Credit to Author: Steve Hanley| Date: Mon, 17 Mar 2025 15:35:14 +0000
New research in China and the US shows battery recycling can reduce emissions and energy usage dramatically.
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Read moreCredit to Author: Steve Hanley| Date: Mon, 17 Mar 2025 15:35:14 +0000
New research in China and the US shows battery recycling can reduce emissions and energy usage dramatically.
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Read moreCredit to Author: Carolyn Fortuna| Date: Sat, 15 Mar 2025 20:28:57 +0000
Gas-powered leaf blowers are a real problem for the environment. They discharge toxic chemicals and planet-warming emissions into the air and disrupt natural habitats. If you have any skepticism, a 2023 report makes it clear: the impacts of gas-powered lawn and garden equipment generated more than 600,000 tons of carbon … [continued]
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Read moreCredit to Author: Carolyn Fortuna| Date: Sat, 15 Mar 2025 20:28:57 +0000
Gas-powered leaf blowers are a real problem for the environment. They discharge toxic chemicals and planet-warming emissions into the air and disrupt natural habitats. If you have any skepticism, a 2023 report makes it clear: the impacts of gas-powered lawn and garden equipment generated more than 600,000 tons of carbon … [continued]
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Read moreCredit to Author: Carolyn Fortuna| Date: Sat, 15 Mar 2025 20:28:57 +0000
Gas-powered leaf blowers are a real problem for the environment. They discharge toxic chemicals and planet-warming emissions into the air and disrupt natural habitats. If you have any skepticism, a 2023 report makes it clear: the impacts of gas-powered lawn and garden equipment generated more than 600,000 tons of carbon … [continued]
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Read moreCredit to Author: Michael Barnard| Date: Fri, 14 Mar 2025 16:37:01 +0000
The UK now has an active market for grid inertia, marking a significant step toward ensuring stability in an electricity grid increasingly reliant on intermittent renewable energy sources. The first successful bidder to provide this inertia service was a notably straightforward yet effective technology: an electric motor spinning a massive … [continued]
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Read moreCredit to Author: US Energy Information Administration| Date: Thu, 13 Mar 2025 03:17:24 +0000
In the United States, cumulative utility-scale battery storage capacity exceeded 26 gigawatts (GW) in 2024, according to our January 2025 Preliminary Monthly Electric Generator Inventory. Generators added 10.4 GW of new battery storage capacity in 2024, the second-largest generating capacity addition after solar. Even though battery storage capacity is growing fast, … [continued]
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Read moreCredit to Author: Zachary Shahan| Date: Tue, 11 Mar 2025 23:11:15 +0000
One and a half years ago, in August of 2023, I published a review of the BLUETTI EP500 Pro. It hit me recently that while we publish reviews of such home energy storage systems from time to time, and also write about new ones arriving on the market and special … [continued]
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Read moreCredit to Author: Michael Barnard| Date: Tue, 11 Mar 2025 02:20:48 +0000
The Trump administration’s latest round of tariffs is drawing scrutiny, but the real concern isn’t just the cost of Chinese EVs—it’s the impact on the materials those tariffs affect. Nickel, cobalt, and platinum-group elements (PGEs) are indispensable to the U.S. economy, yet the country is overwhelmingly reliant on imports, often … [continued]
The post Trump’s Tariffs Are Wrecking America’s Supply Chain for Critical Minerals appeared first on CleanTechnica.
Read moreCredit to Author: Tina Casey| Date: Sun, 09 Mar 2025 03:03:41 +0000
The US startup Eos Energy Enterprises is scaling up production of its nonflammable, “Z3” zinc battery for long duration, utility scale energy storage.
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