"The greatest threat to our planet is the belief that someone else will save it."
Friday, 31 July 2020
Thursday, 30 July 2020
MEYGEN PHASE 1A ASSESSMENT
Tidal stream energy has made a further step towards commercial viability following what has been described as the most comprehensive lifecycle assessment to-date of a megawatt-scale array in the UK.
The assessment, authored by Black & Veatch and free to view by anyone, shares lessons learnt during the planning, design, delivery and operation of MeyGen’s six-megawatt (MW) array in Scotland’s Pentland Firth.
Phase 1A of the MeyGen project was partly funded through a £10m grant from the Department for Business Energy and Industrial Strategy, with a requirement that lessons learnt from the project were collated and shared.
MeyGen Phase 1A, a 6MW demonstration array comprised of four 1.5MW tidal turbines, entered its 25-year operations phase in April 2018. The array has successfully exported 21 gigawatt hours to the grid to date, with an average turbine availability of circa 95% during its operational phase - LINK
IN MEMORY OF JOHN LEWIS
The Edmund Pettus Bridge carries U.S. Route 80 Business (US 80 Bus.) across the Alabama River in Selma, Alabama.
Built in 1940, it is named after Edmund Winston Pettus, a former Confederate brigadier general, U.S. senator, and leader of the Alabama Ku Klux Klan - link
Time for a name change I feel - BLM.
Wednesday, 29 July 2020
PACWAVE
The open ocean is an unforgiving judge of engineering prowess.
Salty seawater, gale-force winds and relentless, punishing waves resist entrepreneurs’ determination to install power-generating devices in the water. The scale of that challenge is reflected in the marine energy industry's poor track record to date.
Offshore wind turbines operate in harsh conditions, but they do so largely above the waterline. Marine energy devices, on the other hand, are exposed to the full force of the ocean’s ferocity by floating atop or below the waves. At the end of 2019, there were just 531 megawatts of wave, tidal and other marine energy technologies installed globally, according to the International Renewable Energy Agency.
But the fledgling marine energy industry will soon get a boost in the United States. Oregon State University’s PacWave testing facility is in its permitting home stretch and could begin construction this year.
Offshore wind turbines operate in harsh conditions, but they do so largely above the waterline. Marine energy devices, on the other hand, are exposed to the full force of the ocean’s ferocity by floating atop or below the waves. At the end of 2019, there were just 531 megawatts of wave, tidal and other marine energy technologies installed globally, according to the International Renewable Energy Agency.
But the fledgling marine energy industry will soon get a boost in the United States. Oregon State University’s PacWave testing facility is in its permitting home stretch and could begin construction this year.
The project has received $35 million from the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) and $3.8 million from the state government of Oregon - LINK
212 ENVIRONMENTALISTS MURDERED IN 2019
Environmental activists are being murdered in ever-increasing numbers.
According to a new report by London-based NGO, Global Witness, 212 land and environmental defenders were killed in 2019 alone, a 30% rise from the 164 killed in 2018. Around 40% were indigenous people and traditional land owners.
More than two-thirds of killings took place in Latin America, with Colombia topping the list with 64 murders due to the failure to implement the 2016 peace agreement with FARC and protect farmers transitioning from coca to cocoa and coffee to reduce cocaine production.
The overall rise in murders is part of a broader trend. A study published in Nature in 2019 showed that in the 15 years between 2002 and 2017, more than 1,558 environment defenders were killed, doubling from two to four per week over that time - link
More than two-thirds of killings took place in Latin America, with Colombia topping the list with 64 murders due to the failure to implement the 2016 peace agreement with FARC and protect farmers transitioning from coca to cocoa and coffee to reduce cocaine production.
The overall rise in murders is part of a broader trend. A study published in Nature in 2019 showed that in the 15 years between 2002 and 2017, more than 1,558 environment defenders were killed, doubling from two to four per week over that time - link
BLUE HYDROGEN & CCS MYTH
Advocates of blue hydrogen — produced from fossil fuels with carbon capture and storage (CCS) — are talking “utter rubbish” and pulling the wool over policymakers’ eyes, according to the boss of one of the world’s largest electrolyser manufacturers.
“I’m worried that governments have been sold a pup with blue hydrogen and CCS,” says Graham Cooley, chief executive of UK-based ITM Power, using a British expression meaning “to be tricked into getting something not as good as promised”.
