Credit to Author: Tina Casey| Date: Thu, 07 Nov 2024 15:19:25 +0000
A new building material that deploys perovskite solar cells to harvest clean power is taking shape in the field of textile ceramic technology.
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Read moreCredit to Author: Jennifer Sensiba| Date: Thu, 07 Nov 2024 04:50:55 +0000
The term “lame duck” describes weakness. A lame duck can’t keep up with the rest of its flock, and thus can more easily fall to predators. A politician facing the end of their last term ends up in a similar position, with little to no influence because everyone knows they’ll … [continued]
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Read moreCredit to Author: Zachary Shahan| Date: Wed, 06 Nov 2024 22:46:29 +0000
I recall when the Inflation Reduction Act of 2022 was passed. Immediately, that day, we started getting announcements of EV battery factories and battery-related factories. In coming days, weeks, and months, we also got news of solar panel factories coming to town, battery mineral refineries, and numerous other production facilities. … [continued]
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Read moreCredit to Author: Michael Barnard| Date: Wed, 06 Nov 2024 19:26:38 +0000
For the past eight years, the United States has been missing in action in climate leadership globally. Biden’s climate policy experiments, aimed as much at attempting to deal with the root causes of working class and middle class grievance as at useful emissions reductions, will persist in some diminished form. … [continued]
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Read moreCredit to Author: Tina Casey| Date: Wed, 06 Nov 2024 13:58:06 +0000
Pumped hydropower is the basis for 96% of utility-scale energy storage capacity in the US, and it is ripe with potential for expansion.
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Read moreCredit to Author: Zachary Shahan| Date: Wed, 06 Nov 2024 04:56:00 +0000
The 2024 US presidential election race is still too close to call, but it’s not looking great for Kamala Harris and the Democrats. I just wrote about the $988 billion in commitments from private companies that are associated with bills signed into law by Joe Biden — the American Rescue … [continued]
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Read moreCredit to Author: Zachary Shahan| Date: Wed, 06 Nov 2024 04:55:20 +0000
A reader pointed me to this webpage and the map there showing where manufacturing and infrastructure investments associated with the American Rescue Plan, Bipartisan Infrastructure Law, CHIPS and Science Act, and the Inflation Reduction Act are taking place or have been committed. It’s a fascinating map, but the headline number … [continued]
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Read moreCredit to Author: Zachary Shahan| Date: Tue, 05 Nov 2024 18:51:15 +0000
Thanks to the Bipartisan Infrastructure Law’s Advanced Energy Manufacturing & Recycling Grants Program, the California company Mainspring Energy has received $87 million from the US Department of Energy to support domestic manufacturing of “innovative, fuel-flexible, power generators.” The state-of-the-art manufacturing facility is expected to create more than 600 “skilled jobs” … [continued]
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Read moreCredit to Author: Zachary Shahan| Date: Tue, 05 Nov 2024 04:53:57 +0000
… And They’re USA’s Only Hope For Competing With China There’s no doubt about it — China is absolutely demolishing the US on the clean technology economy, and the world is a clean technology economy more and more every day and will be for decades to come. China has strong, … [continued]
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Read moreCredit to Author: Tina Casey| Date: Mon, 04 Nov 2024 19:17:17 +0000
A new US energy storage project will adapt the power of pumped storage hydro to subsea locations near offshore wind farms and energy-hungry coastal cities, leveraging 3-D printing and the natural force of water pressure.
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