This Guy Heated Bath Water With Bitcoin Mining and It Worked Too Well
• https://motherboard.vice.com/ by Jordan Pearson"Lee" used cryptocurrency mining ASICs to heat his bath, which turned the temperature up to 122 Fahrenheit.
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Geely/Volvo To Use Maxwell Ultracapacitors In PHEVs
• https://insideevs.com by Mark KaneZhejiang Geely Holding Group (Geely), the parent company to Volvo Car and Geely Auto, signed a partnership with Maxwell Technologies to use ultracapacitors in new electrified models.
Ultra Capacitor Tech Again Touted As EV Game-Changer
• https://insideevs.com, BY MARK KANEFrench company NAWA Technologies claims that its ultracapacitor technology could help improve performance/range of electric vehicles.
CPI Misses Despite Rising Energy, Shelter Costs As Used Car Prices Plunge Most In 9 Years
• https://www.zerohedge.com, Tyler DurdenFollowing yesterday's 'disappointing' miss in producer prices, headline consumer price inflation met expectations at +2.5% YoY - above PPI for the first time since Dec 2016 - as energy and shelter costs surge.
The One Nation Returning To Coal
• lewrockwell.com By Haley ZarembaAs the developed world moves farther and farther away from coal-fired energy, one major economy is breaking the trend. Japan, in a move that few could have foreseen, ....
NuScale Small Modular Nuclear Reactor First Ever to Complete NRC Phase 1 Review
• https://www.nextbigfuture.comThe U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC) has completed the first and most intensive phase of review for NuScale Power's design certification application (DCA). NuScale's is the first and only small modular reactor (SMR) application to ever un
20MW Solar Farm Set to Power Crypto Mining in Rural Australia
• https://news.bitcoin.comReports have indicated that planning approval has been granted for a 20-megawatt solar farm that will be used to power cryptocurrency mining and a data center in Collie, Western Australia.
World's fastest EV charger gives drivers 120 miles in 8 minutes
• New AtlasSwiss company ABB has launched its Terra High Power DC fast charger, which can put out an impressive 350 kilowatts, charging at nearly three times the rate of Tesla's Superchargers. It'll enable super fast car charging – but only once cars are read
Large amounts of high density MRAM data could enable pinhead size computers
• https://www.nextbigfuture.com, brian wangNew research from the University of New Hampshire will make computers the size of a pinhead a reality sooner than once thought.
Sila Nanotechnologies Silicon anodes will improve lithium ion batteries by up to 40%
• nextbigfuture.com by brian wangSila Nanotechnologies has silicon-dominant anode products that drop into existing battery manufacturing processes, replace graphite entirely, and deliver significantly higher energy density at the cell-level with lower swelling.
Thin film converts low grade waste heat to electricity at 19% of carnot efficiency
• nextbigfuture.com by brian wangNearly 70 percent of the energy produced in the United States each year is wasted as heat.
See Tesla Battery Technology Explained In This 3-Part Video Series
• insideevs.com by Steven LovedayPerhaps everything you've ever wanted to know and understand about Tesla battery tech all in one place.
Siemens Is Blanketing Europe With Smart Meters, Including Portugal
• www.technocracy.news,By: Sapotek, PortugalThanks to a TN reader in Portugal (hat tip to JL), this article points out that Smart Grid via Smart Meter installation is a global affair, as pointed out by this article translated from a Portuguese journal. All of the global Smart Grid initiative w
See Rare Look At Tesla Solar Roof In The Wild, Plus Exclusive Interview
• https://insideevs.com, BY STEVEN LOVEDAY***Update: Our good friend Alex Guberman had an opportunity to travel to a home with one of the first Tesla Solar roof installations. He gets to check it out firsthand and interview the homeowners. We previously shared another of the first installati
Alliance of private fusion companies working to get $100 million prize...
• https://www.nextbigfuture.com, brian wangAlliance of private fusion companies working to get $100 million prize for first to achieve net energy
Has The World Started To Kick Its Oil Addiction?
• zerohedge.com by Tsvetana ParaskovaUntil a decade ago, most of the world was a captive customer of oil - consumers would pay any price for gasoline and oil demand was soaring regardless of the surging oil prices.
Nuclear Fusion Update
• nextbigfuture.com by brian wangThe Conversation claim nuclear fusion is back again.
Progress to scalable roll-to-roll manufacturing of Perovskite Solar Cells
• nextbigfuture.com by brian wangThe National Renewable Energy Lab (NREL) is making progress towards scalable fabrication of Perovskite Solar Cells.
Fuelling the future
• arcleinStill, the fantasy of a future powered by cheap and inexhaustible electrical energy was common throughout the Victorian period. In his utopian/dystopian account of a subterranean civilisation in The Coming Race(1871), Edward Bulwer Lytton was clear t
Breakthrough for rechargeable non-aqueous magnesium-metal battery...
• https://www.nextbigfuture.com, brian wangScientists at the Department of Energy's National Renewable Energy Laboratory (NREL) have discovered a new approach for developing a rechargeable non-aqueous magnesium-metal battery.
This Unknown Rock Will Revolutionize Transportation
• nextbigfuture.com by brian wangWe're facing an imminent crisis in global lithium markets. Demand is growing exponentially, and lithium consumers are facing a 100,000-ton shortfall by 2025.
Radioisotope Positron Propulsion
• nextbigfuture.com by brian wangCurrent state of the art in-space propulsion systems based on chemical or ion propellants fail to meet requirements of 21st century space missions.
Pulsed Fission-Fusion (PuFF) Propulsion Concept gets Phase 2 NIAC funding
• nextbigfuture.com by brian wangThe pulsed fission fusion propulsion (PuFF) system envisions using a pulsed z-pinch to compress a fission-fusion target.
Researchers believe it will be economical to convert CO2 into various fuels
• nextbigfuture.com by brian wangResearchers claim they are on the cusp of a CO2-recycling revolution, which would capture CO2 from power plants--and maybe even directly from the atmosphere--and convert it into these fuels at scale, they report today in Joule.
Solid-State Quantum Battery
• nextbigfuture.com by brian wangQuantum batteries should have faster charging time due to the quantum entanglement among the units.
LPP Fusion has funds try to reach nuclear fusion net gain milestone
• https://www.nextbigfuture.com,brian wangLPP Fusion has raised over $640,000 in its latest crowdfunding round.
Norway's Electric Ferry Is So Impressive That 53 More Were Ordered
• https://insideevs.com, BY MARK KANEThe first electric ferries – Ampere in Norway (since 2015) and Elektra in Finland (since 2017), have proven their capabilities and operators are now lining up in the queue to purchase more.
Nissan Introduces $2,850 Refabricated Batteries For Older LEAF
• https://newatlas.com, BY MARK KANEAnnounces exchange costs for new 24, 30 and 40 kWh LEAF batteries too.
IC Bus's chargE Electric School Bus Hits The Road Today
• https://insideevs.com, BY MARK KANEIC Bus, a subsidiary of Navistar, announced a national electric bus tour with its chargE unveiled in 2017.
Water and Energy are tightly linked
• https://www.nextbigfuture.com* Billions of gallons of water are used each day in the United States for energy production * huge amounts of energy are consumed in pumping, treating, heating, and delivering water. * More than 12 percent of the energy used in the U.S. is for wate
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