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The Cold Is Part of the Circuit: Rethinking Batteries for the Moon
NASA’s lunar battery research highlights the difference between storing energy and making it available after an extreme cold soak.
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The Difficult Part of a Better Battery Can Be Making the Next Million
A new US battery strategy highlights the manufacturing and supply-chain work that separates a laboratory cell from dependable industrial production.
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A Geothermal Map Is a Hypothesis Until a Well Tests It
Recent DOE project selections distinguish two important geothermal tasks: proving a technology and establishing what a particular underground resource can deliver.
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Putting a Battery Beside Solar Changes the Timing, Not the Source, of Energy
EIA’s latest analysis of co-located storage points to the engineering choices behind solar-plus-battery plants and the limits of a shared site.
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Rooftop Solar Changes What the Grid Meter Can See
EIA’s small-scale solar generation update is a starting point for understanding distributed power, net demand and why generation statistics need careful boundaries.
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A Satellite Power Budget Has to Survive Its Worst Useful Hour
Why average generation, peak demand and eclipse energy are separate questions when designing a small spacecraft’s electrical system.
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A Heat-Storage Material Has to Give the Heat Back Reliably
Texas A&M’s salogel research highlights the practical difference between a large thermal capacity and a material that cycles dependably inside useful equipment.
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Molecules That Store Sunlight Are Not Simply Another Electrical Battery
UCLA and UCSB research on molecular solar thermal storage shows why stored heat, electrical energy and full-system energy density need separate comparisons.
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A Wind-Turbine Map Can Show Where Capacity Exists Without Showing Its Output
The September 2026 US Wind Turbine Database release is a useful guide to reading infrastructure data, technical specifications and the limits of a point on a map.
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A Used EV Battery Needs a Health Record, Not Just a Range Estimate
How to distinguish battery capacity, charging behavior, warranty terms, and everyday usefulness when evaluating a used electric car.
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LFP or Nickel-Based Batteries? Start with the Vehicle You Need
Why battery chemistry matters, where the label stops being useful, and how to compare real vehicle configurations without oversimplifying the tradeoffs.
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Cold-Climate Heat Pumps: The Important Question Is Which System Fits the House
A practical explanation of heating capacity, defrost, backup operation, and the evidence a homeowner should request before choosing a heat pump.
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A Four-Hour Grid Battery Is a Description of a Job, Not a Universal Solution
Understand megawatts, megawatt-hours, operating reserves, and why a storage project must be evaluated against the service it is meant to provide.
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An EV Charging Site Should Be Designed Around Parking Time, Not Just Plug Count
Why dwell time, delivered energy, shared power, accessibility, and maintenance matter when planning workplace or residential charging.
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Sodium-Ion Batteries Need the Right First Jobs, Not a Universal-Replacement Story
How to evaluate sodium-ion announcements through energy density, operating conditions, manufacturing maturity, and the requirements of the intended application.
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