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Energy Efficiency will enable MSME’s towards achieving net zero.

India is the third largest consumer of energy in the world, and energy efficiency is an important part of the country’s strategy to meet its growing energy demand. According to the International Energy Agency (IEA), energy efficiency has contributed significantly to reducing India’s energy demand growth in recent years. Energy efficiency is often the first […]

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Li-S battery: the next generation in power cells: Capable of quintupling EV range.

Many technologies, such as batteries, fuel cells, ultracapacitors, etc., have been developed for implementation in electric vehicles (EVs) and hybrid vehicles. Among these technologies, lithium-ion batteries have evolved to be the most sought-after ones despite exhibiting some challenges related to safety, cost, and limited energy density. Before diving into buying their first electric mobility adventure,

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Natural gas hydrate: Alternative and optimistic way to transport natural gas

Motivation: The world is shifting toward the gas-based fuel economy from the conventional liquid-based fuel economy to envision the carbon net zero economy model. The prime advantages of this shift include low gas emission, lower economic value, and utilization of existing vehicle engines after little modification. Natural gas has been utilized in many countries after

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Solid state batteries to reduce accidental fires in EVs

Metal-ion batteries, specifically, Li-ion batteries (LIB) are being realized as the next-generation battery technology due to their overwhelming advantages, including high energy density (270 Wh kg-1) and high cell voltage (3.6 V). However, safety is the major limitation for the conventional LIB because the explosion in portable devices such as laptop, PCs, smartphones, electric vehicles,

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Progressing towards energy-efficient vanadium redox flow batteries

India is the third largest energy-consuming country in the world. With the government making huge advancements to provide electrification (according to the Renewable Energy Report 2021 by IEA, 100 million people gained access to residential electricity in 2018 alone) for residential users, India has an enormous energy demand. To tackle this, the government has planned

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Solar Water Splitting: A Viable Technique for Hydrogen Production

Hydrogen is the most abundant element in the universe, greater quantity in water. It is considered as a holy grail in the energy community. It is an advanced renewable energy source and carrier produced from other energy sources. It also offers a high value of gravimetric energy compared to gasoline (i.e., 120 MJ/kg versus 44

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Can Lead Acid Flow Battery be a Solution for India’s Renewable Energy Pivot?

Lead is very cheap and abundant; most importantly it is globally recycled about 99% In our daily life, we are totally depending upon power whether it is an electric vehicle, mobile charger or laptop charger, they always carry a letter ‘V’ means Volt -the electricity unit named after the physicist Alessandro Volta. This physicist developed

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Methanol Economy- A Road that leads to the Hydrogen Economy.

Several advantages and challenges in using hydrogen as fuel were addressed in our previous article. There is no doubt in hydrogen’s ability to fill the shoes of a clean and efficient fuel that we expect. However, due to technological, sourcing, political, policy-making, and safety reasons, it might take a while before hydrogen could replace the

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