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Image: Phytomining can yield new sources of nickel for the EV battery supply chain while avoiding the environmental impacts of mining (courtesy of ARPA-E).

Nickel-Mining Plants To Juice EV Battery Supply Chain

April 12, 2024April 12, 20247 days ago Tina Casey 0 Comments

A new, plant-based source of nickel could help spare the EV battery supply chain from the burden of environmental impacts related to mining.

Space Solar Really, Really Is Not So Spacey Any More

April 7, 2024April 7, 20242 weeks ago Tina Casey 0 Comments

The space solar race is on, as research teams in the US, the UK and elsewhere around the world take a wacky idea and make it real.

Mock-up of a QuantumScape QSE-5 solid-state battery for electric vehicles (image courtesy of QuantumScape).

QuantumScape Brushes Off Solid-State Battery Skeptics

March 28, 2024March 28, 20243 weeks ago Tina Casey 0 Comments

The US startup QuantumScape is moving ahead with plans to manufacture a solid-state battery with a self-forming lithium-metal anode.

The new WindRunner cargo ship is designed to deliver large wind turbine components to onshore wind farms (screenshot courtesy of Radia)

The WindRunner Cometh: Game Over For Foes Of Wind Farms

March 20, 2024March 20, 20244 weeks ago Tina Casey 0 Comments

A US startup has hatched a new plan to bring supersized wind turbines to onshore wind farms, opening up new opportunities for development.

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EV sales are actually pretty good, and they are about to get another boost from new low cost, next-generation battery architecture. Image courtesy of Addionics, via YouTube

New Hope For EV Sales Sparked By New $400 Million Factory, Somewhere In The USA

February 27, 2024February 27, 20242 months ago Tina Casey 0 Comments

EV sales are actually pretty good, and they are about to get another boost from new low cost, next-generation battery architecture.

The US startup Syzygy Plasmonics is among the ammonia-to-hydrogen innovators striking fear into the heart of the LNG industry.

LNG Stakeholders Have Something New To Worry About Now

January 26, 20243 months ago Tina Casey 0 Comments

The US startup Syzygy Plasmonics is among the ammonia-to-hydrogen innovators striking fear into the heart of the LNG industry.

Extremely Fast EV Charging Delivers 100 Miles In 5 Minutes

January 17, 2024January 17, 20243 months ago Tina Casey 0 Comments

The Israeli electric vehicle battery startup StoreDot is laying plans for extremely fast EV charging in the US, Asian, and European markets.

ChatGPT & DALL-E generated panoramic image illustrating the metaphor of pH balance scales in a marine setting.

No, Dumping Tums In The Ocean Won’t Help Climate Change & Why Is Shopify Involved?

January 6, 2024January 6, 20243 months ago Michael Barnard 5 Comments

Geoengineering raised its misshapen head today. Someone tagged me on a post on LinkedIn related to a firm that wants to put a common antacid into the oceans to bond with carbon dioxide they’ve absorbed. I nerded out and am deeply skeptical about the entire thing. That’s a pity, as … [continued]

Floating Solar Power Plants To Hitch A Ride With Offshore Wind Farms

December 21, 20234 months ago Tina Casey 0 Comments

Plans are in the works to co-locate undulating carpet-like floating solar platforms with offshore wind farms in the North Sea, and beyond.

Image: Autonomous solar-powered agricultural robot Element, courtesy of Aigen.

Another New Twist On Agrivoltaics: Friendly Solar-Powered Farm Robots

November 30, 2023January 8, 20245 months ago Tina Casey 2 Comments

The field of agrivoltaics is rapidly evolving to include fleets of new autonomous, mobile solar powered robots that weed and analyze crops.