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    Explore " clean energy technology" with insightful episodes like "Chris Larsen on Market-Defining Technology for Hybrid Solar Plus Storage Systems", "Why the US is looking to Mongolia for critical minerals", "The Envirotech Accelerator Launches Leading XPRIZE Team for Carbon Reduction With Next-Generation Carbon Capture & Sequestration Technology", "The Envirotech Accelerator for Next-Generation Technology" and "Green Conflict Minerals: The Mad Dash to Net Zero Is About To Get Rough, by James Scott" from podcasts like ""Flanigan's Eco-Logic", "POLITICO Energy", "Embassy Row Project Podcast", "Embassy Row Project Podcast" and "Embassy Row Project Podcast"" and more!

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    Chris Larsen on Market-Defining Technology for Hybrid Solar Plus Storage Systems

    Chris Larsen on Market-Defining Technology for Hybrid Solar Plus Storage Systems

    In this episode of Flanigan’s Eco-Logic, Ted speaks with Chris Larsen, Senior Director for Clean Energy at Dynapower. 


    He and Ted discuss his background, growing up in Central Florida, just outside of Orlando. He shares his family's agricultural roots, and his exposure to pollution through sugar-cane crop burning, thus developing an awareness early on in his life of the effects of that kind of practice on the environment. 


    While attending Princeton, Chris connected with a group in the mechanical engineering department which was influential in the renewables space. He got involved with a research team looking at biomass gasification, and went on to obtain a Master’s in Mechanical Engineering from NC State. He entered the clean energy field as Policy Director for North Carolina Clean Energy Technology Center. He also spent ten years with ABB in various roles in inverter design, R&D, and more.


    As a 25‐year clean energy veteran, Chris has been instrumental in positioning Dynapower as the leading power electronics provider for hybrid solar plus storage systems. He partnered with other industry leaders to bring DC‐DC technology to life, and he discusses that and its broader application. Chris is now responsible for commercial applications including renewable energy, microgrids, e‐mobility, and green hydrogen.

    Why the US is looking to Mongolia for critical minerals

    Why the US is looking to Mongolia for critical minerals
    This year, the United States has been stepping up its efforts to secure the critical minerals that are needed for clean energy projects from countries like Mongolia, which is resource-rich and wedged between China and Russia. But making pacts to deliver these critical minerals to the U.S. isn't easy, and the stakes are high since the Biden administration’s climate goals are at risk. POLITICO’s E&E News reporter Sara Schonhardt breaks down how the U.S. is trying to negotiate with Mongolia and other nations and the challenges of cutting critical mineral deals. Plus, the Energy Department is expected to ease back on its proposed energy efficiency rules for gas stoves.   For more news on energy and the environment, subscribe to Power Switch, our free evening newsletter: https://www.politico.com/power-switch And for even deeper coverage and analysis, read our Morning Energy newsletter by subscribing to POLITICO Pro: https://subscriber.politicopro.com/newsletter-archive/morning-energy   Annie Snider covers water issues for POLITICO.  Sara Schonhardt is an international climate reporter for E&E News. Nirmal Mulaikal is a POLITICO audio host-producer.  Alex Keeney is a senior audio producer at POLITICO.  Gloria Gonzalez is the deputy energy editor for POLITICO.  Matt Daily is the energy editor for POLITICO.

    The Envirotech Accelerator Launches Leading XPRIZE Team for Carbon Reduction With Next-Generation Carbon Capture & Sequestration Technology

    The Envirotech Accelerator Launches Leading XPRIZE Team for Carbon Reduction With Next-Generation Carbon Capture & Sequestration Technology

    “What this XPRIZE team has achieved is an absolute quantum leap in carbon capture and sequestration technology”, explains Envirotech Accelerator founder, James Scott, “This technology is fully optimized for scalability, limited energy input requirements, and utilizes a building block construction strategy which means it can be implemented virtually anywhere.”

    Find out more about this breakthrough in carbon capture and sequestration at Envirotech Accelerator
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    ENVIROTECH is a Washington, D.C.-based Accelerator that provides an optimized conduit for hyper-accelerated internationalization of original research and labs, incubators, and accelerators.

    Our programs are rooted in almost two decades of international contact cultivation among public and private sector stakeholders, intergovernmental organizations and trade bloc leadership, and commercial sector networks. Our small collective of advisors works with international government and commercial stakeholders on creating quiet programs that out-think, outmaneuver, and out-strategize competitive interests in hyper-competitive spaces. We now offer this solution to select startups, accelerators, and incubators with an interest in a synergistically aligned, multi-vector and multinational approach to high impact and explosive growth.

    Our programs are designed to triple the distance in a fraction of the time, and in a manner that holds true to the passion, vision, and mission of the accelerators, incubators, and founders we work with. Our plug-and-play architecture runs 24/7 in the background, quietly optimizing each layer of strategy and internationalizing positions, publicizing wins, aligning commercial and initiative-based mutual interests, and creating alliances and partnerships that are built to last.

