How Much Electricity Will Electric Airplanes Need, & How Much Will It Cost?
How much electricity will be required for electric aviation and how much will it cost?
Green Jobs
Ford & SK Innovation Break Ground On EV Battery Factory In Kentucky, Create 5,000 New…
Ford and SK Innovation broke ground today in Glendale, Kentucky, on a battery factory that will create 5,000 new jobs. The training for these workers will also take place locally at the new Elizabethtown Community and Technical College BlueOval SK Training Center. The facility is a whopping 42,000 square feet … [continued]
Green Jobs Are Flourishing & Winning Over The Hearts Of Conservative Workers
Investments in clean energy manufacturing jobs are geared toward a specific social end — as industrial policy. This benefits workers across the political divide and is coming as somewhat of a surprise to many voters in red states.
Bridgestone Awarded $35 Million USDA Climate-Smart Grant to Advance Guayule Natural Rubber Production
The US Department of Agriculture (USDA) has awarded Bridgestone Americas (Bridgestone) a $35 million climate-smart grant to invest in the desert shrub guayule in order to increase natural rubber production in the United States and provide growers with a crop that is more environmentally friendly while also tackling the ongoing … [continued]
4 Ways To Prepare For The IRA’s Upcoming Apprenticeship Requirements
It’s no secret that the solar industry is a proven job creator. The Inflation Reduction Act (IRA) set the stage for the solar industry to create even more jobs and empower workers to earn money while they learn through apprenticeship programs. These opportunities will only become more important as the … [continued]
Decarbonizing Industrial Heat Faces Cognitive, Capex, Opex, & Disruptive Technology Challenges
There is insufficient attention paid to industrial heat decarbonization due to discontinuous technologies, contextual problems, and current economics.
It’s Time To Decarbonize The World’s Militaries
As a starting point, militaries in every country need to report their emissions and set threshold goals.
New US Hydrogen Strategy: Wrong Department, Wrong Authors
The US hydrogen strategy was positioned in the wrong federal department. It was put in the hands of people who deal with fossil fuels all day long and have a paradigm of burning them for energy, not a paradigm of electricity for energy. It fails Rumelt’s test for the first thing that makes a good strategy, and so its principles and actions will be failures as well.
Queensland Australia Has A Fossil Fuel Revenue Problem & Wants Hydrogen To Solve It
Green hydrogen for energy is an economic dead end, not a replacement for fossil fuel revenues, and the sooner Queensland policy makers internalize that, the sooner Queensland will be able to address its economic realities.
Bosch Set to Invest $260 Million, Create 350 Jobs in South Carolina
This week, Bosch announced officially began producing of electric vehicle motors at its Charleston, SC facility. The company plans to invest $260 million more to further expand production of EV components at the site, and expects to create at least 350 high-paying manufacturing jobs in the region by 2025. “We … [continued]
