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SAE Press Room — News and Press releases for media and public relations professionals
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WARRENDALE, Pa., Jan. 15, 2010 -
SAE International has released a standard that provides a standard interface between plug-in hybrid and battery-electric vehicles, and electrical charging systems.Standard J1772™, “SAE Electric Vehicle Conductive Charge Coupler,” spells out the general physical, electrical and performance requirements for the coupler, which consists of a connector and vehicle inlet. The purpose of the standard is to define a common electric-vehicle charging network, thereby reducing costs and increasing convenience for owners of electric vehicles.
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SAE J1772 EV charging standard
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SAE J1772 is a North American standard for electrical connectors for electric vehicles maintained by the Society of Automotive Engineers and has the formal title “SAE Surface Vehicle Recommended Practice J1772, SAE Electric Vehicle Conductive Charge Coupler”.[1] It covers the general physical, electrical, communication protocol, and performance requirements for the electric vehicle conductive charge system and coupler. The intent is to define a common electric vehicle conductive charging system architecture including operational requirements and the functional and dimensional requirements for the vehicle inlet and mating connector.
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Will Google Charge your Electric Cars?
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Google finally won approval from Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (FERC) to be an electric utility. Now that they are making billions delivering web ads, do they want to make added billions selling electricity? Quite possibly. Google already offers a smart meter app that allows smart grid customers to manage their home electricity use. With their new approval to be a utility, Google could be a smart grid / smart charge service provider.
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Global aluminum market hit by structural oversupply
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Have fundamentals come home to roost? From a high of $2,390/t on 6 January, three-month aluminium fell to a low of $1,970/t on 5 February. This correction is not surprising given that the aluminium market remains in structural oversupply and prices above $2,000/t are unjustifiable in supply-demand terms.
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Energy storage - It’s not all about batteries
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Compressed nitrogen
The technology works by using specially designed hydraulic wind turbines to compress nitrogen into the existing gas or oil pipeline infrastructure. When electricity needs to be generated anywhere along the pipeline, the nitrogen gas is released and expands to turn a turbine that generates electricity.
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“Micro-generation technologies are the wave of the future”
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It’s not enough to just find the very best solid oxide fuel cell distributed generation system, of which there are actually many to choose from already, which some journalists appear to have forgotten this week. It’s not about the best SOFC technology, it’s about supplying kilowatt-hours (or joules of energy, or liters of clean water, etc.) at the right price and in the right way for each application. And there are often many different ways to supply these commodities.
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Mine of the future program - Rio Tinto
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Rio Tinto announced is expanding its Mine of the Future programme to develop new equipment and systems for deep underground mines. The programme is designed to create next generation technologies for mining operations.
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The Future is Now with Light-Powered Circuitry
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The brain of any electronic device is the circuitry that operated the machine. Without the circuitry, the device is not even worth the cost of the plastic that it is made of. Any electronics device requires some kind of battery or it is nothing more than a paperweight. Recently, some new technology was created by scientists from the University of Pennsylvania that will no longer require a device to use a battery as the power can come from light-powered circuitry.
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Water analytics – yet another intersection of cleantech & IT
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Water analytics plays an increasingly critical role for end users across the verticals, much like energy management is top-of-mind for these same players.
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Anglo American: Total copper output to reach 1.2 million tonnes, by 2014
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Global miner Anglo American (AAL.L: Quote) said Monday it expects its total copper output to reach 1.2 million tonnes by 2014.
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Copper market surplus 144,000 T in Jan-Nov 09
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NEW YORK, Feb 22 (Reuters) - World refined copper
production exceeded consumption by 144,000 tonnes between
January and November of 2009, more than doubling a market
surplus of 58,000 tonnes in the same year-ago period, the
International Copper Study Group (ICSG) said in its latest
monthly bulletin.
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Large-scale storage of wind energy using compressed nitrogen and old pipelines… Could it work?
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The basic idea is that specially designed hydraulic wind turbines are used to compress nitrogen into existing gas or oil pipeline infrastructure, some of it unused throughout North America. Several hundred, even thousand, kilometres of pipeline could be filled with nitrogen and kept under pressure, in effect becoming a kind of massive nitrogen battery for wind. When electricity needs to be generated anywhere along the pipeline, the nitrogen gas is released and expands to turn a turbine that generates electricity. Wind, under this setup, suddenly becomes dispatchable and has baseload characteristics. Also, the pipeline eliminates the need for transmission lines.
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Copper market case study from BME
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The mathematical modelling of metals prices is a useful tool for the mining and investment communities by helping to explain market performance. As a service to Mining Journal readers, we provide here an explanation of Bloomsbury Minerals Economics Ltd’s model for copper.
London-based BME models metals prices with reference to three ‘fundamental’ forces: stocks of the metal, economic growth (or specific metal demand) and performance of the US dollar. The models have progressed from dealing with commodities as industrial raw materials to dealing with them as a hybrid physical-investment market.
BME is this year introducing the influence of investment/disinvestment on the market, and on ways of better understanding investor flows.
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Smart metering the world: One size doesn’t fit all
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- In the US, smart metering was, for the most part, driven by the desire to reduce the costs associated with manual meter reading, to reduce peak load and to enhance security of supply.
- In Italy, one of the key drivers was tackling energy theft and the cost of managing meters.
- In Ontario, it was peak shaving and the move toward time-of-use pricing.
Smart metering is a sexy topic in the energy world, with nearly all Western economies considering plans for large deployments. It can be used in many different ways but normally there is more than one goal behind a smart metering deployment:
But if smart meters have the potential to address a number of issues, that potential can only be realised by flexible system design and deployment, avoiding excessive rigidity. In this case, one size most certainly does not fit all. We fear that the UK’s current plans for a nationwide rollout of smart meters may well be taking us down the wrong path by imposing standard solutions on the wrong part of the system.
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The Bloom Box: An Energy Breakthrough?
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(CBS) In the world of energy, the Holy Grail is a power source that’s inexpensive and clean, with no emissions. Well over 100 start-ups in Silicon Valley are working on it, and one of them, Bloom Energy, is about to make public its invention: a little power plant-in-a-box they want to put literally in your backyard.
You’ll generate your own electricity with the box and it’ll be wireless. The idea is to one day replace the big power plants and transmission line grid, the way the laptop moved in on the desktop and cell phones supplanted landlines.
It has a lot of smart people believing and buzzing, even though the company has been unusually secretive - until now.
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10 Things to Know About Bloom Energy
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10). Magic Box: 60 Minutes reports that the magic behind the Bloom Box starts with the company baking basic sand and cutting it into little squares that are turned into a ceramic, which are then coated with green and black “inks.” Using a special process Bloom creates these ceramic discs and stacks them together interspersed with metal plates of “a cheap metal alloy.” The bigger the stack the more power the Bloom Box will create.
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‘Mountains’ of e-waste threaten developing world
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India could see a 500% rise in the number of old computers dumped by 2020, found the survey of 11 nations.
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