nuclear-news

Opinion:

¶ Inflexible baseload power is just what we don’t need • Amory Lovins is absolutely right. It is time to recognize that inflexible baseload power is a dinosaur and a fallacy. We are quickly moving to a more democratic system involving small-scale generators and thousands of individuals. [Financial Times]

Baseload power plant. National Park Service photo.
Public domain. Wikimedia Commons.

Science and Technology:

¶ The wireless electric vehicle charging technology company Momentum Dynamics will deliver a 200-kW wireless charging system for the municipal bus market by the end of the year, going by recent comments made by company reps. Even higher-powered systems may be coming. [CleanTechnica]

¶ Vestas Wind Systems A/S will partner with the Technical University of Denmark to test the technical feasibility of a multi-rotor turbine. A demonstration unit with four refurbished V29-225 kW nacelles mounted on a support structure is being…