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How Big Things Get Done: Talking With Megaproject Expert Professor Bent Flyvbjerg

August 17, 2024 admin carbon emissions, clean power, climate change, Energy, green economy, investment, Manufacturing, Nuclear, nuclear energy, policy & politics, renewable energy, Solar energy, wind energy

Credit to Author: Michael Barnard| Date: Wed, 14 Aug 2024 15:11:11 +0000

Before Professor Bent Flyvbjerg’s book with Dan Gardner, How Big Things Get Done, was topping 2023 bestseller lists and on the Kindle and Audible apps of policymakers, investors, and developers globally, I had the chance to sit down with him. Originally, this episode was published on CleanTechnica’s CleanTech Talks, but … [continued]

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Breakthrough Energy Venture’s Wilted Garden Of Climate Investments

August 8, 2024 admin Agriculture, batteries, Bill Gates, biofuels, breakthrough energy ventures, buildings, carbon capture (ccs), carbon emissions, clean power, clean transport, climate change, Energy, Energy Storage, fusion, geothermal energy, green economy, heat storage, investment, Nuclear, nuclear energy, renewable energy, Shipping, sir richard branson, Solar energy, thermal storage, venture capital, vinod khosla, wind energy

Credit to Author: Michael Barnard| Date: Mon, 05 Aug 2024 16:34:43 +0000

Recently I sat down with Laurent Segalen and Gerard Reid, European cleantech investors, on their podcast Redefining Energy to talk about Breakthrough Energy Venture’s big misses. This followed our conversation about the cognitive biases of the billionaires such as Bill Gates which have persisted due to a bubble of confirmation … [continued]

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India’s Prototype Fast Breeder Nuclear Reactor Moves Closer to Criticality

August 3, 2024 admin actinides, aerb, Business, engineering, fast breeder reactor, India, International, kalpakkam, Legal & Regulatory, news, Nuclear, nuclear energy, pfbr, plutonium, Research and Development, rosatom, Technology, thorium, uranium

Credit to Author: Sonal Patel| Date: Fri, 02 Aug 2024 15:36:32 +0000

India’s Atomic Energy Regulatory Board (AERB) will allow the country’s flagship 500-MWe/1,250-MWth prototype fast-breeder reactor (PFBR) in Kalpakkam, Tamil Nadu, to approach criticality. The nuclear energy safety watchdog on July 30 […]

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Bill Gates And Energy — Redefining Energy Podcast Transcript

August 2, 2024 admin Bill Gates, breakthrough energy ventures, carbon emissions, clean power, clean transport, climate change, Electric vehicles, Energy Storage, ev batteries, green economy, hydrogen fuel cell electric vehicles, india solar power, investment, nuclear energy, Richard Branson, Solar energy, wind energy

Credit to Author: Michael Barnard| Date: Wed, 31 Jul 2024 00:18:46 +0000

Breakthrough Energy Venture’s odd investments, a mixture of sensible, venture-capital aligned start ups focused on climate action with a higher percentage that make no sense, have come under my scrutiny for years. Similarly, trying to figure out why the climate-aware billionaire oligarchs who founded it, including Bill Gates, Jeff Bezos, … [continued]

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Another Fourth-Generation Nuclear Reactor Begins Construction in the U.S.

July 30, 2024 admin advanced nuclear, DOE, engineering, financing, flibe, Fuel, full coverage, gen iv reactor, hermes, inl, kairos, molten salt reactor, news, NRC, Nuclear, nuclear demonstration, nuclear energy, ornl, power, Research and Development, supply chains, Technology, triso

Credit to Author: Sonal Patel| Date: Tue, 30 Jul 2024 17:31:00 +0000

Construction of Hermes, Kairos Power’s 35-MWth iterative non-power demonstration molten salt nuclear reactor, has officially kicked off in Oak Ridge, Tennessee. The effort marks another major step for the burgeoning advanced […]

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Renewable Energy 44.7% of EU Electricity Production in 2023 — Now #1!

July 2, 2024 admin clean power, Coal, EU, eu natural gas, eu renewable energy, eu solar energy, eu wind energy, Europe, europe coal, europe oil, europe renewable energy, europe solar energy, europe wind energy, Fossil Fuels, market research, natural gas, nuclear energy, Oil, research, Solar energy, wind energy

Credit to Author: Zachary Shahan| Date: Sat, 29 Jun 2024 15:34:11 +0000

Eurostat has now released electricity data from 2023, and it shows that 44.7% of EU electricity production came from renewable energy sources last year!* Fossil gas (aka “natural gas”) production was down, a lot. Coal production was down even more. Even production from oil and petroleum products (already quite low) … [continued]

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Plug Into Newly Released 2024 US Electricity Sector Data

June 28, 2024 admin clean power, Energy Storage, geothermal energy, green economy, grid, hydroelectric, market research, national renewable energy laboratory (nrel), nrel, nuclear energy, offshore wind energy, offshore wind farms, research, Solar energy, wind energy, wind turbines

Credit to Author: US Department of Energy| Date: Tue, 25 Jun 2024 18:39:53 +0000

10th Annual Technology Baseline Features New Data on Offshore Wind Energy, Nuclear Power, Pumped Storage Hydropower, and More Today—nicknamed “ATB Day” by a superfan—marks the release of the 10th annual electricity sector data for the Electricity Annual Technology Baseline (ATB). “For a decade, the Electricity ATB has been supporting consistent, … [continued]

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Weird & Wacky Ways Of Powering Data Centers Are Under Consideration

June 27, 2024 admin AI, amazon (amzn), Artificial Intelligence, clean power, Coal, data centers, Fossil Fuels, fusion, google, green economy, green energy, meta, microsoft, natural gas, nuclear energy

Credit to Author: Steve Hanley| Date: Mon, 24 Jun 2024 15:55:01 +0000

Data centers consume enormous amounts of electricity. They promise to use only renewable energy, but is that realistic?

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The ADVANCE Act—Legislation Crucial for a U.S. Nuclear Renaissance—Clears Congress. Here’s a Detailed Breakdown

June 20, 2024 admin advance act, advanced nuclear reactors, Business, engineering, full coverage, Legal & Regulatory, news, nrc reform, Nuclear, nuclear energy, nuclear energy deployment, nuclear power, nuclear regulation, nuclear renaissance, Research and Development, Technology, u.s. nuclear policy

Credit to Author: Sonal Patel| Date: Thu, 20 Jun 2024 19:46:13 +0000

The U.S. Senate has passed the Accelerating Deployment of Versatile, Advanced Nuclear for Clean Energy (ADVANCE) Act, sweeping legislation that seeks to promote U.S. nuclear leadership, accelerate advanced nuclear technology […]

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U.S. DOE Announces 1st Projects Under New Cleanup to Clean Energy Initiative

June 9, 2024 admin nuclear energy, policy & politics

Credit to Author: US Department of Energy| Date: Thu, 06 Jun 2024 20:29:54 +0000

Two Utility-Scale Projects at Idaho National Lab Will Help Spur Clean Electricity Generation on DOE-Owned Land, Ensuring the Federal Government is Leading by Example in the Effort to Reach the Nation’s Ambitious Climate Goals WASHINGTON, D.C. — The U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) today announced the first proposed projects … [continued]

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