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03.24.23- Energy Transition Advocates Get A Reality Check
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03.23.23- Oil Prices Under Pressure From Oversupply And Economic Uncertainty
Although prices had inched up right after the Fed’s monetary policy meeting, which concluded with a decision for a 25-basis-point interest rate hike, they got pressured by comments made by chair Jerome Powell about credit risks in the banking system of the country. Read More |
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03.22.23- Lithium Prices Hit Hard
Since November, the average price of battery-grade lithium carbonate in China has plunged from $84,500 per metric ton to $42,500, or about a 50% decline, according to Bloomberg. Read More |
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03.21.23- The Evolution of Residential Energy Storage
When solar energy for residential properties first became popular toward the end of the 20th century, an overwhelming majority of systems ran on batteries. But in the early 2000s, governmental policies including net metering, tax credits, and other local incentives de-emphasized the importance of batteries during solar installs. Read More |
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03.20.23- Can The Lithium Price Boom Be Compared To Oil’s Last Supercycle
At the same time, I often heard people say “But this time is different. This time there is no easy cure.” I heard that in 2008 when oil prices first topped $100 a barrel. Many people were predicting $200 a barrel. But a funny thing happened. Those high oil prices caused a recession, which reduced demand, which reduced prices. Read More |
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03.18.23- The U.S. Is Racing To Revitalize Its Nuclear Industry
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03.17.23- The Real Reason Why Automakers Slashed EV Prices
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03.16.23- Global Oil Production Dropped
Global oil production declined by 365,000 barrels per day (bpd) in January, which was the third consecutive month of falling output, showed the JODI data shared by the Riyadh-based International Energy Forum (IEF). Read More |
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03.15.23- Oil Nosedives After SVB Collapse
The collapse tech and climate startup bank was quickly labeled the biggest bank failure since the 2008 crisis and the second-biggest in history. And as it fell, it took oil prices with it. Read More |
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03.14.23- America’s Grid Has A Multi-Trillion Dollar Problem
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03.13.23- Can Double-Sided Solar Panels Help Meet Global Energy Demands?
Published in the journal Joule, this study from the SUNLAB team in the Faculties of Engineering and Science proposes a characterization method that will improve the measurement of bifacial panels indoors by considering external effects of ground cover such as snow, grass and soil. This will provide a way to consistently test bifacial solar panel performance indoors that accurately represents how the panels will perform outdoors. Read More |
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03.11.23- Why Illinois Needs To Reconsider Its Total Moratorium On Nuclear Energy
But Illinois nevertheless maintains a decades-long, total moratorium on new nuclear power plant construction. Illinois’ shortsightedness is exceeded by its hubris. Federal government safety standards for construction and operation of nuclear plants is extraordinarily strict. Read More |
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03.10.23- The U.S. Solar Industry Is Set To Rebound In 2023
Last year, new solar capacity additions in the United States fell by 16% from 2021 for a total of 20.2 gigawatts (GW), according to the report U.S. Solar Market Insight 2022 Year in Review. Read More |
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03.09.23- When the Economy Gets Squeezed by Too Little Energy
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03.08.23- Understanding Peak Oil: What It Is And Why It Matters
The answer lies in the concept of peak oil - the point at which global petroleum production reaches its maximum potential and begins to decline. Read More |
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03.07.23- The Six Weirdest Sources Of Energy: A Closer Look
Here is a closer look at six of the weirdest sources of energy:Read More |
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03.06.23- Calls to ban gas stoves are anti-science, anti-freedom, and anti-energy
Instead of informing us with accurate science about gas stoves so we can make better decisions, anti-fossil fuel activists are distorting science to justify forcing their anti-gas agenda on us.
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03.04.23- And Now, for Something Entirely Different: We’ll Soon Find Out
In an interview with Fox News’s Bret Baier last Tuesday, FBI Director Chris Wray said, “The FBI has for quite some time now assessed that the origins of the pandemic are most likely a potential lab incident in Wuhan.” Like so much else in America’s tortured, distractible life these days, the meaning larded into that utterance went clear over the collective heads of just about everybody.Read More |
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03.03.23- Green Hydrogen Will Play A Critical Role In A Net-Zero Future
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03.02.23- ‘New Fuels’ Take Over Commodity Markets Of The Future
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03.01.23- TAE makes world-first readings of magnetically-confined hydrogen-boron fusion
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02.28.23- Inflation Reduction Act: Opening Up Green Hydrogen Possibilities
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02.27.23- GE installs world's first spiral-welded wind turbine tower
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02.25.23- U.S. Oil Drilling Activity Retreats For Second Week In A Row
The total rig count fell to 753 this week—103 rigs higher than the rig count this time in 2022 and 322 rigs lower than the rig count at the beginning of 2019, prior to the pandemic. Read More |
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02.24.23- Attacks On The U.S. Power Grid Are Surging
Last year, the number of physical attacks – including intrusion, vandalism, and gunfire – jumped by 71% from 2021, according to the Electricity Information Sharing and Analysis Center, or E-ISAC, a division of North American Electric Reliability Corporation. Read More |
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02.23.23- Could Gravity Batteries Win The Energy Storage War?
