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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. 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. Tom Baruch. Tue, 06/23/2020 - 01:30. Green Swan solutions are already at work.

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American Battery Factory raises capital to develop LFP battery gigafactory in Arizona

Charged

American Battery Factory (ABF), a battery manufacturer that plans to build a network of lithium iron phosphate (LFP) battery cell gigafactories in the US, has raised significant development capital in Series A funding. We anticipate delivering our first battery cells within the next 18 months.”

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The 5 Most Promising Long-Duration Storage Technologies Left Standing

GreenTechMedia

Wind and solar only produce at certain times, so they need a complementary technology to help fill the gaps. 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. The rise of renewables has forced a new look at this old technology.

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Titan AES Technology Increases Battery Lifespan and Sustainability

Greentown Labs

Batteries are integral to clean energy. From wind and solar storage to electric vehicles, we need to rely on batteries more than ever as we reorient society toward sustainability. But there’s a problem: it’s difficult to tell how much life batteries have left, so they’re retired prematurely. The Titan AES team.

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Packetized Energy Builds ‘Virtual’ Batteries for a Cleaner Grid

Greentown Labs

What if we broadened the definition of a battery? What if, rather than electrochemical cells with anodes and cathodes, batteries were composed of thousands, or even millions, of internet-connected devices? Packetized Energy creates “virtual” batteries by tapping into smart devices in peoples’ homes and businesses.

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Investment trends in grid-scale battery storage

Renewable Energy World

Continued growth in the renewables market depends heavily on the widespread implementation of effective energy storage technologies. Thus, only when augmented by affordable grid storage can renewable technologies such as solar and wind successfully compete with fossil fuel-based energy production. GW of deployments seen in 2020.

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Technology Trending: battolyser hydrogen tech, gyrotrons for geothermal, quantum encryption, Dubai urban tech

Smart Energy International

Lead acid battery powered hydrogen electrolyser, gyrotron development for geothermal energy drilling, quantum key distribution from space and the planned Urban Tech district of Dubai are on this week’s technology radar. With the development of the technology, the potential for geothermal energy would be opened up across the US.