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07.26.24- Revolutionary grid-scale wave energy generator deployed in Hawaii
Measuring 125 x 59 ft (38 x 18 m) with a draft of 31 ft (9 m), the OE-35 was already a familiar sight in Kaneohe Bay on the Windward side of Oahu. Fixed just north of M?kapu Peninsula, which is home to a US Marine Corps base that I became very familiar with years ago when its F-18 fighters used to go blasting over my anchored boat in the early morning. Read More |
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07.25.24- Inside the High-Stakes Battle for
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07.24.24- Offshore wind farm charges floating boats in world first
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07.23.24- Massive 40-MW floating wind turbine array wins major tick of approval
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07.22.24- China Has Just Gained First-Mover Advantage In Nuclear Fusion
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07.20.24- Africa Emerges As Focal Point In Global Oil & Gas Exploration
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07.19.24- Oil and Gas Are Here To Stay
With those signs, others have been flashing red, too. Despite the push against oil and gas, these are here to stay for the long haul—and demand won’t even decline that much after peaking, according to the latest energy outlook of BP. Read More |
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07.18.24- "Smart soil" grows 138% bigger crops using 40% less water
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07.17.24- Energy: The Foundation Of Modern Economies
These policies often distort the economics of power production, leading to a massive misallocation of capital and overinvestment in unreliable solar and wind projects. Reliable electricity supply requires consistency every second of the day, not just minute-by-minute, but also over weeks, months, and years. My past experience in forecasting electricity demand for a five-year horizon showed that wind and solar forecasts fail to meet this requirement. Read More |
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07.16.24- The Offshore Wind Energy Scandal Is Even Worse Than You Think
Two of Europe’s biggest energy companies are abandoning the SS Offshore Wind. Read More |
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07.15.24- Houston we Have a Problem
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07.13.24- India Looks to Russia for Reliable Uranium Supply
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07.12.24- Has The Extreme Bear Market in Natural Gas Come to an End?
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07.11.24- The Nationwide 500,000
The charade I refers to is President Biden’s $7.5 billion dollar investment to install 500,000 electric charging stations along America’s highways by 2030. A reliable and convenient public EV charging infrastructure is critical to achieve the President’s goal of meeting the recent EPA CO2 emission regulation that require nearly 72% of U.S. new light vehicle sales to be fully electric or plug-in hybrid by 2032. Read More |
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07.10.24- Why U.S. Oil and Gas Production Is Slowing Down
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07.09.24- Fusion energy companies unite to accelerate commercial power
Though the field of fusion energy research is dominated by a few major efforts, there are today about 50 privately funded fusion startups in 12 countries that have garnered over US$5.6 billion in investments. Most of them claim that they will be able to achieve commercial fusion power by 2030. Read More |
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07.08.24- And Now, for Something Entirely Different: The ATF Has Resumed Openly Murdering Americans
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07.06.24- Why U.S. Oil and Gas Production Is Slowing Down
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07.05.24- Beryl May Threathen Core of U.S. Refining Industry
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07.04.24- World's biggest geothermal power purchase agreement now in the bag
It's only been one year since Fervo Energy unveiled a novel concept in geothermal energy harvesting at its Project Red pilot plant in Nevada. Instead of drilling vertical bores that deliver water into the hot rocks lying beneath the Earth's surface, it used techniques from the oil and gas industry to break up rocks, drive water through them horizontally, and collect the resultant steam to drive turbines at the surface. Read More |
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07.03.24- Offshore wind turbine platform pivots downwind like a weathervane
Setting up wind farms at sea seems like a logical idea. Sea breezes tend to blow regularly and open water provides a more predictable and dependable wind pattern than on land. Plus you don't have to worry so much about compulsory purchase of the building site. Read More |
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07.02.24- Transatlantic Energy Highway: Is a Global Power Grid on the Horizon?
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07.01.24- U.S. Oil, Gas Drilling Activity Plummets
The total rig count fell by 7 to 581 this week, compared to 674 rigs this same time last year. The number of oil rigs fell by 6 this week, after falling by 3 in the week prior. Oil rigs now stand at 479—down by 66 compared to this time last year. The number of gas rigs fell by 1 this week to 97, a loss of 27 active gas rigs from this time last year. Miscellaneous stayed the same at 5. Read More |
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06.29.24- Fast-charging sodium-ion battery uses anodes made from trees
A byproduct of wood pulp manufacturing, lignin has long been investigated for possible use as a more sustainable electrode material. Finnish renewable materials company Stora Enso made headlines in 2022 when it partnered up with Swedish battery manufacturer Northvolt toward using its proprietary Lignode material in lithium-ion battery anodes. Stora Enso describes Lignode as a hard carbon material refined from lignin. Read More |
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06.28.24- Is This The World's Very Last
Ali's lecture went viral as he slammed Sackur and the West for benefiting from the advantages of oil and gas for decades and now having the hypocrisy of trying to lecture poorer countries about their own plans for using oil and gas to their advantage. Guyana's oil wealth is also, in a sense, going viral. Read More |
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06.27.24- Renewable Energy Growth Fails To Offset Fossil Fuel Dominance
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06.26.24- U.S. Remains The World’s Most Attractive Renewables Market
EY’s Renewable Energy Country Attractiveness Index (RECAI) has ranked the top 40 markets to reflect its assessments of market attractiveness and global market trends. Read More |
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06.25.24- Citi Forecasts Oil Price Drop
Oil has recouped the losses from early June when the OPEC+ group's indication that it could begin returning some supply to the market in the fourth quarter sent bearish signals across the market. Read More |
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06.24.24- Is Big Solar Beating Big Oil in 2024?
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06.22.24- Green hydrogen breakthrough swaps in water for iridium
Hydrogen shows a lot of promise as a powerful, clean fuel source – as long as the process that creates it is also green. A new report shows how tough it might be to get to truly green hydrogen, while a new study removes a barrier to its creation. Read More |
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06.15.24- Canada Poised to Reclaim Top Spot as World's Largest Uranium Producer
A new report from Bloomberg highlights that Canada's Saskatchewan province is the epicenter of the country's uranium mining boom:Read More |
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06.14.24- OPEC Slams IEA For "Dangerous" Forecast Of Peak Oil Demand By 2030
Some net-zero scenarios suggest that oil should not be part of a sustainable energy future, Read More |
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06.13.24- U.S. LNG Shipped to Asia Is Still
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06.12.24- The Hydropower Industry Is Facing an Existential Threat
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06.11.24- Mesmerizing vertical turbine wall to enter customer trials this year
The idea in 2021 was to build a mesmerizing wall of 25 vertical-axis turbines, each connected to a generator for a total peak power output of 10 kilowatts. Read More |
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06.10.24- Scientists Inch Closer to the Holy Grail of Clean Energy
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06.08.24- HotTwist water-based thermal system cuts heating bills by 75%
Simply put, heat pumps are designed to take thermal energy (heat) from one medium and give it to another. Your fridge, for instance, takes heat from the air inside and pumps it outside, cooling the interior. An air conditioner works in a similar way, cooling the inside of your house (or heating it in winter). Read More |
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06.07.24- So-Called “Green Economy”
What’s going on here? Doug Casey: Solar and wind energy can be useful. But generally only for special applications or remote locations where regular power is uneconomic or unavailable. Read More |
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06.06.24- China's Abundant Solar and Wind Resources Drive Green Hydrogen Projects
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06.05.24- Occidental Joins Berkshire In New Lithium JV
The merger isn’t out of left field. Occidental’s wholly-owned subsidiary TerraLithium has patented DLE technologies that can process any lithium-containing brine “into a responsibly sourced supply of high-purity lithium,” Oxy said. As for BHE, it operates 10 geothermal power plants in California that process 50,000 gallons of lithium-rich bring every minute, producing 345 MW of “clean energy”. Read More |
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06.04.24- 3 Reasons There’s Something Sinister With the Big Push for Electric Vehicles
Congressman Thomas Massie—an electrical engineer—revealed this information while discussing with Pete Buttigieg, the Secretary of Transportation, President Biden’s plan to have 50% of cars sold in the US be electric by 2030. Read More |
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06.03.24- Global Investment Surges in Green Ammonia Research and Development
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06.01.24- Small modular nuclear reactors get a reality check in new report
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05.31.24- World's Largest Nuclear Plant Remains Idle Despite Energy Crisis
Bloomberg reported this week that the Kashiwazaki Kariwa Nuclear Power Plant, recognized by Guinness World Records for its potential 8.2 gigawatt output, stands idle despite being central to Japan's goal of deriving 50% of its energy from nuclear power by 2030. Read More |
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05.30.25- White House Embraces Nuclear, Makes Biggest Push In Five Decades
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05.29.24- Solar Power Set to Soar
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05.28.24- U.S. Remains Painfully Dependent on China for Silicon and Solar Panels
Silicon for Solar Panels: A Geopolitical Imbalance? Read More |
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05.27.24- Thermal power cell harvests electricity from heat at record efficiency
With renewable energy prices dropping fast, the barrier now is their intermittency – the first point any renewable energy skeptic will throw at you is “but what happens at night or when the wind isn’t blowing?” A little thing called “batteries” can help there, and there’s no shortage of grid-scale storage systems that can save energy for (literally) rainy days. That includes scaling up classics like lithium-ion batteries, or more experimental designs like iron-air, water-in-salt, flow batteries, or a variety of gravity-based systems. Read More |
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05.25-24- Copper prices to quadruple on surging green demand, legendary oil trader Pierre Andurand says
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05.23.24- China’s Rapid Nuclear Expansion Is Threatening U.S. Dominance in the Sector
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05.23.24- China’s Rapid Nuclear Expansion Is Threatening U.S. Dominance in the Sector
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05.22.24- A Promising Solution to Boosting Ethanol Production
The findings have been published in the Journal of the Science of Food and Agriculture. Read More |
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05.21.24- What is residential energy storage and how does it work?
