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- Let’s burn money Ed: Flywheels could power the UK for half a second at a million dollars a megawatt hour Tue, 8 Oct 24, 6:31amBy Jo Nova Thanks to Paul Homewood at NotAlotofPeopleKnowThat for finding this gem of a video.
- What if a foreign hacker could turn home batteries into “pager-bombs” but 7,500 times bigger? Tue, 24 Sep 24, 6:10amBattery bombs in the suburbs?
- New EV Battery factory in Kansas needs a coal plant to run Fri, 29 Sep 23, 5:00amBy Jo Nova For some reason wind and solar power will not be powering a new EV battery factory in Kansas. Instead the sudden extra demand for electricity will be met by keeping an old coal-fired plant running.
- Bad news for electric planes — batteries only last “a few weeks” Sat, 17 Jun 23, 4:38amBy Jo Nova Once again, batteries just aren’t living up to hopes and dreams. Only a year ago Rolls Royce were excited about the nine-seater P-Volt electric plane — forecasting that it would be carrying customers...
- Recyclable phone batteries are a step toward a clean future Sat, 29 Apr 23, 1:30amBatteries for handheld devices such as cellphones often need to be disposed of after several years, but researchers at Australia's RMIT School of Engineering have just created a recyclable battery that lasts for up to nine...
- Wind fantasy land: to cover 8 days of half-speed wind, UK needs 1,000 times the “biggest battery” on Earth Fri, 24 Mar 23, 7:25amBy Jo Nova Wade Allison has done a short but devastating analysis for the GWPF. The take home message is that the energy contained in the wind is diabolically more erratic than most people realize. It’s just basic physics...
- Gravity batteries offer a better energy storage alternative Wed, 25 Jan 23, 7:30amGravity batteries are a new technology that supports the generation and storage of renewable energy through regenerative braking and gravity. A recent study on this technology has proved that old mines could be pivotal in...
- Even in battery fantasy dreams the costs don’t make sense Thu, 5 Jan 23, 6:50amBy Jo Nova The amount of storage America needs for a grid run on erratic wind and solar power is so galactically vast the numbers don’t matter. Because every which way they are calculated, every estimate, the highest...
- First CO2 battery in the world enters the US market Fri, 18 Nov 22, 7:30amAn Italian startup behind the world's first carbon dioxide battery has signed a deal to export the technology to the U.S. The company says that its technology is the missing link that could supercharge the transition to renewable...
- Saving the world with lithium? Four times a week an e-bike battery catches fire in New York Sun, 6 Nov 22, 5:57amMore deadly than man-made climate change Six people have died in New York this year so far due to house fires started by e-bikes. I had no idea. Fires from exploding e-bike batteries multiply in NYC — sometimes fatally...
- The clean green future where you’re locked indoors due to toxic electrical battery smoke Thu, 22 Sep 22, 6:11amby Jo Nova Just another day saving the Earth from pollution Highways were shut for 12 hours and people had to seal themselves in their homes for hours.
- And what happens when that renewable drought is 1 terawatt hour? Wed, 13 Jul 22, 5:04amAustralia has added more unreliable wind and solar than anywhere on Earth but when an energy crisis strikes, and those prices are still on fire, the solution is more of the same.
- New sand battery can store energy for months Fri, 8 Jul 22, 6:00amSometimes it’s not sunny enough to depend on solar power, or windy enough to turn the windmill. So, Finnish researchers have devised a year-round, 24/7 energy source: a battery made from sand.[...]
- Holy Battery Powered Australia: Chris Bowen thinks we can store electricity “like water in a dam” Fri, 17 Jun 22, 4:56amSomeone needs to tell the Australian Energy Minister the bad news about batteries
- ‘Electric Truck Hydropower’ – A Real Breakthrough or a New Sokal Hoax? Thu, 10 Mar 22, 1:00amIs this real or did the Journal, Energy, get punked?
- Works out how long an investment in an energy storage time shifting system would take to pay back in full. Such systems typically charge a battery during the off peak period and then discharge during the peak period, so saving...