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Natural Gas Electricity Generation in the United States Spiked with July Heatwave — Global Heating Leading to More Fossil Fuel Use
Editor’s note: Unfortunately, we’re already seeing examples of global heating leading to the burning of more fossil fuels, which of course is creating more global heating. It’s a vicious cycle. Here’s the latest example. U.S. power plant operators generated 6.9 million megawatthours (MWh) of electricity from natural gas on a ... [continued]
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NREL Researchers Highlight Opportunities for Manufacturing Perovskite Solar Panels With a Long-Term Vision
Researchers working at the forefront of an emerging photovoltaic (PV) technology are thinking ahead about how to scale, deploy, and design future solar panels to be easily recyclable. Solar panels made of perovskites may eventually play an important role amid global decarbonization efforts to reduce greenhouse gas emissions. As the ... [continued]
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Funding Notice: Nearly $50 Million Funding Opportunity for Offshore Wind National and Regional Research and Development
Office: Wind Energy Technologies Office (WETO) FOA Number: DE-FOA-0003334 Link to Apply: Apply on EERE Exchange FOA Amount: $48.6 million The U.S. Department of Energy’s (DOE’s) Wind Energy Technologies Office (WETO) announced the Offshore Wind National and Regional Research and Development Funding Opportunity, which will award $48.6 million for projects that address several ...
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Norway Stands At The Crossroad Between Fossil Fuels & The Low Carbon Future
Norway is among the world's leading countries when it comes to taking global heating seriously, and yet even it needs to do so much more.
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Lucid Air Pure Achieves 146 MPGe & 5 Miles Per Kilowatt-Hour
California-based Lucid Motors recently announced that its Air Pure all-electric sedan has achieved two important energy-efficiency milestones: 146 MPGe and 5 miles per kilowatt-hour. The Air Pure also has about 420 miles of range from its 84 kWh battery. If you follow electric vehicles, you know the Air Pure’s energy-efficiency ... [continued]
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Sales Of Plug-in Hybrids In South Africa In First Half of 2024 Almost Match Total For All of 2023
Plug-in hybrid vehicles seem to have a growing market in South Africa. In 2023, there were 333 plug-in hybrids sold in South Africa. The number of plug-in hybrid vehicles (PHEVs) sold in the first half of 2024 has already hit 88% of last year’s total, as 293 PHEVs were sold ... [continued]
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Ford F-150 Lightning Is A Rolling Energy Storage Beast, & Sunrun Is Here For It
Sunrun and Ford are running a potentially game-changing first of its kind vehicle-to-home energy storage experiment this summer, leveraging the F-150 Lightning electric pickup truck.
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A Love Song to Smelly, Inconvenient, Glorious Mass Transit
Mass transit doesn’t have a lot of cheerleaders. People love their cars, despite the harm they cause us, but who loves their bus? And who sees transit as a vital decarbonization strategy when electric vehicles steal the spotlight? Yet people who ride transit emit significantly less CO2 than people who ... [continued]
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Amid Debate Over Results Of Largest UBI Study, There May Be A Better Solution That Also Lowers Emissions
Sam Altman, known for OpenAI (the people behind ChatGPT), works with another non-profit that focuses on research. You’re never going to guess what the organization is called! (Yes, it’s OpenResearch.) Recently, the entity released the largest study to-date testing the concept of Universal Basic Income (UBI). In a nutshell, UBI ... [continued]
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Newport, Rhode Island’s Climate Resilience Gets A Boost From IRA
I’ve been vacationing in the small coastal Rhode Island city of Newport this week. It’s a stunning place to be — a celebration of sea and sail, of Gilded Age architecture and hardened fishers. As you walk out to Fort Adams and peer up Newport Harbor, it’s easy to forget ... [continued]
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Most Of Us Would Be Fired If We Acted Like Elon
On a cool mid-October morning, Juli Briskman was riding her bike on a road in northern Virginia. On most days, she could probably expect to see a few cars pass her, but that particular morning, a long line of cars passed, and Juli figured out pretty quickly that it was ... [continued]
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An Electric Jet Ski for James Bond … er … Batman
If you’re not pretty deep in the electric vehicle revolution, it’s easy to miss what is primarily making it happen. Going back a ways, the advent and then growing popularity of computer laptops raised production volumes of lithium-ion batteries, and thus brought down their costs. The smartphone and tablet era ... [continued]
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Super Plants to Clean Indoor Air … Or Something Like That
Plants already do so many magical things. They are truly wonders of the world — as all life is. However, scientists continue to play with plants in order to reach new frontiers and solve more problems. One new plant is the Neo Px. It is a bioengineered plant that can ... [continued]
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The Week The Global Auto Market Went Over A Cliff
Many auto companies reported 2nd quarter earnings this week and for the most part, most of the news was dismal with one notable exception.
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The Volvo EX30 Leads The Way As BEV Sales Continue To Grow In South Africa
In the first 6 months of this year, 749 battery electric vehicles (BEVs) were sold in South Africa. A total of 931 BEVs were sold in the whole of 2023, meaning that the total number of BEVs sold in the first six months of 2024 was 80% of the total ... [continued]
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