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05.20.24- Russia Discovers Massive Oil and Gas Reserves in British Antarctic Territory
The reserves uncovered contain around 511bn barrels worth of oil, equating to around 10 times the North Sea’s output over the last 50 years. Read More |
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05.18.24- Oil, Gas Activity in U.S. Holds Steady
The total rig count rose by 1 to 604 this week, compared to 720 rigs this same time last year. Read More |
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05.16.24- 40% of US lithium needs could come from unlikely source in Pennsylvania
Thanks to the increase of electric vehicles and other battery-using technologies, the demand for lithium is expected to skyrocket in the coming years. One odd but potent source of the metal is a Pennsylvania wastewater stream, says a new study. Read More |
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05.15.24- Machine Learning Could Make Geothermal Energy More Affordable
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05.14.24- Volcanic ash: The cheapest battery for solar energy storage
We've written a number of times about super-cheap thermal energy storage, and a number of other times about highly efficient heat batteries operating at super-high temperatures. The cheapest of these 'brick toasters' use the most abundant of materials, and the most efficient can handle extraordinarily high temperatures using materials like liquid tin and carbon materials – but volcanic ash, as it turns out, might offer a kind of goldilocks proposition in the middle for certain applications. Read More |
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05.13.24- World's highest-efficiency hydrogen system scales up for mass production
Hysata promises the world's cheapest hydrogen, thanks to a remarkable device that splits water into H2 and O2 at 95% efficiency – some 20% higher than the best conventional electrolyzers. The company has raised US$111 million to scale up production. Read More |
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05.11.24- Nuclear Energy: The New Geopolitical Battleground
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05.10.24- China Controls 80% of World's Solar Panel Supply Chain
In this graphic, Visual Capitalist's Bruno Venditti illustrates the rise in installed solar photovoltaic (PV) capacity in China, the EU, and the U.S. between 2010 and 2022, measured in gigawatts (GW). Bruegel compiled the data... Read More |
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05.09.24- Argentina To Mine Bitcoin With Stranded Gas
Argentina's energy sector is increasingly turning to Bitcoin, this time with a state-owned facility using stranded natural gas from oil fields that would otherwise be wasted. Read More |
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05.08.24- Drilling into magma: Risky plan takes geothermal to supercritical extremes
The Krafla Magma Testbed (KMT) "has the potential to be for geoscientists what the Large Hadron Collider has been for particle physicists." So say researchers working on the project to drill straight into a magma chamber to explore massive geothermal power. Read More |
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05.06.24- Sea-bed 'air batteries' offer cheaper long-term energy storage
Israeli company BaroMar is preparing to test a clever new angle on grid-level energy storage, which it says will be the cheapest way to stabilize renewable grids over longer time scales. This innovative system lets water do the work. Read More |
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05.04.24- "I've Been Totally Ghosted": After Install, Solar Panels Become
That was the case with a number of solar panel owners who are now finding it difficult to get their panels serviced, according to WBAL TV. Solar panel installation is touted as offering benefits like reduced energy costs, environmental friendliness, and significant rebates. However, many homeowners have discovered a concerning issue within the industry: addressing technical problems can be exceedingly challenging -- if not outright impossible. Read More |
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05.03.24- Lithium-free sodium batteries exit the lab and enter US production
Two years ago, sodium-ion battery pioneer Natron Energy was busy preparing its specially formulated sodium batteries for mass production. The company slipped a little past its 2023 kickoff plans, but it didn't fall too far behind as far as mass battery production goes. It officially commenced production of its rapid-charging, long-life lithium-free sodium batteries this week, bringing to market an intriguing new alternative in the energy storage game. Read More |
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05.02.24- The Stage Is Set for a Resurgence of Nuclear Power in the U.S.
"There are a couple of nuclear power plants that we probably should, and can, turn back on," Jigar Shah, director of the US Energy Department's Loan Programs Office, told Bloomberg in an interview. Read More |
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With shares of CCJ tumbling earlier today after the company reported soggy Q1 earnings, despite its recent initiating coverage report by an enthusiastic Goldman Sachs which sees the Uranium company at the forefront of the "Next AI trade" and slapped it with a $55 price target (as we reported previously), the uranium trade suddenly found itself in need of a miracle. Read More |
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03.18.24- The U.S. Is Betting Big on Small Nuclear Reactors
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03.16.24- U.S. Uranium Producers Reviving Abandoned Mines Amid Supply Squeeze
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03.15.24- Elon Musk: AI will run out of electricity and transformers in 2025
In a dial-in Q&A to close the Bosch Connected World conference, the recent Nobel Peace Prize nominee spoke about self-driving cars and humanoid robots, and hinted at what's coming next from Tesla in electric vehicles – but he clearly wanted to send the clearest possible signal to industry as well: Get going on clean energy generation, and make as many electrical transformers as you can. Read More |
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03.14.24- Can Nuclear Power “Decarbonize” the Oil and Gas Industry?
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03.13.24- IEA, OPEC Divergence on Oil Demand Becomes Too Big To Ignore
This has led to a growing divergence between the IEA's and OPEC's outlooks on the future of the commodity, increasing the risk of confusion among analysts and investors. The question "Who's right?" has become a legitimate one. Read More |
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03.12.24- Giant 'sand battery' holds
The sand battery, developed by Polar Night Energy, is a clever concept. Basically, it’s a big steel silo of sand (or a similar solid material) that’s warmed up through a heat exchanger buried in the center, using excess electricity from the grid – say, that generated during a spike from renewable sources, when it’s cheap. Read More |
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03.11.24- New Lithium Ion Conductor Redefines Solid-State Battery Design
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03.09.24- China’s Rare Earth |
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03.08.24- Texas Wildfires Underscore Increasing Risk for Utilities
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03.07.24- Cutting-Edge AI Identifies New Catalysts for Hydrogen Electrolysis
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03.05.24- Startups and Big Oil Use Fracking Tech To Unlock Geothermal Energy
Geothermal energy, which has been around for decades, has received new momentum with the net-zero targets of many economies, including the United States. Read More |
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03.04.24- Solar Stocks Rally on Optimistic Guidance
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03.02.24- Seawater plant will capture 10 tons of CO2 and make 300 kg of H2 per day
According to the World Bank, average global carbon dioxide (CO2) emissions in 2020 were 4.3 metric tons (9,500 lb) per capita. With this figure in mind, researchers from the UCLA Samueli School of Engineering have been working to trap atmospheric CO2 from the oceans in an effort to reduce it. Read More |
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03.01.24- Elon Musk: AI will run out of electricity and transformers in 2025
In a dial-in Q&A to close the Bosch Connected World conference, the recent Nobel Peace Prize nominee spoke about self-driving cars and humanoid robots, and hinted at what's coming next from Tesla in electric vehicles – but he clearly wanted to send the clearest possible signal to industry as well: Get going on clean energy generation, and make as many electrical transformers as you can. Read More |
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02.29.24- This Might Be The Fastest Way to Double U.S. Grid Capacity
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02.28.24- Europe Set for 50 TWh Solar Power Boom in 2024
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02.27.24- Could Solar Power Become America’s Leading Electricity Source?
