“The head of the top U.S. nuclear power group said that reprocessing of nuclear waste, a technique that has not been practiced in the United States for decades because of proliferation and cost concerns, could help address a growing problem building up at nuclear plants across the country.”
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The Green Energy Transition Could Mean More Reliance on China
"Coordinating and scaling such a supply chain would take time, money and significant negotiation, both in Washington and overseas. For a Biden administration’s clean energy vision to become a reality, it will likely be much cheaper, faster and easier to go through China."
Central Bank Leaders Embrace Climate Concerns as Key Policy Objective
“Top central bank leaders said Thursday climate-change risks are an increasingly important consideration in their thinking about their respective economies and financial systems, and that environmental concerns also are increasingly a factor in their monetary policy considerations.”
Diesel Engine Giant Cummins Plans Hydrogen Future–With Trains Coming Before Trucks
“The Columbus, Indiana-based manufacturer, which supplies diesel engines for boats, heavy-duty pickups, delivery vehicles, buses and semis, laid out a comprehensive strategy in its ‘Hydrogen Day’ presentation, covering its production of fuel cells, stationary power systems, fuel tanks and electrolyzers to help companies make their own hydrogen."
Banks Bet They Can Go Zero-Carbon And Still Boost The Bottom Line
“Banks want to make loans to creditworthy customers. But if those projects are burdened by unreasonable climate risks, they may get rejected. That gives the edge going forward to clean energy investments.”
Form Energy Raises Another $70M for Long-Duration Storage
Although Form Energy hasn’t named all of its investors, the newly raised $70 million brings the total raised for energy storage to $120 million.
Why NASA wants to put a nuclear power plant on the moon
“Nuclear energy has always been a very clean form of energy and extremely effective,” he said. “Realistically, it will be pivotal to deep space exploration, and more importantly, to humanity becoming a multi-planetary species. This new dawn of space exploration will see a resurgence in the nuclear industry until the next form of efficient, clean energy is discovered.”
At $16 Billion, Australian Solar Project Would Be Biggest In The World
“This project would combine the world’s largest solar farm, the largest battery, and longest undersea electricity cable. The 10 gigawatt (GW) solar farm would cover 30,000 acres in Australia’s sunny Northern Territory. That is about the equivalent of 9 million rooftop solar photovoltaic (PV) panels. The solar farm would be paired with a 30 gigawatt-hour (GWh) battery storage facility to enable round-the-clock dispatch of renewable power.”
Regulators can help clear the way for entrepreneurial energy companies to innovate
“How regulatory policies are implemented can make a huge difference for entrepreneurs in clean technology. In a study, we found that giving state-level regulators more discretion in approving hydropower facilities in the United States led to faster adoption of this clean energy source.”
The Coming Energy Shocks Under A Biden Administration
“Whether the energy shock emanates from the eclipse of the US as the world’s leading oil and gas producer (leading to high oil and gas prices) or from the collapse of the OPEC+ production cut agreement brought about by the re-emergence of unconstrained Iranian exports (leading to very low oil and gas prices), a Biden presidency presents some highly disruptive scenarios in global energy affairs, scenarios no less disruptive than any under Trump’s watch.”