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02.22.23- Silver mirror triples efficiency of perovskite solar cells
Perovskites are one of the most promising new materials for solar cell technology. Now engineers at the University of Rochester have developed a new way to more than triple the material’s efficiency by adding a layer of reflective silver underneath it. Read More |
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02.21.23- Electric Vehicles Are Anti-Market and Anti-Environment
While I was doing my biweekly commute I couldn’t help myself notice, from time to time, a stranded car leaning on the side of the road. It usually was an older (about twenty-year-old) German car, but sometimes newer cars also. Read More |
02.20.23- And Now. for Something Entirely Different: The Offensive Begins Next Week
Putin is now officially scheduled to give a big State of the Nation address on February 21st, which falls precisely on the anniversary of his pivotal Feb. 21, 2022 speech where he first announced the recognition of LPR/DPR’s independence, leading the way to the big Feb. 24 speech which announced the actual full military launch of the SMO invasion. Read More |
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02.18.23- Surging Energy Prices Could Push 141 Million People Into Extreme Poverty
Total energy costs of households are set to jump by between 62.6% and 112.9%, contributing to a 2.7% to 4.8% increase in household expenditures, researchers said in the study published in the journal Nature Energy. Read More |
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02.17.23- Puerto Rico Has Big Plans For Renewables, But Can It Deliver?
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02.15.23- The Next Leg Of The Space Race Is All About Solar Power
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02.14.23- "Exceptional" new catalyst cheaply splits hydrogen from seawater
Green hydrogen can't be viewed as environmentally friendly if it drinks huge amounts of fresh water, or results in the bulk output of toxic chlorine, according to RMIT researchers who say they've come up with a cheap technique that does neither. Read More |
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02.13.23- The Future Is Bright
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02.11.23- Researchers Look To Turn Decommissioned Mines Into Batteries Renewable energy sources are central to the energy transition toward a more sustainable future. However, as sources like sunshine and wind are inherently variable and inconsistent, finding ways to store energy in an accessible and efficient way is crucial. While there are many effective solutions for daily energy storage, the most common being batteries, a cost-effective long-term solution is still lacking. Read More |
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02.10.23- How inverter design contributes to long-term profitability of solar and storage
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02.09.23- Small Modular Reactors
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We are witnessing a revolution. After the stunning debut of OpenAI's Dall-E 2 image generatorlast year, the company opened its natural language generator up to the public at the end of November last year. Since then, it's spread like wildfire, amassing more than 100 million users in its first two months, making it the fastest-growing consumer application in history and the buzzword of the year. Read More |
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02.07.23- Tidal Energy To See
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02.06.23- South Australia plans world's largest electrolyzer and H2 power plant
The state that built the world's first grid-level "big battery" is striking out on an even more ambitious green energy project: the world's biggest hydrogen power station, fed by an electrolysis facility 10 times larger than anything running today. Read More |
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02.04.23- Nuclear Power Is Entering A New Era
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02.03.23- Multi-layer "liquid window" tech could help buildings save energy
By adjusting the opacity of the glass on existing photochromic windows, users can control how much sunlight passes through the window and into the room. In most cases, the glass partially blocks the sunlight's visible spectrum – keeping the room from getting too bright – along with its infrared spectrum, keeping the room from getting too warm. Read More |
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02.02.23- Acid coating converts regular electrolyzers to split seawater
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02.01.23- China’s Low Aluminum Production Worsens Supply Chain Challenges
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01.31.23- Small Modular Nuclear Reactors Are A Game Changer For Clean Power
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01.30.23- Are You Really Against Fossil Fuels? Read This Before You Answer
But are people aware of the extent to which their lives are dependent on fossil fuels? Do they know that more than 90 percent of things used in their everyday lives are derived from fossil fuels? Read More |
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01.28.23- Sodium-Ion Batteries Just Got More Competitive
Their study paper was made available online on October of 2022 and will be published in Volume 453, Part 1 of the Chemical Engineering Journal on 1 February 2023. Read More |
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01.27.23- Will Geothermal Energy
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01.26.23- How Environmental Fear-mongering Derailed The Nuclear Energy Boom
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01.25.23- The Energy Crisis Is Fueling A Nuclear Energy Renaissance
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01.24.23- U.S. Gasoline Prices
Gasoline prices are up 11.8 cents over a week ago, and are 9.4 cents higher than they were a year ago, before Russia’s “special military operation” in Ukraine. Read More |
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01.23.23- The Road To Decarbonization: Ammonia-Powered Trucks Take the Lead
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01.21.23- SpaceX Rocket Sends Solar Power Prototype Into Orbit Space solar power provides a way to tap into the practically unlimited supply of solar energy in outer space, where the energy is constantly available without being subjected to the cycles of day and night, seasons, and cloud cover. For more lots more images, gifs and video, here are the links: 1st, Cal Tech’s press release.Then 2nd, the project web site. Read More |
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01.20.23- How Significant Was The Latest Nuclear Fusion Breakthrough?