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02.26.24- Bumpy solar cells could harvest up to 66% more energy
Solar cell efficiency may get a bump from bumps. New research suggests that building tiny domes into the surface of organic solar cells could boost their efficiency by up to two-thirds, while capturing light from a wider angle. Read More |
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02.24.24- EVs Are a Bust
When in March 2020, the world’s governments decided to “shut down” the world’s economies and throttle any and all social activity, and deny kids schooling plus cancel worship services and holidays, there was no end to the warnings of the terrible collateral damage, even if most of them were censored. Read More |
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02.23.24- Trillions of tons of buried hydrogen: Clean energy gold rush begins
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02.22.24- Nuclear SMR welding breakthrough:
Modular reactors have the potential to revolutionize the nuclear power industry by turning nuclear generating plants from major civil engineering projects to factory-produced commodities. Instead of being essentially one-offs, modular reactors have a standardized design, can be mass produced, installed in any number required to serve local needs, and don't require the incredibly expensive buildings conventional reactors depend upon. Read More |
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02.21.24- World On Threshold Of Natural Hydrogen "Gold Rush," Geologists Say
The scientists provided a first look at the findings of an as-yet-unpublished study performed by the US Geological Survey (USGS). The key takeaway: naturally-occurring hydrogen is far more abundant near the Earth's surface than previously known. Researchers say the planet holds upwards of 5 trillion tons of hydrogen, trapped in underground pockets. Read More |
02.20.24- And Now, for Something Entirely Different: Congress Is Broken
“In this present crisis, government is not the solution to our problem; government is the problem.” So said Ronald Reagan on January 20, 1981, in his first inaugural address. We were reminded of these words last Wednesday when Tennessee Republican Congressman Mark Green said, “I have come to realize our fight is not here within Washington, our fight is with Washington” (emphasis added). Read More |
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02.19.24- 10 Reasons Why The World Can't Run Without Fossil Fuels
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02.17.24- Solar Panel Waste is Becoming
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02.16.24- Advanced geothermal drilling is 70% faster and 50% cheaper than 2022
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02.15.24- Wyoming Rare Earth Discovery Could Shake Up Global Markets
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02.14.24- Why Are China’s Solar Panels
China’s Grip on Solar The Wall Street Journal asks Can the U.S. Break China’s Grip on Solar? Read More |
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02.13.24- Historic fusion ignition in a lab experiment confirmed
Creating nuclear fusion is relatively easy to produce. All you need are the conditions that place hydrogen isotope ions under the right conditions of heat and pressure to cause them to fuse into helium. In fact, it's so easy that it was the centerpiece of a General Electric exhibit that ran for 10 hours a day at the 1964 World's Fair. Read More |
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02.12.24- Fusion Breakthrough Could Spark AI and Quantum Computing Boom
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02.10.24- Nuclear Energy's Role
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02.09.24- The Delusions Of Davos And Dubai, Part Three: Alternatives To Wind & Solar Energy
But as an impressive fleet of private jets has recently migrated from the COP 28 Summit in Dubai to the World Economic Forum in Davos, carrying the hoi polloi of the world from one elitist summit to another, this delusion was the dominant sentiment. Read More |
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02.08.24- Is the Push for Electric Vehicles Outpacing Market Readiness?
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02.07.24- Self-extinguishing lithium battery puts out its own fires
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02.06.24- And Now, for Something Entirely Different: Brace for Impact
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02.03.04- Global Plant Growth Accelerates Thanks to Higher Carbon Dioxide Levels, New Study Finds
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02.02.24- Uranium Prices Soar As World Turns
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02.01.24- Home Battery Storage Explained
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02.31.24- Battery-free sensor harnesses the power of speech
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01.30.24- Navigating the Land Crunch in Renewable Energy Expansion
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01.27.24- New Law Could Put Geothermal On Equal Footing With Oil And Gas
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01.26.24- Why Lithium Prices Crashed by 80%
China's EV sales continued to grow last year but fell short of expectations. On the other hand, raw material providers, which had rushed to mine lithium in the past two years to meet growing demand, have outproduced the current demand. As a result, lithium prices crashed last year by over 80% to the lowest level since 2020, at $13,200 per ton, Benchmark Mineral Intelligence says, as carried by the Financial Times. Read More |
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01.25.24- Self-powered emergency seawall could generate power during tsunamis
There are only around two tsunamis a year worldwide that cause death or damage, according to the US Tsunami Warning System. Larger ones capable of causing death or damage more than 1,000 km (620 miles) from their point of origin happen at a rate around two per decade. Read More |
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01.24.24- Floating Solar Farms: Southeast Asia's Answer to Land Scarcity
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01.23.24- "Power plant" generates electricity via the wind and rain on its leaves
While renewable energy sources certainly are more eco-friendly than fossil fuels, most of them only produce electricity in one way, such as using sunlight … which isn't always available. A new system, that has been built into an artificial plant, uses both wind and rain. Read More |
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01.22.24- Canada Dominates Global Uranium Production
Since 2014, the site has mined 105 million pounds of the radioactive metal, which is naturally occurring on Earth. It is the largest uranium mine on the planet. Read More |
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01.20.24- Protecting Coasts and Powering Homes: The Tidal Range Revolution
The research report published in Energy (an open access paper), follows on from earlier Lancaster University research into a combined tidal range electricity generation and cost model demonstrating the viability of tidal range energy in the UK. This showed how it is possible to maintain the full tidal range within existing dams or weirs. Read More |
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01.19.24- Space-Based Solar Farms Could Power the Planet from Orbit
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01.18.24- New Methane Emission Laws Could Transform U.S. Energy Sector
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How stupid is BC’s energy policy? We could be the Saudi Arabia of electricity for the price of one $16-billion Site C dam
BC taxpayers will also cough up $5.3 billion worth of tax breaks for a liquefied natural gas (LNG) plant and pipeline called LNG Canada — three more LNG projects are proposed, all connected by pipelines, to ship natural gas fracked from BC gas fields to customers in Asia. Read More |
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01.16.24- "Dirt-powered fuel cell" draws near-limitless energy from soil
Microbial fuel cells, as they're called, have been around for more than 100 years. They work a little like a battery, with an anode, cathode and electrolyte – but rather than drawing electricity from chemical sources, they work with bacteria that naturally donate electrons to nearby conductors as they chow down on soil. Read More |
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01.15.24- Copper's Critical Role
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01.13.24- Geopolitical Risks Push Oil Prices Higher
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01.12.24- Uranium's "Third Bull Market"
The uranium market is only getting hotter, and continued tightness could push prices over $100, analysts from Bank of America and Berenberg Bank wrote in two separate notes. Read More |
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01.11.24- Scientists Present New Solid State Lithium Battery That Lasts 6000 Cycles
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01.10.24- This Is What They Don’t Want You to Know About the Climate Agenda |
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01.09.24- Big Oil’s Ambitious Decarbonization Strategies Have Gone Bust
In April of the same year, deep in the throes of the oil price crash, BP’s Dutch peer Shell Plc (NYSE:SHEL) warned that global oil demand had been permanently destroyed and effected its biggest dividend cut since the Second World War. Read More |
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01.08.24- Germany Leads the Way in Solar Energy Across Europe
As Statista's Anna Fleck details below, the capacity of the Federal Republic in that year was more than twice as high as Italy's, which ranked second with 25 gigawatts. Read More |
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01.06.24- Home Battery Storage Explained
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01.05.24- Chinese Carmakers Launch Sodium-Ion Battery-Powered EVs
Yiwei, a new EV subsidiary of JAC Group and backed by Volkswagen, debuted the first sodium-ion battery-powered electric car on Wednesday. Back in 2021, Volkswagen invested 1 billion euros in JAC Group for a 50% stake with the giant German automaker before full control of management of the EV joint venture with a 75% stake. Read More |
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01.04.24- Is It Time To Refill America’s Strategic Petroleum Reserve?
Prices at the pump fell between $0.17 and $0.42 per gallon. With the massive withdrawals and previously scheduled mandatory sales, the SPR shed 270 million barrels and fell to the lowest in 40 years.Read More |
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01.03.24- 2023 May Have Been the U.S. Oil Industry’s Best Year Yet
After the pandemic, many pronounced the shale boom dead. Of course, those same people found out in 2023 that this wasn’t strictly true. Despite a continued focus on capital discipline and the flurry of cash they returned to shareholders, U.S. drillers managed to boost their overall output to over 13.2 million barrels daily in September. And they did it with fewer rigs, at that. And with zero—if not negative—support from the federal government. Read More |
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01.02.24- We’re on the Verge of a Reset of Expectations in the Oil Sector
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01.01.24- Next-Gen Solar Cells: Smaller, Cheaper, More Efficient The cells, with a size twice the thickness of a strand of hair, have significant advantages over conventional solar technologies, reducing electrode-induced shadowing by 95% and potentially lowering energy production costs by up to three times. Read More |
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12.30.23- There's hope yet: Clean energy advances that inspired us in 2023
Let's start out with the problem. The world currently produces somewhere approaching 30 terawatt-hours of electricity per year – a total that's rising sharply as developing countries modernize, and as developed countries pour country-sized quantities of energy into making internet coins and training artificial intelligences, among many other things. Read More |
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12.29.23- The Energy Transition Is Not Just About EV Batteries
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12.28.23- A New Solar Powered Desalinization Method Might Have Just Helped
Scientists may have found a more efficient water to desalinate water using solar power, according to new research, offering a solution for global water scarcity through the use of renewable energy. Read More |
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12.27.23- Will The War On Coal Leave America
U.S. climate envoy John Kerry said on Dec. 2 at the U.N. COP 28 global warming summit that the Biden administration “will be working to accelerate unabated coal phase-out across the world, building stronger economies and more resilient communities.” Read More |
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12.26.23- The Green Mirage: Unmasking the Harsh Realities of Renewable Energy Investments
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12.25.23- Schottky Junction Electrode Revolutionizes Seawater Electrolysis
Green hydrogen (or H2) produced from renewable energy resources is expected to be the fuel of a decarbonized future. Electrolysis or splitting of water into oxygen and hydrogen with the help of an electrochemical cell is one of the most popular ways of producing green H2. Read More |
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12.23.23- Falling Nickel Prices Weigh Heavy on Stainless Steel Industry
Overall, the Stainless Monthly Metals Index (MMI) remained bearish, with a 6.59% decline from November to December. Read More |
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12.22.23- Navigating the Uranium Surge: Explosive Growth Ahead?
