End of Green New Deal, Idiocracy, Social Media Opioids, & Tesla Risk — Video Chat

Credit to Author: Zachary Shahan| Date: Thu, 23 Jan 2025 03:22:30 +0000

Vijay Govindan and I sat down today to discuss Democrats’ “Green New Deal” (the Inflation Reduction Act and Bipartisan Infrastructure Law), Trump trying to destroy it despite all of the economic benefits it brings across the US (especially in red districts and states), the era of “Idiocracy,” social media as … [continued]

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Nickel & the Cleantech Revolution — Plus Alaska Energy Metals’ Role in US Energy Independence

Credit to Author: Zachary Shahan| Date: Thu, 23 Jan 2025 02:54:09 +0000

The electric vehicle revolution is genuinely in full swing, with almost one out of every 4 new vehicles having a plug in 2024. The core element of that revolution is the batteries, and the essence of those batteries is a handful of metals. So, the most critical conundrum is how … [continued]

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Energy Efficient Data Centers Are Coming For Your Fossil Fuels

Credit to Author: Tina Casey| Date: Thu, 23 Jan 2025 00:11:54 +0000

New underground, long duration thermal energy storage systems can help manage skyrocketing energy demand from of data centers in the US.

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Trump Tries to Demolish Biden’s “Green New Deal” on Day 1 — EV, Solar, & Wind Policies & Funding Attacked

Credit to Author: Zachary Shahan| Date: Wed, 22 Jan 2025 17:04:25 +0000

Even a con man tells the truth once in a while. Donald Trump, for whatever idiotic reason, hates cleantech. He has long hated wind turbines, thinks solar power is stupid and hates it, and trashes electric cars with misinformation on a regular basis. He also hates his political opponents having … [continued]

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Why Is Europe So Obsessed With Green Hydrogen?

Credit to Author: Tina Casey| Date: Wed, 22 Jan 2025 16:06:13 +0000

The green hydrogen market has seen plenty of stumbles ever since innovators, investors, and governments began exploring the idea of deploying renewable electricity to push hydrogen gas from water instead of extracting it from natural gas or coal. Nevertheless, interest runs high especially in Europe, where a domestic green hydrogen … [continued]

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China Curbed Oligarchs, Made Education & Housing Cheaper for 90% — Meanwhile, In USA…

Credit to Author: Michael Barnard| Date: Wed, 22 Jan 2025 01:24:59 +0000

I have a habit of picking up books on China, as it’s the biggest country in the world that doesn’t tell everyone everything it’s doing all the time, unlike my southern neighbor, the United States. I’ve read books by Chinese authors, global diplomats, historians, and youth influencers about the country. … [continued]

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Renewable Energy Production & Use In Utah

Credit to Author: Arthur Frederick (Fritz) Hasler| Date: Tue, 21 Jan 2025 17:04:13 +0000

In my travels across the country, I’ve seen massive wind farms in Wyoming, South Dakota, and Iowa, as well as huge wind farms and solar farms in southern California. However, living in Utah for 20 years and traveling north to south and east to west, the only grid-scale clean energy … [continued]

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Louisiana Aims To Dominate US Offshore Wind Industry (Good Luck!)

Credit to Author: Tina Casey| Date: Tue, 21 Jan 2025 04:50:52 +0000

The new 2.4-gigawatt SouthCoast Wind offshore wind project nailed down approval for a construction plan in a federal lease area off the coast of Massachusetts, just in time for Inauguration Day.

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The End of the Green New Deal?

Credit to Author: Zachary Shahan| Date: Tue, 21 Jan 2025 04:42:52 +0000

The Biden era is over, and the second Trump era is here. While most of the talk about a “Green New Deal” came several years ago, and there’s been no specific “Green New Deal” legislation that has been passed or close to it, two big pieces of legislation that were … [continued]

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How Bad Is Renewable Energy Misinformation? Take A Look

Credit to Author: George Harvey| Date: Mon, 20 Jan 2025 16:27:01 +0000

I spend about five hours going through news every day, doing research for my blog. Recently, I started seeing multiple instances of posts going online over the course of a day, often over multiple days. One thing that I noticed about this was that the headlines seemed to be anti-renewable. … [continued]

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