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Geothermal Energy vs. Fossil Fuels: Be Careful What You Wish For

18 Feb 2025 | Synopsis

"Geothermal energy is throwing off the shackles of the past and extending its reach across the country, with a particular focus on pushing natural gas out of the power generation industry...The opportunities for geothermal development in the US have skyrocketed...geothermal solutions, including energy storage and baseload power generation...installed capacity of geothermal energy will rise from its lowly state of 16.8 gigawatts globally up to 28 gigawatts within the next few years, and on up to 100 by 2050."

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Why The US Government Built Only 58 EV Charging Stations In Three Years

17 Feb 2025 | Synopsis

"The EV charger story has become fodder for a myth woven deeply into the American psyche...what accounts for such a miserable federal performance?

"...over the course of the next half-century, bureaucracies they deemed too powerful became, in effect, impotent...the Biden administration was left to rely in large part on the system that governs 90 percent of federal transportation spending: distributing the money to the states."

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Clean Energy: A 21st Century ''America First'' Agenda

17 Feb 2025 | Synopsis

"...unlikely synergy is apparent between the former President's ambitious investments in clean energy and the "America First" economic principles...economic vision centers on protecting American industries and reducing reliance on foreign goods; Biden's clean energy investments also enable this, while positioning America to compete in the 21st century...the race to dominate the clean energy sector is on. If it doesn't happen here, it will happen elsewhere."

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Republican Districts Lose Billions As Clean Energy Cancellations Surge

17 Feb 2025 | Synopsis

"Clean energy investments took a serious hit in January, sinking to their lowest point since the Inflation Reduction Act (IRA) supercharged the industry...Republican-held congressional districts have been the biggest beneficiaries of clean energy investments...they're also bearing the brunt of the latest wave of cancellations, with more than $2.7 billion in investments and 1,300 jobs lost in January alone..."

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Scientists Troubled After Analyzing Waters Of Catastrophic Off-Shore Oil Spill Decade Later: "There Has Been This Massive Quieting"

17 Feb 2025 | Synopsis

"Scientists at UC San Diego's Scripps Institution of Oceanography submerged microphones 3,000 feet below the surface of the Gulf of Mexico to analyze deep-sea audio recordings and estimate whale populations...the study determined that numerous whale and dolphin species have declined significantly. Sperm whale populations may have declined by as much as 31%, while certain dolphin populations may have dropped by 43%."

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Lucid & BMW Execs Claim Efficiency More Important Than Range For Electric Cars

14 Feb 2025 | Synopsis

"[Lucid] future model with 180 miles of range would only need a 30 kWh battery - about two thirds less than what many manufacturers install in their electric cars today. “Then we can make a battery pack for about $2,500 - maybe $2,000...

"People are fixated on how fast their EVs can charge, but that is old-fashioned thinking left over from the days of gasoline...The idea that their car can charge while they are off doing other things is an alien concept that takes some getting used to."

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Ford's CEO On Large EVs: Problems are 'Unresolvable'

14 Feb 2025 | Synopsis

"For larger retail, electric utilities, the economics are unresolvable...These vehicles have worse aerodynamics, and they're very heavy, which means very large and expensive batteries.

"Measuring the efficiency of an EV is based on what’s known as miles per kilowatt-hour of electricity. Near 4 miles per kWh is pretty good...a giant Hummer EV... drops to a mere 1.5 miles per kilowatt-hour of electricity.

"Ford now wants to build a midsize

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US Senator Cruz List of "Woke" Science Includes Self-Driving Cars and Solar Eclipses

14 Feb 2025 | Synopsis

"...grant was one of over 3,400 NSF grants labeled by Sen. Ted Cruz, R-Texas, as 'woke DEI" research that may be advancing 'neo-Marxist class warfare propaganda.'

"The list included projects aimed at finding better ways of synthesizing new medications; studying how to make self-driving vehicles safer...Many of the research proposals that seem wholly unrelated to DEI were likely flagged because they included language about broadening the participation of women and underrepresented groups in science."

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How A Handful of Australians Are Powering Their Homes and the Grid With Their Electric Cars...and Profiting From it

14 Feb 2025 | Synopsis

"...there's another step you could take. If you have a bidirectional charger, you can set it to sell power back to the grid when demand is high.

"Fewer than ten people across Australia actually do this, because the technology - known as Vehicle-to-Grid (V2G) - is very new.. announced new Australian standards and communications protocols for bidirectional chargers in a bid to make it mainstream...small profit of about A$1,000 annually..."

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Hyundai Starts Solid-State Battery Production In March

12 Feb 2025 | Synopsis

"The inauguration of the Dream battery pilot plant [in Uiwang, South Korea] is not far away"...it will be able to present an electric prototype using this new battery by the end of 2025.

"...announced an investment of €9 billion over 10 years to establish itself in the market with various technologies...these include solid-state batteries."

Motor1 noted that the Dream batteries will also be used in the Supernal eVTOL pictured."

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Colorado Tesla Dealership Vandalized With "Offensive" Graffiti, Broken Glass In Third Attack In 2 weeks, Police Say

12 Feb 2025 | Synopsis

"Various vehicles and the Tesla building were vandalized with graffiti, some of which were offensive and hateful in nature...Similar incidents occurred at the dealership on Jan. 29 and Feb. 2, 'however, these incidents were of lesser magnitude than today's...The company and individual Tesla owners have seen instances of alleged vandalism in the last few months, with local news outlets reporting incidents of vandalism to Tesla vehicles -- both at dealerships and in public -- in Florida, Oregon, Canada, and Australia."

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The Geopolitics of Lithium in 2025

12 Feb 2025 | Synopsis

"The new U.S. administration must rethink its entire lithium policy vis-a-vis other nations by focusing on the Western Hemisphere...In the lithium sector outside of Australia...the Lithium Triangle is increasingly becoming the focus of attention for major global powers...the United States has largely neglected Latin America from a geopolitical perspective...Marco Rubio is the secretary of state, there will be more interest in Latin America..."

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