Hosted by Jimmy Connor, this session provides critical insights into the uranium sector, which is vital for investors interested in commodities and wealth-building. Read More |
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12.21.23- Electrified cloth
By current estimates, there are about 8 million tonnes of known reserves of uranium on land. That's enough to fuel the world's nuclear reactors for centuries based on current technology, but in the sea there is an estimated 4.5 billion tonnes in the form of dissolved uranyl ions. If we could extract this economically, it would vastly extend our energy future. Even better, as uranium is removed from seawater, more would leach in from the Earth's crust, providing our descendants with over a billion years worth of nuclear fuel at any scale. Read More |
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12.20.23- U.S. Nuclear Sector Set for
Denying the world access to clean, affordable fuels like gas, oil, and coal is a real problem. But recognizing that nuclear energy must play a pivotal role in our energy future is a major step forward—one that should enjoy widespread support, regardless of one’s views on CO2 reductions. Read More |
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12.19.23- Quantum batteries could charge by breaking our understanding of time
In a sense, you could say that quantum batteries are powered by paradoxes. On paper, they work by storing energy in the quantum states of atoms and molecules – but of course, as soon as the word “quantum” enters the conversation you know weird stuff is about to happen. In this case, a new study has found that quantum batteries could work by violating cause-and-effect as we know it. Read More |
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12.18.23- Solar Stocks Jump After Fed Keeps Interest Rates Flat
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12.16.23- White-hot thermal grid battery aims to decimate lithium on price
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12.15.23- New Catalyst and Solar Process Produces Low Cost Hydrogen
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12.14.23- Chinese Scientists Present Solar Powered Water Harvesting Technology
Their work was published in Applied Physics Reviews, an AIP Publishing journal. Read More |
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12.13.23- Another Major Milestone in the Race for Nuclear Fusion
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12.12.23- Have Reports of Oil’s Death Been Greatly Exaggerated?
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12.11.23- The Crippling Economic Costs of Green Energy Subsidies
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12.09.23- China’s Plan for Flooding the Market with Cobalt
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12.08.23- MIT Scientists Develop New Process To Convert CO2 into Fuel
The describing paper has been published in the journal Cell Press Physical Sciences. Read More |
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12.07.23- And Now, for Something Entirely Different: Diamond data storage breakthrough writes and rewrites down to single atom
Diamond has great potential as a data storage medium – recent developments have produced 2-inch (5-cm) wafers of the stuff that can store the equivalent of a billion Blu-Ray discs. Intriguingly, it works not by writing data to the diamond itself but to tiny nitrogen defects in the material. These defects can absorb light, earning them the name “color centers.” Read More |
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12.06.23- United States And Allies To Triple Nuclear Energy Capacity By 2050
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12.05.23- Let the Market, Not Government, Decide the Fate of EVs
That seems to hold true for New Mexico Governor Michelle Lujan Grisham, who wants state tax credits and mandates on the purchases of electric vehicles (EVs). On November 16, the Governor’s appointed Environmental Improvement Board adopted a stringent clean car rule that requires 82 percent of all new vehicles delivered to the state to be zero-emission by 2032. Read More |
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12.04.23- Could Coal Mines Become a Critical Part of the Renewable Energy Boom?
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"Private jets in Munich on the way to Dubai global warming conference are literally frozen on the runway, which has turned into a glacier," said Ryan Maue, a meteorologist and former NOAA chief scientist. Read More |
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12.01.23- The First-Ever Enhanced Geothermal Plant in the United States
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11.30.23- Hydrogen Fuel Cell Aircraft Startup Secures Funding
The firm, which has bases in London, Kemble and California, said it had raised a total of $116m (£91.9m) in Series C funding from a number of investors, including £32m from the UK’s state-owned infrastructure investment bank. Read More |
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11.29.23- The Recipe for $150 Oil
Both wars are ongoing and cataclysmic impacts may yet be felt. Here’s where events stand at the moment. Let’s start with the war in Ukraine… From a strategic perspective, the situation in Ukraine resembles a smaller-scale version of the situation in Europe in late 1944. At that point, the Allies had successfully completed the D-Day invasion and liberated Paris. Read More |
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11.28.23- A Global Rush for Uranium Could Harm the UK’s Nuclear Power Ambitions
Nuclear power currently provides about 10 percent of the world’s electricity. And, despite this relatively small market share, – fossil fuels account for 61 percent and renewables 29 percent – nuclear energy, and by extension uranium production, is big business. Read More |
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11.27.23- Farmers Embrace Dual-Purpose Land Use with Solar Panels
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11.25.23- Arizona solar canal project aims to save water while making power
With a similar project planned for California still yet to get started, the US$6.74-million project becomes the first of its kind to begin construction in the USA. The first phase aims to build solar photovoltaic shades stretching across the 1-10 Level Top canal for a length of around 1,000 ft (305 m). Read More |
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11.24.23- Hydrogen Set to Compete with Fossil Fuels
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11.23.23- Will Battery Storage Make Gas Power Generation Redundant?
Fast forward five years, and we have Reuters reporting that battery storage technology has advanced so far that utilities are now canceling plans for new gas generation capacity. But that’s not the whole story. Read More |
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11.22.23- Global Uranium Shortage Spurs Investment Frenzy
Nymex futures tracking physical-market contracts of uranium ore topped $80.25 per pound on Monday, the highest level since February 2008. Since we first recommended uranium stocks in December 2020, in a note titled "Buy Uranium: Is This The Beginning Of The Next ESG Craze,"uranium ore prices have soared 173%. Read More |
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11.21.23- And Now, for Something Entirely Different: An Answer Long-Overdue
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11.20.23- China's Shift to Renewable Energy Could Curb Emissions Sooner Than Expected
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11.18.23- Private Sector Takes Lead
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11.17.23- Heating Homes With Natural Gas Is More Than 40% Cheaper Than Electricity: US EIA
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11.16.23- Ocean Thermal Energy:
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11.15.23- Experimental Geothermal Lab Taps Bedrock Heat For Green Power
The lab, funded since 2018 with $220 million from the U.S. Department of Energy, sits atop bedrock that reaches a blistering 465 degrees Fahrenheit. With this limitless supply of heat deep under the ground, the lab is commissioned to test geothermal energy solutions through a trial and error experimental approach. Read More |
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11.14.23- Colombia’s Cocaine Boom Is Fueling An Unprecedented Spike In Oil Theft
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11.13.23- A Nuclear Renaissance
But as the pandemic effects of supply chain shortages, the war in Ukraine, and higher government spending gave way to inflation hikes, suddenly all eyes were on utility bills. In 2021, Americans spent as much as 25% more on energy than in the previous year. Read More |
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11.11.23- NRG Sells Billion-Dollar Stake In Texas Nuclear Power Project
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11.10.23- Short Sellers Circling
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11.09.23- The Problem With Refilling The Strategic Petroleum Reserve
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11.08.23- LNG And Offshore Energy Projects Face Delays As Nickel Prices Soar
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11.07.23- LNG Trading Made The Difference For Oil Supermajors In Q3
Shell and TotalEnergies, the world’s largest and second-largest LNG traders, respectively, reported strong gas trading earnings thanks to the open arbitrage to Asian markets in the third quarter. But BP, another major with a typically strong gas trading business, saw weak results in the division between July and September, which dragged overall earnings below analyst estimates. Read More |
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11.06.23- Will Petrochemicals Continue
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11.04.23- Africa’s Geothermal Power Sector Set To Overtake Europe
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11.03.23- France Uncovers Massive White Hydrogen Deposit
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11.02.23- Hedge Funds Bet Big
A dozen years after the disaster at Japan's Fukashima reactor put nuclear energy on worldwide probation -- and in, Germany, gave it a death sentence -- various factors are combining to bring it back into the acceptable realm of energy solutions. Read More |
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11.01.23- Supercritical CO2 pilot aims to make steam turbines obsolete
Ribbons were cut at the Supercritical Transformational Electric Power (STEP) pilot plant in Texas on October 27 as it was declared "mechanically complete" by project partners Southwest Research Institute (SwRI), GTI Energy, GE Vernova, and the U.S. Department of Energy. Read More |
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10.31.23- Perovskite Solar Cell Breakthrough Boosts Performance At High Temperatures Perovskite solar cells are a promising frontier in the solar energy landscape, known for their impressive power conversion efficiency. However, they have one significant drawback: they don’t tend to perform well when exposed to high temperatures. Read More |
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10.30.23- Plastic Waste Becomes Clean Hydrogen Goldmine
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10.28.23- American Small Reactor Development Suffers From Short Sellers
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10.27.23- Water-injected 2.0-liter turbo-four hydrogen engine spits out 410 hp
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10.26.23- How China Increasingly Dictates The Speed Of The Energy Transition
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10.25.23- Germany And France Finally Compromise On Nuclear
Here is the background, simplified. France depends heavily on nuclear power generated by state-owned EDF. Existing French nuclear plants will require major capital improvements and the plants under construction are enormously expensive. The French government wants to subsidize its nuclear program, but other European Union (EU) countries (especially Germany) objected, because state subsidies are not in the spirit of the EU’s energy markets. The market should determine prices, and should determine the appropriate means to supply the demand, the opponents argue. Read More |
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10.24.23- The Growing Importance Of Graphite In The Clean Energy Economy
In what now seems like the ancient past, pencils were used to fill out bubble sheet forms and tests because the machines that read them did so by sensing the electrical conductivity of the graphite-filled ovals. (Today, optical scanners read such forms by sensing the reflectivity of the ovals.) Read More |
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10.23.23- Why Solar Stocks Are
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10.21.23- Global Natural Gas Supply Needs $7 Trillion Investment To Meet Demand
As countries look to cut emissions and shift to gas from coal, these investments will have to go to development of new gas fields, construction of new LNG export facilities, and expansion of existing plants, according to an IEEJ report cited by Bloomberg. Read More |
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10.20.23- World’s Electric Grids Incapable Of Supporting Renewable Energy Goals: Agency
In order to achieve climate goals set by global governments, more than 80 million kilometers (49.7 million miles) of electric grids have to be added or refurbished by 2040, which is the “equivalent of the entire existing global grid,” according to the Oct. 17 IEA report. Even though “electrification and renewables deployment are both picking up pace,” there is a risk of the clean energy transition stalling due to a lack of “adequate grids to connect the new electricity supply with the demand.” Read More |
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10.19.23- What A Bloody Mess!'
