Munich Archives – The Green Optimistic green tech news, since 2008 Tue, 12 Aug 2014 08:04:42 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=7.0 2667534 Vattenfall and Munich Invest in a Second Billion Dollar Off-Shore Wind Farm https://www.greenoptimistic.com/vattenfall-munich-invest-second-billion-dollar-shore-wind-farm-20140812/ https://www.greenoptimistic.com/vattenfall-munich-invest-second-billion-dollar-shore-wind-farm-20140812/#respond Tue, 12 Aug 2014 08:04:26 +0000 https://www.greenoptimistic.com/?p=48833 Vattenfall, one of the leading energy companies in Europe, together with Munich City Utilities, revealed their plans to construct a $1.6 billion wind farm. The Swedish giant will place 72 turbines off the German coast of the North Sea in close proximity to Danish waters. Construction is planned to begin in 2015. If everything goes to […]

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]]> https://www.greenoptimistic.com/vattenfall-munich-invest-second-billion-dollar-shore-wind-farm-20140812/feed/ 0 48833 Redox Flow Batteries: a Quickly-Charging Alternative to Li-Ion? https://www.greenoptimistic.com/redox-flow-batteries-20091014/ https://www.greenoptimistic.com/redox-flow-batteries-20091014/#comments Wed, 14 Oct 2009 08:31:21 +0000 https://www.greenoptimistic.com/?p=4773 Researchers from the Fraunhofer Institute for Chemical Technology (ICT) in Pfintzal, near Karlsruhe, propose an alternative to the lazily-charging Lithium-Ions: the redox flow batteries.

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