West Virginia Lobs An Energy Storage Brickbat At Fossil Fuel Stakeholders
These “power blocks” house new long duration iron-air energy storage systems, designed to shepherd more renewable energy into the grid.
Project 2025 Would Kick A Leg From Under An Important Environmental Stool
A recent article at American Progress tells us about an often overlooked element of Project 2025. It’s not only bad in its own right to close up national monuments and un-protect federal lands, but there’s an even worse secondary effect that could hurt nature globally for decades to come. Project … [continued]
AI, Data Centers, Direct Air Capture, and Renewables
3% of the world’s electricity is used by data centers. That’s up from, well, zero, not too long ago. It’s everything from iCloud to websites to cat videos to Instagram reels to Facetime calls. A blog post uses a lot less data than a podcast, which uses less than a … [continued]
$430 Million for US Clean Energy Manufacturing in Coal Communities
Once upon a time, presidential candidate Hillary Clinton made the horrible mistake of telling people that coal power wasn’t coming back in the US, was going to continue to shrink, and people living in coal communities would need to be retrained in clean energy careers. Sacrilege! As bad as a … [continued]
New 2025 Ford Mustang Mach-E Offers A Few Improvements
Ford rolled out info on the new 2025 Ford Mustang Mach-E today. The 2025 Mustang Mach-E now includes a heat pump as standard equipment, which improves efficiency (and thus driving range), especially in colder climates. There are also new colors, new wheels, and a “Sport Appearance Package” for the Premium … [continued]
The Magnus Effect & Rotor Sails Reducing Greenhouse Gases
Harnessing more wind dramatically enhances clean power and propulsion. On that topic, more maritime shipping businesses are noticing and embracing added efficient technologies. Seriously. A few are giving sails a contemporary twist—literally—on an idea that was somewhat dormant for over 100 years. H.G. Magnus, a German scientist and chemist, conducted … [continued]
Buoyant Design & Adaptable Mooring Mechanisms Help Floating Solar Remain Intact Through Hurricane Milton
Last month, Super Typhoon Capricorn struck Zhanjiang, Guangdong, China, and was one of the most severe typhoons to hit the region since 1949. In this wild weather with torrential gusts and gigantic waves, the floating Mibet solar panels pounded by the typhoon remained incredibly buoyant and sturdy. Soon after, on … [continued]
1.3 Million US Made Solar Panels, 875 MW — Orion Solar Farm Goes Live In…
SB Global announces Orion Solar project with 1.3 million US made solar panels in rural Texas is now online.
EV Sales Trends, Tesla, and BYD in Chile
One of our readers, “Mateo from Chile,” wrote in with the following note the other day: “I saw Zach’s good article on Tesla’s Superchargers in Chile earlier this week. I live in Chile, and noticed that the latest Chilean EV sales report was published yesterday (for the Jan–Sep 2024 period). … [continued]
How Much Does Hydrogen Leak And How Much Does It Matter?
Hydrogen is the gas that’s the second best escape artist in the universe. Helium has it by an edge because while helium is four times the mass of hydrogen per unit, it comes in atoms, not molecules. Hydrogen only comes with another hydrogen atom in the hydrogen molecule, which ends … [continued]
