130 MILLION EV BY 2030

The International Energy Agency’s most conservative estimate puts 130 million electric vehicles on the road by 2030, and Gorguinpour said those vehicles will contain almost ten times the amount of energy storage needed by the grid.

The IEA’s most aggressive estimate, 250 million EVs, would mean 6 percent of the batteries in the automotive fleet could meet all of the grid’s energy-storage needs. - Link

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DRIVING HYDROGEN - ITM POWER

Unfortunately Oxford is currently not a good place to live if you want to be a cutting edge hydrogen vehicle driver. 

The nearest refuelling  points to date are:-

ITM Power- Shell Beaconsfield - Shell Beaconsfield, Extra Motorway Service Area, M40 Junction 2, A355, Windsor Drive, Beaconsfield, HP9 2SE

ITM Power - Swindon Station - Johnson Matthey Fuel Cells, Lydiard Fields, Great Western Way, Swindon, SN5 8AT - Link

HYUNDAI NEXO

Why aren’t we switching to hydrogen fuel-cell cars rather than battery-electrics? - Link

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ALSTOM HYDROGEN

31 October 2019

Alstom and the Province of Groningen, local operator Arriva, the Dutch railway infrastructure manager ProRail and the energy company Engie have signed plans for a pilot project to test the Coradia iLint, the world’s first passenger train powered by hydrogen fuel cells, for the first time in the Netherlands.

The signature took place as part of the “Klimaattop”, or Climate Summit Northern Netherlands, taking place this week in Groningen. - Link - more like this - link

EDF BUY PIVOT POWER

French company EDF has acquired Pivot Power, the UK start-up bidding to build a network of 50MW batteries to provide grid services and high speed electric vehicle charging.

The firm announced plans to develop up to 2GW connected directly to the transmission system last year, which would require investment of up to £1.6bn.

To date, Pivot has planning, land and grid connection agreements in place at two sites in Kent and Oxford, where it is involved in the ‘superhub’ project. Last year it also announced planning permission for a big battery near Southampton.  - Link - more like this (Superhub Oxford) - link - more like this (EDF) - link

HOW TO MANAGE ARSEHOLES

Although there is no easy way to mitigate the toll on morale and productivity that arseholes often make, it can be helpful to be philosophical about the predicament they present. - Link - (management today) - link

DELHI PM 2.5

New Delhi: As pollution levels in Delhi continued to rise unabated post Diwali, one of the most sensitive areas in the national capital –Delhi University – recorded an Air Quality Index (AQI) of 740 early Tuesday.

The city’s overall air quality breached the “severe" mark today. - Link

2019 - WORST YEAR EVER

2019 scores again. This is by far the worst f****** year I can remember - roll on 2020.

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BLINDED BY YOUR GRACE PT 2

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CHINA - 500,000 TONNES OF BATTERY WASTE

Electric vehicles (EVs) are catching on faster than even their most ardent supporters ever expected, which inevitably means the pile of spent lithium-ion batteries that once powered those cars is also rising fast.

China alone is forecast to generate around 500,000 tonnes of battery waste by 2020, a number that would hit 1.2 million tonnes per year by 2030, when considering global consumption, London-based Circular Energy Storage (CES) said Thursday. - Link