Articles written by Lior Kahana

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New mooring system for offshore, coastal floating PV arrays The novel mooring solution consists of perimeter pontoons, barriers, clump weights, mooring lines and anchors. Its creators claim it is cheaper in materials and maintenance, as well as more wave-stable, compared to mooring systems using elastic cables.
Lior Kahana
Aug 09, 2023
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Including flood, erosion hazards in solar project site selection New research from Turkey shows the need for a more rigorous approach to PV site selection due to increasing hydrological extremes. The scientists claim that fixed-distance buffer zones are not sufficient to protect solar farms from flood and erosion hazards.
Lior Kahana
Aug 07, 2023
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Solar, storage, and V2G at the core of Israel’s future energy system New research has shown that Israel has the technical potential to deploy 172.5 GW of photovoltaics, of which 132.1 GW would be from conventional installations and 40 GW from agrivoltaics. If deployed, this full potential would require energy storage with a capacity of at least 500 GWh and strong development of vehicle-to-grid technologies.
Lior Kahana
Aug 04, 2023
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Preheating hydrogen with heat pumps may reduce cost of green H2 for heating by 10% UK researchers suggested utilizing heat pumps to preheat hydrogen to very high temperatures, which they said could reduce the need for hydrogen by more than 20%. The process is also claimed to have the potential to reduce the European industry’s energy demand by approximately 200 TWh per year.
Lior Kahana
Aug 03, 2023