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Industry 4.0

Industry 4.0 refers to a new phase in the Industrial Revolution that focuses heavily on interconnectivity, automation, machine learning, and real-time data. Industry 4.0, which encompasses IIoT and smart manufacturing, marries physical production and operations with smart digital technology, machine learning, and big data to create a more holistic and better-connected ecosystem for companies that focus on manufacturing and supply chain management.

A New Molten Salt Battery Promises To Outperform Li-Ion in Every Way

DETROIT - Li-Ion batteries power almost everything these days, thanks to their unique qualities. Although ubiquitous, they are not perfect, and research is underway to find better energy storage solutions. Aluminum-Sulfur batteries show promising characteristics, but progress has been limited. Researchers have been looking for decades to find the best battery cell formula. Right now,

By |2022-09-04T19:17:45-04:00September 4th, 2022|Industry 4.0|
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Toyota Secures Huge Lead in Solid-State Batteries To Release a Hybrid Vehicle

TOKYO, Japan - Nikkei Asia reports that Toyota Motor is by far the leading holder of solid-state battery patents, a Nikkei study shows, demonstrating how Japanese companies have dominated the race to develop the next-generation power source for electric vehicles. In fact, Japanese companies dominate top 10 list of solid-state battery patents, but South Korean

By |2022-09-01T17:57:11-04:00September 1st, 2022|Auto Tech, Featured, Industry 4.0|
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Hydrogen Could Change The Way We Fuel Our Lives

DETROIT - Last week, Canada signed onto a major energy project with Germany that, once built, will transform the windswept Port au Port Peninsula in Western Newfoundland and Labrador into a hydrogen-producing energy powerhouse. The first phase of the project involves building 164 new wind turbines in one of the windiest corners of the country. The

By |2022-08-28T11:12:41-04:00August 28th, 2022|Industry 4.0|
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Low-Cost Batteries Made From Inexpensive Materials

DETROIT - An aluminum-sulfur battery, made from inexpensive, abundant materials, could provide low-cost backup storage for renewable energy sources. As ever larger installations of wind and solar power systems are being built around the world, the need is growing fast for economical, large-scale backup systems to provide power when the the air is calm and

By |2022-08-28T11:12:42-04:00August 28th, 2022|Industry 4.0|
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U-M study: Local Renewable Energy Employment Can Fully Replace U.S. Coal Jobs Nationwide

ANN ARBOR - Across the United States, local wind and solar jobs can fully replace the coal-plant jobs that will be lost as the nation's power-generation system moves away from fossil fuels in the coming decades, according to a new University of Michigan study. As of 2019, coal-fired electricity generation directly employed nearly 80,000 workers

By |2022-08-25T11:46:10-04:00August 23rd, 2022|Climate Change, Industry 4.0|
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Sandia Labs Uses Heated Carbon Dioxide To Deliver Electricity To Power Grid

ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. — For the first time, Sandia National Laboratories researchers delivered electricity produced by a new power-generating system to the Sandia-Kirtland Air Force Base electrical grid. The system uses heated supercritical carbon dioxide instead of steam to generate electricity and is based on a closed-loop Brayton cycle. The Brayton cycle is named after 19th century

By |2022-08-21T12:37:25-04:00August 21st, 2022|Industry 4.0|
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Bill Gates Backs Startup Using Robots To Build Huge Solar Farms

SEATTLE - Terabase Energy, a company looking to make massive solar farms economically viable, has received a co-sign from Bill Gates in the form of a cash infusion from Gates’ Breakthrough Energy Ventures, a venture capital firm that focuses on climate change solutions. The move marks what may be the next step in ratcheting up

By |2022-08-21T12:30:58-04:00August 21st, 2022|Industry 4.0|
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Scientists Finally Create Energy Of The Sun In A Lab Opening Door To Clean Fusion Power

LIVERMORE, Ca. - Scientists have confirmed that they were able to ignite the same chemical reaction that powers the Sun by pumping more power than the entire US electric grid into a small gold capsule. If scientists were able to develop fully functioning fusion power plants, the sites would produce scores of energy using hydrogen from

By |2022-08-21T12:12:02-04:00August 21st, 2022|Industry 4.0|
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Hydrogen Will ‘Effectively Replace Fossil Fuels’ As UK Invests In Clean Vehicles

LONDON, UK - The use of hydrogen for long-haul trucking has been supported by H2Accelerate through new research designed to evaluate the success of the fuel type in the UK. The paper sets out that larger companies like Amazon, Nestle and DB Schenker, have the potential to drive significant market demand for hydrogen trucks and the growth of the

By |2022-08-14T18:13:49-04:00August 14th, 2022|Industry 4.0|
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