"Rep. Debbie Dingell (D-Mich.) called the election result a 'blip' in the state, but said it underscores the need to compete against China in the race to dominate the energy technologies of the future."
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Safire and Glatfelter Announce Strategic Partnership to Develop Safer, Higher-Performing Lithium-ion Batteries
"The partnership brings together Glatfelter’s expertise in developing innovative and sustainable non-woven solutions with Safire Group’s revolutionary shear-thickening battery technology to offer customers safer, higher performing Li-ion powered systems."
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Green energy investment headwinds threaten Joe Biden’s climate targets
"The typical project built in 2022 took five years from the interconnection request to commercial operations, compared with three years in 2015. The backlog is worsening as more projects are attracted due to the incentives in the IRA, according to the report."
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An Innovative Financing Model Is Ensuring Everyone Can Afford a Heat Pump
"Heat pumps don’t just make heating and cooling easier, they also cut the very carbon pollution that is making extreme heat more intense. The switch from propane heaters to heat pumps can cut a household’s annual carbon emissions by 6.3 tons, according to one analysis from Rewiring America, a nonprofit dedicated to electrifying homes across the U.S."
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Hydrogen Energy for Guam Using Seawater Electrolysis
"The abundant seawater surrounding Guam provides an enticing energy source: hydrogen. Through a process called electrolysis, energy from electricity splits water into hydrogen and oxygen. This generates a fuel that can also be stored and used when renewable electricity is not available."
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How The Concrete Industry Can Maximize Its Moment In The Sun
"There’s never been a better time to work in our industry, and I’m excited about the possibilities that await us as craftsmen in the years ahead. However, we also face some critical challenges – helping the general public gain a greater understanding of what we do, maintaining their trust by ensuring that low-carbon concrete works in the real world as well as it does in the lab, maintaining our independence and ability to prescribe the right product for each job and protecting the market ecosystem that helps our industry contribute to this economic transition are all big tasks."
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The heavy lift of getting shovels in the ground
"The key is to drive down the green premium and make green product prices competitive against fossil-based product prices – and that’s going to require more than just government subsidies. Financing these projects requires thinking beyond the traditional market to overcome the investment risks involved. It’s going to require the public and private sector working together to deploy these projects."
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Is this Chicago-area startup the ‘Tesla of heavy-duty’ trucking?
"Blumreiter and Johnson co-founded ClearFlame Engine Technologies to market engine technology that allows trucks, generators and other motors to run on a variety of low-emissions fuels such as ethanol, methanol or liquid ammonia. While these fuels are not zero emissions, various studies have shown pure ethanol’s life cycle greenhouse gas emissions are roughly 40 percent to 50 percent less than petroleum-based fuel."
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Securing American Nuclear Leadership: A Matter of Climate Action and National Security
"We cannot afford to build a clean energy future that makes us more dependent on the likes of Russia or China. Rather, we must bolster our national security by building out our nuclear fleet with abundant and secure supply chains."
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Quarterly Warning On Copper Before It Derails The Energy Transition
"A lot of the drivers for recent protests of copper mines, and of the companies producing them, are due to ESG concerns. It remains unclear if the connection will be made that without copper there will be no energy transition, or if the snake will simply keep eating its tail."