Wabtec Sends Electric Train Love Letter To World’s Largest Iron Mine
Wabtec is taking its FLXdrive electric train on the road, and the next stop is the world’s biggest iron ore mine and the world’s longest ore train, too.
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Caterpillar Makes One Gigantic Electric Truck To Rule Them All
The new 793 electric truck from Caterpillar is just the tip of the iceberg as the global mining industry pivots into electrification and interoperability.
Cargo Ships Reclaim Wind Power With High Tech Rigid Sails
The return of wind power slips a much-needed dose of clean energy into the global shipping industry as it seeks to avoid an upward spiral of carbon emissions.
Dirty vs. Green Graphite, Nickel Supplies for EV Batteries — CleanTech Talk
This episode of CleanTech Talk is part two of a recent conversation I had with RK Equity cofounder Howard Klein. You can listen to part one here. In part two, we started talking about nickel. It was over a year ago that Tesla CEO Elon Musk was very publicly requesting … [continued]
Ofergawdsakes Wind Power For One Boat Is Not Such A Big Deal…Is It?
The global mining and shipping giant Vale banks on five weird looking sails to rule the seven seas with wind power.
3 Tesla Mining & Battery Developments
Reports on a few different matters on Tesla mining and batteries have been leaking out lately — since Battery Day, basically. We’ve covered a couple of them individually, but there are three that I’m looping together for one piece here.
Norges Bank Takes A Stand Against Companies Damaging The Environment
Norges Bank Investment Management, which manages Norway’s sovereign wealth fund, has made a powerful stance in favor of climate action.
USA’s First 100% Solar Airport Comes Up At Chattanooga, In The Heart Of Trump Land
A few weeks back, Tennessee’s Chattanooga Metropolitan Airport (CMA) became the first US airport powered by 100% solar energy.
World’s Mining Companies Generating $16 Billion In Emissions Costs
The world’s major publicly-listed mining companies are generating up to $16 billion in emissions costs by passing the climate risk down their value chain, and are exposed to up to 30 times more emissions by passing down the buck.
Mining by Moonlight to Save Energy
Mining uses much more electricity than most other heavy industries, so it makes sense to move that high energy use to off-peak hours, because that evens out the demand on the grid, making it possible to squeeze more power out of fewer dirty electric plants, and to use more clean … [continued]
