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Roundtables – How China Got Ahead on EVs

Posted on March 21, 2024May 29, 2024 by Rana Shakoor Akbar

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Mar

How China Got Ahead on EVs Speakers: Zeyi Yang, China reporter, Amanda Silverman, Features & investigations editor, and Abby Ivory-Ganja, Sr engagement editor In the race to produce and sell more electric vehicles, China has emerged as the unexpected winner. If you visit Shanghai or Shenzhen today, it feels like half of the cars running […]

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Roundtables – Building a Cleaner Future: Better Batteries and Their Materials

Posted on February 16, 2024May 29, 2024 by Rana Shakoor Akbar

16
Feb

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These materials were meant to revolutionize the solar industry. Why hasn’t it happened?

Posted on May 18, 2022 by

18
May

But stability remains a tough challenge. In one recent study, published in Science in April, researchers discovered a new way to build perovskite solar cells with additives that improved efficiency and lifetime. The cells withstood 1,500 hours of high heat and humidity in the lab. The problem is translating these results into the real world. […]

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This company wants to use carbon dioxide to store renewable power on the grid

Posted on May 3, 2022 by

03
May

Compressing gases to store energy isn’t new: for decades, a few facilities around the world have been pumping air into huge underground caverns under pressure and then using it to generate electricity in a natural gas power plant. But Energy Dome turned to carbon dioxide because of its physics. Carbon dioxide, when squeezed to high […]

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These plastic batteries could help store renewable energy on the grid

Posted on April 13, 2022 by

13
Apr

Conductive polymers could wind up being a major player in grid storage, but whether that happens will likely depend on how quickly the company can scale up its technology and, crucially, how much the batteries cost, says Susan Babinec, who leads the energy storage program at Argonne National Lab. Some research points to $20 per […]

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Droughts are cutting into California’s hydropower. Here’s what that means for clean energy.

Posted on April 1, 2022 by

01
Apr

Hydropower often comes under fire for its environmental impact, because dams disrupt ecosystems. In fact, California currently doesn’t count large hydropower plants in its renewable-power targets. But regardless of how it’s categorized, hydropower is a lower-emissions alternative to fossil fuels. During high-stress times on the grid, the reduced reliability of hydropower is already causing problems, […]

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Video: How cheap renewables and rising activism are shifting climate politics

Posted on October 8, 2021 by

08
Oct

The measures will mark the first major climate laws in the nation if they pass in something close to their current form. Most notably, they include the Clean Electricity Performance Program, which uses payments and penalties to encourage utilities to boost their share of electricity from carbon-free sources (read our earlier explainer here). Other speakers […]

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Roundtables – How China Got Ahead on EVs

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Roundtables – Building a Cleaner Future: Better Batteries and Their Materials

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These materials were meant to revolutionize the solar industry. Why hasn’t it happened?

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This company wants to use carbon dioxide to store renewable power on the grid

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These plastic batteries could help store renewable energy on the grid

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Droughts are cutting into California’s hydropower. Here’s what that means for clean energy.

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Video: How cheap renewables and rising activism are shifting climate politics

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