“Not only is it more expensive than green hydrogen [over the medium term], it does not help you with energy storage or assimilate more renewables on the network, and is not a net-zero [emission] technology,” he tells Recharge, pointing out that it is not possible to capture all of the CO2 emissions when creating H2 from methane or coal. A net-zero energy system — such as the UK government has promised by 2050 — will therefore simply not be possible using blue hydrogen.
“Blue hydrogen will always require a methane pipeline, which will always leak,” he adds. Methane is 84 times more potent a heat-trapping greenhouse gas than carbon dioxide over 20 years, according to the UN’s Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change.
By contrast, green hydrogen — produced by using renewable energy to split water molecules into hydrogen and oxygen inside an electrolyser — is an entirely zero-emissions gas, Cooley says - link
OXFORD ENERGY SUPERHUB
The first electric vehicles (EV) for the Oxford Energy Superhub have arrived, marking an important milestone for the "pioneering" project.
The Superhub will include a switch to EVs for council-owned ODS vehicles, a ‘Try before you buy’ scheme for Oxford’s Hackney Carriage drivers, a new charging network and hub of public chargers and the world’s largest hybrid battery energy storage system.
Six of the 33 EVs involved in the project have now been delivered to Oxford City Council. The rest of the EVs, which will include cars, a street sweeper, excavator and mix of different sized vans, will be delivered over the next three to four months. This is ahead of the council electrifying 25% of its 330-strong fleet by 2023.
The ‘Try before you buy’ scheme has been set up with Electric Blue to help encourage taxi drivers to switch to EVs. Drivers will be able to trial an all-electric Nissan Dynamo or an LEVC (London Electric Vehicle Company) for a two or four-week period - link - more like this (Superhub Oxford) - link
UK LEADING THE WAY IN GREEN H2
One of the UK’s pioneers of green hydrogen production is Sheffield based electrolyser manufacturer ITM power, which produces scaleable modular PEM (polymer electrolyte membrane) electrolyser systems for a range of applications.
The company – which is in the process of moving into a new 1GW per annum facility claimed to be the largest of its kind in the world – is perhaps best known for its network of renewably powered hydrogen filling stations which can be found on Shell forecourts around the UK. But it’s now also involved in a number of major projects exploring the feasibility of green hydrogen production for industrial applications.
One of the key initiatives here is Gigastack, an ITM led project, that has received £7.5m funding through the UK government’s hydrogen supply competition to explore how the costs of electrolytic hydrogen for industrial use could be reduced - link
GAZPROM TO PRODUCE BLUE H2 IN 2024
Russia’s gas giant Gazprom will start producing “clean”, that is, zero-emission, hydrogen beginning in 2024 under a new government plan to develop a hydrogen economy.
The plan sees Gazprom building and beginning to test a methane-hydrogen-powered turbine next year, and until 2024 it will also study different applications of hydrogen as a fuel, both in things such as gas boilers and gas turbines, and as fuel for vehicles.
Gazprom will not be the only one involved in the hydrogen drive. Rosatom, the country’s nuclear power major, will start testing hydrogen as fuel for trains in 2024. Russia’s largest private gas company, Novatek, is also interested in taking part in the hydrogen initiatives - link - more like this - link - more like this (Russia) - link
EUEA & UWEA AGREE ON REDUCED TARIFFS
Ukraine's renewables sector agrees with govt to accept retroactive FiT cuts.
The European-Ukrainian Energy Agency (EUEA) and the Ukrainian Wind Energy Association (UWEA) last week (June) signed a memorandum of understanding (MoU) with the government of Ukraine, agreeing to accept reduced green feed-in-tariffs (FiTs) in a bid to resolve a crisis that could have led to the collapse of renewable energy firms.
The FiT cuts range from 15% for solar parks built in 2015-2019 and 7.5% for wind farms constructed in the same period, to 2.5% for both types of plants commissioned after January 1, 2020.
The EUEA, acting with the UWEA as the representative of renewable power producers, called the signing of the MoU a “responsible, albeit forced step”, not fully supported by its entire membership - Link
Tuesday, 28 July 2020
POLESTAR 2
It isn’t often that one gets to experience the fruits of a Chinese-Scandinavian partnership, but that’s exactly what the Polestar 2 is.
This is, as its name would suggest, the second car from Polestar, formerly Volvo’s performance division – a bit like AMG is to Mercedes – but now a sister brand that, like Volvo, is owned by Chinese automotive giant Geely.
Geely also owns Lotus and the London Electric Vehicle Company, producers of the electric London taxi. But like those, Polestar has been given the autonomy to stand on its own two feet and forge its own identity.
