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New Software To Predict Building Energy Usage

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According to EnergyPlus "Buildings account for more than 40% of U.S. energy use and 70% of the country’s electricity use. Reducing that consumption and “shaping” it to match renewable generation is one of the key challenges of our clean energy future. We need to design and operate buildings to be more efficient, ...

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2022: Energy limits are likely to push the world economy into recession

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In my view, there are three ways a growing economy can be sustained: With a growing supply of cheap-to-produce energy products, matched to the economy’s energy needs.With growing debt and other indirect promises of future goods and services, such as rising asset prices.With growing complexity, such as greater ...

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“Our Next Energy” Tests Its 750-Mile Range Prototype Battery In A Tesla Model S

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Our Next Energy (ONE), a Michigan-based startup, tested its prototype of a new battery in a Tesla Model S and drove 752 miles before having to recharge, Reuters has reported. ONE plans to start producing battery packs that will deliver a similar range in 2023. Mujeeb Ijaz, ONE’s founder and CEO, shared their plans to ...

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Solid-State Energy Storage Dam Is About To Bust Wide Open

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New solid state lithium-ion energy storage technology is still in the R&D phase, and it has already attracted EV manufacturers who love the idea of packing more muscle into smaller spaces while saving on weight, improving performance, and enhancing their safety profile, too. Now it looks like the stationary ...

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High Energy Costs the Christmas Gift of ‘Green’ Politicians – Watts Up With That?

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By Vijay Jayaraj – December 29, 2021 The coming cold of winter is being paired with “green-inspired” energy policies that have created higher energy prices and fuel shortages. Historically, winters have been big killers. But centuries of innovation made us more resilient to the cold as we fully utilized the ...

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The Free-Energy Principle Explains the Brain – Neuroscience News

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Summary: The free-energy principle can explain how neural networks minimize energy costs and are optimized for efficiency.Source: RIKENThe RIKEN Center for Brain Science (CBS) in Japan, along with colleagues, has shown that the free-energy principle can explain how neural networks are optimized for efficiency. ...

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Renewables Best Coal As America’s Second Largest Energy Source

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Reprinted with permission from Daily KosThe Energy Information Administration (EIA) announced that renewables generated 21 percent of all electricity in the country for 2020. Renewable energy sources like biomass, geothermal, solar, and wind accounted for 834 billion kilowatt-hours (kWh) of the nation’s power last ...

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Forget batteries. This 100-year-old technique provides cheap energy storage for wind and solar power

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To cut U.S. greenhouse gas emissions in half within a decade, the Biden administration’s goal, the U.S. is going to need a lot more solar and wind power generation, and lots of cheap energy storage. Wind and solar power vary over the course of a day, so energy storage is essential to provide a continuous flow of ...

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Unaweep Canyon is central to Xcel Energy’s big plans for renewable energy production in Colorado

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Xcel Energy has a low-tech plan for creating clean power in one of Colorado’s geologic wonders. As Colorado’s largest utility, with 1.5 million electricity customers, pushes toward its goal of delivering 100% carbon-free power by 2050, the company is seeking federal approval for the state’s largest hydropower ...

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EU: Natural Gas and Nuclear are now Green Energy – Watts Up With That?

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Guest essay by Eric Worrall The long predicted collapse of the EU renewable energy push has finally arrived. The EU has effectively just admitted renewable energy does not work, by moving to extend their definition of green energy to include reliable power sources like natural gas and nuclear energy. Fury as EU ...

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‘Ocean battery’ targets renewable energy dilemma

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Frits Bliek, CEO of Dutch startup Ocean Grazer, explains an "ocean battery," during the Consumer Electronics Show (CES) on January 6, 2022 in Las Vegas. A wind turbine sitting idle on a calm day or spinning swiftly when power demand is ...

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The Latest Energy Storage Gizmo Is An Ocean Battery

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The Intertubes are absolutely on fire with news about a new “ocean battery” energy storage invention that uses gigantic undersea bladders to soak up excess energy from offshore wind turbines. The idea is not as crazy as it sounds — at least the judges at the 2022 Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas don’t think so. ...

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