John Bannister Goodenough, the American co-inventor of Lithium-ion batteries and a co-winner of 2019 Nobel prize for Chemistry, has passed away. He was just a month short of turning 101. Goodenough also played a significant role in the development of Random Access Memory (RAM) for computers.
Among the many changes, the new rules would require batteries in consumer devices like smartphones to be easily removable and replaceable. That's far from the case today...
"This drop in battery cost to below $60/kWh in 2024 will allow the wholesale transition of the world to 100% #WindWaterSolar at low cost faster than predicted."
-MJ Jacobson
"World's largest EV battery maker says prices in 2024 will drop 50% to $56/kWh
This is gargantuan - and will accelerate EV cars, trucks, trains, ships, planes and BESS."
-A Razzouk
Everyone is talking about building very large #batteries for energy storage, for when the sun doesn't shine or the wind doesn't blow. Turns out, that is the most expensive solution. There are faster solutions that yield money.
"Lovins and many other #EnergyEfficiency experts have spent decades pointing out that an integrated system approach that focuses as much or more on consumption than supply will be so much cheaper than the current approach focused on supply."
Researchers at Cornell University have created a lithium battery that can charge in under five minutes, while still delivering a stable performance through repeated “charging and discharging” cycles.
Northvolt, Europe’s only large homegrown electric battery maker, created 'breakthrough' more sustainable sodium-ion battery at lower cost to store electricity without lithium, nickel, graphite, cobalt.
Europe’s energy and electric vehicle industries could reduce dependency on scarce raw materials from China.
Carbon offsets are not a substitute for cutting emissions. They are a way to buy time until we've all done it and it's not up to big business or governments to get us all to stop burning fossil fuels. That's up to all of us to do as fast as we each possibly can. https://netzeroclimate.org/policies-for-net-zero/net-zero-principles/
Did you know that ten (10) U.S. states get the majority of their electricity without emitting greenhouse gases?
How many states will join the top ten in 2024?
We could have lotteries in the states that are lagging for people that instead of giving them cash if they win would install #solar and #batteries on their homes, barns, yards, offices, or garages that would provide them with clean, free energy.
'A Northwestern University-led team of researchers has developed a new fuel cell that harvests energy from microbes living in dirt.... the researchers used it to power sensors measuring soil moisture and detecting touch, a capability that could be valuable for tracking passing animals.... Not only did the fuel cell work in both wet and dry conditions, but its power also outlasted similar technologies by 120%.'
"Lithium-ion battery prices have declined from USD 1,400 per kilowatt-hour in 2010 to less than USD 140 per kilowatt-hour in 2023, one of the fastest cost declines of any energy technology ever, as a result of progress in research and development and economies of scale in manufacturing."
Another day, another potential problem for #electricvehicles - one of the key components for #batteries is #graphite... and #China, which dominate the production & processing of both natural & synthetic graphite has just imposed export controls on its sale...
for the moment manufactures will likely be able to draw down stockpiles, but once the control(s) hit supply, much will be revealed about how the Chinese state wants to shape/control the global market for e-vehicles...
For well over a decade, many pro-nuclear lobbyists have been lobbying against renewables for reasons that I can only speculate, but renewable intermittentness has been their main attempt to argue against subsidizing the young industry.
If an #SUV was ever a 'green option' the likelihood of tightening of #batteries' #supplychains & associated costs suggest they won't be for long.
Essentially, as often explored in my timeline #publictransport is the real answer... and if you really need a car, then a smaller #electriccar is what is needed not some enormous hybrid-SUV
If solid-state #batteries are a 'game changer' for the production & sale of #electricvehicles then #Toyota's announcement that they think they are nearing the point when they can mass produce them at the same level & costs as 'normal' car batteries looks like good news;
But, by Toyota's own admission this is still around four year's off... and such claims/targets have slipped before, so don't hold you breath.
Perhaps the bigger Q. for the UK is where do we stand on this next step in car-tech?
"John Bannister Goodenough, the American co-inventor of Lithium-ion batteries and a co-winner of 2019 Nobel prize for Chemistry, has passed away. He was just a month short of turning 101.
Goodenough’s death has been confirmed to businessline by his student Nicholas Grundish."
Renewables could overtake coal as the largest source of electricity generation for the first time ever as soon as 2024.
This is earlier than expected, but not sooner than it should happen and by reducing your energy use and installing #solar & #batteries if you're at all able you can help reduce fossil fuel burning even more. #ClimateSolutions
Could the National Grid be making better use of the battery storage facilities already available in the UK?
It seems that at some points in the last year, even when there was battery-stored electricity available to be drawn down, the Grid still used gas-fired additional generation instead.
Its likely to have be caused by a lack of up-to-date computing infrastructure to manage supply during surges.
We have a net-zero friendly solution but are (still) not fully using it!
#ScienceDirect and #Elsevier clearly didn't review this #chemistry paper about #batteries. The intro starts with "Certainly, here is a possible introduction for your topic:".
This lack of oversight erodes #trust in #science. The paper needs to be retracted and the authors sanctioned immediately.
I was hoping that one of our major American auto manufacturers might be able to supplant Tesla as the biggest EV seller in the USA, but it is looking like it could be Hyundai instead. Too bad they're anti-union, but the UAW may make progress on that this year perhaps.
Purchasing a new EV with a 361-mile EPA-rated range for $36,065 is a big deal anyway imo.
USA's largest solar plus battery storage plant comes online in California! This giant is 875 MW solar plus 3.3 GWh storage. Total financing for the project is $1.7 billion, and it's located partly on Department of Defense land.
Both the EU and USA will install 2X more in 2023-2028 compared to their achievements from 2017 to 2022.
But China will install 4X and 5X more than EU & USA respectively!
John B. Goodenough, Nobel laureate who gave the world Li-ion batteries, passes away. (www.thehindubusinessline.com)
John Bannister Goodenough, the American co-inventor of Lithium-ion batteries and a co-winner of 2019 Nobel prize for Chemistry, has passed away. He was just a month short of turning 101. Goodenough also played a significant role in the development of Random Access Memory (RAM) for computers.
European Union votes to bring back replaceable phone batteries (www.techspot.com)
Among the many changes, the new rules would require batteries in consumer devices like smartphones to be easily removable and replaceable. That's far from the case today...