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Technology Trending: AI bird monitoring, LFP battery prototype, lithium for EVs, Moon to Mars

Smart Energy International

AI to monitor bird interactions with solar PV, lithium iron phosphate battery production coming in Europe, a lithium mine for EV batteries and the energy infrastructure requirements in the Moon to Mars exploration are on the week’s technology radar. First lithium iron phosphate battery cell prototype in Europe.

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Firms launch circular economy solution to prevent millions of tonnes of e-mobility waste worldwide

Envirotec Magazine

A new partnership aims to demonstrate how bespoke circular-economy batteries can tackle the mounting problem of e-waste, specifically in relation to electric vehicles. To combat this, the International Energy Agency (IEA) predicts sales of up to 44 million electric vehicles (EVs) a year by 2030.

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Technology Trending: Energy harvesting, Fike Blue, quantum-space collaboration

Smart Energy International

Energy harvesting brings carbon benefits, Fike Blue to quench battery thermal runaways and a quantum-space collaboration are on the week’s technology radar. Currently, EnOcean’s wireless building-automation devices manage 221 million m2 of floorspace or the equivalent of around 74,000 football fields, the company boasts.

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Interview – Celsius Energy and decarbonizing buildings using shallow geothermal systems

ThinkGeoEnergy

Heating and cooling buildings accounts for about a third of the final energy consumption globally and 30% of energy-related CO 2 emissions. For these reasons, the building heating and cooling sector is one that urgently needs to be decarbonized. Heating and cooling buildings is 80% of that energy used.

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Technology Trending: Cyber protection for space data, battery passport, battery for hot climates

Smart Energy International

Protecting satellite imagery from fraud Satellite imagery is becoming increasingly important as a source of data for energy and water utilities, as for other sectors also. Such climates generally have abundant sun or wind and are thus ideally suited to renewable energy production. Have you read?

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The Lead-Acid Battery’s Demise Has Been Greatly Exaggerated

R-Squared Energy

A key point they made in the email was that lead-acid batteries are 99% recyclable, while lithium-ion batteries are recycled at a rate below 5%. However, when I look at the trajectory, I see lithium-ion batteries steadily declining in price, while the price of lead-acid batteries is relatively stagnant. They agreed. Several things.

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The emerging “non-utilities”—EVs are helping new players in the energy marketplace.

Charged

He formerly served as President Obama’s appointee to a US Federal Commission established to assess emerging energy-focused digital technologies. EVs make it possible to build smarter grids, including for the non-utilities that are pushing innovation. electric vehicles), stationary energy storage and microgrids.