We now have two dangerous wars, maybe we will have a global war. We have a coming collapse of stock markets and debt markets and a banking system which probably will not survive in its present form. But there is always another side of the coin. Read More |
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10.18.23- EV Battery Costs Could Surge By 22%
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10.17.23- Why Uranium has
Doug Casey: First of all, consider simple physical reality. Uranium is the cleanest, cheapest, and safest form of mass power generation. I understand that most people will be shocked to hear that, so let me explain. Read More |
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10.14.23- For Clean Energy Stocks, It’s All About Bond Yields Right Now
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10.13.23- The Nuclear Microreactor Race
"By 2030, we're pretty convinced we'll be the first company to sell microreactors," said Nano Nuclear CEO James Walker, a nuclear physicist who previously led the development of the Rolls-Royce Nuclear Chemical Plant. Read More |
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10.12.23- New neodymium-doped material can fish uranium out of seawater
As the planet begins its slow move away from carbon-based fuel sources, alternative energies are coming to the fore. While solar, wind, and hydroelectric technologies tend to steal the spotlight in this arena, nuclear energy is still a mighty contender. In fact, in 2017, it contributed to about 10% of the world's energy production and in 2022, 8 GW of new nuclear power joined the global grid. Read More |
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10.11.23- Hamas Attack Brings Middle East War Premium Back To Oil Markets
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10.10.23- Are You Ready For What Comes Next?
Well that sure was a weekend of lies, misinformation, disinformation, and laying the ground work for the next stage in their Great Reset plan. The regime media is dutifully propagandizing the masses with the utterly ridiculous tripe that somehow rock throwing Hamas “terrorists” completely surprised the most militarized country in the world, launched 5,000 rockets, slaughtered hundreds, Read More |
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10.09.23- AI-Tech Leads To NASA Energy Breakthrough
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10.07.23- Time To Tell America's
Rishi Sunak, Britain's Tory prime minister, seems to have bravely adopted at least some of that mission by challenging Britain's radical climate agenda. It is a lesson for the United States. Read More |
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10.06.23- Hawkish Fed Triggers Renewable Stock Drop Despite Biden's Backing
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10.05.23- Small Nuclear Reactors: The Answer To Big Tech's Energy Crisis?
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10.04.23- Huff 'n' puff geothermal fracking: Earth batteries at 200% efficiency
The "huff & puff" method, as it's known, is adapted here from a similar technique that's used in oil production, where a fluid – often steam – is injected into a shale oil deposit and left there for several hours to heat the oil, reducing its viscosity and making it easier to pump out. Read More |
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The origin of petroleum or natural gas may seem like a strange debate to have but determining whether this fuel is a fossil fuel or not is important. If these fuels are truly fossil fuels, then they are limited in supply and alternative energy resources would need to be created at some point. Read More |
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10.02.23- And Now, for Something Entirely Different: The Greatest Show on Earth |
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09.30.23- Game-Changing Titanium Dioxide Electrode Transforms CO2 To Clean Fuel The work was made available and published in the journal Science of the Total Environment. Read More |
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09.29.23- The Answer to American Electric Grid Reliability Is Fuel Cells
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09.28.23- Wind And Solar Dreams Clashing With Hard Economic Facts
In that report, the IEA stated there was no need for new oil and gas exploration—even back then—because alternative energy sources were taking over quickly. Read More |
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09.27.23- The Utility-Scale Energy Storage Market Is Booming Again
This grim reality was exposed by Jim Robb, President and CEO of the North American Electric Reliability Corp (NERC), in 2021 shortly after the infamous Texas power grid failure as he lamented the country’s limited power backup system. Robb’s observation came at a time when large-scale energy storage was just taking off following a nearly 90% decline in prices of lithium-ion batteries over the past decade. Unfortunately, the sector suffered a massive blow after Covid-19 triggered huge supply chain disruptions leading to hundreds of clean energy projects being canceled or delayed. Read More |
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09.26.23- Uranium Investors Bet Big On Nuclear Renaissance
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09.25.23- Space-Based Solar Power Could Become A Reality
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09.23.23- Oil Keeps Flowing Uphill,
It is going from bad to worse at a pace where you can feel the change every day now. Oil has rapidly risen to a price level where it is changing trading strategies on Wall Street, and China has sunk to a level that it’s making businesses question whether to do business in China at all. Read More |
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09.22.23- New BRICS Members Solidify The Bloc’s Renewable Leadership
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09.21.23- Oil, Cracks Soar After Russia Bans Diesel, Gasoline Exports
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09.20.23- A New Energy Era: Wind And Solar Outpace Hydropower
Over the past decade, the global growth rate of renewable energy trounced every other energy source. During that period, modern renewables (excluding hydropower and geothermal) grew exponentially, at an average annual rate of 12.6%. Renewables were the only energy category that grew globally at double digits over the past decade. For perspective, in 2010 the world consumed 10.6 exajoules of renewable energy. In 2022, that reached 45.2 exajoules. The 5.2 exajoule increase in renewable consumption in 2022 was a record increase for one year, and it set a new all-time high for renewable energy consumption in a year. Read More |
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09.19.23- Fueling up Inflation
Energy prices, specifically gasoline, were the biggest culprit of August's hotter-than-expected Consumer Price Index print released last week. Read More |
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09.18.23- Low-emissions flash method upcycles waste plastic into "free" hydrogen
Hydrogen is used to power vehicles, generate electricity, and heat our homes and businesses. Hydrogen contains more energy per unit of weight than fossil fuels, which is important from an environmental standpoint as the main cause of global greenhouse gas emissions is the release of carbon dioxide from burning fossil fuels. Read More |
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09.16.23- An Apparently Unstoppable Oil Price Rally
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09.15.23- China's Solar Boom:
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09.14.23- Single-bladed floating wind turbine promises half the cost, more power
Most of the world's best wind resources are way offshore, in ocean far too deep to exploit with typical fixed-tower turbines. The deep sea could thus make a huge clean power contribution, while creating far less trouble wildlife than onshore wind farms. Read More |
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09.13.23- $1.5 Trillion Dollars Worth Of 'White Gold' Found In Supervolcano
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09.12.23- WTI Breaks Out To New Nov Highs After OPEC Data Shows Huge Supply Shortfall
If realized, it could be the biggest inventory drawdown since at least 2007, according to a Bloomberg analysis of figures published by OPEC’s Vienna-based secretariat. Read More |
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09.11.23- Africa’s Energy Transition Plan
Africa currently accounts for a measly 4% of global carbon dioxide emissions. A variety of organizations want it to stay that way. Read More |
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09.09.23- China Races Ahead In Global Nuclear Power Development
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09.08.23- Europe And The U.S. Gear Up For A Geothermal Boom
Despite its many obvious benefits, geothermal energy--which taps the heat within the earth’s crust--is criminally underutilized in the United States. In 2019, the U.S. generated ~18,300 GWh from geothermal sources. While that appears impressive at first glance, that figure works out to just 0.4% of U.S. power generation. Read More |
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09.07.23- Subsidies Spark Green Energy Gold Rush In Conservative Regions
With several hundred billion available in the form of subsidies for solar and wind farms, EV manufacturing, and batteries, among others, the Inflation Reduction Act passed by Congress last year has prompted a race among states for a piece of the subsidy pie. Read More |
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09.06.23- China's Appetite For Lithium Grows Despite Downturn In Prices
The report explained how China’s reach continues to grow in terms of minerals, particularly those critical to products that have major implications for the future. Faced with more restrictive foreign investment policies in the developed markets, Chinese firms are turning their attention to mining. This includes buying up key minerals like lithium and cobalt in locations such as Africa. S&P Global believes China will continue to build its influence over these minerals and the industries that rely on them as it works with governments keen on foreign investments across the developing world. Read More |
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09.05.23- China's #1 oil company says peak gasoline demand has already passed
According to CNEV Post, Chinese new car buyers are now choosing "new energy vehicles" (NEVs, meaning battery-electric and plug-in hybrid cars) at a rate of 37.8%, a percentage which has rocketed up from 30.0% in 2022, 15.5% in 2021 and just 5.4% in 2020. Read More |
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09.04.23- Infrastructure Struggles To Keep Up
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09.02.23- New Data Proves Nuclear Energy Is Safer Than You Think
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09.01.23- Fluorinated Aniliniums Lead To A Breakthrough In Perovskite Solar Cells
Perovskite solar cells (PSCs) have gained attention for their high power-conversion efficiencies and low-cost solution processing. However, ensuring their stability at high temperatures has been a challenge, as the points of contact between their different layers (“interfaces”) are susceptible to degradation, leading to energy loss and decreased performance. Read More |
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08.31.23- Saving the Environment from Environmentalists