The Polestar 1 was something of an experiment for the new company. A limited-run, high-performance hybrid super-saloon with a six-figure price tag and the most handsome of appearances. I’ll hopefully have more to share on that later in the year, but for now I have the Polestar 2 at my disposal, a mass-production, all-electric car that is priced from $63,000 in the US and £49,900 in the UK - Link
Geely also owns Lotus and the London Electric Vehicle Company, producers of the electric London taxi. But like those, Polestar has been given the autonomy to stand on its own two feet and forge its own identity.
The Polestar 1 was something of an experiment for the new company. A limited-run, high-performance hybrid super-saloon with a six-figure price tag and the most handsome of appearances. I’ll hopefully have more to share on that later in the year, but for now I have the Polestar 2 at my disposal, a mass-production, all-electric car that is priced from $63,000 in the US and £49,900 in the UK - Link
Monday, 27 July 2020
BMW TOYOTA H2 FUEL CELL DRIVE
The BMW Group will pilot the second generation of hydrogen fuel cell drives in a small series in the BMW i Hydrogen NEXT based on the current BMW X5 from 2022.
The fuel cell stack and the overall system are original developments of the BMW Group; individual cells of the fuel cell will come from Toyota.
The BMW Group has been working with Toyota Motor Corporation on fuel cell drive systems since 2013. Since summer 2015, the BMW Group has been testing development vehicles based on the BMW 5 Series GT, which are equipped with a jointly developed fuel cell system.
In the future, the hydrogen fuel cell drive can be an attractive alternative to battery-electric vehicles, in particular for customers who do not have their own access to electric charging infrastructure and who often drive long distances, BMW said. With a sufficient refueling infrastructure, hydrogen vehicles offer great flexibility, as the full range is available again after a short refueling process of around four minutes regardless of temperature conditions - link
The BMW Group has been working with Toyota Motor Corporation on fuel cell drive systems since 2013. Since summer 2015, the BMW Group has been testing development vehicles based on the BMW 5 Series GT, which are equipped with a jointly developed fuel cell system.
In the future, the hydrogen fuel cell drive can be an attractive alternative to battery-electric vehicles, in particular for customers who do not have their own access to electric charging infrastructure and who often drive long distances, BMW said. With a sufficient refueling infrastructure, hydrogen vehicles offer great flexibility, as the full range is available again after a short refueling process of around four minutes regardless of temperature conditions - link
ENVIRONMENTALLY FRIENDLY OPIUM
Cheap solar panels are boosting the Afghan poppy crop with cultivation close to its highest level since United Nations monitoring began in 1994.
The ability to drill wells and, more recently, to extract water from them cheaply with solar power is transforming the landscape of southern Afghanistan, according to The Economist newspaper.
Between 2002 and 2018, some 3,600 square kilometres in southwestern Afghanistan were reclaimed for cultivation from the desert.
According to the U.S. military, Afghanistan’s opium poppy harvest produces about 90 percent of the world’s illicit heroin.
Opium helps to fund the Taliban, Afghanistan’s main insurgent group - link
Sunday, 26 July 2020
H2 FROM POLLUTED WATER
Scientists of Tomsk Polytechnic University jointly with teams from the University of Chemistry and Technology, Prague and Jan Evangelista Purkyne University in Ústí nad Labem have developed a new 2-D material to produce hydrogen, which is the basis of alternative energy.
The material efficiently generates hydrogen molecules from fresh, salt, and polluted water by exposure to sunlight. The results are published in ACS Applied Materials & Interfaces - Link
IBERDROLA H2 PROJECT
Renewable energy giant Iberdrola will build what it’s billing as Europe’s biggest project yet producing green hydrogen for industrial use in a link up with chemicals group Fertiberia.
Spain-based Iberdrola and Fertiberia will spend €150m ($174m) to construct a 100MW solar PV plant, 20MWh lithium-ion battery storage system and 20MW electrolyser to produce the hydrogen at a rate of 720 tonnes per year.
The plant, in Puertollano, Spain will be used in fertiliser production at Fertiberia’s existing plant there, with operation due from 2021, said a statement announcing the deal - Link
DUBAI SOLAR PARK
The multi-billion dirham development of the world's tallest solar power tower in Dubai is continuing to gather pace in spite of the Covid-19 pandemic.
The striking 262-metre-high construction is one of the crown jewels of the Mohammed bin Rashid Al Maktoum Solar Park, which itself is central to the UAE's long-term strategy to shift its focus to renewable energy.
