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Let’s incubate the Green Swans hatched by the COVID-19 Black Swan

GreenBiz

Let’s incubate the Green Swans hatched by the COVID-19 Black Swan. Cheap electricity drives electrons across the electrical grid where they become more accessible and offer a more affordable, cleaner and more resilient way to charge electric batteries. Tom Baruch. Tue, 06/23/2020 - 01:30.

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Investment trends in grid-scale battery storage

Renewable Energy World

Assessing COVID-19’s Impact on Battery Storage Deployments. The IEA cited wavering policy support in key markets and uncertainties around battery safety as headwinds to growth, with grid-scale installations falling by 20%. Spending on grid-scale batteries rose by more than 60%, driven by the push for investments in renewables.

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Let’s incubate the Green Swans hatched by the COVID-19 Black Swan

AGreenLiving

Let’s incubate the Green Swans hatched by the COVID-19 Black Swan Tom Baruch Tue, 06/23/2020 – 01:30 The global COVID-19 pandemic is a historic Black Swan event that offers a Green Swan of opportunities to harvest innovation from 50 years of converging exponential technologies. Cheap electricity will increase access to clean water.

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Let’s incubate the Green Swans hatched by the COVID-19 Black Swan

AGreenLiving

Let’s incubate the Green Swans hatched by the COVID-19 Black Swan Tom Baruch Tue, 06/23/2020 – 01:30 The global COVID-19 pandemic is a historic Black Swan event that offers a Green Swan of opportunities to harvest innovation from 50 years of converging exponential technologies. Cheap electricity will increase access to clean water.

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The 5 Most Promising Long-Duration Storage Technologies Left Standing

GreenTechMedia

And the lithium-ion batteries that supply 99 percent of new storage capacity today get very expensive if you try to stretch them out over many hours. Here at Greentech Media, we’ve spent years covering the contenders, which range from quixotic defiers of the laws of physics to understated, scientifically minded strivers.

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Interview – Celsius Energy and decarbonizing buildings using shallow geothermal systems

ThinkGeoEnergy

This is closely related to the operations of the heat pump and how it relates to the battery on the ground. If you heat a building with oil or gas, you will have a huge carbon footprint that in many places is no longer allowed by law. The entire system—wells and GMS—needs to be really well designed, and not over-designed.

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25 Green Business Ideas for the Aspiring Ecopreneur

Green Business Bureau

Wind power turbines and home battery systems might have a little more industry wiggle room. However, it’s Tesla’s power wall battery storage for homes that may have the most profound market impacts for consumers. Echoing Green focuses primarily on incubating startups in the sustainability space. Finance and Startup Development.

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