A small Finnish town has turned to the world's largest commercial sand battery to tackle a major hurdle in the energy transition: intermittency.
China’s bigger, better batteries
It’s the world’s fastest-growing power technology — and Beijing is dominant
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By Mikael Holter and Jeremy Hodges (Bloomberg) — Not far from Norway’s North Sea oil rigs, shipbuilders are assembling some of the first ferry boats ever to be powered entirely...
Challenges and opportunities for high-quality battery production at scale
As the world electrifies, global battery production is expected to surge. However, batteries are both difficult to produce at the gigawatt-hour scale and sensitive to minor manufacturing variation. As a result, the battery industry has already experienced both highly-visible safety incidents and under-the-radar reliability issues—a trend that will only worsen if left unaddressed. Here we highlight both the challenges and opportunities to enable battery quality at scale. We first describe the interplay between various battery failure modes and their numerous root causes. We then discuss how to manage and improve battery quality during production. We hope our perspective brings greater visibility to the battery quality challenge to enable safe global electrification.
The World Is Running Out of Sand
It’s one of our most widely used natural resources, but it’s scarcer than you think.
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In most places, power from new renewables is now cheaper than new fossil fuels.
Investigating The World's First Solid State Battery
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Pluralistic: Circular battery self-sufficiency (06 Aug 2024) – Pluralistic: Daily links from Cory Doctorow
If we are going to survive the climate emergency, we will have to electrify – that is, transition from burning fossil fuels to collecting, storing, transmitting and using renewable energy generated by e.g. the tides, the wind, and (especially) the Sun.
Terraforming Singapore
Illegal sand mining is reaching crisis levels in Southeast Asia. Can Singapore rethink its reliance on sand for land reclamation and development?
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Solar surge halts fossil generation rise as clean power meets all demand growth and renewables overtake coal
The shale revolution helped make America’s economy great
But will the country’s oil riches discourage a similar revolution in renewables?
T1 Energy | Advanced American Solar & Battery Manufacturing
T1 Energy builds domestic solar and battery supply chains through advanced American manufacturing. Scalable, reliable, and low-cost energy for America.
Hanson pushes more coal, fewer renewables without detailing cost
One Nation vows to remove renewable energy zones and scrap compulsory land acquisition for VNI West at a regional Victorian rally.
Why do they love electric cars in the Arctic Circle?
Why is Norway - population five million - embracing electric cars with such enthusiasm?
Denmark's coal-to-wind transition is one of the most dramatic energy transformations of the past three decades. In 1990, coal provided 90% of Danish electricity. Today it is under 3%. Wind now covers roughly 60% of electricity generation. The last coal plant is scheduled to close by 2028.
