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Brazil - energy issues
USA: IRA (inflation reduction act), a piece of industrial, climate and trade policy
Coal towns and Economic Development
Canada - energy and climate issues
LNG Liquid Natural Gas - energy
Geothermal Energy
Wind turbines- Energy, technology, manufacturing, business
Policy issues in the European Union - energy, climate, global warming
Nuclear Energy - big idea: using nuclear waste to generate electricity
Solar Panels, Energy, Agrivoltaics and Agriculture, Farming
Regulations, policy - Cleantech, Renewable Energy and Investing
Solar Energy - problems, challenges, issues
Wind energy in the European Union - climate, global warming
Cities, the Hoover Dam, water issues, droughts and the American West (USA)
Solar panels and green energy - recycling issues
India - green energy, global warming
The Caspian Sea and Energy Oil, Gas- Azerbaijan, Armenia, Russia
Tesla, Elon Musk and Solar Energy
USA - Renewable energy, global warming, carbon, climate and policy
Norway - oil, gas, energy
Wind Energy - problems, challenges, issues
France - energy, nuclear
Electric Cars and Society - Potential Impact on Electricity, Transportation and other Second Order Consequences
a collection of resources about the USA - Nuclear Energy
TerraPower - Nuclear Energy company founded by Bill Gates
Hydrogen Energy - Fuel Cells for Electric Cars, Planes
Copper, Cobalt, Lithium, Nickel: Commodities and Batteries for Electric Cars, Homes and More
Nuclear Energy - Economics, Policy, Regulation, Safety and Disposal
The Arctic Circle and shipping, transportation
Coal vs. Cleantech, Renewable Energy, Solar, Wind power and Investing

Resources within this category

Article

Cheap solar power is sending electrical grids into a death spiral

Pakistan and South Africa provide a warning for other countries | Finance & economics (2025)


Article

Energy: A millennial is building America’s first nickel-cobalt refinery

But it’s proving ethically trickier than she expected | United States (2024)


Article

Oil in Brazil. The perils of Petrobras

Why Lula keeps meddling with Latin America’s top oil company. His worst instincts are undermining the national oil company’s hard-won gains | The A... (2024)


Article

Special Report: Carbon-dioxide removal needs more attention

It is vital to climate stabilisation, remarkably challenging and systematically ignored | Special report (2023)


Article

Building better batteries. Sodium batteries offer an alternative to tricky lithium

Lithium is relatively scarce and mostly refined in China. Sodium is neither | Leaders (2023)


Article

The energy industry. A pioneering deal

Why ExxonMobil is paying $60bn for Pioneer. Consolidation will transform America’s fragmented shale industry | Business (2023)


Article

Green supply chains; Asia’s battery battlefield.

A battery supply chain that excludes China looks impossible. The outcome will be determined in Asia, where most battery supply chains are based. Th... (2023)


Article

Why Kenya could take the lead in carbon removal

Geothermal energy and cheap talent offer comparative advantage | Middle East & Africa Carbon removal; the great carbon valley. Kenya is a surpri... (2023)


Article

The wind-turbine industry should be booming. Why isn’t it?

Wind energy and turbine manufacturing: Stiff competition has combined with rising costs and other burdens | Business (2023)


Article

How fast can European steelmakers decarbonise?

One of Europe’s dirtiest industries has ambitious plans to go green | Business (2023)


Article

Indonesia’s nickel boom tests Western green sensibilities

Making batteries for electric vehicles requires environmental and geopolitical trade-offs | Business (2023)


Article

A New Hydropower Boom Uses Pumped Storage, Not Giant Dams - The New York Times

So-called pumped storage, rather than conventional dams, is emerging as the future of deriving electricity from water's gravitational qualities. (2023)


Article

China Could Dominate Sodium Batteries, the Next Big Advance in Power - The New York Times

China is far ahead of the rest of the world in the development of batteries that use sodium, which are starting to compete with ubiquitous lithium ... (2023)


Article

The world won’t decarbonise fast enough unless renewables make real money | The Economist

Governments must accept that green power is pricey | Leaders (2023)


Article

Why the gusty North Sea could give Europe an industrial edge | The Economist

Wind power is breathing life into a new green economy on its coasts | Leaders (2023)


Article

India’s next green revolution | The Economist

The country’s clean-energy push shows a way to escape the coal addiction | Leaders (2022)


Article

German Business - Germany faces a looming threat of deindustrialisation | The Economist

Crunch time for a business model built on Russian gas and Chinese demand | Business (2022)