First, let’s discuss some basics of nuclear fusion. Today’s nuclear power plants are based on nuclear fission, which is the splitting of a heavy isotope like uranium-235 into two smaller isotopes. (Isotopes are just different forms of an element). Read More |
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01.19.23- Fur-lined double-barrel generator harvests energy from slow waves
Researchers at the Pacific Northwest National Laboratory (PNNL) have developed an unusual way to harvest wave power, with a gently rolling cylinder designed around the triboelectric effect that causes static shocks after you walk on certain carpets. Read More |
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01.18.23- IEA: Half Of All Cars Sold In Top Markets Will Be Electric By 2030
In 2030, every second car sold in Europe, the US, and China, the three largest car markets for electric cars, will be an electric car, the IEA’s Executive Director Fatih Birol said on Tuesday at the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland. Read More |
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01.17.23- Dung-powered tractor drives down agricultural emissions The system, upon which New Holland has partnered with UK company Bennamann, works roughly like this: farmers collect as much cow poop as possible as a slurry, and instead of directly using it as fertilizer, they pump it into large tanks, or covered lagoons. Anaerobic organisms chow down on this lumpy thickshake, and produce a biogas that contains mainly methane. Read More |
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01.16.23- Biofuel Production Is Set To Soar
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01.14.23- Where Are Oil Prices Heading In 2023?
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01.13.23- Why Oil's 7-Month Downturn May Be About To Reverse
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01.12.23- Concentrated photosynthesis device promises cheap green hydrogen
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01.11.23- World's new largest wind turbine sweeps 10 football fields per spin
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01.10.23- Form Energy's ultra-cheap
One of the most exciting companies in grid-level renewable energy storage – if you're the type to get excited about this kind of thing – is Form Energy, whose innovative iron-air technology promises to outperform lithium "big battery" projects at 10% of the cost. It's preparing to scale up with its first factory. Read More |
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01.09.23- The LNG Boom Could End With Billions In Stranded Assets
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01.07.23- Andurand: Oil Prices Could Exceed $140 If China's Economy Fully Reopens
Andurand sees the possibility of crude oil demand growing by more than 4 million barrels per day this year—a 4% increase over last year. This far exceeds crude demand growth set out for 2023 by other oil market forecasters. Read More |
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01.06.23- What Would It Take To Completely Decarbonize Jet Fuel?
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01.05.23- Hong Kong Scientists Unveil Two New Hydrogen Production Catalysts
In the first topic the researchers’ findings have been published in the scientific journal Nature Communications under the title “Two-dimensional mineral hydrogel-derived single atoms-anchored heterostructures for ultrastable hydrogen evolution”. The first author of the paper is Dr Lyu Fucong from CityU. The corresponding authors are Professor Lu, Dr Li Yangyang, Associate Professor in MSE, and Dr Sun Ligang, Assistant Professor in the School of Science at the Harbin Institute of Technology. Read More |
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01.04.23- Renewable Energy Jobs On The Rise
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01.03.23- Will Big Plans For Nuclear Power Work Without Russian Uranium?
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01.02.23- The Fall Of Tesla And The Rise of Exxon Amid The Energy Crisis
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