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2022-03-24 Thermophotovoltaic Battery R & D @T.U. Madrid
This sounds promising. I’m puzzled by what is used for the photovoltaics and how it can handle such high temperatures – 1000 deg C. The glowing ferrosilicon generates a lot of infrared so in order to have 40% efficiency the photovoltaics must convert a lot of the IR to electricity. https://www.pv-magazine.com/2022/03/23/latent-heat-thermophotovoltaic-battery-for-renewables-storage/ I know a bit
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2022-03-22 US Automakers Stifled Ni-MH Battery Use In BEVs
The US automakers stifled the use of Ni-MH battery technology in battery electric vehicles. These protracted battles dealt with patent rights, litigation, gag orders, and especially sales of companies to corporations. Wikipedia wiki https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Patent_encumbrance_of_large_automotive_NiMH_batteries
2022-03-20 Tesla Trying To Meet Battery Production Goals
Tesla is trying to meet goals for battery production. This article gets into the technical details of the wet and dry battery production, like NMP. https://cleantechnica.com/2022/03/19/can-tesla-meet-2022-goals-for-in-house-battery-production/
2022-03-15 Calif Solar Is A Battery Market
California’s Solar market is a battery market. Interesting article. It says that battery storage is to be used as long term storage. https://www.pv-magazine.com/2022/03/14/californias-solar-market-is-now-a-battery-market/
2022-03-12 Largest Electrolyzer Plant Under Construction
World’s largest electrolyzer plant is under construction in Queensland, Australia. It will be a huge green energy manufacturing center: solar panels, wind turbines, batteries, etc. Eventually use 200 GW – yes, GW! Export green hydrogen made by electrolyzers from Plug Power. https://cleantechnica.com/2022/03/11/worlds-largest-electrolyzer-plant-now-under-construction/
2022-03-07 Battery Gives 750+ Miles Very Long Range
https://www.pv-magazine.com/2022/03/02/us-ev-battery-manufacturer-demonstrates-750-mile-range-raises-65-million/ The changes in chemical engineering are not coming fast enough. The difficulties are balancing tradeoffs in multiple factors. There is the battery’s Wh per kg. Then there’s the charge/discharge cycles. There are the toxicity, safety and fire hazards of the chemicals. And then there is the ability to develop a method of mass production.
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2022-02-24 Lithium Below Salton Sea
There are millions of metric tons of lithium in the brine below the Salton Sea. There is a geothermal power plant there that uses the hot brine. https://www.pv-magazine.com/2022/02/23/lithium-beneath-californias-salton-sea/
2022-02-20 “Holy Grail Of Batteries?” Lithium-Sulfur
There seems to be a lot of research and development to go before they can have a producible battery. https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.techtimes.com/amp/articles/271897/20220216/holy-grail-batteries-lithium-sulfur-power-cells-three-times-capacity.htm
2022-02-07 Combinations Of Wind, Solar, Storage
“Cost minimized combinations of wind power, solar power and electrochemical storage, powering the grid 99.9% of the time” Abstract, article, .PDF https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0378775312014759
