Aloha! A postcard from our renewable-heavy future
Bruce Lin, Matthew Klippenstein, Aaron Fyke Hawaii – a small, isolated group of islands in the middle of the Pacific – is served by a small, isolated group of electricity grids in the middle of the...
View ArticleWho wants fuel cell cars?
Mainly Japan, but some recent articles suggest that it’s also South African mining companies: Platinum sector faces its Kodak moment in fuel cell technology LONDON, May 29 (Reuters) – Platinum miners...
View ArticleA fuel cell design tool for free
I’m constantly re-creating a version of this tool every few years when I design fuel cells and flow batteries, so I decided to make a free, user-friendly public version. It’s a simple Excel spreadsheet...
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Vinod Khosla knows what’s best for Catalytic Engineering
I knew he was paying attention to the energy analysis, and battery and electrochemical engineering articles on Catalytic Engineering. But who knew he had such specific advice?
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Keeping your cool isn’t easy for batteries or fuel cells
If batteries are 95% efficient, and therefore hardly generate any heat, why do they sometimes suffer from overheating and shortened lifetime? And why do fuel cell cars like the Toyota Mirai (pictured...
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Terawatt-hour scale energy storage by “power to gas” hydrogen
Like syrup and water Next time you’re at a fast food restaurant, look closely at the soda fountain. You may be able to see that the stream of Coca-Cola that comes out is actually a stream of syrup...
View ArticleEnergy Storage at Fuel Cell Seminar 2015
I’m at Fuel Cell Seminar 2015 in sunny Los Angeles and chairing a session on flow batteries for energy storage (#fcs2015). There’s a Toyota Mirai fuel cell car and a few hundred fuel cell people here....
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Building energy systems in the stratosphere for Facebook
It’s been quiet here at the Catalytic Engineering blog, as most of our time is being spent on a long term project for Facebook, performing system modelling and energy analysis for its Connectivity Lab...
View ArticleTesla Powerwall installation manual published
It’s been quiet here lately, but I thought this would be of interest: Tesla Powerwall manual
View ArticleAnother contender for the title of “world’s largest battery”: brine4power
The fascinating “brine4power” energy storage project was just announced in June 2017 by German energy company EWE Gasspeicher (natural gas storage specialist). It’s a massive flow battery, using...
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