Article

Lithium costs a lot of money—so why aren’t we recycling lithium batteries? | Ars Technica

The nascent recycling industry needs to economically deconstruct lots of formats. (2022)


Article

Telling the Dam Truth - Patagonia by Yvon Chouinard

Europe’s last remaining wild rivers are at grave risk. This time the danger isn’t coming from excessive drought or factories dumping toxic waste—it’s (2018)


Article

France to build six new nuclear reactors – POLITICO

PARIS — French President Emmanuel Macron today announced that France will build six new generation nuclear reactors (so-called EPR2) and will consi... (2022)


Article

The True Face of the Anti-Nuclear Movement

The true face of the anti-nuclear movement today is a highly credentialed progressive expert who often claims not to be opposed to nuclear at all. (2021)


Article

New, 800V, electric cars, will recharge in half the time | The Economist

Pump up the voltage! | Science & technology (2021)


Article

Are hydrogen fuel cells the future of green transport? Sorta

Hydrogen fuel cells (HFC) are a form of green energy transport manufacturers are using to reduce their carbon footprint. But how do they work? (2021)


Article

Why America Doesn’t Really Make Solar Panels Anymore - The Atlantic

America invented silicon solar cells in the 1950s. It spent more on solar R&D than any other country in the 1980s. It lost its technological ad... (2021)


Article

Costa Rica Has Run on 100% Renewable Electricity for 299 Days

For 75 days straight, Costa Rica ran on 100% renewable electricity (2021)


Article

The Lithium Mine Versus the Wildflower | WIRED

The deposit could power 400,000 clean-energy car batteries. There’s just one roadblock: a rare, fragile species of buckwheat, which for a mine migh... (2021)


Article

Rolls-Royce investing $110M over next decade to develop energy storage for aircraft

Rolls-Royce is entering new aviation markets to pioneer sustainable power and as part of that mission will be developing energy storage systems (ES... (2021)


Article

Here's how much energy it really takes to mine Bitcoin and why people are concerned - CNET

Cryptocurrency takes a lot of power to keep things running. “ one Bitcoin transaction takes 1,544 kWh to complete, or the equivalent of approxim... (2021)


Article

The price of batteries has declined by 97% in the last three decades - Our World in Data

To transition towards low-carbon energy systems we need low-cost energy storage. Battery costs have been falling quickly. (2021)


Article

Recycling - The metals in the car go round and round

But they need to be designed to make recycling them easier | Science & technology Scrapyards of tomorrow - Old electric cars are a raw material ... (2021)


Video

How Chicago Solves its Overheating Problem

How Chicago Solves its Overheating Problem (2024)


Video

China’s MASSIVE Desert Project Is About To Change The World with Solar and Wind

China’s MASSIVE Desert Project Is About To Change The World. Take your personal data back with Incogni! Use code UNDECIDED at the link below and ge... (2024)


Video

The end of globalization? How Biden's Inflation Reduction Act IRA changed the world | FT Film

The US was for decades the exemplar of free market globalisation. That changed with Donald Trump’s 'America first' agenda. President Joe Biden’s la... (2023)


Video

Why West Virginia is so Poor

Why West Virginia is so Poor (2023)


Video

Green Hydrogen in Namibia: This $10BN Desert Megaproject is a Game Changer

This project is worth the same as the country's entire GDP.Correction: The map at 3:41 shows the Walvis Bay. The Port of Luderitz is located furthe... (2023)


Video

LNG, Liquid Natural Gas: Canada’s $30BN Gamble To Become An Energy Superpower

It's one of North America's biggest megaprojects, but you've probably never heard of it. Read how Bluebeam Revu helped one company in the oil and g... (2023)


Video

Are solar panels worth it? - Shannon Odell

Explore how solar units can help you save money on energy costs, and the most common challenges of switching to solar power. -- Today in many... (2023)


Video

To win the race to Mars, NASA is prepared to go nuclear

Tom Costello reports from the Marshall Space Flight Center in Huntsville, Alabama, where NASA is developing nuclear rockets to take humans to the M... (2023)


Video

Fracking for Clean Energy (wait, what?)