– Whale carcasses on Martha’s Vineyard fuel speculation about wind turbines, New Bedford Light, June 22, 2023 Read More |
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08.30.23- Tech Breakthrough Makes $2.5 Trillion Hydrogen Boom Possible
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08.29.23- Ultra-hot carbon batteries promise super-cheap heat and energy storage
It's all in the name of decarbonizing heavy industry – a job that simply needs to be done, and a tricky one given the intermittent nature of renewable energy. It's easy for factories to run 24/7 when there's fossil fuel available to create heat as required, but what about when the Sun's not shining? Read More |
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In July, reports surfaced that India and the UAE have inked an agreement that allowed the BRICS member to use rupees instead of the US dollar when trading with the Middle Eastern nation. Read More |
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08.26.23- Graphite Wars: The Trillion Dollar Battery Race Has A Big Problem
So far, it’s all been done backwards, which is how many revolutionary ideas unfold … Read More |
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08.25.23- Next Hurricane Could Shut-In 40% Of Gulf Of Mexico Production
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08.24.23- Innovative Electrolyzer Paves Way For Sustainable Propane Production
The paper published in Nature Energy discusses the pioneering research. As the United States races toward its target of net-zero greenhouse gas emissions by 2050, innovative methods to reduce the significant carbon dioxide emissions from electric power and industrial sectors are critical. Read More |
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08.23.23- Southeast Asia's $76 Billion
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08.22.23- What To Expect From This Week’s BRICS Summit
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08.21.23- Solar catalyst captures methane to create pure hydrogen and carbon
Researchers at the University of Central Florida's Nanoscience Technology Center and Florida Space Institute say they've come up with a boron-rich photocatalyst, engineered with nanoscale defects, or structural irregularities, that allow it to split hydrocarbon chains like methane into harmless components. Read More |
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08.19.23- Recycling Breakthrough Makes Plastic Waste A High Value Commodity
Although many Americans dutifully deposit their plastic trash into the appropriate bins each week, many of those materials, including flexible films, multilayer materials and a lot of colored plastics, are not recyclable using conventional mechanical recycling methods. Read More |
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08.18.23- Waterless high-density hydro makes more energy from less elevation
It's one of the simplest and lowest-tech ways to store energy and then recover it on demand: use cheap energy during the day to pump a bunch of water up a big hill into a tank, then release it slowly at night, letting gravity do its work and running a turbine to generate energy as and when you need it. Read More |
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08.17.23- Another Blow To The Petrodollar:
Indian Oil Corp. bought a million barrels of oil from Abu Dhabi National Oil Company in a dollar-free transaction. Read More |
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08.16.23- New Mexico Looks To Become A Renewable Powerhouse
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08.15.23- What Happens When Essential Commodities Become Luxuries?
The world seemed so well supplied with everything in the previous decade that the shortages of this decade seem shocking to those with memories that do not extend further back than 2010. Read More |
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08.14.23- Morocco’s Green Energy Potential: Europe's Ticket Away From Russian Fuel?
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08.12.23- How Extreme Temperatures
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08.11.23- The Looming Oil Crisis
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08.10.23- Helium Wars: Why Are Tech Giants Fighting Over This Rare Gas?
What battery metals are to gigafactories, helium is to everything from scientific research, medical technology and high-tech manufacturing to space exploration and national defense. Read More |
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08.09.23- The DOE Is Betting Big On A Geothermal Game-Changer In Utah
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08.08.23- Another New Nuclear Reactor Energizes U.S. Clean Energy Hopes
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08.07.23- Our Oil Predicament Explained: Heavy Oil And The Diesel Fuel It Provides Are Key
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08.05.23- RADIOACTIVE Fish Near Fukushima Renews Concerns of Nuclear Wastewater
The radioactive fish was caught near drainage outlets at the TEPCO plant, where three nuclear reactors melted down amidst a tsunami in March 2011. Rainwater from areas near the reactors flows into the area where the fish was caught. Read More |
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Mainstream media now frequently talks about "climate lockdowns" as a good thing -- to cease human activity on planet Earth in order to "save the planet" from so-called climate change, a wholesale fabrication and fake science fraud rooted in the lie that carbon dioxide is somehow bad for life on the planet. (Without it, there would be no photosynthesis, no plants, no animals and no humans.) Read More |
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08.03.23- Green Hydrogen's Potential In Propelling Eco-friendly Aviation
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08.01.23- Low-cost additive turns concrete slabs into super-fast energy storage
MIT researchers have discovered that when you mix cement and carbon black with water, the resulting concrete self-assembles into an energy-storing supercapacitor that can put out enough juice to power a home or fast-charge electric cars. Read More |
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07.31.23- Green Hydrogen Gets Greener With Record-Breaking Solar Device
According to a study published in Nature Communications, the device achieved a 20.8% solar-to-hydrogen conversion efficiency. Today the study is not behind a paywall. Read More |
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07.29.23- And Now, for Something Entirely Different: Virgin birth at Cambridge thanks to genetically modified fruit flies By decoding a genetic process responsible for asexual reproduction, researchers induced virgin births for the first time in a normally sexual fruit fly species. It was then discovered that the remarkable trait was passed down to all of the flies' daughters. The finding could help scientists find new ways to protect crops from insect pests that are increasingly able to reproduce without mates. Read More |
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07.28.23- The Green Energy Revolution Is Fueling A Modern-Day Gold Rush
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07.27.23- Cheap proton batteries compete with lithium on energy density
That's as compared to the ~260-odd Wh/kg delivered by the lithium-ion batteries in a current Tesla Model 3 battery pack, but without using any lithium, thus avoiding a forecasted lithium squeeze, as well as geopolitically sensitive dependence on China in the battery supply chain, and all kinds of end-of-life issues. Read More |
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07.26.23- Endurance Of Electric Vehicles Falters In Extreme Heat
Auto blog Carscoops first reported that data science company Recurrent tested several EVs to "analyze the relationship between batteries and their range." Recurrent's data found that if temperatures rise over 100 degrees Fahrenheit, then the ranges of EVs diminish. Read More |
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07.25.23- Arkansas Could Lead America’s Lithium Production Boom
Mining firms Standard Lithium and Tetra Technologies, as well as supermajor ExxonMobil, are looking to build lithium extraction capacities in Arkansas and source one of the most important metals for the energy transition via a process called direct lithium extraction (DLE). Read More |
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07.24.23- Fervo heralds a revolution in geothermal power technology
There's a near-unlimited amount of clean energy under our feet, in the form of hot rocks. You can generate clean electricity 24/7 – not intermittently, like solar and wind – if you can get water down into that rock and back to the surface to drive steam turbines. A reliable source like this would make the clean energy transition much smoother. Read More |
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07.22.23- African Solar Panels are
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07.21.23- Agrivoltaics: A Game Changer for Land Use In Renewable Energy
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07.20.23- Navigating The Hurdles Of Green Hydrogen Production
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07.19.23- New Startup Looks To Blend AI And Nuclear Energy
Solving the trilemma and meeting climate goals will necessarily involve systems transformation at an unprecedented scale, which will depend on an intelligent, responsive, and flexible computing system able to recognize and predict complex patterns of production and consumption. Already, AI is playing a major role in renewable energy, maximizing efficiency of power production, and research and development of new materials. Read More |
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07.18.23- Renewables surprisingly "on track" to meet net zero by 2050
"The fossil fuel era is over," claims the report, titled X-Change: Electricity - On Track for Net Zero and published by the Rocky Mountain Institute (RMI) – a non-partisan, non-adversarial sustainability research and consulting organization headquartered in Colorado. The report was put together in partnership with the Bezos Earth Fund. Read More |
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07.17.23- Adding sugar to flow battery creates huge power and longevity boost
Flow batteries – well, most flow batteries, anyway – aren't the kinds of things you'd expect to find in a car or laptop. They're typically best suited to large, long-duration energy storage jobs, so there's been a lot of interest in them in recent years, as cities struggle to work out how to smooth out the daily, seasonal and weather-related intermittency of renewable energy sources. Read More |
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07.15.23- Washington Unleashes $20 Billion In Clean Energy Funds
The $20 billion in funds is part of the EPA’s Greenhouse Gas Reduction Fund. Read More |
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07.14.23- The Rise Of Perovskite: A Quantum Leap In Solar Panel Efficiency
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07.13.23- China’s Dominance of Crucial Rare Earth Elements and What Comes Next
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07.12.23- MIT’s Groundbreaking Discovery In The Intriguing World Of Superconductivity
Under certain conditions some materials shift their structure to unlock new, superconducting behavior. This structural shift is known as a “nematic transition,” and physicists suspect that it offers a new way to drive materials into a superconducting state where electrons can flow entirely friction-free. Read More |
