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USA: IRA (inflation reduction act), a piece of industrial, climate and trade policy

USA: IRA (inflation reduction act), a piece of industrial, climate and trade policy

LNG Liquid Natural Gas - energy

LNG Liquid Natural Gas - energy

Geothermal Energy

Geothermal Energy

Wind turbines- Energy, technology, manufacturing, business

Wind turbines- Energy, technology, manufacturing, business

Nuclear Energy - big idea: using nuclear waste to generate electricity Safety and Disposal

Nuclear Energy - big idea: using nuclear waste to generate electricity

Solar Panels, Energy, Agrivoltaics and Agriculture, Farming

Solar Panels, Energy, Agrivoltaics and Agriculture, Farming

Regulations, policy - Cleantech, Renewable Energy and Investing

Regulations, policy - Cleantech, Renewable Energy and Investing

Solar Energy - problems, challenges, issues

Solar Energy - problems, challenges, issues

Solar panels and green energy - recycling issues

Solar panels and green energy - recycling issues

Tesla, Elon Musk and Solar Energy

Tesla, Elon Musk and Solar Energy

Wind Energy - problems, challenges, issues

Wind Energy - problems, challenges, issues

Electric Cars and Society - Impact on Electricity, Transportation, other Second Order Consequences

Electric Cars and Society - Potential Impact on Electricity, Transportation and other Second Orde...

TerraPower - Nuclear Energy company founded by Bill Gates

TerraPower - Nuclear Energy company founded by Bill Gates

Hydrogen Energy - Fuel Cells for Electric Cars, Planes

Hydrogen Energy - Fuel Cells for Electric Cars, Planes

Copper, Cobalt, Lithium, Nickel: Commodities and Batteries for Electric Cars, Homes and More

Copper, Cobalt, Lithium, Nickel: Commodities and Batteries for Electric Cars, Homes and More

Nuclear Energy - Economics, Policy, Regulation, Safety and Disposal

Nuclear Energy - Economics, Policy, Regulation, Safety and Disposal

The Arctic Circle and shipping, transportation

The Arctic Circle and shipping, transportation

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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

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

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

The IEA wants to make their data available to the public – Our World in Data

We are just one step away from unlocking the world’s energy data for everyone. This would be a massive achievement for progress on energy and clima... (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

The IEA publishes the detailed, global energy data we all need, but its funders force it behind paywalls.

Let’s ask the International Energy Agency to change it. - Our World in Data The high costs of data exclude many from the global dialogue on ene... (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

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)


Article

Nuclear reactions are smoldering again at Chernobyl | Science

Slow rise in neutrons stirs concerns about possible “criticality” accident (2021)


Article

Tesla wants to make every home a distributed power plant – TechCrunch

Tesla CEO Elon Musk wants to turn every home into a distributed power plant that would generate, store and even deliver energy back into the electr... (2021)


Article

Crypto and Climate Continued - AVC

I wrote about crypto and climate earlier this month and suggested that the narrative that crypto is bad for the climate is not as straightforward a... (2021)


Article

Climate and Crypto - USV

Climate and Crypto I have been asked how I can reconcile my support for crypto/blockchain with my concerns about the climate crisis. So here is a b... (2021)


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)


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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

Why this Hydrogen Breakthrough Matters

Why this Hydrogen Breakthrough Matters (2022)


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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)


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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)


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)


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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