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A New Flow Battery Takes On The Data Center Energy 'Crisis'

19 May 2025 | Synopsis

"A flow battery can discharge electricity for days or even weeks at a time, depending on the formula and the architecture. At that level of performance, flow batteries could store enough renewable energy to provide large energy consumers...Texas startup Quino Energy has developed an organic formula tailored for use in repurposed oil storage tanks, helping to reduce the expense of new infrastructure."

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Renewable Energy-On-Rails Scheme To Cure Transmission Line Blues

19 May 2025 | Synopsis

"Running on almost 140,000 route miles, the U.S. freight rail network is widely considered the largest, safest, and most cost-efficient freight system in the world...SunTrain proposes deploying freight trains as high-capacity, rolling energy storage systems...While the transmission grid is already close to capacity, the railroad grid is not. SunTrain can move gigawatt-hours of renewable energy...The next step is a 20-car, grid-connected train..."

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How To End Your City's Fight Over Scooter Parking Once and For All

18 May 2025 | Synopsis

"University of Oregon's Urbanism Next Center released a new guide to the nuts and bolts of how to do scooter parking right...Even cities that embrace the car-replacing power of scooters often grow frustrated by cluttered sidewalks...In Washington, D.C., for instance, an estimated 5.9 percent of micromobility vehicles blocked a pedestrian walkway..in Portland, Ore., a whopping 8.1 did.

"City leaders need to do more to set micromobility users up to succeed - by rolling out clear, easy-to-follow parking rules and great infrastructure to match."

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Game Changer: Harbinger Launches A Medium-Duty EREV With 500 Mile Range

18 May 2025 | Synopsis

The American truck brand is putting its latest $100 million raise to good use, developing a cost-competitive EREV chassis that marries a low-emissions 1.4L inline four-cylinder gas engine with a close coupled 800V generator sending power to a 140 or 175 kW battery for up to 500 miles of fully loaded range...Charging performance is also quick, with the ability to get the big battery from 10-80% charge in just under an hour on a 150 kW port."

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Rogue Hardware In Chinese Inverters Could Trigger Worst Blackout Threat To Date

18 May 2025 | Synopsis

"... analysts reportedly found communication modules, such as cellular radios, not listed in official documentation. These could create backdoors capable of bypassing security layers...Huawei, Sungrow, and Ginlong Solis - three Chinese firms - lead the global inverter market.

"SolarPower Europe... warned that compromising just 3 GW of inverter-linked capacity could disrupt Europe’s power grid."

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