    Watch the Envirotech Accelerator Promotional Video
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    The technology is featured in the March 2023 issue of the peer-reviewed Journal for Carbon Utilization.  This carbon capture and sequestration technology was designed to capture atmospheric CO2 much like lichen do in nature.  Lichen are comprised of two organisms, an algae, which photosynthesizes, pulling down atmospheric CO2, and a fungus, which provides a good environment for the algae to thrive, allowing the algae to receive the right amount of micro-nutrients, gas exchange, moisture and sunlight (but not too much UV) necessary for photosynthesis.  A paint innovation company, Reactive Surfaces, specializing in developing bio-based coatings for the paint and coatings industry for the past 20 years, has developed a paint containing algae that photosynthesize within a special non-toxic coating system which allows for the lighting, gas exchange, nutrients and water the algae need, much like lichen.  





    The Envirotech Accelerator for Next-Generation Technology

    The Envirotech Accelerator for Next-Generation Technology

    Visit the Envirotech Accelerator
    Visit the ASEAN Institute Accelerator
    Check out the Embassy Row Project

    ENVIROTECH is a Washington, D.C.-based Accelerator that provides an optimized conduit for hyper-accelerated internationalization of original research and labs, incubators, and accelerators.

    Our programs are rooted in almost two decades of international contact cultivation among public and private sector stakeholders, intergovernmental organizations and trade bloc leadership, and commercial sector networks. Our small collective of advisors works with international government and commercial stakeholders on creating quiet programs that out-think, outmaneuver, and out-strategize competitive interests in hyper-competitive spaces. We now offer this solution to select startups, accelerators, and incubators with an interest in a synergistically aligned, multi-vector and multinational approach to high impact and explosive growth.

    Our programs are designed to triple the distance in a fraction of the time, and in a manner that holds true to the passion, vision, and mission of the accelerators, incubators, and founders we work with. Our plug-and-play architecture runs 24/7 in the background, quietly optimizing each layer of strategy and internationalizing positions, publicizing wins, aligning commercial and initiative-based mutual interests, and creating alliances and partnerships that are built to last.

    Watch the Envirotech Accelerator Promotional Video
    Find out more about the Envirotech Accelerator
    Contact the Embassy Row Project
    Embassy Row Project Podcast
    Embassy Row Project Blog
    Embassy Row Project YouTube

    Green Conflict Minerals: The Mad Dash to Net Zero Is About To Get Rough, by James Scott

    Green Conflict Minerals: The Mad Dash to Net Zero Is About To Get Rough, by James Scott

    This is a brief introduction to the latest book by Embassy Row Project's founder, James Scott entitled, Green Conflict Minerals: The Mad Dash to Net Zero Is About To Get Rough

    Introduction
    Climate change represents a looming threat that has already begun to impact the fragile existence of millions who exist in destitute poverty, sinking island nations, and regions of the world where the population eeks out a day-to-day existence from the diminishing yields from their land.. Therefore, the effort to limit the global rise in temperatures to well below 2oC under the Paris Agreement (UNFCC, 2018) and mitigate the effects of climate change requires Herculean resolve and an internationally unified mission to achieve net zero.

    A wide variety of technologies aiming to accomplish net zero are being developed and deployed, and their application requires resources that can be limited in supply.

    The IEA estimates that “a concerted effort to reach the goals of the Paris Agreement (climate stabilization at ‘well below 2°C global temperature rise’, as in the IEA Sustainable Development Scenario [SDS]) would mean a quadrupling of mineral requirements for clean energy technologies by 2040. An even faster transition, to hit net-zero globally by 2050, would require six times more mineral inputs in 2040 than today.” (IEA, 2022)

    The main factor is the increased use of electric vehicles and batteries, which is predicted to increase thirty times by 2040. Lithium should see the highest increase in materials used for manufacturing by 2040, over 40 times, followed by graphite and nickel (20-25 times). Copper demand is slated to double due to the expansion of the global electrical grids. Cobalt consumption is estimated to increase 6 to 30 times, depending on the evolution of battery technology and the stringency of climate policies. Rare earths should see an increase of 3 to 7 times, depending on how widely wind power generation is adopted. Largely, these wide margins of uncertainty are due to a general need for more well-defined long-term policies.

    The total consumption of minerals critical for green technologies is expected to increase from around 8 million tons in 2020 to 30-40 million tons by 2050, creating significant opportunities in the field. As a result, this mining sector's value is expected to increase from around $40 billion to over $250 billion in annual revenue. For comparison, today's global coal mining sector is worth around $420 billion in annual revenue.

