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Battery Fires & Plane Crashes: Shocking Events Make Us Forget Routine Mass Death

January 22, 2025 admin batteries, battery fires, California, Energy Storage, ev battery fires, lithium-ion batteries

Credit to Author: Jennifer Sensiba| Date: Tue, 21 Jan 2025 12:34:51 +0000

Recently, there was a large fire at a utility-scale battery storage installation in California. Rather than rehash that story, I’ll just point you to Steve’s article on that if you haven’t heard about it. As you can probably predict, a large battery fire was seized upon by anti-renewable propagandists, who … [continued]

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Canoo Goes Bust. Who’s Next?

January 22, 2025 admin canoo, clean transport, Electric vehicles

Credit to Author: Steve Hanley| Date: Tue, 21 Jan 2025 04:58:00 +0000

EV manufacturer Canoo has filed for bankruptcy, bringing an end to years of chaos and dashed dreams that stretched back to 2017.

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SK On: Solid-State Battery Developments

January 22, 2025 admin batteries, clean transport, Electric vehicles, Energy Storage, ev batteries, lithium-ion batteries, research, SCIENCE, sk on, solid-state batteries

Credit to Author: Zachary Shahan| Date: Tue, 21 Jan 2025 04:57:06 +0000

We’ve been hearing about solid-state battery breakthroughs for a decade, or more than a decade actually. Solid-state batteries are the future of batteries, and the future of EVs — as they have been for several years. Given the many announcements on solid-state battery breakthroughs and solid-state batteries being the future, … [continued]

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Donald Trump Reverses Joe Biden’s LNG Pause on Day 1

January 22, 2025 admin Donald Trump, Fossil Fuels, Joe Biden, lng, natural gas, policy & politics, us department of energy (doe)

Credit to Author: Zachary Shahan| Date: Tue, 21 Jan 2025 04:55:55 +0000

Donald Trump has taken office. One of his first actions as president (again) has been to end the pause on liquefied natural gas (LNG) exports. More fossil fuels are allowed to flow again. Here’s the full statement from the US Department of Energy: “The U.S. Department of Energy (DOE), effective … [continued]

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

January 22, 2025 admin clean power, Energy, green economy, green jobs, investment, Louisiana, louisiana offshore wind, Manufacturing, ocean wind, offshore wind energy, offshore wind farms, offshore wind supply chain, policy & politics, renewable energy, supply chains, us wind energy supply chain, usa, wind energy

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?

January 22, 2025 admin bipartisan infrastructure law, clean power, clean transport, Donald Trump, Electric vehicles, green new deal, inflation reduction act of 2022., Joe Biden, policy & politics, Solar energy, subsidies, us department of energy (doe), wind energy

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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Why I Think The Tesla Model Y Might Be Uniquely Good For People Nearing Retirement

January 22, 2025 admin clean transport, electric cars, Electric vehicles, tesla, tesla model y

Credit to Author: Paul Fosse| Date: Tue, 21 Jan 2025 03:57:07 +0000

This article explains the unique financial, safety, and self-driving advantages of EVs in general and the Tesla Model Y in particular. I’ve long been a fan of Tesla’s Model Y. I wrote 3 articles the day of the unveiling (almost 6 years ago), including this one claiming the 3rd row … [continued]

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6 Organizations Join US Green Workforce Collaborative

January 22, 2025 admin Joe Biden, national energy technologies laboratory, national renewable energy laboratory, oak ridge national laboratory, steel, Uncategorized, us department of energy (doe)

Credit to Author: Zachary Shahan| Date: Mon, 20 Jan 2025 21:36:54 +0000

The most critical resource needed in the ongoing transition to electric vehicles isn’t lithium, silicon, or nickel — it’s an adequate workforce. Training people for the green industrial workforce needed for the 21st century industrial revolution is critical, needed in high volume, and hard to get and keep at the … [continued]

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Increase In Carbon Dioxide Levels Reached A Record High In 2024

January 22, 2025 admin carbon dioxide, climate change, global heating, mauna loa observatory, policy & politics, research

Credit to Author: Steve Hanley| Date: Mon, 20 Jan 2025 20:07:35 +0000

More carbon dioxide was added to the Earth’s atmosphere in 2024 than in any year since the Mauna Loa observatory started tracking it.

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ClimeFi at Davos 2025: Advancing Carbon Removal Through the Global1000 Challenge

January 22, 2025 admin carbon removal, carbon removal and sequestration, climate change, climefi, Davos, green economy, World Economic Forum

Credit to Author: Jonny Tiernan| Date: Mon, 20 Jan 2025 17:50:39 +0000

As the world converges at the 2025 World Economic Forum (WEF) in Davos, the need for scalable climate solutions is more pressing than ever. A major initiative gaining attention this year is the Global1000 CDR Challenge, led by ClimeFi in partnership with XPRIZE. This ambitious challenge is focused on mobilizing … [continued]

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