The Green Steel Movement Is Building Up A Head Of Steam

Credit to Author: Tina Casey| Date: Mon, 23 Dec 2024 20:15:47 +0000

The green steel movement is gaining momentum, as demonstrated by a new collaboration between the US startup Electra and the leading global steel trader Interfer Edelstahl Group.

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Charging Microgrids: Progress for Electric Trucks, Challenges Remain

Credit to Author: Michael Barnard| Date: Mon, 23 Dec 2024 17:24:10 +0000

Key Takeaways: Microgrids speed power availability and deployment of freight truck charging Specific charging challenges face microgrid deployment that must be overcome There are federal, state, and non-profit organizations that can assist As previous articles have made clear, microgrids, strategically designed for truck stops and depots, are a path forward … [continued]

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New Flow Battery To Take Up Housekeeping In Derelict Oil Tanks

Credit to Author: Tina Casey| Date: Sat, 21 Dec 2024 21:48:35 +0000

The US startup Quino aims to demonstrate that its new flow battery platform can repurpose former oil tanks for wind and solar energy storage.

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Another Day, Another Hydrogen Transportation Failure — Hyzon Edition

Credit to Author: Michael Barnard| Date: Sat, 21 Dec 2024 20:53:40 +0000

The other day I recorded the annual predictions wrap-up with Laurent Segalen and Gerard Reid of Redefining Energy. I’d joined the fun last year for the first time after starting up the Redefining Energy—Tech sub-channel, judging their predictions from the previous year and adding predictions of my own. One of … [continued]

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Superconducting Transmission Of Electricity Is Here And It’s Supercooled

Credit to Author: Michael Barnard| Date: Sat, 21 Dec 2024 00:35:23 +0000

A couple of months ago, I was in Brussels speaking at the launch of the second edition of Supergrid Super Solution: A Handbook for Energy Independence and a Europe Free From Fossil Fuels. I’d participated in tuning the second edition, written by European renewables giant Eddie O’Connor with Kevin O’Sullivan, … [continued]

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Canadians Can Cripple Hydrogen Greenwashing, But What About EU, USA, & Oz?

Credit to Author: Michael Barnard| Date: Fri, 20 Dec 2024 01:04:47 +0000

Recently I took a stroll through the implications of Canada’s anti-greenwashing improvements delivered through the truth in advertising provisions of Bill C-59. Originally, it merely caused all oil and gas firms and their lobbying and propaganda groups to magically disappear their entire social media presence and large parts of their … [continued]

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It’s Against The Law In Canada To Call Hydrogen Buses Zero Emissions

Credit to Author: Michael Barnard| Date: Wed, 18 Dec 2024 16:42:07 +0000

In the middle of 2024, I documented the remarkable disappearance of claims of environmental virtue from the websites and social media of Canadian oil and gas companies and the lobbying groups they employed. Overnight, the degree of factual accuracy on their public sites went up by a remarkable amount. Why? … [continued]

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New Flyer Low Emission Buses Too Expensive So Winnipeg Buys Diesel

Credit to Author: Michael Barnard| Date: Wed, 18 Dec 2024 03:15:18 +0000

Into Canada’s ongoing challenges with bus fleet decarbonization comes Winnipeg, which hasn’t featured much so far in the ongoing tale of transit think tank CUTRIC’s incompetence, sole sourcing and hydrogen-centric conflicts of interest. However, it did have a role in a piece assessing Canadian bus manufacture New Flyer’s strategic missteps … [continued]

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Accelerating Electrification: Freight Trucks Will Dominate In The US

Credit to Author: Michael Barnard| Date: Tue, 17 Dec 2024 20:02:33 +0000

Key Takeaways: Transportation is the highest emissions segment in United States Of rail, water, and road, only freight trucking can readily decarbonize Electric trucks are cost-effective and rapidly advancing The United States has unintentionally made itself into the country with the hardest to decarbonize transportation sector, and it matters. Transportation … [continued]

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Deloitte Complicit In Indefensible Brampton Hydrogen Bus CUTRIC Study

Credit to Author: Michael Barnard| Date: Tue, 17 Dec 2024 04:57:13 +0000

In one of my articles related to the debacle that is Canada’s transit think tank CUTRIC’s guidance and modeling on bus fleet decarbonization, especially the Brampton fleet report that was off by about $1.5 billion on a $9 billion price tag, I shared the open letter to the Board I’d … [continued]

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