Will Musk’s AI Supercomputer Compromise A Local Community’s Grid?

Credit to Author: Carolyn Fortuna| Date: Wed, 06 Nov 2024 00:20:00 +0000

Elon Musk has announced that he is building the world’s largest supercomputer. The problem is that it will require the same amount of electricity as would power 100,000 homes. Musk’s potential supercomputer power usage has many regional community members in the southwest Memphis area concerned, who say the artificial intelligence … [continued]

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We Don’t Need Base Load Power

Credit to Author: George Harvey| Date: Tue, 28 Jun 2022 17:35:22 +0000

Rick Perry, the former Governor of Texas and former Secretary of the Department of Energy, told Fox News in an interview that we need base load power. He believes we need base load power because it is what we use when we turn a light on at 2:00 in the morning. He’s wrong. But unfortunately, […]

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How Should $10 Billion Be Spent To Defeat Climate Change?

Credit to Author: Barry A.F.| Date: Sat, 14 Mar 2020 16:49:49 +0000

US East CoastWhen I first read about the $10 billion from Jeff Bezos to fight climate change, my first thought was, “Where will it be spent?”

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Tesla’s Secret Weapon Is Fueled By The Sun

Credit to Author: Johnna Crider| Date: Tue, 25 Feb 2020 03:22:49 +0000

Tesla’s secret weapon is something that many investors don’t even think to consider when they think of Tesla. CNN Business reminded us that investors only think about EVs when they think about Tesla. However, Tesla’s secret weapon is fueled by the same thing life on Earth is — our sun

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The Tipping Point

Credit to Author: Guest Contributor| Date: Sun, 23 Feb 2020 06:15:20 +0000

Single use for Image by mark harpurImagine a world where transport is free, air is clean, and streets are quiet. Imagine a world where education is attainable, power available, and healthcare accessible to all. Imagine a world where the cost of living goes down instead of up. Now stop imagining and watch this talk by Tony Seba

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Transitioning the World to 100% Renewable Energy — Part 2

Credit to Author: Winter Wilson| Date: Tue, 18 Feb 2020 03:51:47 +0000

In the second half of this special two-part episode of our CleanTech Talk podcast interview series, Michael Barnard, Chief Strategist of TFIE Strategy Inc. and CleanTechnica contributor, take’s Zach Shahan’s place as host to talk with Mark Z. Jacobson, professor at Stanford University and cofounder of The Solutions Project, about transitioning the world to 100% renewable energy

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Yikes — One Of My Favorite Political Commenters Bombs On 21st Century Energy

Credit to Author: Zachary Shahan| Date: Mon, 17 Feb 2020 06:24:22 +0000

Ah, man. It’s annoying as heck to see people who you think are idiots screw up a topic you know well, but it’s an extra special kind of annoying when brilliant people screw up — massively — on that same topic. In this edition of “Smart people who don’t understand the energy industry of 2020,” we’ve got Fareed Zakaria of

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Generac Pivots From Generators Into Residential Energy Storage & Solar At #SPI2019

Credit to Author: Kyle Field| Date: Fri, 04 Oct 2019 15:21:17 +0000

We connected with Generac’s Chief Marketing Officer and president of its new clean energy business, Russ Minick, at SPI 2019, to talk about its big pivot into energy storage products to learn more about where that strategy came from. Right off the bat, Russ said that Generac had been eyeing the residential energy storage market for quite some time, but until recently, felt that, “it wasn’t worth the diversion of focus.”

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China × Cleantech — August 2019: Tesla Gigafactory 3, Post-Subsidy EV Sales, Solar Cheaper Than Fossils

Credit to Author: Tim Dixon| Date: Thu, 05 Sep 2019 23:29:35 +0000

Welcome to the next issue of China x Cleantech, our August 2019 edition. For our full China × Cleantech history, stroll over to the “Future Trends” section of our website. For the July edition, click here

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