Energy Vault Has Lawsuit Problem To Go Along With Bad Physics, CO2 Debt, & Stock Price Drop

Credit to Author: Michael Barnard| Date: Mon, 09 May 2022 17:15:36 +0000

There’s a lot of excellent work going on in cleantech, and there are a lot of good investments. But there are also a lot of people attempting to cash in without moving the climate action needle forward. Caveat emptor.

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Seeing Climate Solutions Clearly Through Biases & Missing Data Is Challenging

Credit to Author: Michael Barnard| Date: Fri, 06 May 2022 16:25:39 +0000

I urge everyone to examine their own biases and blindspots, whether they are in the following short list or not. You’ll help the world more that way.

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

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

ANU global pumped hydro site mapEnergy 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

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

Energy Vault stock chartEnergy 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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Betting A Billion Dollars On Low-Carbon Grid Transformation Tech

Credit to Author: Michael Barnard| Date: Mon, 18 Apr 2022 17:05:18 +0000

Virtually all of those technologies are mature and robust today. We don’t need to invent a lot of new technology, we just need to deploy existing tech.

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Tesla Model Y vs. Model 3 Size … Perovskite Solar Cells … Humongous Tesla Battery Farm — #CleanTechnica Top 20

Credit to Author: Zachary Shahan| Date: Mon, 02 Mar 2020 02:41:17 +0000

The biggest CleanTechnica stories last week included four stories on the Tesla Model 3, three stories on the Model Y, two stories on Tesla batteries, and stories on a few other things

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Humongous Tesla Battery Plant Approved In California Is 10× Bigger Than World’s Biggest Battery Plant

Credit to Author: Johnna Crider| Date: Thu, 27 Feb 2020 18:45:02 +0000

Tesla has been approved to reinvent the Moss Landing power plant in California as a battery power plant. In fact, it will be approximately 10× bigger than Tesla’s Hornsdale, which was 3× bigger than any other battery storage facility at the time it was built

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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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Perovskite Solar Cells … Toyota Driving Off A Hybrid Cliff … The Boring Company’s 1st Vegas Tunnel — #CleanTechnica Top 20

Credit to Author: Zachary Shahan| Date: Mon, 24 Feb 2020 07:00:13 +0000

: Tesla Model X inside The Boring Company's test tunnel underneath the SpaceX offices (Image: The Boring Company)The most popular CleanTechnica stories last week involved perovskite solar cell research and projections (a hot topic for the past few — or several — years), Toyota’s continued focus on hybrids (considered by many to be a death knell for the hybrid leader and 100% electric laggard), and The Boring Company’s first of two Las Vegas tunnels

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Blue Nova Launches The MegaBoy 1 MWh Storage Product

Credit to Author: Remeredzai Joseph Kuhudzai| Date: Sat, 22 Feb 2020 04:57:56 +0000

The MegaBoy 250 kW, 1 MWh containerised intelligent Energy Storage System. Picture by Nicholas MutizeBlue Nova Energy, a member of the Johannesburg Stock Exchange Listed Reunert Group, looks to be ramping up nicely and has just launched the MegaBoy

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