New energy efficient mobility trends from IAA motor show 2011
I have just come back from the Frankfurt Motor Show 2011 in another EU-project called Clean Drive.
It was very interesting to see that the focus of this year is on smaller and low-consumption combustion or electric vehicles. However, even though the car manufacturers have made significant progress in the development of hybrid technologies, the demand for large vehicles such as SUV is still growing in emerging markets, such as BRIC countries.
Energy efficiency: Using old mines as underground pumped storage plants as a promising approach?
One of the topics the participants discussed about during EnercitEE’s Component Seminar in Växjö, was what kind of innovative energy storages for energy from RES are currently being developped. The university of Duisburg-Essen in Germany’s densly populated Rhine-Ruhr area is investigating the potential to use abandoned mines in the Ruhr area as potential storages for water of underground pumped storage plants.
You can read about this interesting idea under the following link.
http://theenergycollective.com/erica-grigg/48639/underground-pumped-storage-plants-green-power-mines