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    A Fast Track To Carbon Neutral: Using Environmental Commodities to Rapid Launch Commercial Sustainability Programs by James Scott



    Part 2 What You Need To Know About Small Modular Reactors (SMR): A Strategic Shortcut to Zero-Carbon Energy by James Scott

    Part 2 What You Need To Know About Small Modular Reactors (SMR): A Strategic Shortcut to Zero-Carbon Energy by James Scott

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    Download:  What You Need To Know About Small Modular Reactors (SMR): A Strategic Shortcut to Zero-Carbon Energy
    Written by James Scott

    About the Embassy Row Project:
    Founded by international energy and infrastructure technology advisor, James Scott, the Embassy Row Project strives to unify the next generation of leaders & initiatives that are hyper-focused on instigating positive change on issues that impact the environment, human rights, technological innovation, and international trade collaborations that proliferate diversity, and food security, and dignified employment with a livable wage.

    Small Modular Reactors: Environmental Impact and Climate Change Effects:

    Nuclear energy has been a major factor in reducing fossil fuel consumption for energy generation and reducing GHG emissions. Countries like France and Switzerland use nuclear energy to provide stable, clean power and maintain significantly lower GNG emissions per capita levels than other developed countries that rely more on coal, oil, and natural gas. For example, the United States, Canada, and Australia have GHG emissions of 18.44, 19.56, and 24.63 metric tons of CO2 per capita, while France has 6.32 and Switzerland has 5.41. However, France gets over 70% of its electricity from nuclear power and only 7% from fossil fuels, while Switzerland gets around 60% from hydroelectric and around 33% from nuclear power. On the other hand, the United States gets around 61% of its electricity from fossil fuels and around 19% from nuclear power, accounting for the large discrepancy in per capita emissions.

    Given the limited potential of renewable energy sources to provide a flexible and stable electricity supply without a suitable energy storage technology, nuclear energy represents a vital component of a zero-carbon energy strategy and climate change mitigation efforts. SMR technology could play an important part in this.

    Contact the Embassy Row Project
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    A Fast Track To Carbon Neutral: Using Environmental Commodities to Rapid Launch Commercial Sustainability Programs by James Scott
    What You Need To Know About Small Modular Reactors, by James Scott, Founder, Embassy Row Project on Medium

    Part 1 What You Need To Know About Small Modular Reactors (SMR): A Strategic Shortcut to Zero-Carbon Energy by James Scott

    Part 1 What You Need To Know About Small Modular Reactors (SMR): A Strategic Shortcut to Zero-Carbon Energy by James Scott

    Subscribe to the Embassy Row Project's YouTube Channel
    Follow the Embassy Row Project on Linkedin
    Watch the live presentation at the National Press Club
    Embassy Row Project  supports:
    NETZERO Incubator & Accelerator
    ENVIROTECH Pre-Accelerator

    Download:  What You Need To Know About Small Modular Reactors (SMR): A Strategic Shortcut to Zero-Carbon Energy
    Written by James Scott

    About the Embassy Row Project:
    Founded by international energy and infrastructure technology advisor, James Scott, the Embassy Row Project strives to unify the next generation of leaders & initiatives that are hyper-focused on instigating positive change on issues that impact the environment, human rights, technological innovation, and international trade collaborations that proliferate diversity, and food security, and dignified employment with a livable wage.

    Small Modular Reactors: Technology Overview

    In nuclear electric power generation, small-sized reactors have an equivalent electric power of fewer than 300 MWe. In comparison, medium-sized reactors have an equivalent electric power of between 300 and 700 MWe. These two categories are conflated as Small Modular Reactors (SMR). Ingersoll defines these based on technology: "reactor designs that are deliberately small, i.e., designs that do not scale to large sizes but rather capitalize on their smallness to achieve specific performance characteristics." (Ingersoll, D.T., 2009. Deliberately small reactors and the second nuclear era. Progress in nuclear energy, 51(4-5), pp.589-603.) This highlights that the SMRs use modern technology to reverse the trend in nuclear reactor design that bigger is better. The capital costs per unit of power of a nuclear reactor decrease with increasing size, making the size of a nuclear reactor an important factor in the economic calculation.

    Today’s SMRs have significantly different designs and characteristics than their larger cousins: the SMRs are designed to operate with longer fuel cycles of up to 8 years and with primary components with very high reliability (Carelli, 2004). This reduces the need for regular maintenance shutdowns, decreases the incidence of inspections and repairs, and extends the maintenance period from 18 to 240 months (Table 1, Appendix). It is estimated that this reduces the share of operation and maintenance costs to 17-41% of the total costs in the SMRs, compared to 45-58% in large nuclear reactors (OECD/NEA, 2011.). Finally, the decommissioning of SMRs should be considerably easier due to their modular construction, where the decommissioned modules can be replaced and disassembled (Lokhov, 2013.).

    What You Need To Know About Small Modular Reactors, by James Scott, Founder, Embassy Row Project on Medium


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