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Billionaire-backed ‘Iron-Air’ Battery Maker Picks WV Site for First Factory

December 23, 2022 admin Bill Gates, Energy Storage, form energy, great river energy, iron air battery, jeff bezos, Minnesota, news, renewable energy, Richard Branson, West Virginia

Credit to Author: Darrell Proctor| Date: Fri, 23 Dec 2022 19:52:42 +0000

A battery manufacturing company with plenty of high-profile financial backing said it has picked a site for its first factory that will build “iron-air” batteries. Form Energy touts its technology as a breakthrough for long-duration storage of solar and wind power. Form, which counts Microsoft founder Bill Gates, Amazon’s Jeff Bezos, and British tycoon Richard […]

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Bill Gates’ $500 Million Tesla Short Is Awkward & Hypocritical

April 24, 2022 admin Bill Gates, cars, clean transport, electric cars, Electric vehicles, elon musk, green economy, investment, tesla, tesla short sellers, tesla stock

Credit to Author: Johnna Crider| Date: Sun, 24 Apr 2022 15:17:49 +0000

Bill Gates’ $500 million Tesla short position is a bit awkward in terms of his own pledges to help with climate change. Tesla is a trillion-dollar company with a focus on accelerating the transition to sustainability. It’s also the only company that has had massive success beating the odds stacked against it while pushing electric […]

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Energy Vault Claims Highlight The Lack Of Due Diligence In Cleantech SPACs

April 20, 2022 admin batteries, Bill Gates, bill gross, China, clean power, climate change, Energy Storage, energy vault, green economy, green jobs, grid, grid storage, Hong Kong, investment, Manufacturing, pumped hydro storage, Solar energy, wind energy

Credit to Author: Michael Barnard| Date: Wed, 20 Apr 2022 18:54:15 +0000

Energy Vault’s tech is not a solution, and while it would work at least for a while, it won’t be cheap, it will have lots of failure conditions and it will be high-carbon.

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Energy Vault Loses $1.2 Billion/40% Market Cap, CO2e/kWh Worse Than Natural Gas

April 20, 2022 admin batteries, Bill Gates, bill gross, clean power, climate change, concentrating solar energy, Energy Storage, energy vault, green economy, green jobs, grid, grid storage, investment, Manufacturing, pumped hydro storage, Solar energy, wind energy

Credit to Author: Michael Barnard| Date: Wed, 20 Apr 2022 15:49:54 +0000

Energy Vault’s solution which ‘fixes’ the problems with its first approach leads to CO2e per kWh numbers worse than natural gas generation, and makes a mockery of its claims of low cost storage.

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Bill Gates sells TED audience on $1-billion solution for preventing pandemics

April 12, 2022 admin Bill Gates, Business, coronavirus, covid-19, local business, local news, science and technology

Credit to Author: Derrick Penner| Date: Wed, 13 Apr 2022 02:28:10 +0000

Bill Gates proposes a team of 3,000 doctors, epidemiologists and diplomats to be coordinated by the World Health Organization at the cost of $1 billion a year.

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It’s A New Dawn For Concentrating Solar Power

March 13, 2022 admin Bill Gates, breakthrough energy, California, clean power, concentrating solar power, Energy, heliogen, heliostats, renewable energy, Solar energy, supercritical carbon dioxide, supercritical co2, terrapower, us department of energy (doe), usa

Credit to Author: Tina Casey| Date: Sun, 13 Mar 2022 18:05:21 +0000

The concentrating solar power dream lives on, with new electric vehicle battery angle.

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Bill Gates Chose Porsche Taycan Over Tesla — That’s Fine, & Offers Important Lesson

February 20, 2020 admin Bill Gates, cars, clean transport, community coffee, consumer technology, electric cars, Electric vehicles, marques brownlee, porsche, porsche taycan, tesla

Credit to Author: Johnna Crider| Date: Thu, 20 Feb 2020 21:24:12 +0000

I want to address something that has been in and out of my Twitter feed: Bill Gates bought a Porsche Taycan instead of a Tesla. The Tesla fan (and shareholder) in me wants to scream, “OMG Nooooo!” However, the practical, logical side believes this is a good thing, and she is the one in charge of writing this article

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53 Million Gallons Of Wastewater Flushes Daily Into Hawaii’s Waters — How One Local Non-Profit Is Working To Fix This

February 10, 2020 admin Agriculture, Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation, Bill Gates, brown water, cesspool conversation working group, cesspools, cleantechnica exclusive, climate change, green economy, Hawaii, HEALTH, INTERVIEWS, reinvented toilet expo, rep. chris lee, runoff, stuart coleman, surfrider foundation, Wastewater, wastewater alternatives & innovations, Water, water quality

Credit to Author: Andrea Bertoli| Date: Sat, 08 Feb 2020 21:29:51 +0000

Hawaii has some of the most beautiful beaches in the world, and yet there are serious water quality issues to content with, primarily due to the large quantity of cesspools in the State. This is a huge issue for all of the islands, and impacts the health of humans, animals, and our ocean ecology. Here’s the story of a local company that’s working to fix this crappy situation.

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53 Million Gallons Of Wastewater Flushes Daily Into Hawaii’s Waters — How One Local Company Is Working To Fix This

February 8, 2020 admin Agriculture, Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation, Bill Gates, brown water, cesspool conversation working group, cesspools, cleantechnica exclusive, climate change, green economy, Hawaii, HEALTH, INTERVIEWS, reinvented toilet expo, rep. chris lee, runoff, stuart coleman, surfrider foundation, Wastewater, wastewater alternatives & innovations, Water, water quality

Credit to Author: Andrea Bertoli| Date: Sat, 08 Feb 2020 21:29:51 +0000

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Who Will Buy Oil, Gas, & Coal When We Are All Dead?

January 3, 2020 admin Amazon, Angela Merkel, Bill Gates, climate change, Fossil Fuels, George Carlin, global weirding, jeff bezos, Oil, Tim Cook

Credit to Author: Steve Hanley| Date: Fri, 03 Jan 2020 15:25:14 +0000

Burning fossil fuels is a negative sum game. The waste products are slowly killing us all. What to do? Start by controlling your own carbon footprint. Together we can make a difference.