Sheikh Ahmed bin Saeed Al Maktoum, chairman of the Dubai Supreme Council of Energy, and Saeed Mohammed Al Tayer, chief executive of Dubai Electricity and Water Authority (DEWA) were on hand as a Molten Salt Receiver was hoisted above the ground and installed on top of the tower - Link - more like this - link
Friday, 24 July 2020
H2H SALTEND - BLUE HYDROGEN FACILITY
Norwegian energy major Equinor has released details of a major U.K.-based project that will combine hydrogen generation with carbon capture and storage.
The Hydrogen to Humber Saltend, or H2H Saltend, project will be based at the Saltend Chemicals Park close to Hull. Equinor said the development would be “the largest plant of its kind in the world.”
Hydrogen at the facility will be generated from natural gas, and sent to chemical plants and a power station. Carbon dioxide, a by-product of the process, will be funneled offshore and buried under the seabed.
It’s hoped that the scheme will help to cut emissions at the Saltend Chemicals Park by almost 900,000 metric tons of CO2 annually - link
FURTHER READING: -
Blue hydrogen as an enabler of green hydrogen: the case of Germany (The Oxford Institute for Energy Studies - University of Oxford) - link
HONDA E
You can fall very quickly and deeply for the charms of Honda's new all-electric supermini.
The perky zero-emissions Honda e, hitting UK showrooms now and built in Japan, is eye-catchingly cute, has bags of personality, a lively pace, and a great sense of style without being overly formal, and is a comfortable and interesting companion with which to hang out and chill.
As a Japanese rival to the Mini Electric, it also has some interesting hi-tech quirks – with cameras and screens replacing traditional reflective side mirrors and even the rear-view mirror, and a full width five-screen digital dashboard on which you can even display a calming aquarium scene. It exudes simple, minimalist zen-like calm - Link
Thursday, 23 July 2020
ALL IRON REDOX FLOW BATTERY
Scientists in the U.S. claim to have demonstrated an inexpensive, long-life, safe and eco-friendly redox flow battery.
The device is said offer coulombic efficiency of 97.9% thanks to functional electrolyte additives, pH and elevated temperature - Link
Wednesday, 22 July 2020
Saturday, 18 July 2020
COLUMBIA TO RESUME GLYPHOSATE SPRAYING
Colombia to Resume Fumigating Its Coca Fields With Glyphosate and it's happening under the cover of strict coronavirus lockdown measures.
Colombia is about to dust off a controversial weapon from the bloodiest period of the South American nation's decades-long battle against cocaine production: aerial fumigation of coca fields.
The raw ingredient used to make cocaine, coca is illegal to cultivate and has long had a destabilizing effect on Colombia. But reactivating the eradication program, environmentalists say, will wreak devastating health and ecological havoc on the vulnerable communities it targets.
Colombia is the only coca-producing country in the world that has utilized aerial spraying of glyphosate-based defoliants, which destroy plant life indiscriminately, as part of an anti-drug program. The country’s aerial fumigation program, which began in the 1990s and continued for 21 years, had a devastating ecological impact and indirectly exacerbated deforestation.
TUBE TO GO GREEN
The London Underground could soon be entirely powered by renewable energy.
The move is part of a plan to make the city’s famous rail network zero-emissions by 2030, and have the entire city become carbon neutral by 2050.
Transport for London (TfL) is London’s biggest electricity consumer, and one of the largest consumers in the UK. It uses 1.6TWh every year, the same as 437,000 average homes.
The Tube alone consumes 1.2TWh every year and that is without any of the buses, trams and overground trains that make up the network.
A recent study by British Business Energy calculated that 200 wind turbines or 5.6 million solar panels would be needed to power the network completely on renewables for one year. That many solar panels would take up the same amount of space as the London Borough of Kensington and Chelsea - Link
Friday, 17 July 2020
Thursday, 16 July 2020
Tuesday, 14 July 2020
REWA ULTRA MEGA SOLAR POWER PROJECT
Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Friday launched a solar power plant with the aim to stop reliance on imports from neighbors China and Pakistan
The 750-megawatt power plant in the central state of Madhya Pradesh is being dubbed as the largest in Asia by local media.
The project is expected to reduce carbon dioxide emissions by 1.5 million tons each year.
"Several steps are being taken to increase domestic manufacturing and it has been decided that government’s departments and institutions will only buy domestically manufactured solar cells and modules,” said Modi, in the wake of recent border tensions with China.