Fracking for Clean Energy (wait, what?). Fracking made it possible to get an... (2023)


Video

Denmark's $34BN Energy Islands Could Solve Europe's Power Problem. Wind Energy and transmission

These artificial islands off the coast of Denmark could hold the key to the future of Europe's power grids. For more by Tomorrow’s Build subscribe ... (2023)


Video

The $23BN Plan to Power Singapore from Solar Energy in Australia

Someone came up with the idea to build the world’s largest solar array in the Australian outback and then connect it to Singapore with a 3,750-kilo... (2023)


Video

The Big Lie About Nuclear Waste

The Big Lie About Nuclear Waste. What if we could actually USE nuclear waste? (2023)


Video

A Faster Way to Get to a Clean Energy Future | Ramez Naam | TED

When it comes to cost, clean energy is bound to beat out fossil fuels, says technologist Ramez Naam. But the hesitancy to build amid the prevalence... (2023)


Video

How Solar Panels Are Changing Agriculture - Agrivoltaics Revisited

How Solar Panels Are Changing Agriculture - Agrivoltaics Revisited. Visit the SPAN website to get a quote and start the process of having SPAN in y... (2023)


Video

Why All Eyes Are On Zimbabwe’s Lithium Industry

Zimbabwe has been mining lithium for 60 years and the government estimates that its Chinese-owned Bikita mine, which is located 300 km south of the... (2023)


Video

Russia's Catastrophic Oil & Gas Problem

Russia's Catastrophic Oil & Gas Problem (2022)


Video

Why this Hydrogen Breakthrough Matters

Why this Hydrogen Breakthrough Matters (2022)


Video

Why Oil Doesn’t Corrupt Norway

Why Oil Doesn’t Corrupt Norway (2022)


Video

Is Nuclear Power Green? - Sabine Hossenfelder

Is Nuclear Power Green? - Sabine Hossenfelder (2022)


Video

Are Hydrogen-Powered Planes Inevitable?

Hydrogen has long been touted as the fuel of the future, but it’s never quite taken off. Meet the scientists and entrepreneurs who are making it a ... (2022)


Video

The Economics of Nuclear Energy

The Economics of Nuclear Energy (2022)


Video

Transmission, and the Energy Grid - Why the US isn't ready for clean energy

Making clean energy isn’t enough: We also have to move it.Subscribe and turn on notifications (🔔) so you don't miss any videos: the n... (2021)


Video

Mars: The Insane Engineering of the Perseverance Rover

Get a year of both Nebula and Curiosity Stream for just 14.79 here: and using the code, "realengineering"Watch.. (2021)


Video

How To Double The Life Of Your Lithium Batteries

Learn how to make your own battery with my book DIY Lithium Batteries: http://amzn.to/2jbxvzS or check out my second book - The Ultimate DIY Ebike ... (2020)


Video

The battery that could make mass solar and wind power viable | Donald Sadoway MIT

CBC News: The National Published on Dec 12, 2018 Renewables are growing, but even if they could some day replace fossil fuels, there's a problem:... (2019)


Video

The Tech That Could Fix One of Wind Power's Biggest Problems - Bloomberg

Bloomberg Published on Jun 22, 2016 Hello World’s Ashlee Vance paid a recent visit to Iceland’s capital city of Reykjavik to see the next part of... (2019)


Video

Fracking explained: opportunity or danger

Fracking explained in five minutes. Fracking is a controversial topic. On the one side the gas drilling companies, on the other citizen opposed to ... (2019)


Video

TED-Ed: How does fracking work? - Mia Nacamulli

Deep underground lie stores of once-inaccessible natural gas. There’s a tech... (2019)


Video

The Sustainable Development Goals – Action Towards 2030 | CAFOD and SDGs

CAFOD Published on Aug 16, 2016 The Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) were adopted by the United Nations in 2015 as part of Agenda 2030 Su... (2018)


Video

The Sustainable Development Goals – Action Towards 2030 | CAFOD and SDGs

CAFOD Published on Aug 16, 2016 The Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) were adopted by the United Nations in 2015 as part of Agenda 2030 Su... (2018)


Podcast

Nuclear power and America's clean energy future | On Point

President Joe Biden signed a $1 trillion infrastructure bill this week. Tucked into the plan includes the Biden administration's belief in the impo... (2021)


Podcast

How Venezuela Struck It Poor – Foreign Policy (with audio track)

The seeds of the apparently sudden collapse of Venezuela’s once-proud oil industry were sown two decades ago. (2018)


Book

Energy and Civilization | The MIT Press

A comprehensive account of how energy has shaped society throughout history, from pre-agricultural foraging societies through today's fossil fuel–d... (2020)


Book

The future of solar energy - Rays of hope - The Economist

Taming the Sun: Innovations to Harness Solar Energy and Power the Planet. By Varun Sivaram. MIT Press; 392 pages; $29.95 and £24.95 "IN 1954 th... (2018)


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