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07.11.23- Big Oil's Radical Proposal: Curtail Consumption, Not Production
Now, Big Oil is the one calling for a reduction in energy consumption. Essentially, supermajors have suggested that people should use less of their products. But they don't want to slash production. Read More |
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07.10.23- The Promise And Controversy of Bamboo Biofuels
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07.08.23- The Bearish Case For Oil Markets
Moreover, the recent announcement of OPEC+ to cut 1 million barrels a day in July also failed to push oil prices higher, indicating underlying weakness in the global economy. Read More |
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07.07.23- Innovative Supply Chain Model Marks A New Era For Hydrogen Hydrogen has been touted as the clean fuel of the future; it can be extracted from water and produces zero carbon emissions. However, it is currently expensive to transport over long distances, and currently no infrastructure is in place to do so. Read More |
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07.06.23- Biden Blocking Sun & Destroying Earth |
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07.05.23- The world’s appetite for solar panels is squeezing silver supply
Silver, in paste form, provides a conductive layer on the front and the back of silicon solar cells. But the industry is now beginning to make more efficient versions of cells that use a lot more of the metal, which is set to boost increasing consumption. Read More |
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07.04.23- And Now, for Something Entirely Different: More Truth About World War II
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07.03.23- The World Economy Is Becoming Unglued; Models Miss Real-World Behavior
In my view, the real issue is quite different: Inadequate energy supply of the types the economy requires can be expected to affect the economy in a way that causes it to become “unglued.” The economy will gradually fall apart as infighting becomes more of a problem. Read More |
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07.01.23- Are Rocks The Future
The School of Materials, Energy, Water and Environmental Sciences (MEWES), Nelson Mandela African Institution of Science and Technology team reporting in ACS Omega has found that certain soapstone and granite samples from Tanzania are well suited for storing this solar heat, featuring high energy densities and stability even at high temperatures. Read More |
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06.30.23- And Now, for Something Entirely Different: The Controlled Demolition
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06.29.23- Hydrogen Economy Gets A Boost With New Low-Cost Catalyst
The reporting paper for the research has been published in Science. Hydrogen can power vehicles while emitting nothing but water. Hydrogen is also an important chemical for many industrial processes, most notably in steel making and ammonia production. Using cleaner hydrogen is highly desirable in those industries. Read More |
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06.28.23- Fuel From Thin Air: A Technological Feat Or Economic Folly?
Indeed, carbon can be extracted from air, and hydrogen can be produced from water. Together, those building blocks can be reacted to make fuel — or any number of products. I could easily devise a scheme to produce acetaminophen from air and water. Read More |
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06.27.23- The Rare Metal Keeping Xi and Biden Up At Night
The critical mineral is cesium (Cs), and its discovery and potential for development has become a battleground between Canada and the U.S. on one hand, and China on the other. Read More |
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06.26.23- Toyota CEO: "Our NEW Hydrogen Engine Will Destroy The EV Industry!" |
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06.24.23- Direct Lithium Extraction Is The EV Industry’s Shale Boom
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06.23.23- Fast, low-cost direct lithium extraction could avert a supply crisis
As the global transition to electric vehicles gathers momentum, and power grids worldwide turn to huge banks of batteries to balance demand against the intermittent supply of renewables, the world is going to need unprecedented amounts of lithium to fuel its insatiable hunger for batteries. Read More |
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06.22.23- Can The U.S. Wean Itself off
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06.21.23- China Returns To Coal As Hydropower Falters
Wind and solar generation have also jumped this year as China leads global renewable energy installation capacity, but the need for stable power generation in the coming heatwaves and energy security is prompting increased coal use, offsetting the emissions benefits of record renewables generation. Read More |
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06.20.23- ‘Nuclear Diesel’ Could Become a Gamechanger In Energy Markets
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06.19.23- And Now, for Something Entirely Different: The Great Ron Unz
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06.17.23- Toyota Claims Solid State Battery Breakthrough That Will Give EVs 932 Mile Range
The legacy automaker is now claiming it has "found a technological breakthrough that will allow it to bring solid state batteries to market as early as 2027," according to PC Mag. Read More |
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06.16.23- And Now, for Something Entirely Different: Shock Poll: RFK Beats Biden On Favorability! |
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06.15.23- 5 Weird Energy Innovations That May Become Reality
With the tone of climate change alarm-sounding growing louder by the day, alternative energy sources have become one of the most active areas of innovation. Some of the results of that innovation are literally eye-watering. Others, you could call eye-opening. Read More |
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06.14.23- Looming Copper Shortage Could Be A Wake-up Call For Big Tech
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06.13.23- Is Geothermal Energy The Key To Decarbonization?
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06.12.23- Zero Carbon Green Agenda
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06.10.23- Smoke Causes U.S. Solar Power Generation To Plunge By 50%
ISO New England, the operator of the grid, said on Thursday that “In recent days, smoke from wildfires in Canada has traveled to New England, significantly lowering production from solar resources in the region compared to what ISO New England would expect absent the smoke.” Read More |
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06.08.23- Understanding The Economic Realities Behind Wind And Solar Energy
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06.08.23- "Walking" anchor and plasma drill promise cheap, deep geothermal power
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06.07.23- How Billionaires Deceive the Public About Global Warming
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06.06.23- World-first space solar demonstration beams power from orbit to Earth
Space-based solar could solve a lot of Earth's clean energy problems; an orbital solar setup can harvest sunlight 24/7 – and the good stuff, too, unmolested by atmosphere or weather conditions. Theoretically, the solar potential in space is eight times better per square meter than a solar panel on Earth. Read More |
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06.05.23- And Now, for Something Entirely Different: The Storm Before The Storm
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06.03.23- The Race For Solar Power
The Japanese venture is the latest in a series of plans and experiments in recent months to test if solar power converted into microwaves could be beamed to receiving stations on the earth’s surface for large-scale use. Read More |
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06.02.23- Nuclear Power May Become Crucial In Decarbonization Efforts
The energy crisis of the past year and a half has led to increased support for nuclear power in many countries, including the U.S., the UK, and even Japan. Read More |
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06.01.23- Bizarre 460-foot "battery tanker" set to ship electrons by 2026
The idea here is simple enough: renewable energy is often generated a fair distance from where it's most needed, so let's build an electric ship full of batteries, and jolly well ship it there. Read More |
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05.31.23- Five Things I Truly Don't Understand About The "Inevitable Energy Transition
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05.30.23- Scientists Report Breakthrough With Very Low Cost Calcium Battery
With the compulsive sales of electric vehicles and grid-scale energy storage systems on the rise, the need to explore alternatives to lithium-ion batteries has never been greater. Read More |
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05.29.23- Mammoths, Sloths, And Camels Are Hurting The U.S. Renewable Revolution
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05.27.23- Coal's green potential: storing energy instead of being burned for it
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05.26.23- Tiny holes key to making lightning-like energy from air, says study
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05.25.23- Are We Nearing An Inflection Point
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05.24.23- Palladium May Be Key To New Era Of Superconductors
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05.23.23- How A Cactus Inspired Scientists To Make Cheaper Hydrogen
The durability and unique design of prickly pear cactus in desert environments by adsorbing moisture through its extensive surface and ability to bear fruits at the edges of leaves inspired this study to adopt a similar 3D architecture. Image Credit: University of Texas at El Paso. Click the study paper link for more information. Read More |
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05.22.23- Returning Germany to the Stone Age
The latest word is that the current Green-dominated government is determined to burn its boats so that there can be no going back. Nuclear plants will not simply be decommissioned; they will be destroyed, to make sure they can never be used again. Read More |
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05.20.23- Hydrogen’s Scalability Essential to Meet Energy Demand
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05.19.23- Fusion: The Worldwide Race To Capture The Power Of The Sun
The atomic process that powers the sun has the means to alter how we harness energy to power our world, but conquering the physics of containing a fusion reaction has proven to be enormously difficult. Yet the nation that creates a genuine, sustained, fusion reaction will own the future. Read More |
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05.18.23- The Massive Solar And Wind Waste Problem
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05.17.23- Electricity Prices Plunge By 75% As Finland Opens New Nuclear Power Plant
