Wall Street and big tech team up to oppose Texas wind power bill
Amazon is among the signatories to a letter opposing the new law. Its chief executive, Jeff Bezos, is pictured here atop a turbine at a company wind farm in Texas Continue Reading
GM Shares Secrets About Its New Revolutionary Battery Tech
GM shed some light on its EV tech research to produce much cheaper EV batteries, which will be key for its EV transformation. The automaker is experimenting with different types Continue Reading
BloombergNEF forecasts green hydrogen should be cheaper than natural gas by 2050 in some markets; falling costs of solar PV key
In a new piece of research, BloombergNEF (BNEF) finds that the levelized cost of hydrogen (LCOH 2 ) made from renewable electricity is set to fall faster than it previously Continue Reading
EV-Battery Rivals Prod Biden With Rare Trade Veto in Balance
Two of the world’s largest electric-vehicle battery makers have hired top Washington insiders to hold near-daily meetings with the Biden administration in a battle that could affect the electrification plans of Ford Motor Continue Reading
Biofuels producers, farmers not sold on switch to electric
The president and auto industry maintain the nation is on the cusp of a gigantic shift to electric vehicles and away from liquid-fueled cars, but biofuels producers and some of Continue Reading
A Global Helium Shortage Is Now Looming
The so-called ‘noble’ or ‘inert’ gases such as helium, argon, neon, xenon, and krypton frequently tend to be confined to niche markets. But whereas their stable structure renders them mostly Continue Reading
Hydrogen: the future of electricity storage?
The Okeechobee Clean Energy Center was designed to use the fossil fuel natural gas when it opened two years ago among the lakes of central Florida. Now the power plant’s Continue Reading
Is The U.S. Finally Embracing Tidal Energy?
The United States has made the first step toward harnessing the potential of wave energy, a powerful source of renewable energy which researchers have been studying for decades. The Federal Continue Reading
KAUST team devises electrically-driven membrane process for seawater lithium mining
Researchers at King Abdullah University of Science and Technology (KAUST) in Saudi Arabia have developed a continuous electrically-driven membrane process which successfully enriches lithium from seawater samples of the Red Continue Reading
California to Test Whether Big Batteries Can Stop Summer Blackouts
AES Corp. in January commissioned a 100-megawatt battery installation in Long Beach, California, using Fluence batteries. With summer’s heat approaching, California’s plan for avoiding a repeat of last year’s blackouts Continue Reading