Active shipping around the Japanese islands does not allow the Japanese to deploy conventional tidal power plants, and therefore Japanese experts are now developing and testing underwater power plants immersed in water to a depth of more than 50 meters. Successful testing of early prototypes of such power plants leads to Japan’s plans to build …
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Dutch startup Lightyear has unveiled its iconic vehicle, an electric car powered by solar panels, located on the roof and hood, which have a total area of 5 square meters. It will be possible to drive 7.4 thousand km per year with the help of solar energy. However, the power reserve reached even more significant …
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China intends to launch a space station with solar panels into orbit, which will transfer the stored energy to Earth using a laser or guided microwaves. According to Sky News, the project is scheduled for 2028, two years earlier than previously thought. The satellite will be able to direct energy beams to various points on …
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Concerns about bitcoin’s environmental impact have surfaced despite its rising prominence, as are criticizing bitcoin mining process for using a tremendous amount of energy. Because of this, the US Treasury Secretary warned of “staggering” demand for Bitcoin energy and called it “grossly inefficient.” In February U.S. Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen had voiced her concerns about …
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The outgoing year passed under the sign of restoring the air transportation market. Having decreased by 40% in 2020, global air passenger traffic increased by 26% in 2021 (to 2.28 billion people), following the latest estimate of the International Air Transport Association (IATA) – and companies such as Fulcrum Bioenergy helping produce transportation fuels from …
Research group led by prof. Wei Wei and Chen Wei of the Shanghai Advanced Research Institute (SARI) of the Chinese Academy of Sciences reported a hierarchical micro/nanostructured silver hollow fiber electrode for accelerating CO2 electroreduction. The electrode reduces CO2 to CO with a conversion of more than 54% at a high space velocity of 31,000 …
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Exploring the bottom of the ancient ocean will help discover minerals needed to make electric cars and solar panels. Researchers at the University of Queensland have developed a new method for finding potential mineral deposits needed to power renewable energy. Scientists have studied the remains of the ocean floor in Eastern Australia and Central Asia. …
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Kenyan energy company KenGen has issued an appeal to bitcoin miners to move to the country and buy excess renewable energy capacity. KenGen claims that 86% of its electricity comes from renewable sources, mostly from geothermal hotspots in the Great Rift Valley. Local news outlet The Standard reported that KenGen has space at its new …
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A research team at the Pacific Northwest National Laboratory (PNNL) recently developed a new model of an important device that acts as a kind of translator, allowing renewable energy sources such as wind and solar to better add their power to the electrical grid. A device called a grid inverter plays a critical role in …
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In May 2022, Suzuki Motor Gujarat Private Limited (SMG), Suzuki’s Indian subsidiary, became the first Suzuki Group company to purchase electricity from off-site renewable sources using the Off-site Corporate PPA scheme and increase the subsequent use of renewable energy. The power plant, a 17.6 MW hybrid wind and solar energy, was explicitly installed for SMG …
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