The commencement of regular output from a much-delayed Finnish nuclear reactor in April saw electricity prices in the country decrease by more than 75 percent. The Olkiluoto 3 (OL3) nuclear plant completed the transition from testing to regular output last month to become Finland’s first new nuclear plant in more than four decades. It is expected to produce up to 15 percent of the country’s power demand. Read More |
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05.16.23- Photosynthesis Research Opens New Avenues For Renewable Energy Plants use photosynthesis to harvest energy from sunlight. Now researchers have applied this principle as artificial photosynthesis for the basis for developing new sustainable processes. Read More |
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05.15.23- Helion to supply Microsoft with fusion power by 2028, or pay penalties
If you'll forgive the pun, there's been a palpable energy in the field of nuclear fusion over the last few years. It's driven by a fresh crop of companies breaking away from the lugubrious pace of massive inter-governmental projects like ITER, exploring new technologies, and promising practical, low-cost, commercial fusion power on radically shortened timelines. Read More |
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05.13.23- The Great Potential Of Tidal Energy
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05.12.23- Visualizing The Crucial Role Of Uranium
With countries turning back to nuclear power as a clean energy resource, uranium has become a strategically important metal for the future. This infographic by Visual Capitalist's Govind Bhutada and Zack Aboulazm, sponsored by CanAlaska Uranium explores how uranium’s unique properties allow nuclear power to be clean and efficient, and highlights the outlook for its future. Read More |
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05.11.23- The World Shouldn’t Just Abandon Coal Mines
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05.10.23- Can Zinc Batteries Compete
The details about the study have been reported in the journal Energy & Environmental Science.Zinc batteries are considered promising alternatives to lithium-?ion batteries. Read More |
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05.09.23- The Time Is Finally Right
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05.08.23- Goodbye Lithium! NEW Sodium Ion 4.0 Battery Changes Everything in 2023! |
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05.06.23- Rare Earth Metals See Prices Plunge
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05.05.23- A Secret War Is Brewing
The South China Sea is one of the most heavily trafficked maritime routes in the entire world. However, the conditions that make it so valuable – namely, its location on the coasts of a considerable number of Asian countries – have also led to major regional tensions over ownership, rights, and tenure. Vast, overlapping swaths of this prized patch of the Pacific are currently being claimed by Brunei, China, Malaysia, Indonesia, the Philippines, Taiwan, and Vietnam. Read More |
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05.04.23- Support For Nuclear Energy In The U.S. Is At A 10-Year High
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05.03.23- The Lies About Green Energy |
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05.02.23- New Nuclear Technology Is Safer, More Efficient And More Sustainable
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05.01.23- Are We Prepared For The Unintended Consequences Of Emerging Tech?
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04.29.23- How Competitive
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04.28.23- Solar Stocks Routed After Enphase Issues Weak Guidance
ENPH took down its U.S.-based peers along with it: First Solar (NASDAQ:FSLR)-5.2%, Sunrun (NASDAQ:RUN)-9.6%, NextEra Energy (NYSE:NEE)-4.0% while SunPower(NASDAQ:SPWR) lost 9.7%. Interestingly, shares of Chinese solar companies were left unscathed: JinkoSolar Holdings and Daqo New Energy (NYSE:DQ) were flat on the day before rallying on Thursday presumably as new money flowed their way from their U.S. rivals. Read More |
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04.27.23- Utah FORGE starts production well drilling to further EGS testing
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04.26.23- Up To A Trillion Dollars In Clean Energy Subsidies Is Up For Grabs
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04.25.23- Atomic Breakthrough Could Have Huge Implications For Petroleum Refining
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04.24.23- Solar and wind companies are coming to rural Texas. These residents are trying
FRANKLIN COUNTY — Volunteer firefighter Jim Emery grew emotional as he spoke to the crowd at an anti-solar development town hall meeting in his northeast Texas community. Emery, who worked for decades at the nearby coal power plant before it closed in 2018, didn’t worry then about pollution from the plant. Read More |
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04.22.23- What Does The Future Look Like
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04.21.23- The Disastrous Economics of Trying to Power an Electrical Grid with
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04.20.23- Wind Power Has A Profitability Problem
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04.19.23- U.S. Gasoline Prices Rise To 5-Month High
The national average for a gallon of gasoline is $.221 cents more than it was a month ago, according to GasBuddy data. Read More |
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04.18.23- Has Germany’s Era Of Nuclear Energy Come To An End?
The power plants Emsland in Niedersachsen, Isar-2 in Bavaria, and Neckwarestheim-2 in Baden-Württemberg were taken off the grid this weekend despite rising public support for nuclear power generation in recent months. Read More |
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04.17.23- What Does The Future Look Like
When it comes to oil and gas, there are two schools of long-term forecasting thought, and these two schools are at odds with each other. One school—the transition school—argues that the electrification of transport and the transformation of electricity generation will ultimately lead to the demise of oil and gas as commodities underpinning the global economy. Read More |
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04.15.23- Using microwaves improves production, recyclability of solar cells
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04.14.23- Peak EV: Electric Vehicles Will Fade as Their True Costs Become Clear
Environmental, social, and corporate governance (ESG) is the newest religion, and we all know who the practitioners are. Electric vehicle (EV) owners sing “Hallelujah” when they pull out of their garages. The investor-class ESG evangelists believe the new belief is in its beginnings. Whatever the Biden EPA does, investor Harris Kupperman thinks it’s likely just the Church of What’s Happening Now. Read More |
04.13.23- Tokamak Energy unveils images of fusion power plant slated for 2030s
The company, based near Oxford in the UK, plans to build a fusion pilot plant around its upcoming ST-E1 tokamak, which it says will be ready for rollout in the early 2030s to demonstrate the ability to deliver electricity to the grid, opening the potential for 500-megawatt commercial plants to be deployed worldwide. Read More |
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04.12.23- The Pros And Cons of Modular Nuclear Reactors
Take nuclear power. What went wrong last time around? We suggest that a principal culprit was customization. Almost every utility wanted a nuke tailored to its needs, site by site. Thus, each site had its own problems, and solving them produced little experience that helped anywhere else. France, of course, was the main exception. The French state, which owned the utility, settled on one design and repeated it again and again. Of course, the French utility had the scale that U.S. and British's utilities lacked. Read More |
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04.11.23- America’s Hourly Energy Mix, Explained
At all times, the amount of electricity generated must match demand in order to keep the power grid in balance, which leads to cyclical patterns in daily and weekly electricity generation. Read More |
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04.10.23- Can Big Oil Scale Geothermal?
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04.08.23- Golden Question? Is The Petrodollar The Next Thing To Break?
Even prior to the recent headlines regarding US regional banks, “credit event” stressors were already tipping like dominoes around the world, from the 2019 repo crisis and the 2020 bond spiral to the 2022 gilt implosion. Read More |
04.07.23- Silver mirror triples efficiency of perovskite solar cells
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04.06.23- Oil Prices Soar As OPEC+
Reuters noted in a report that with the new cut, the total output reduction amount from OPEC+ will come in at 3.66 million barrels daily, or 3.7% of global oil demand. Read More |
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04.05.23- Did Oil Just Fool Everyone?
Gold is on the cusp of a significant breakout above $2,000 as the US Dollar index drops. Any significant extension above the mythical $2K mark should attract a ton of attention from the mainstream financial media, lighting the fuse for an even bigger momentum move in the metal and the miners. Read More |
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04.04.23- New Ceramic Battery Could Replace Lithium-Ion Batteries
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Demand For Fuel Tankers Jumps Amid Global Trade Reshuffle
So far into 2023, a total of 38 mid-range fuel tankers have been ordered, the highest number since 2013, per data from shipbroker Braemar cited by Bloomberg. Read More |
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04.01.23- The Energy Transition
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03.31.23- Oil Prices Set For A Weekly Gain As Traders Await New Inflation Data
The disruption resulted from a dispute between Baghdad and the government of the semi-autonomous Kurdistan region, which exports some 400,000 bpd of crude via Turkey. Read More |
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03.30.23- Natural Gas: A Comprehensive Guide To The World's Most Crucial Fuel
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03.29.23- Tesla Fires First Shot In EV Price War
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03.28.23- Scientists Hack Early Stage Of Photosynthesis In Breakthrough For Biofuel
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03.27.23- Why Japan Isn’t Tapping It's Incredible Geothermal Potential
Geothermal resources in Japan, thought to be the world's third largest, could stay deep underground despite Japan's net-zero by 2050 pledge and the fact that it is still very much dependent on fossil fuels for a large part of its electricity consumption. Read More |
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03.25.23- Latin America’s Bid To Challenge China’s Dominance In The Lithium Market
President Luis Are spoke in La Paz, saying, "We must be united in the market, in a sovereign manner, with prices that benefit our economies, and one of the ways, already proposed by (Mexico's) President Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador, is to think of a kind of lithium OPEC." Read More |
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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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