Middlebury College Embraces Solar Power While Others Dither

Credit to Author: Steve Hanley| Date: Mon, 28 Oct 2024 15:18:02 +0000

Solar power is becoming the go-to alternative for many US colleges and universities to lower their very significant greenhouse gas emissions.

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Should Tesla CEO Elon Musk Be Censured For Playing Politics With Putin?

Credit to Author: Carolyn Fortuna| Date: Sun, 27 Oct 2024 21:16:51 +0000

Fueled by “duck and cover” drills that found children huddled under desks or in the halls at school, 20th century Americans were petrified of the Soviet Union, later retitled Russia. A brief hiatus occurred when Mikhail Gorbachev, whose policy of glasnost allowed freedom of expression and resulted in the abandonment … [continued]

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Real World Hydrogen Refueling Stations With Electrolysis Far Less Efficient Than Assumed

Credit to Author: Michael Barnard| Date: Sun, 27 Oct 2024 12:42:20 +0000

Unsurprisingly, when it comes to hydrogen, the more real-world data collection and analysis that is done and published, the worse it looks. The latest black eye for the tiny molecule that so many love is in the efficiency of making hydrogen at refueling stations. The Hydrogen Research and Fueling Facility … [continued]

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China Adds 160 Gigawatts in First 3 Quarters of 2024

Credit to Author: Zachary Shahan| Date: Sun, 27 Oct 2024 03:55:20 +0000

It’s truly impossible to comprehend the scale of solar power deployment in China these days. When I saw how much solar power China had installed in the first 9 months of the year, I thought I must be reading something wrong. I checked a few times. But, indeed, China’s National … [continued]

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China “Requests” Its Domestic Automakers Stop Plans To Expand EU Sales

Credit to Author: Steve Hanley| Date: Sat, 26 Oct 2024 13:30:46 +0000

China has “asked” its domestic automakers to put a hold on plans to expand sales within the European Union as tariff negotiations continue.

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$474 Million for More Grid Resilience in USA

Credit to Author: Zachary Shahan| Date: Sat, 26 Oct 2024 03:55:53 +0000

After Hurricane Helene and Hurricane Milton knocked out power for millions of Americans recently, grid resilience is top of mind. We need better grid resilience. In some places, electricity came back within a few hours. In others, it took a day or two. In places with poor grid resilience, it … [continued]

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New AI National Security Mission

Credit to Author: Zachary Shahan| Date: Sat, 26 Oct 2024 03:49:13 +0000

The Biden White House has kicked off a new AI national security mission with the White House’s “first-ever National Security Memorandum (NSM) on Artificial Intelligence (AI).” With all the talk about AI filling the intertubes, apparently, the Department of Energy (DOE) and the National Nuclear Security Administration (NNSA) decided it was … [continued]

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UN Report Predicts 3.1°C Average Global Temperature Increase By 2100

Credit to Author: Steve Hanley| Date: Sat, 26 Oct 2024 03:02:27 +0000

The 1.5°C target set in Paris in 2015 was only possible if the nations of the world all worked together to significantly reduce greenhouse gas emissions. But, of course, they didn’t. They focused instead on building military weapons and extracting more oil and gas from more places. In other words, … [continued]

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The Economy Will Be Much Better For You Under Kamala Harris Than Donald Trump — Nobel Prize Winners Say

Credit to Author: Zachary Shahan| Date: Sat, 26 Oct 2024 02:45:17 +0000

The economy is often a misunderstood animal. It’s highly complex. That’s why you can spend 4 years studying it and still come out clueless. In fact, that might be more common than it’s not. However, when you get to Nobel Prize–winning economists, you can bet they understand things quite well. … [continued]

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Great Leaders Simplify Things — But Sometimes Incorrectly, And Often So In Elon Musk’s Case

Credit to Author: Zachary Shahan| Date: Fri, 25 Oct 2024 20:59:48 +0000

Like many, I continue to be a bit baffled that someone who has led a couple of companies to great things has also proven to be extremely simple minded and gullible on other matters. In one field, it’s all about “first principles” and digging down into the heart of matters … [continued]

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