Credit to Author: Darrell Proctor| Date: Tue, 19 Mar 2024 14:29:03 +0000
A group established by Microsoft founder Bill Gates is preparing to begin construction of a new generation of nuclear power plants in June, according to the company’s chief executive. Chris […]
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Credit to Author: Darrell Proctor| Date: Tue, 12 Dec 2023 12:48:00 +0000
A Massachusetts-based group developing an energy storage system to support renewable energy resources is moving forward with plans for a prototype facility outside Boston. Fourth Power on Dec. 12 said […]
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Read moreCredit to Author: Michael Barnard| Date: Thu, 30 Nov 2023 21:13:52 +0000
A few months ago, a STEM and economics literate global decarbonization executive for a $4 billion annual revenue logistics business … [continued]
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Read moreCredit to Author: Michael Barnard| Date: Mon, 13 Nov 2023 19:55:10 +0000
How much technological and economic idiocy can be jammed into a single week and why does it have to rhyme? … [continued]
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Read moreCredit to Author: Darrell Proctor| Date: Fri, 23 Dec 2022 19:52:42 +0000
A battery manufacturing company with plenty of high-profile financial backing said it has picked a site for its first factory that will build “iron-air” batteries. Form Energy touts its technology as a breakthrough for long-duration storage of solar and wind power. Form, which counts Microsoft founder Bill Gates, Amazon’s Jeff Bezos, and British tycoon Richard […]
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Read moreCredit to Author: Johnna Crider| Date: Sun, 24 Apr 2022 15:17:49 +0000
Bill Gates’ $500 million Tesla short position is a bit awkward in terms of his own pledges to help with climate change. Tesla is a trillion-dollar company with a focus on accelerating the transition to sustainability. It’s also the only company that has had massive success beating the odds stacked against it while pushing electric […]
Credit to Author: Michael Barnard| Date: Wed, 20 Apr 2022 18:54:15 +0000
Energy 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.
Credit to Author: Michael Barnard| Date: Wed, 20 Apr 2022 15:49:54 +0000
Energy 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.
Credit to Author: Derrick Penner| Date: Wed, 13 Apr 2022 02:28:10 +0000
Bill Gates proposes a team of 3,000 doctors, epidemiologists and diplomats to be coordinated by the World Health Organization at the cost of $1 billion a year.
Read moreCredit to Author: Tina Casey| Date: Sun, 13 Mar 2022 18:05:21 +0000
The concentrating solar power dream lives on, with new electric vehicle battery angle.