AEGIS Critical Energy Defence and Ontario Tech University are advancing research into the future of secure, resilient marine power.

Backed by an approved $480,000 Mitacs Accelerate research project, the collaboration is developing the intelligence needed to safely coordinate nuclear generation, fast-response energy storage and changing marine power demands.

The research explores a digital twin-enabled energy management and control framework for SMR/MMR-based hybrid energy systems, with potential long-term applications including floating power platforms serving ports, defence installations, remote communities and industrial sites.

The project brings together expertise across nuclear systems, energy management, smart-grid control and cybersecurity to develop and test the technologies required for safe, secure and resilient operation.

CHAPTERS

00:00 A $480K Research Milestone
00:22 The Floating Power Platform
00:56 The Brain of the System
01:24 Nuclear-Aware Microgrid Controller
01:37 Testing It Before Building It
02:07 From Research to Reality
02:36 Global Momentum
02:52 AEGIS 3+1 Research Strategy
03:06 Building the Path to Secure Marine Power

AEGIS Critical Energy Defence × Ontario Tech University

Secure. Resilient. Marine Power.

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Standard Uranium is a Canadian junior uranium exploration company looking to make the next big discovery in the Athabasca Basin region of northern Saskatchewan, Canada.

With a proven track record of high-grade uranium discovery, our Company's exploration team is focused on finding the fuel to power a clean energy future.

Our flagship Davidson River Project is located in the heart of the Patterson Lake Uranium District in the southwest Athabasca Basin, an area ripe with potential for futher uranium discoveries. With only a handful of holes drilled on the Project, we have only just begun to scratch the surface of what the property holds.

The Company will continue advancing aggressive drilling campaigns on the Davidson River Project as we search for the next big Canadian uranium discovery - building towards our clean energy future.

We are listed on the Canadian TSX-V: STND, U.S. OTC: STTDF and German Frankfurt exchange: 9SU.

Critics say the state's dependence on solar and wind have made the power grid unreliable and overly expensive.

California's rolling blackouts this summer were caused by decades of costly and poorly planned decisions to replace coal, nuclear, and gas-powered plants with solar and wind, according to some energy experts.

"It speaks to the delusion of California policymakers," says Michael Shellenberger, the president of Environmental Progress, which advocates for greater reliance on nuclear power as a way to reduce CO2 emissions and provide reliable energy. "They really convinced themselves that they could manage all of this increased demand on renewables, which are fundamentally unreliable." 

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Exploring solar panel efficiency breakthroughs in 2020. The past year has had some really interesting advancements with perovskite and multijunction solar cells, which are going to have a big impact. Plus, what if I told you it might be possible to harvest power from shadows?

The metal lithium has become integral to our daily lives, due to its essential role as a battery material in electronic devices. Over the next several decades, the rising popularity of electric vehicles is expected to mean the demand for lithium will increase even more -- so companies that mine the metal are racing to improve their productivity. Science correspondent Miles O’Brien reports.

The Tesla 2170 Lithium-Ion battery cell and other high capacity lithium-ion battery cell technologies all represent the first hopeful steps in transitioning society towards a new standard in practical and economical transportation via electric vehicles.

HOW BATTERIES WORK

The modern incarnation of the electrochemical battery is credited to the Italian scientist Alessandro Volta, who put together the first battery in response to the misguided findings of his colleague, Luigi Galvani. Volta suspected that the electric current came from the two dissimilar metals and it was being transmitted through the frogs’ tissues, not originating from it. Volta had developed the first electrochemical battery, known as a voltaic pile.

Individual cells can be combined into configurations that can both increase the total voltage and current capacity. This is known as a battery. On primary batteries, the electrodes become depleted as they release their positive or negative ions into the electrolyte, or the build-up of reaction products on the electrodes prevents the reaction from continuing. This results in a one-time use battery.

In secondary batteries, the chemical reaction that occurred during discharge can be reversed.

FIRST RECHARGEABLE BATTERY

In 1859, the French physicist Gaston Planté would invent the lead-acid battery, the first-ever battery that could be recharged. By the 1880s, the lead-acid battery would take on a more practical form with each cell consisting of interlaced plates of lead and lead dioxide.

In the early 1900s, the electric vehicle began to grow in popularity in the United States, after thriving in Europe for over 15 years. Within a few years, most electric vehicle manufacturers had ceased production.

NiMH

In the late 1960s, research had begun by the global communications company COMSAT, on a relatively new battery chemistry called nickel-hydrogen. Designed specifically for use on satellites, probes, and other space vehicles, these batteries used hydrogen stored at up to 82 bar with a nickel oxide hydroxide cathode and a platinum-based catalyst anode that behaved similarly to a hydrogen fuel cell. The pressure of hydrogen would decrease as the cell is depleted offering a reliable indicator of the batteries charge.

Though nickel-hydrogen batteries offered only a slightly better energy storage capacity than lead-acid batteries, their service life exceeded 15 years and they had a cycle durability exceeding 20,000 charge/recharge cycles. By the early 1980s their use on space vehicles became common. Over the next two decades research into nickel-metal hydride cell technology was supported heavily by both Daimler-Benz and by Volkswagen AG resulting in the first generation of batteries achieving storage capacities similar to nickel-hydrogen, though with a 5 fold increase in specific power. This breakthrough led to the first consumer-grade nickel-metal hydride batteries to become commercially available in 1989.

REVIVAL OF ELECTRIC CARS

Almost 100 years after the first golden age of electric vehicles, a confluence of several factors reignited interest in electric vehicles once again. This initiative intersected with the recent refinement of nickel-metal hydride battery technology, making practical electrical vehicles a viable commercial option to pursue. By the late 1990s, mass-market electric vehicle production had started once again. Taking a more risk-averse approach, many automakers started to develop all-electric models based on existing platforms in their model line up.

MODERN ELECTRIC CARS

Despite lithium-ion batteries becoming a viable option for electric vehicles, the second half of the 1990s into the mid-2000s were primarily dominated by the more risk-averse technology of hybrid-powered vehicles. And even these successful early models such as the Toyota Prius were generally still powered by Nickel-metal hydride battery technology.

At the time lithium-ion batteries were still relatively unproven for vehicle use and also cost more per kWh. Around 2010, The cathode material of lithium-ion cells would once evolve with the advent of lithium nickel manganese cobalt oxide cathodes or NMC. Curiously, Tesla is known for being the only manufacturer who does not use NMC cell technology but rather much older lithium nickel cobalt aluminum oxide cathode, or NCA.

COBALT

With the surge in consumer adoption of electric vehicles, comes a rise in the demand for the lithium-ion batteries that power them. While roughly half of the cobalt produced is currently used for batteries, the metal also has important uses in electronics, tooling, and superalloys like those used in jet turbines. More than half of the world’s cobalt comes from the Democratic Republic of the Congo. With no state regulation, cobalt mining in the region is also plagued with exploitative practices.

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