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Jörgen Ekelund

In Germany and Elsewhere, Energy Storage is Key to Unlocking Renewable Energy | Renewab... - 0 views

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  • Scientists at the Fraunhofer Institute in Freiburg are working on longer-term projects, from bendable solar panels to high-speed charging stations for electric cars that might one day act as a battery for the national grid.
  • “The energy overhaul is an epic project that will span many decades,”
  • The question isn’t if it’ll be deployed, but when.”
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  • Failure to deliver “would have major consequences for prosperity, economic growth and employment,”
  • unlike nuclear energy, solar panels and wind turbines leave consumers without power when the wind doesn’t blow or the sun doesn’t shine. That makes storing energy key to their use.
  • “Electricity storage really is the holy grail for the German energy transformation,”
  • That’s where Specht’s box in Stuttgart comes in. It uses electricity and carbon dioxide, a greenhouse gas blamed for global warming, to turn water into methane that can be stored in underground caverns for days or weeks, then burned in gas plants when needed.
  • udi is building a 6 megawatt industrial-sized plant based on the technology that’s due to start operating next year
  • The average German household may have to pay 175 euros a year next year to subsidize renewables, a rise of 40 percent,
  • Germany aims to raise its share of power production from renewables to at least 35 percent by the end of this decade from 25 percent now.
  • can be an example to other nations by showing them that you can succeed,
  • Jörgen Ekelund on 28 Aug 12
     
    "Scientists at the Fraunhofer Institute in Freiburg are working on longer-term projects, from bendable solar panels to high-speed charging stations for electric cars that might one day act as a battery for the national grid."
Jörgen Ekelund

Electric vehicle battery cost reductions won't pay off next year - ElectroIQ - 0 views

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  • According to data from Pike Research’s annual Electric Vehicle Consumer Survey, the optimal price for a plug-in electric vehicle (PEV) to engage consumers is $23,750, but a quick pricing check reveals distance between want and reality: 2012 Toyota Prius PHEV ($32,000), the Honda Fit BEV ($36,625), and the Ford Focus EV ($39,995) (before federal incentives). These relatively high selling prices will constrain the market for PEVs in 2012. Nevertheless, the global market for plug-in electric vehicles will grow to more than a quarter million vehicles in 2012.
  • Car-sharing services will expand the market for EVs and hybrids. Battery production will outstrip vehicle production. The Asia-Pacific region will become the early leader in vehicle-to-grid (V2G) systems. Third-party EV charging companies will dominate public charging sales. Employers will begin to purchase EV chargers in large numbers.  EVs will begin to function as home appliances. 
Jörgen Ekelund

Next Economy and Faith for Empiricists | Renewable Energy News Article - 0 views

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shared by Jörgen Ekelund on 14 Aug 12 - No Cached
  • We are descended, on a time frame of 3.5 billion years, from organisms that succeeded because they were the best at gathering as much as they could in the shortest amount of time possible
  • How can we arrive at the sustainable, circular, next economy and learn to live within the various budgets that earth can provide?
  • Align people's economic interests and sense of well-being with the best interests of Earth's ecological totality. Call it next-economy capitalism.
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  • maximizing short-term profit while ignoring larger costs is humanity's prevailing worldview, and extracting fossil fuels (especially when subsidized) is a fantastic way to earn short-term profits
  • It's the list of industries that stand to lose market share and profits as renewables advance: oil, coal, gas, traditional electric utilities, and makers of internal-combustion cars.
  • there's no escaping the fact that technologies with a zero cost of fuel will inevitably become cheaper than any extractive industry of the same or even somewhat larger scale, even, ultimately, natural gas
  • For as surely as humans are programmed to maximize short-term gains, we're also fantastic innovators, and we may have a greater capacity for adaptationthan any other species
  • we need to accelerate investments into the best, most profitable, most effective renewables, water solutions, agricultural solutions, and all other sustainable manifestations of technologies required to run an economy.
  • "the best way to predict the future is to create it."
  • Jörgen Ekelund on 14 Aug 12
     
    "from organisms that succeeded because they were the best at gathering as much as they could in the shortest amount of time possible."
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