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Hyzon’s Fuel Cell Trucks Challenge The Diesel Norm

As a trailblazer in clean logistics, Hyzon continues to leverage hydrogen’s potential to fuel transportation innovations.


Hyzon Motors is making significant strides in revolutionizing the heavy-duty transportation industry with the production of its pioneering Class 8 200kW Fuel Cell Electric Truck. This milestone highlights the company’s dedication to advancing zero-emission technology and addressing sectors traditionally reliant on diesel.

The vehicle production results from a strategic partnership with North Carolina-based Fontaine Modification, which assembles the trucks by integrating Hyzon’s advanced fuel cell systems, battery packs, and hydrogen storage solutions into the chassis. This collaboration ensures each vehicle meets new standards in innovation and road-readiness.

Central to Hyzon’s Class 8 truck is its single stack 200kW fuel cell system, which is a breakthrough in efficiency and design. The system is 30% lighter and smaller than previous models, offering 25% more cost efficiency. This design provides a powerful yet economical solution to meet the demanding needs of heavy-duty transport.

Tracking plasma progression in a picosecond: Physicists develop ultra-fast laser method to study high-density plasmas

In a few picoseconds (trillionths of a second), a small, thin piece of copper momentarily becomes dense plasma, specifically a state called warm dense matter, warm being a relative term—the metal is nearly 200,000 degrees Fahrenheit. With the short duration of a high-powered laser pulse, copper shifts from a solid state to a plasma state in an instant before it explodes. Understanding the progression of heat in the copper is an exciting breakthrough in physics relevant to the interior of giant planets and laser fusion fuel cores.

LiMnO₂ Electrodes could Replace Ni/Co in Electric Vehicle Batteries

Lithium-ion (or Li-ion) batteries are heavy hitters when it comes to the world of rechargeable batteries. As electric vehicles become more common in the world, a high-energy, low-cost battery utilizing the abundance of manganese (Mn) can be a sustainable option to become commercially available and utilized in the automobile industry.

Currently, batteries used for powering electric vehicles (EVs) are nickel (Ni) and cobalt (Co)-based, which can be expensive and unsustainable for a society with a growing desire for EVs.

By switching the positive electrode materials to a lithium/manganese-based material, researchers aim to maintain the high performance of Ni/Co-based materials but with a low-cost, sustainable twist.

China connects world’s largest flywheel energy storage system to grid

The US has some impressive flywheel energy storage plants. The largest of these is the 20 MW Beacon Power flywheel station located in Stephentown, New York. Until recently, it was the world’s largest flywheel energy storage system (FESS), but not anymore.

China has developed a massive 30-megawatt (MW) FESS in Shanxi province called the Dinglun flywheel energy storage power station.

This station is now connected to the grid, making it the largest operational flywheel energy storage facility ever built.

Einstein’s famous equation first demonstrated the creation of matter from light

Scientists Create Matter from Pure Light, Demonstrating Einstein’s E=mc² Equation in Action.

Physicists at Brookhaven National Laboratory have achieved a groundbreaking experiment, creating matter from light by demonstrating the Breit-Wheeler process. Using the Relativistic Heavy Ion Collider, they accelerated heavy ions to generate nearly real photons, leading to the formation of electron-positron pairs. This experiment showcases Einstein’s E=mc² equation in action, aligning with predictions for transforming energy into matter. While these virtual photons act similarly to real ones, the experiment is a crucial step towards proving the process with real photons when technology advances to create gamma-ray lasers. Don’t forget to comment your thought about this!

Australia Green Lights World’s ‘Largest’ Solar Hub

Australia on Wednesday approved plans for a massive solar and battery farm that would export energy to Singapore, a project it calls the “largest solar precinct in the world”

Authorities announced environmental approvals for SunCable’s US$24 billion project in Australia’s remote north that is slated to power 3million homes.

The project, which will include an array of panels, batteries and, eventually, a cable linking Australia with Singapore, is backed by tech billionaire and green activist Mike Cannon-Brookes.

Universal Bound on Effective Central Charge and Its Saturation

The effective central charge (denoted by c_eff) is a measure of entanglement through a conformal interface, while the transmission coefficient (encoded in the coefficient c_LR$ of the two-point function of the energy-momentum tensor across the interface) is a measure of energy transmission through the interface. It has been pointed out that these two are generally different. In this Letter, we propose the inequalities, $0lec_LRlec_efflemin(c_L,c_R). They have the simple but important implication that the amount of energy transmission can never exceed the amount of information transmission. We verify them using the AdS/CFT correspondence, using the perturbation method, and in examples beyond holography.

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