China is a major exporting nation of solar equipment to India. However, border clashes last month which resulted in the killing of 20 Indian troops have triggered a trade war between the two Asian giants.
In the virtual launch of the Rewa Ultra Mega Solar Power Project, Modi highlighted that India’s progress in the field of solar energy will garner international interest.
“Hopefully very soon India will be a major exporter of power. The International Solar Alliance was launched with the motive to unite the entire world in terms of solar energy."
The project is a step toward India's ambitious target of installing 175 gigawatts of renewable energy by the year 2022 - LINK
ISRAEL 30% RENEWABLE ENERGY BY 2030
Israel wants another 15 GW of solar by 2030.
Energy minister Yuval Steinitz has announced the country’s 2030 renewable energy target will rise to 30%, with solar expected to account for the lion’s share. Approximately $23 billion more clean energy investment is envisaged this decade.
The Israeli government is betting hard on solar and energy storage to help the nation towards energy independence.
Energy minister Yuval Steinitz this week announced a new plan to deploy around 15 GW more solar capacity to help raise the 2030 target for the proportion of national electricity drawn from renewables from 17% to 30%.
“In the next decade, solar energy and electricity storage facilities will be set up on a scale equal to all existing electricity production in the country today,” said Steinitz in an official statement.
The minister predicted renewables would meet around 80% of power demand by 2030, with gas covering the balance and coal phased out - link
JOHN - ISOLATION RECORD ATTEMPT
In his world record breaking attempt, my colleague John (Britain’s first person to go into self-isolation three weeks prior to Covid-19 being invented) is still maintaining that he’s the hardest working person at home and in turn has no plans to come out of lock down despite the rest of Europe (excluding Leicester), the Middle East and sub-Saharan Africa getting back to relative normality.
Following recent scientific
advice from SAGE that smoking fifty three Marlboro a day is now believed to
create a powerful barrier against Covid-19 due to its antisocial distancing
properties and when combined with playing golf reduces the ‘R’ rate for a person
in the ‘FLB’ category to 0.1 it was thought that John would consider stepping
back into the office until he realised that making seven extraneous phone calls
to the office a day was still amusingly being accepted by the company as being really
hard working.
bitter? twisted? errr, that'll be me then.
bitter? twisted? errr, that'll be me then.
HYDROGEN CORRIDOR
Initiated by the Port of Rotterdam Authority and AirLiquide, several European companies have joined forces to provide a hydrogen corridor for fuel cell trucks in the Netherlands, Belgium and Germany. They target 1,000 trucks by 2025.
AirLiquide and the port of Rotterdam consider this “one of the largest projects in Europe for the development of hydrogen trucks and related infrastructure”. In their communication, they already name “several partners from the supply chain” have joined the initiative.
These include the Dutch VDL Group as well as Iveco and the US start-up Nikola for delivering the fuel cell trucks.
Logistics companies such as Vos Logistics, Jongeneel Transport and HN Post are also involved. Besides, “leading fuel cell suppliers have already agreed to join,” said the initiators but fail to specify the latter individually - Link
Sunday, 12 July 2020
CHINA - SOLAR CAPACITY
In the space of 25 years, China will have gone from having virtually no solar panels to leading the world by a margin of more than 100%.
As countries around the world continue to increase their solar capacity, Wood Mackenzie predicts 2020 will be the last year of big growth in the industry.
China’s huge and rapidly developing population makes it the biggest energy growth market globally - although it is likely to be overtaken by India in the not-too distant future.
Saturday, 11 July 2020
POWERCELL SWEDEN
PowerCell Sweden AB will participate in an EU project that will develop and operate a refuse truck with fuel cells for Renova AB, western Sweden’s leading environmental enterprise within recycling and waste management.
RUSSIAN GERMAN H2 PLANS
Companies in Russia and Germany have put forward a plan to build a joint hydrogen production plant as part of a plan jointly to develop low carbon energy sources.
The proposal, put forward by the German-Russian Chamber of Commerce, said the two countries should “take advantage of years of their successful partnership in the oil and gas industry to closely cooperate in the development of hydrogen”.
The proposal has been sent to relevant ministries of both countries.
Germany is ready to allocate EUR 2 billion (about $2.26 billion) for such projects involving international partners, including Russia - Link
Friday, 10 July 2020
ANGLO AMERICAN H2 POWERED MINE TRUCK
Global mining company, Anglo American, has engaged Williams Advanced Engineering (WAE) to develop its new Fuel Cell Electric Vehicle (FCEV): an ultra-class electrically powered mining haul truck, which is set to be the world’s largest hydrogen powered mine truck.
