A few really good Pdfs on aspects of the renewable energy tranformation and Web3
http://voltq.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/07/Electric-Bus-Manufacturers-in-India1.pdf List of Bus manufacturers in India http://voltq.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/07/battery-as-a-service-texas.pdf Battery as a service from Texas http://voltq.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/07/India-Hydrogen-NITI-Aayog.pdf Excellent resource of Rocky Mountain Institute and Niti Aayog on India’s hydrogen policy. http://voltq.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/07/state-of-web3.pdf Excellent resource on how to deal with Web3
Covering Climate Now!
https://coveringclimatenow.org/ Covering Climate now is an excellent site which agglomerates news about the climate
Vox:Getting to 100% renewables requires cheap energy storage. But how cheap?
David Roberts@drvolts 17-21 minutes This story is part of Covering Climate Now, a global collaboration of more than 250 news outlets to strengthen coverage of the climate story. This piece was originally published in August and has been lightly updated. One of the most heated and interesting debates in the energy world today has to […]
Ample Energy’s John D’Souza’s interview on Battery Swapping
#186 John de Souza, Co-founder & President of Ample A serial entrepreneur and a strategic investor, John has 20 years of experience founding and investing in technology-enabled companies in the communications, healthcare, finance and energy industries. Before co-founding Ample, John was a co-founder, president, and CEO of MedHelp, the largest consumer health platform offering tools, […]
Medium: Aircraft emissions are not as big as other sources of emissions. They are way tinier. Take that, electric aircraft startups~!
Reducing Aircraft Carbon Emissions Does it matter? Photo by Emanu on Unsplash Recently, Tony Douglas, Etihad Airway’s CEO, was quoted as saying: “The sustainability challenge to commercial aviation is going to be around for decades, if not generations. It’s a function of the physics of flight and the reality that there is a continued demand […]
Gabriel Popkin in Medium: New Materials (science) is necessary to decarbonize
Better Batteries or Climate Bust New materials are a must for a decarbonized future by Gabriel Popkin In 1800, Alessandro Volta revealed an invention for storing electricity. His pioneering batteries featured piled disks of two different metals, such as zinc and copper, separated with cloth or felt soaked with charge-conveying brine. (Image source: Rama) THE […]
MIT Tech Review: Sulphur Flow batteries from Prof Yet Ming Chiang
Serial Battery Entrepreneur’s New Venture Tackles Clean Energy’s Biggest Problem By James Temple6-7 minutes That’s approaching the price point where the idea of “seasonal storage” becomes economically feasible—meaning arrays of these batteries could store enough solar power during times of excess generation through the summer to continue meeting regional demand through the long, cloudy winter, […]
MIT Tech Review: Innovation that solves problems that are not the main pain point of the field or customer
This is an example of innovation that doesn’t address the main problems in the battery field – that of energy density. This innovation addresses flexibility, a problem which is lesser in importance to solve. From MIT – Technology Review: Christine Ho Her startup is commercializing thin, flexible, printable batteries that she developed at UC Berkeley. […]
MIT Tech Review: Richard Martin : Why we don’t have better batteries and why changing chemistries is so tough.
https://www.technologyreview.com/2016/08/29/7310/why-we-still-dont-have-better-batteries/ Why We Still Don’t Have Better Batteries By Richard Martin Earlier this year, Ellen Williams, the director of ARPA-E, the U.S. Department of Energy’s advanced research program for alternative energy, made headlines when she told the Guardian newspaper that “We have reached some holy grails in batteries.” Despite very promising results from the 75-odd energy-storage […]