The debate over whether hydrogen or batteries will dominate freight trucking has been settled by the market, not by opinion. The BloombergNEF 2025 Factbook on zero emission commercial vehicles released September 18th provides another clear set of signals that the argument for hydrogen in road freight is collapsing. Almost 90,000 … [continued]
The headline number is startling. The top 10% of American households now account for roughly half of all consumer spending, according to data reported by the Wall Street Journal and Bloomberg in 2025. That has never been true in the modern era. It creates a situation where the economic pulse … [continued]
According to the latest Nature Index results, Harvard University is now the only American institution left in the top ten list of research organizations by contributions to leading scientific journals. It sits in second place, but far behind the Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS), which has pulled ahead by a … [continued]
California’s refinery sector is contracting, and the reasons are not as complicated as operators often suggest. When refinery owners announce closures, they usually point to the burden of environmental regulations, the costs of compliance, or fines from state agencies. Those factors are real, but they are not decisive. The more … [continued]
Priorities: Support thousands of offshore wind industry jobs, or build a glitzy new “large event space” adjacent to the White House.
The Trump administration’s stop-work order on Ørsted’s Revolution Wind project has already become a defining event for investors and developers in the United States energy sector. The project was nearly complete, with billions already invested in turbines, monopiles, offshore cables, port infrastructure, and labor. Every required federal and state permit … [continued]
India’s electricity system is undergoing a shift that signals broader changes in global energy markets. For decades, its fossil generation rose steadily to meet rising demand. In the first half of 2025 that changed. Coal- and gas-fired electricity both fell as renewables surged, with total fossil electrical generation dropping 4%, … [continued]
Recently, I had the opportunity to sit down with a global expert on minerals processing and battery minerals, Lyle Trytten. We were closing out an engagement to do a technoeconomic assessment of seabed mining and it was a great opportunity to discuss the space and some of the things we … [continued]
The publication of Kim and Macfarlane’s 2026 study on small modular reactors is a moment worth pausing over. Nuclear energy sits at the margins of most serious decarbonization pathways today, but SMRs have been marketed as the technology that could change that. They are advertised as cheaper, safer, faster to … [continued]
The US startup Torus Energy combines the ancient principles of flywheel technology with 21st century battery chemistry in one advanced energy storage system.
