The impact from the disposal of infrastructure required to deliver electricity from the grid is not included due to the anticipated use of this infrastructure in the future even after implementation of the alternative solution. The carbon footprint of the baseline solution was calculated following Eq...
“If rapid progress in AI is to continue, we need to reduce its environmental impact,” says John Cohn, an IBM fellow and member of the MIT-IBM Watson AI Lab. “The upside of developing methods to make AI models smaller and more efficient is that the models may also perform better.”...
where the infrastructure investment costs mainly include Qchar, the battery-charging device and installation fee, and Qline, the construction fee for short-distance medium or low voltage transmission lines used to connect wind farms and battery-charging stations. E is the average annual charge capaci...
where the infrastructure investment costs mainly include Qchar, the battery-charging device and installation fee, and Qline, the construction fee for short-distance medium or low voltage transmission lines used to connect wind farms and battery-charging stations. E is the average annual charge capaci...
This forces an over-dimensioning in the BESS’s number of cells in parallel (given that the number of cells in series is fixed), and indicates that those BESS configurations may not be the best option for feeding an industrial infrastructure by themselves since, even though technically viable,...
On the other hand, an optimum configuration with the minor battery weight could be found, which would result in a minor purchase price and would be less effective at reducing travel costs and emissions. If battery size was used as a rule, it would be possible to find other optimum solutions...
In open pits, due to low costs, the methods of water stemming and pre-wetting of the block where the explosion will occur are most often used to form nitrous acid which settles on the ground. However, this method does not meet the requirements when there is a significant amount of toxic...