"Between 1500 and 1900, Indigenous tribes in the southwestern U.S. regularly burned grasses, small trees and vegetation to clear out debris, invite plant growth and utilize more land for farming, Toya tells Axios."
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Green Hydrogen Gets a Boost in the U.S. With $4 Billion Plant
"Air Products is already the world’s biggest producer of hydrogen, making around 3.5 million metric tons a year, Mr. Ghasemi said. The company plans to sell the green hydrogen from the Texas plant to some of its climate-conscious industrial customers as well as users such as trucking companies looking for sources of fuel that don’t emit greenhouse gas, he said."
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Free Economies are Clean Economies
Time and time again we have seen government-centric policies fail. Economic freedom on the other hand has accelerated prosperity around the globe while creating innovations that lower emissions and drive progress.
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Exclusive: Behind Biden’s overseas mining funding
"Jose Fernandez, Under Secretary of State for Economic Growth, Energy, and the Environment, said in an interview the administration is mulling 'around a dozen' mineral projects around the world for potential federal financing."
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Conservatives Are Cutting A Clear Path To Solving Climate Change. Here’s How
"There is real momentum around rational solutions that can both solve the climate challenge and support a healthy economy. And we are not merely suggesting you give conservatives a chance on climate — you should be excited about their energy, climate and conservation policy agenda."
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How Exxon Mobil’s CEO Views Energy Shortages and Increasing Profits
"A lot of focus had been put on wind, solar and electric vehicles, which all have an important role to play. They’re necessary, but certainly not sufficient. So what we’re beginning to see is a recognition that a much broader set of solutions is needed, and that a critical player in that space will be our industry. Carbon capture and storage, hydrogen and biofuels are all now being recognized for the important role they’re going to play in contributing to the solution."
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X-energy to go public via $2 billion blank-check deal
Reuters reports that X-energy will go public. “Climate awareness and investor interest in sustainable business practices have surged this year with money managers looking to factor in environmental social governance (ESG) policies as impact-investing gains momentum.” Read the full article here.
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For Energy, America’s Best Foreign Policy Is a Good Domestic Policy
Brigham McCown writes in RealClearEnergy about the importance of domestic energy security. “Likewise, the fervency of the fossil-only crowd is equally misguided. The critical mistake policymakers on both ends of the spectrum have made is the folly of choosing one form over the over. The answer is not whether it is fossil fuels or renewables...
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Long-duration energy storage has attracted more than $58B in global commitments since 2019: WoodMac
"Emerging LDES technologies face an 'ever-growing list' of technical, financial and business barriers to gain broader deployment, reduce costs and provide financial value against combined cycle gas turbines paired with carbon capture and storage, modular nuclear reactors or green hydrogen fueled power plants."
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Tesla Cofounder Aims To Rev Up U.S. EV Battery Market With $3.5 Billion South Carolina Plant
"Redwood has raised more than $1 billion from investors, including Ford, Fidelity, Bill Gates’ Breakthrough Energy Ventures and Amazon’s Climate Pledge Fund. It will be seeking additional funds to cover the $4.6 billion it is committing for both the South Carolina campus and its production facilities in Nevada, though Straubel declined to provide details about that effort."
