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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
What is Natural Gas? Read More |
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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
What is Green Hydrogen? Read More |
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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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