Tag: May
How Can I Use A Low C-Rate Battery To Charge A High C-Rate Battery?
Is the C rate of a pack adjustable depending on the design of the cell connections within a pack? No. Now you must wonder, how can this be? I can describe C rate this way. If you have a 1A hr cell, and it can discharge all of its charge … [continued]
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Moss Landing Battery Storage Fire Perspectives
We are going to have to talk about battery storage and the Moss Landing fire. The fire was located to the Vistra Storage facility within a building that was formerly a natural gas generation unit. Tesla has a storage facility nearby, but not within the same building. You know I … [continued]
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Fire At Moss Landing Could Turn Back The Clock On Battery Storage In California
Battery storage got a black eye this week when a 300 MW unit at Moss Landing in California caught fire in spectacular fashion.
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WTF Is Actually Going On With Elon Musk?
I just had a long chat with a good friend who was basically an OG in Tesla world. We talked about all kinds of Tesla topics trying to understand where Tesla would be going in 2025 and beyond. We covered a variety of topics, pros and cons, opportunities and risks. … [continued]
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California’s Battery Storage Fire: Precursor Or Outlier?
A fire broke out at the Moss Landing Power Plant, not too far from San Francisco, on January 16, 2025, prompting the evacuation of approximately 1,500 residents and the temporary closure of Highway 1. No one was harmed in the incident. Given the massive growth in grid storage battery systems, … [continued]
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Volkswagen And VinFast Take Different Routes To The Electric Car Future In India
By some accounts, India surpassed China as the most populous country on Earth in April of 2023. Yet it does not have quite the intensely focused economic agenda of the Chinese government, which is why the shelves at Walmart are not laden with goods labeled “Made In India.” There are … [continued]
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Wind Energy To Push Dirty Bunker Fuel Overboard, Trump Or No Trump
The Airwing rigid sail from GT Wings harvests wind energy to reduce the use of maritime bunker fuel in cargo ships.
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Dyer: Climate change truth worth telling no matter how sobering
Scientists and politicians are trying to reassure us it is still worth trying to hold down warming
Robot Bees From MIT May Be The Pollinators Of The Future
The clever folks at MIT have created robot bees that may one day be able to pollinate fruits and vegetables.
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Musk & Right Wing Trumpsters Are Already At Odds
The Economist says that petty spats among billionaire Elon Musk, other tech tycoons, and the MAGA crowd may be “a sign of a much deeper rift” within the right wing incoming US executive office. The policy team of once-and-future President Donald J. Trump has “disparate, sometimes contradictory goals,” with the … [continued]
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