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Stay Informed
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CACOR's weekly newsletter
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Welcome to Stay Informed, CACOR's weekly newsletter. It contains all the latest updates to the CACOR Website. Signup and previous weekly newsletters are available here.
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Archived Articles Revisited:
This is your weekly personal list of three random articles extracted from our website archives. These links are unique to you and are more than one year old. The intention is to deliver a sense of what was considered a priority on that date compared with today's latest articles and presentations. You are encouraged to share these links with your social media and other networks.
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Speaker: Dr. Sheldon Williamson Topic: Electrification 2.0: Current Status and Future Trends. Time: Feb 1, 2023 13:30 Eastern Time (US and Canada) Summary: This presentation will highlight the current status and future opportunities in transportation electrification and other modes of autonomous e-mobility. The main themes of this presentation will include: Introduction to key issues and solutions for Li-ion batteries and …
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You are invited to a CACOR scheduled Zoom presentation. Topic: "Socio-economic changes to consider" Speaker: Dr. Derek Paul Time: Feb 8, 2023 13:30 Eastern Time (US and Canada) Join Zoom Meeting https://us02web.zoom.us/j/89715927152?pwd=MDhoVGgvc2lHbGFGeGpjMDRhVDE0UT09 Meeting ID: 897 1592 7152 Passcode: 628196 Summary: Derek has been preparing a new edition of his book, “A leap to an Ecological Economy.” He will run through some of the items in …
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PERSPECTIVES Carbon Markets, Illustrated A brief guide to one of the climate solutions we need in order to achieve a low-carbon future faster Climate change is an unprecedented global emergency. We must use all the tools at our disposal to ensure a positive future for people and nature. This includes a massive investment in decarbonization—as well unlocking the power of …
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Categories: Articles, Trending
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Fear is the Mind-killer On the dangers of our misguided obsession safety makes us less Human I’ve lived through some terrible things in my life, some of which actually happened. ~ Mark Twain Jim Morrison, lead singers of the 60’s rock group the Doors, once said, when he was doing something dangerous but that he really enjoyed replied: “You do know …
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Categories: Articles, What are you doing
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One of the most exciting companies in grid-level renewable energy storage – if you're the type to get excited about this kind of thing – is Form Energy, whose innovative iron-air technology promises to outperform lithium "big battery" projects at 10% of the cost. It's preparing to scale up with its first factory. Form's grid-scale batteries are built around huge …
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Categories: Articles, Climate, Energy
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Hungarian Ambassador Karoly Gedat delivered a speech at a lunch-time CACOR meeting in late March 1995 where he explained the crisis, challenge, and opportunities facing the world. He saw, on the verge of the third millennium, the whole world was still confronted with a number of economic, social, environmental problems, and tragic armed clashes. He felt we cannot find a …
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Categories: Articles, CACOR Proceedings, CACOR Writers
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That’s enough to cover many people’s daily commutes. by YCC TEAMDECEMBER 6, 2022 Soon, some electric vehicle drivers will be able to run errands and then power up their vehicles without plugging in. They’ll just need sunshine. Steve Fambro is co-founder of Aptera Motors Corp. His team created a three-wheeled electric vehicle with built-in solar cells that provide enough energy to cover many …
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Categories: Articles, CACOR Groups
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As a result of climate change’s increased and more severe storms and natural phenomena, weather-related power outages continue to grow across the world. In fact, between 2010 to 2019, the U.S. experienced 70% more power outages than in the previous decade. Given our increasing reliance on electricity, we will continue to require more reliable, clean and robust means of generating and distributing …
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Categories: Articles, Solutions
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I’m leaving, because with such a privileged role comes responsibility – the responsibility to know when you are the right person to lead and also when you are not. I know what this job takes. And I know that I no longer have enough in the tank to do it justice. It’s that simple. I am human, politicians are human. …
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Categories: Articles, Quotes
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Key indicators of how humans are changing the Earth: Sea level, species, carbon dioxide, sea ice, population, daily temperature extremes, annual climate change performance by country, air pollution, temperature records, climate change indicators, top ten emitters, historic emissions, electric vehicles.
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Undecided with Matt Ferrell The Mechanical Battery Explained - A Flywheel Comeback? When it comes to energy storage, our first thought usually is lithium ion batteries. But what if we went old school ... like just spinning things really fast and capturing that kinetic energy, old school. I thought I’d explain an example of a mechanical battery: the flywheel. And …
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Japan is working on Hydrogen fuel for vehicles and they are partnering with Israel to use their Aquarius engine. Worth a read as there is lots of potential here.
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You don’t need a battery to store energy. A class of technologies known as thermal storage can do the job too, and it even has some potential advantages over lithium-ion batteries. The long-overlooked thermal-storage category could play a critical role in easing the strain on the grid brought on when too many people use their air conditioning or heaters at the same time …
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It was apparent Canada’s environment and climate change minister was making waves when the White House called Ottawa to ask if he knew what he was really saying. In May, Steven Guilbeault became the first minister from a wealthy country to publicly support discussing a fund to compensate poorer nations for damages caused by climate change at the United Nations …
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Just Have A Think Lithium-ion remains the battery energy storage technology that all newcomers need to beat if they want to get a share of the market. More of more of them are looking like doing just that, including an alternative chemistry using one of the Earth's most abundant substances. So can this one disrupt lithium-ion's dominance?
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Paul Koch wanted to share his story of his trip to Easter Island some time ago. The Story of Easter Island - Version 1.pptx This is worth your time to have a view of this slide deck.
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The 7.66 MW of solar, 4 MWh batteries microgrid is the first fully resilient airport array that can function offgrid. The planned upgrade is part of a new JFK terminal said to be valued at $9.5 billion–what would be the largest global project financing transaction on record. JANUARY 26, 2023 MICHAEL SCHOECK
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FSN Seminar – October 21, 2022 on A Meditation on the Corruption of Our Character: An Attempt to Assess the Dangerousness of Conservative Populist Politicians By Ruben Nelson, Executive Director, Foresight Canada Abstract: In this webinar, Ruben Nelson, one of Canada’s most distinguished Foresight practitioners, will dig into three questions related to the above topic, namely: How should we assess …
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