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

November 8, 2024 admin carbon emissions, demand response, elon musk, grid, grid parity, tesla, xai

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

June 28, 2022 admin batteries, clean power, Energy Storage, Fossil Fuels, grid, grid parity, grid storage, Nuclear, nuclear energy, renewable energy, small modular reactors, Solar, Solar energy, storage, Wind, wind energy, windpower

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?

March 17, 2020 admin alternative facts, Amazon, batteries, carbon pricing, carbon tax, clean power, clean transport, cleantechnica, cleantechnica exclusive, climate change, Coal, community solar, consumer technology, Electric vehicles, energy efficiency, Energy Storage, Fossil Fuels, green economy, green jobs, grid, grid parity, HEALTH, investment, jeff bezos, lithium-ion batteries, Media, michael bloomberg, natural gas, nuclear energy, policy & politics, policy research, research, SCIENCE, seed money, Solar energy, solar prices, subsidies, tesla, wind energy

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

When 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

February 24, 2020 admin alex potter, batteries, cars, clean power, clean transport, consumer technology, electric cars, Electric vehicles, elon musk, Energy Storage, ev charging, green economy, grid, grid parity, grid storage, investment, lithium-ion batteries, Media, piper sandler, rooftop solar, solar cells, Solar energy, solar panels, solarcity, tesla, tesla energy, tesla solar, tesla solarglass, tesla solarglass roof, tesla vehicles

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

February 23, 2020 admin autonomous vehicles, batteries, cars, clean power, clean transport, climate change, consumer technology, economic inequality, electric cars, Electric vehicles, energy [r]evolution, energy efficiency, Energy Storage, ev charging, ev charging stations, ev sales, Fossil Fuels, global inequality, green economy, grid, grid parity, investment, lithium-ion batteries, market research, Oil, research, rooftop solar, Solar energy, solar panels, solar prices, tesla, Tony Seba, wind energy

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

Imagine 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

February 17, 2020 admin 100% renewable energy, batteries, clean power, cleantech talk, cleantechnica, cleantechnica exclusive, consumer technology, Energy Storage, green new deal, grid, grid parity, grid reliability, hydroelectric, lithium-ion batteries, mark z. jacobson, nuclear energy, podcasts, policy & politics, policy research, pumped hydro storage, research, SCIENCE, Solar energy, Stanford, wind energy

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

February 17, 2020 admin 100% renewable electricity, 100% renewable energy, batteries, Bernie Sanders, clean power, cleantechnica, cleantechnica exclusive, cleantechnica reports, climate change, cnn, consumer technology, Energy Storage, fareed zakaria, Fossil Fuels, grid, grid parity, hydroelectric, lithium-ion batteries, mark z. jacobson, natural gas, nuclear energy, policy & politics, policy research, pumped hydro storage, renewable energy myths, research, SCIENCE, Solar energy, wind 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

October 4, 2019 admin batteries, clean power, demand response, Energy Storage, generac, grid, grid parity, grid storage, lithium-ion batteries, Massachusetts, microgrids, neurio technology, Off The Grid, pika, pwrcell, pwrview, rooftop solar, russ minick, Salt Lake City, Smart Grid, Solar energy, spi2019, Utah, vancouver

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

September 5, 2019 admin apac, asia pacific region, asian, bev, beyond meat, byd, cars, chevy menlo, China, china × cleantech — july 2019, china solar feed-in tariff, china solar feed-in tariffs, china x cleantech, clean power, clean transport, cleantechnica, cleantechnica exclusive, cleantechnica reports, consumer technology, ehang, electric cars, Electric vehicles, energy transmission, evot, feed-in tariff, green economy, grid, grid electricity, grid parity, Guangzhou, hybrid electric cars, kelvin yang, lg chem, market research, polestar 1, policy & politics, renewable investment, research, Shanghai, shanghai free trade zone, Shenzhen, Solar energy, state grid corporation, tesla, tesla gigafactory 3, tesla gigafactory 3 shanghai, tesla model 3, volvo, volvo polestar 1, wind energy

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