As part of its FutureSmart Mining programme, which applies innovation and technological advances to address mining’s major sustainability challenges, Anglo American has committed to reducing its global greenhouse gas emissions by 30% by 2030.
Putting electrified vehicles into mines – from large haul trucks to passenger vehicles and employee buses – will help Anglo American reach its decarbonisation targets, which were set out in the Sustainable Mining Plan.
Set to revolutionise mining machinery, the FCEV haul truck will be powered by a hydrogen Fuel Cell Module paired with a WAE scalable high-power modular lithium-ion battery system. This remarkable arrangement, which replaces the existing vehicle’s diesel engine, is controlled by a high voltage power distribution unit delivering in excess of 1,000 kWh of energy storage - link
HYUNDAI XCIENT
The first 10 units of Hyundai's hydrogen-powered Xcient Fuel Cell – the world's first heavy duty fuel-cell-powered truck – have rolled off the production line and are on their way to Switzerland, with 40 more to follow later this year.
With a 190-kilowatt (255-hp) fuel cell converting hydrogen into electricity, these things can do around 400 km (250 mi) on a tank, emitting nothing but water.
There aren't many hydrogen filling stations in Switzerland at the moment – the H2 Mobility Switzerland industry association is hoping for six by the end of the year – but hydrogen production facilities can easily be set up at depots, and a 400-km range will get you more or less anywhere in Switzerland and back again - Link
Thursday, 9 July 2020
GERMANY - €7 BILLION INVESTMENT IN H2
The German government adopted its national hydrogen strategy last month with plans to ramp up production capacity to 5 GW by 2030 and 10 GW by 2040.
To achieve this, €7 billion will be invested in new businesses and research. EURACTIV Germany reports.
When he presented Germany’s hydrogen strategy in Berlin yesterday (10 June), economy minister Peter Altmaier (CDU) called the 28-page document the “greatest innovation since the EEG”, a reference to the landmark German renewable energy sources act which came into force in 2000.
With this “quantum leap,” Germany wants to become the world leader in hydrogen technologies, added Altmaier, who was speaking alongside three other ministers.
This is the first time that Germany has set itself quantitative targets for the production of hydrogen - link
Wednesday, 8 July 2020
SAUDI ARABIA - AIR PRODUCTS - TOYOTA
Facility aims to use 4GW of renewables to power massive H2 production for heavy vehicles.
Saudi Arabia will host what’s billed as the world’s biggest green hydrogen project yet planned, with 4GW of renewables powering massive H2 production destined for the world’s future clean bus and truck fleets.
The $5bn project is a three-way joint venture between gases group Air Products, Saudi renewables developer ACWA Power and NEOM, a high-tech regional development initiative under construction near the Red Sea in northwest Saudi Arabia that will host the giant facility - Link - more like this - link
Monday, 6 July 2020
05 JULY 2020
"You are going to have a fantastic third quarter. It'll be a third quarter the likes of which nobody has ever seen before, in my opinion," said Trump - link
Friday, 3 July 2020
SNOWFLAKE
Russia to build new arctic research station fuelled by renewables and hydrogen
A new diesel-free ‘living laboratory’ will rise from the tundra to host research on renewable energy and smart cities
A fully-autonomous diesel-free research station named Snowflake, which means Snezhinka in Russian, is to be built in the Arctic.
The station is an initiative of the Moscow Institute of Physics and Technology and will be located on the Yamal Peninsula in northwest Siberia – it will enable foreign partners to test and demonstrate environmentally-friendly energy technologies.
The station will be powered by wind and solar energy, supported by batteries and hydrogen infrastructure.
The central units of the 2,000-square metre station’s modular structure will be two laboratory modules with mini-labs and small-scale offices, areas for exhibits, a kitchen, medical room and a small café - Link
Wednesday, 1 July 2020
MCDONALDS RAPID EV CHARGING
McDonald’s UK installs rapid EV charging
McDonald’s UK announced yesterday that it will install rapid charging points for electric vehicles at its restaurants with drive-thrus. McDonald’s will be working with EV charging network InstaVolt.
This will include the introduction of charging points at both new and existing drive-thru restaurants. The charging points will be able to charge at 125kW.
There are currently 967 McDonald’s restaurants with drive-thrus in the UK, according to the McDonald’s website.
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