be to a tolerable and acceptable situation.
Study finds limiting warming to 2 °C would require at least a $200/t carbon tax globally
All regions of the world do not—and will not—experience the effects of CO2 emissions in the same way. Some will suffer greatly from climate change, while others may even benefit. These heterogeneous effects mean that different countries will have differing incentives to abide by the Paris Agree...
"Let's hope this building momentum is not killed off after 2022 elections."
Whose fault will it be if Trump manages to get elected again? Benedict Arnold was hung because - allegedly - he spied for the Brits. If that wasn't treason on Trumps part pertaining to Putin, then perhaps they should decorate that slob with the medal of honor? I'd, personally have him strung and hung; and this not tomorrow but yesterday.
ARPA-E launches $45M funding for advanced batteries for electric vehicles; EVs4ALL
The US Department of Energy (DOE) announced up to $45 million in funding (DE-FOA-0002760) to support the domestic development of advanced batteries for electric vehicles. Through DOE’s Advanced Research Projects Agency-Energy (ARPA-E), the Department is launching the Electric Vehicles for Ameri...
@ Jakob Sperling:
The "overwhelming bodies of facts" that you are referring to are nothing more than deceased and evil smelling corpses caused by big oil.
JAEA and MHI begin hydrogen production demo project using High Temperature Engineering Test Reactor (HTTR)
The Japan Atomic Energy Agency (JAEA), a national research and development agency, and Mitsubishi Heavy Industries, Ltd. (MHI), have been contracted by Japan’s Agency for Natural Resources and Energy, part of the Ministry of Economy, Trade and Industry (METI), to conduct a Hydrogen Production D...
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