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Fossil Fuels Advertising Banned In The Hague, Netherlands

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Credit to Author: Jake Richardson| Date: Tue, 21 Jan 2025 20:52:39 +0000

A ban on fossil advertising in the Hague went into effect in January 2025. The city council approved the ban in September 2024. The Hague is the first city in the world to implement such a ban, which covers fossil fuel advertising in public spaces. A city council is by … [continued]

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Is Tesla’s Decline Good or Bad for the EV Revolution?

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Credit to Author: Zachary Shahan| Date: Tue, 21 Jan 2025 19:34:18 +0000

Tesla’s sales dropped in 2024 year over year. You don’t have to be a genius to know that isn’t close to what Tesla’s plans were for 2024 just a few years ago, or even in 2023. It was a significant failure to reach the company’s growth targets. It also came … [continued]

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Renewable Energy Production & Use In Utah

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Credit to Author: Arthur Frederick (Fritz) Hasler| Date: Tue, 21 Jan 2025 17:04:13 +0000

In my travels across the country, I’ve seen massive wind farms in Wyoming, South Dakota, and Iowa, as well as huge wind farms and solar farms in southern California. However, living in Utah for 20 years and traveling north to south and east to west, the only grid-scale clean energy … [continued]

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Tesla’s Autonomous Driving Strategy Stranded By Technological Divergence

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Credit to Author: Michael Barnard| Date: Tue, 21 Jan 2025 15:55:41 +0000

It’s been a decade since I first wrote about Tesla’s approach to autonomous driving, comparing it to Google’s (now Waymo’s). At the time, my technical assessment based on my experience with both AI and robotics was that Tesla’s approach was superior. It still is, but it might need to pivot. … [continued]

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Battery Fires & Plane Crashes: Shocking Events Make Us Forget Routine Mass Death

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Credit to Author: Jennifer Sensiba| Date: Tue, 21 Jan 2025 12:34:51 +0000

Recently, there was a large fire at a utility-scale battery storage installation in California. Rather than rehash that story, I’ll just point you to Steve’s article on that if you haven’t heard about it. As you can probably predict, a large battery fire was seized upon by anti-renewable propagandists, who … [continued]

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SK On: Solid-State Battery Developments

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Credit to Author: Zachary Shahan| Date: Tue, 21 Jan 2025 04:57:06 +0000

We’ve been hearing about solid-state battery breakthroughs for a decade, or more than a decade actually. Solid-state batteries are the future of batteries, and the future of EVs — as they have been for several years. Given the many announcements on solid-state battery breakthroughs and solid-state batteries being the future, … [continued]

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Donald Trump Reverses Joe Biden’s LNG Pause on Day 1

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Credit to Author: Zachary Shahan| Date: Tue, 21 Jan 2025 04:55:55 +0000

Donald Trump has taken office. One of his first actions as president (again) has been to end the pause on liquefied natural gas (LNG) exports. More fossil fuels are allowed to flow again. Here’s the full statement from the US Department of Energy: “The U.S. Department of Energy (DOE), effective … [continued]

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Louisiana Aims To Dominate US Offshore Wind Industry (Good Luck!)

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Credit to Author: Tina Casey| Date: Tue, 21 Jan 2025 04:50:52 +0000

The new 2.4-gigawatt SouthCoast Wind offshore wind project nailed down approval for a construction plan in a federal lease area off the coast of Massachusetts, just in time for Inauguration Day.

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The End of the Green New Deal?

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Credit to Author: Zachary Shahan| Date: Tue, 21 Jan 2025 04:42:52 +0000

The Biden era is over, and the second Trump era is here. While most of the talk about a “Green New Deal” came several years ago, and there’s been no specific “Green New Deal” legislation that has been passed or close to it, two big pieces of legislation that were … [continued]

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