Dalian Changxin Island with huge new zone being developed for green hydrogen production, transport, refueling and logistics. They are really trying to model themselves as a major green fuel hub.
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Dalian Changxin Island with huge new zone being developed for green hydrogen production, transport, refueling and logistics. They are really trying to model themselves as a major green fuel hub.
I ran the scenario through DeepSeek and got the following results:
In order to launch a PV array into GEO with the same power output as the Three Gorges Dam would require:
60 launches of the Long March 9 Rocket
$13.5 billion of cost vs the cost of $29 billion to build the Three Gorges Dam
A very expensive project to be sure, but totally infeasible? Give it another 20 years and maybe possible.
I think it is better to go with a railgun based solution to launch most of the mass.
New breakthrough in edge passivation technology-Micro-conductor and nano-innovation promotes the development of high-efficiency half-cut cell
The new TOPCon battery technology has replaced the previous generation of PERC batteries and become the mainstream of the industry. By the end of 2024, TOPCon's market share has reached about 70%, and the market totals about 800GW+ . It is particularly important to further improve the efficiency and reduce the cost of TOPCon battery technology. Edge passivation is recognized by the industry as an important means of improving efficiency in the post-TOPCon era, and it has attracted more and more attention. In response to this demand, Microguide Nano has devoted itself to research, and through the analysis of application scenario requirements and the study of the mechanism of traditional technical bottlenecks, it has finally achieved an innovative breakthrough, overcome the temperature field requirements unique to edge passivation stacking endothermics, and solved the industry bottleneck of passivation film deposition and plating.
Overcoming technical bottlenecks
Microguide Nano has fully utilized its own ALD technology advantages and accumulated experience, and conducted in-depth research on the bottleneck problems in the edge passivation application scenarios of half-cell batteries. Based on edge passivation 1.0, it has successfully iterated and developed a new solution version 2.0. Through the unique gas path design, it ensures that there is no waste of special gases (achieving high cost performance), and the unique characterization design innovatively realizes single-channel monitoring, and successfully developed a new generation of edge passivation technology and mass production equipment. The biggest feature of the new equipment is that it completely overcomes its bottleneck problem of plating while ensuring the passivation of the cut surface (as shown in the figure below), and solves the bottleneck problems of product appearance, cold soldering and passivation caused by edge passivation plating that have long plagued customers, providing a new path for the development of edge passivation technology. This technology can also be used in high-efficiency battery technology routes such as XBC and HJT , and is an advance reserve for the next generation of high-efficiency photovoltaic cell technology.
Comparison of old and new technologies of winding plating
Microguide Nano will keep up with the development trend of battery technology iteration and expansion in the industry, give full play to its technological advantages, expand its product lines horizontally, improve market coverage, and continue to lead the mass production of new high-efficiency batteries such as TOPCon. At the same time, it will actively develop the next generation of photovoltaic high-efficiency battery technologies such as XBC and perovskite / heterojunction stacked batteries, and create long-term growth points in the future through continuous technological innovation and reserves.
UAE's Masdar with huge project in solar power that picked CATL, Jinko and JA + PowerChina
China Inc building up all these huge solar projects in MENA countries.
On January 20, China's Experimental Superconducting Tokamak (EAST), known as the "artificial sun", set a new world record in Hefei, Anhui, completing "high-quality combustion" at 100 million degrees Celsius for 1,000 seconds for the first time. This marks a major leap in China's fusion energy research from basic science to engineering practice, and is of great significance to mankind's accelerated realization of fusion power generation..
yeah, this is a pretty big deal, but realistically we are still years away from commercialization.
Record solar installation.