Millions Must Get Solar and Batteries or Live Without Utility Power
• https://www.nextbigfuture.com by Brian WangCalifornia electrical utilities and government has failed on forest management and failed on managing the electrical grid.
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10 Ugly truths about long-term power outages and how to deal with them
• Natural News by: Arsenio ToledoPerhaps you have already experienced short blackouts and have prepared for them – but what about a power outage that lasts for weeks or even months? It's important to understand what a long-term blackout entails in order to fully prepare for it.
Swiss startup invents higher-performance electric car battery can leave Tesla batteries in the dust
• Natural News by: Edsel CookSwiss company Innolith claims that an electric vehicle equipped with its lithium battery would run for up to 600 miles (966 km.) That level of performance blows its Tesla counterpart away
Carbon-Neutral 'Artificial Leaf' Produces Clean Gas Which Could Help to Replace Fossil Fuels
• Good News NetworkA widely-used gas that is currently produced from fossil fuels can instead be made by an "artificial leaf" that uses only sunlight, carbon dioxide, and water--and it could eventually be used to develop a sustainable liquid fuel alternative to pe
Stockholm Syndrome
• Eric Peters AutosIf four-year-old Chevys, Fords or Toyotas were bricking - going inert, not moving - and needed thousands of dollars of repairs to get going moving again - the people who owned them would demand a recall and other people would never buy a Chevy
UK Man Invents Aluminum Air Battery In His Garage
• Clean TechnicaImagine if you will a lightweight, inexpensive power source with 9 times the energy density of a lithium-ion battery. Got your mind wrapped around that concept?
PG&E Estimates 2029-2033 Until They Fix Grid Fire Danger Problems
• Next Big FutureOne week ago, PG&E (California electric utility) cut power to about 2 million people in Northern and Central California, saying the outages were needed due to high winds and dry conditions that could spark wildfires. The power was for days for many c
Scientists discover "electric" bacteria - can it lead to next-gen batteries & miniature pa
• Natural News - Edsel CookExperts know that a strange species of bacteria found in oxygen-deprived sediment and soil can generate electricity. But they only recently learned that the microorganism achieves this through a method that differs from that used by other electric ba
Tesla Buys Hibar Systems for Faster Battery Production - Assembling 1000 Parts Per Minute
• https://www.nextbigfuture.com, by Brian WangTesla bought, Hibar Systems, a Richmond Hiller, Ontario-based battery maker. Hibar is a world leader in the development of battery manufacturing technology.
With Only 20 Years of Service Life, It Costs $532,000 To Decommission A Single Wind Turbine
• https://www.technocracy.news, BY: ISAAC ORRIt looks like Minnesota will have a very expensive mess to clean up when the wind turbines currently operating in the state reach the end of their 20 year useful lifetimes.
Helion Energy's Nuclear Fusion Updates on Twitter
• https://www.nextbigfuture.com by Brian WangHelion Energy has been working to make a pulsed commercial nuclear fusion generator 1,000 times smaller, over 500 times cheaper, and realizable 10 times faster than other approaches. Helion Energy received $10.6 million in 2015.
The Lights Went Out in California: That Was the Plan All Along
• https://www.lewrockwell.com, By Chuck DevoreWatts Up With That?
A solar-powered system can turn salt water into fresh drinking water for 25,000 people per day.
• https://www.businessinsider.comIt could help address the world's looming water crisis...People have been trying to turn seawater into drinking water for thousands of years, but the process is not usually energy-efficient or affordable.
New Power Plant Turns Waste into Energy--and Doubles as a Ski Slope and Climbing Wall
• https://www.goodnewsnetwork.orgDenmark, with a landscape as flat as a pancake, might be a new whimsical destination for skiing, thanks to Copenhagen's new power plant. That's right. Last weekend in Copenhagen, an 8-year dream was realized when the first paying skiers took t
Map of Northern California Power Outages
• https://www.kqed.org by Teodros Hailye, Kevin StarPG&E has cut power to hundreds of thousands of customers.
Record power shutoffs in California are set to become the new normal
• https://www.theguardian.comWith nearly 800,000 customers affected in the largest shutdown this year, the utility is hoping to avoid a devastating fire season
Tesla owners in California get a warning to charge their cars before the power goes out
• https://www.fastcompany.comPacific General & Electric (PG&E) is cutting power across large swaths of Northern California, including the Bay Area, in a drastic bid to prevent wildfires.
Rooftop Solar is Also Off in a Power Outage
• https://www.nextbigfuture.com by Brian WangPG&E is shutting off power to 800,000 Californians today and tomorrow. More than 1 million California homes are already soaking up sunshine with solar panels to generate electricity.
Aptera Likes Solar Generation: Is Now Offering 'Never Charge' Option
• https://insideevs.comThe solution could provide up to 40 miles a day of range without having to plug in the car.
Meet The Mad Scientists Performing Universe-Breaking Experiments
• https://www.zerohedge.com by Haley ZarembaBig things are happening at CERN, the European Organization for Nuclear Research.
Meet The Mad Scientists Performing Universe-Breaking Experiments
• https://www.zerohedge.com by Haley ZarembaBig things are happening at CERN, the European Organization for Nuclear Research.
ARC 100, Modular Reactor, Passes First Phase of Canada's Nuclear Safety...
• https://www.nextbigfuture.com, by Brian WangARC 100, Modular Reactor, Passes First Phase of Canada's Nuclear Safety Commission Vendor Design Review
Li-CO2 Batteries Promise 7 Times The Energy Density Of Lithium-Iion
• https://insideevs.com by Gustavo Henrique RuffoThey can have seven times the energy density of the best Li-Ion battery possible.
First Fully Rechargeable Carbon Dioxide Battery is Seven Times More Efficient Than Lithium Ion
• https://www.goodnewsnetwork.orgLithium-carbon dioxide batteries are attractive energy storage systems because they have a specific energy density that is more than seven times greater than commonly used lithium-ion batteries.
Graphene Terahertz Telescopes Will be Thousands of Times Better Than Current Thz Telescopes
• https://www.nextbigfuture.com by Brian WangCurrently superconductors are used for Terahertz telescope detects but new graphene terahertz detectors will use less than 0.1% of the power.
P3Tek Recommends Thorcon Molten Salt Nuclear Reactor for Indonesia
• https://www.nextbigfuture.com, by Brian WangP3Tek presented the results of a 10-month study of the ThorCon thorium/uranium-fueled molten salt reactor (MSR) power plant.
LED Light Powered by Light of the Cold Night Sky
• https://www.nextbigfuture.com, by Brian WangAn inexpensive thermoelectric device harnesses the cold of space without active heat input, generating electricity that powers an LED at night, researchers report September 12 in the journal Joule.
More Details On Tesla's Potential Million-Mile Electric Car Battery
• https://insideevs.com by EVANNEXDahn has already put the battery cells through extensive testing.
Major molten salt nuclear fuel test completed
• https://newatlas.com, By David SzondyThe Netherlands' Nuclear Research and Consultancy Group (NRG) has completed a major milestone irradiation test of molten nuclear fuel salts in its High Flux Reactor at Petten 37 mi (60 km) north of Amsterdam.
MAD Architects unveils solar-powered Hyperloop transit system
• https://inhabitat.comThe avant-garde architecture of Beijing-based MAD Architects has merged with Hyperloop's futuristic transportation technologies to unveil a new, solar-powered rapid transit system. Designed with an emphasis on sustainability, the elevated, tube-bas
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