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Financial Investments In Smallholder Farmers Are Big Talk At UN Climate Change Conference

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Credit to Author: Carolyn Fortuna| Date: Mon, 18 Nov 2024 17:05:19 +0000

Smallholder farmers sustain humanity every day of the year. The 600 million smallholder farmers around the world, who are working on less than two hectares of land, are estimated to be responsible for 28-31% of total crop production and contribute 30-34% of food supply on 24% of gross agricultural area. … [continued]

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Green Hydrogen & Long Duration Energy Storage Makeover Planned For Colossal Superfund Site

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Credit to Author: Tina Casey| Date: Mon, 18 Nov 2024 16:40:36 +0000

The massive Chevron Questa molybdenum mine in New Mexico was an environmental disaster of epic proportions until it closed in 2014, and now an intricate, decades-long remediation effort is under way. In the latest development, plans are in the works to produce green hydrogen at the site, with the ultimate … [continued]

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South Fork Wind Offers Tremendous Opportunities To Lower CO2 Emissions

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Credit to Author: Carolyn Fortuna| Date: Mon, 18 Nov 2024 16:25:34 +0000

Offshore wind holds “massive promise” for the economy, for home-grown energy, and for the planet,” according to a Conservation Law Foundation attorney working on clean energy. Look at the recently completed South Fork Wind Farm, situated between Block Island, Rhode Island, and Long Island, New York, as a bright example. … [continued]

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American Petroleum Institute Submits Its Christmas Wish List

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Credit to Author: Steve Hanley| Date: Mon, 18 Nov 2024 16:07:06 +0000

The American Petroleum Institute has submitted its list of things it wants from the new administration. it expects to get most of them.

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Do Can-Am’s Electric Motorcycles Make Sense?

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Credit to Author: Jennifer Sensiba| Date: Mon, 18 Nov 2024 12:20:03 +0000

A recent video from the Electric Cycle Rider channel on YouTube gives us a look at a really cool bike that you can get from Can-Am. Yes, that Can-Am! Normally, the name Can-Am makes people think of three-wheeled vehicles (two in the front, one in the back for stability), but … [continued]

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Why Use Battery Swapping? Where Is Swapping is Most Needed?

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Credit to Author: Christopher Arcus| Date: Mon, 18 Nov 2024 04:55:05 +0000

Recently, CleanTechnica has featured articles about the COSCO Greenwater 01, the world’s largest electric ship, a container ship now operating in China along the coast and on rivers. It uses containerized energy storage to swap batteries. China has also electrified rail, more electric buses than anywhere else in the world, and … [continued]

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Core Battery Fundamentals

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Credit to Author: Christopher Arcus| Date: Mon, 18 Nov 2024 00:50:41 +0000

Modern electric vehicle batteries began with lithium-ion batteries, originally applied to portable electronics and other portable applications. Batteries based on sodium have now been developed. These batteries have something in common. They all use intercalation. Intercalation simply means that charged compounds are physically stuffed in between the gaps in materials. … [continued]

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Why EV Subsidies Are Important For The Future US Economy

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Credit to Author: Zachary Shahan| Date: Sun, 17 Nov 2024 21:50:42 +0000

We’ve written a couple of articles now about the US EV tax credit probably being killed by the Trump administration, and also other elements of the Inflation Reduction Act. In those articles, we’ve noted that this is bad for future US economic competitiveness. Some people don’t know the reason for … [continued]

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More Theories On Why Teslas Have The Highest Fatality Rate

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Credit to Author: Zachary Shahan| Date: Sun, 17 Nov 2024 19:33:09 +0000

I was surprised the other day to see that Tesla drivers were more likely to be in fatal car crashes than drivers of any other auto brand. The results are based on US data, but there is no way to split out the numbers to know what caused the fatal … [continued]

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