"The breakthrough could lead to the scale-up of long-duration fluorenone-based flow batteries, which PNNL unveiled in 2021, according to PNNL. Flow batteries store energy in liquid electrolytes."
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The US may soon get its first new source of nuclear fuel in 70 years
"For its part, TerraPower is developing a 345-megawatt sodium-cooled fast reactor coupled with a molten salt energy storage system. Founded by Microsoft co-founder Bill Gates, the company has raised $750 million to build an operating demonstration reactor in Wyoming. TerraPower announced in December that it would delay the planned deployment of its reactor due to a lack of HALEU availability, in part because it has pledged not to use Russian-sourced uranium."
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Green Ammonia
"Green ammonia is emerging as a potential enabler of the green hydrogen economy, as a sustainable fuel in maritime transportation and other applications, and as a replacement for synthetic ammonia in agricultural applications. With a market demand expected to almost double in the next 7 years and the quest for novel, sustainable production processes, it also presents a significant opportunity for venture investments."
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Is Expanding Desert Solar Farms Exchanging One Problem for Another?
While deserts may seem like the ideal location to place solar farms. this may lead to several unintended consequences.
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Steam made by heat pumps can help clean up industry and manufacturing
Jeff St. John of Canary Media reports on AtmosZero and its mission to clean up manufacturing. “Typical residential heat-pump systems deliver about 300 to 400 percent as much energy in the form of heat as the energy they use to transfer it. AtmosZero’s heat-pump boilers can practically deliver about 200 percent of the same energy input as heat, he said. But...
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The Race to Build a Better Air Conditioner
Amrith Ramkumar of The Wall Street Journal reports on the race to build better air conditioners. “When air conditioning is needed, the solution is brought in contact with air, absorbing water and removing humidity. The air is cooled within a component called a heat exchanger using a high-efficiency method to lower air temperature by exposing...
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Fervo Energy Announces Combined Geothermal and Direct Air Capture Plant
The facility will harness the earth’s heat to power its carbon dioxide removal operations.
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Can The U.S. Wean Itself Off Russian Uranium?
"The United States Department of Energy (DOE), Nuclear Engineering & Science Center at Texas A&M and the Idaho National Laboratory (INL) have partnered with Chicago-based Clean Core Thorium Energy (CCTE) to develop a new thorium-based nuclear fuel they have dubbed ANEEL. ANEEL (Advanced Nuclear Energy for Enriched Life) is a proprietary combination of thorium and 'High Assay Low Enriched Uranium' (HALEU) that intends to address high costs and toxic waste issues (thorium must be paired with at least a small amount of a fissile material due its inability to naturally fissile on its own)."
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Geothermal Energy Production’s Potential for Clean, Dependable Power
As the world looks to expand and diversify its energy needs while meeting its environmental ambitions, geothermal could play a very significant role.
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Bill Gates-Backed Mining Company Is Silicon Valley’s Newest Unicorn
"Founded in 2018, KoBold says it uses data science and machine learning to identify deposits of cobalt, copper, nickel and lithium, crucial components of the electric-vehicle boom. It has 60 continuing exploration projects in North America, Africa and Australia. Last December, it agreed to invest $150 million to buy a controlling stake in a large, undeveloped copper deposit in Zambia that it says should take at least eight years to yield copper."