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Nuclear Fusion — Coming Soon To An Electrical Grid Near You?

December 29th, 2020 | by Steve Hanley

Commonwealth Fusion Systems says it plans to build a compact, affordable fusion reactor that will begin generating electricity in 10 years.

What Can We Do About Aviation-Related Warming? An Exploration Via Methanol

December 16th, 2020 | by Michael Barnard

Long-haul aviation is a hard global warming nut to crack, and assessing methanol as a potential nutcracker shows why

QuantumScape Releases Performance Data On Its Solid-State Battery Technology

December 8th, 2020 | by Steve Hanley

QuantumScape said on December 8 that its lithium metal batteries are exceeding all expectations. Here's more.

What Does Bill Gates’ Favorite Energy Guru, Vaclav Smil, Get Wrong?

November 13th, 2020 | by Michael Barnard

People like Bill Gates throw away their money on the wrong investments: small nuclear, air carbon capture, and solar geoengineering. Gates and others should listen to Mark Z. Jacobson more, and Vaclav Smil less

Clean Power

Green Hydrogen Nail, Meet Shale Gas Coffin (& Nuclear Could Be Next)

November 8th, 2020 | by Tina Casey

Presidents come and go, but the green hydrogen trend is here to stay, and that spells bad news for US shale gas exporters

Batteries

Will Form Energy Aqueous Air Battery Challenge Tesla For Grid Storage Dominance?

May 11th, 2020 | by Steve Hanley

A 1 MW/150 MWh battery from Form Energy will be installed in Minnesota by 2023. Will the new technology challenge lithium-ion batteries from Tesla for dominance in energy storage?

Climate Change

Why Is Bill Gates Being Attacked For Fighting COVID-19?

May 8th, 2020 | by Michael Barnard

What we’re witnessing is the spread of conspiracy ideation among a population which has had its mental inoculation stripped away by decades of anti-science lobbying and propaganda

Cars

Bill Gates Chose Porsche Taycan Over Tesla — That’s Fine, & Offers Important Lesson

February 20th, 2020 | by Johnna Crider

I want to address something that has been in and out of my Twitter feed: Bill Gates bought a Porsche Taycan instead of a Tesla. The Tesla fan (and shareholder) in me wants to scream, "OMG Nooooo!" However, the practical, logical side believes this is a good thing, and she is the one in charge of writing this article

Agriculture

53 Million Gallons Of Wastewater Flushes Daily Into Hawaii’s Waters — How One Local Non-Profit Is Working To Fix This

February 8th, 2020 | by Andrea Bertoli

Hawaii has some of the most beautiful beaches in the world, and yet there are serious water quality issues to content with, primarily due to the large quantity of cesspools in the State. This is a huge issue for all of the islands, and impacts the health of humans, animals, and our ocean ecology. Here's the story of a local non-profit that's working to fix this crappy situation.

Climate Change

Who Will Buy Oil, Gas, & Coal When We Are All Dead?

January 3rd, 2020 | by Steve Hanley

Burning fossil fuels is a negative sum game. The waste products are slowly killing us all. What to do? Start by controlling your own carbon footprint. Together we can make a difference.

Clean Power

Heliogen Is Bill Gates’ Latest Venture That Is Only Good For Oil & Gas – Part 2

November 23rd, 2019 | by Michael Barnard

The first article covered the first two points, showing that tying this to, for example, a single reasonably sized cement plant would require roughly 4,000 times the space, and that decoupling energy creation from demand would provide substantially more flexibility and higher value. Now we'll step through the remaining three problems

Clean Power

Heliogen Is Bill Gates’ Latest Venture That Is Only Good For Oil & Gas – Part 1

November 22nd, 2019 | by Michael Barnard

Bill Gates seems to love to invest in things that aren’t going to make much of a difference to climate change but that are good for the fossil fuel industry. The latest is Heliogen, a company which uses machine learning to make solar ovens hotter and more reliable