Durable climate solutions will come from the market giving people what they want at cost-competitive prices.
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Agrivoltaics Is Making Friends Across Partisan Lines, Thanks To Farmers
"Agrivoltaic researchers have been assembling evidence that the partial shade of solar panels can improve crop yields while conserving water and soil. The relationship is reciprocal, as the vegetation beneath the array creates a cooling microclimate that improves solar conversion efficiency."
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Price Controls for Texas Electricity?
Over the last two decades Texas’ largely deregulated energy market has driven market competition and saved consumers billions of dollars.
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The University of Illinois Wants to Build a Mini Nuclear Reactor. Here’s Why
"The university has a history with nuclear power: It operated a reactor on the campus for research purposes, for almost four decades until 1998. Now it is exploring a smaller and safer microreactor concept that could be built quickly and relatively cheaply in a factory, rather than a traditional reactor which takes years to construct and costs billions of dollars."
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Wall Street warms to climate tech
"Last April, the private equity giant Apollo became one of the first mainstream investment firms to take an interest in helping climate tech firms navigate the valley of death. That term refers to the phase in an industrial technology company’s development when it needs more money than venture capitalists can offer to reach commercial scale, but it remains too speculative for a bank loan. (Climate software startups, which don’t need to build massive infrastructure projects to scale up, don’t face the same funding challenges.)"
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The 2020 Election was a Rejection of Excess
Voters said no to the ideological excess of progressives and the individual excess of Trump
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A Startup’s Technology Can Help Solve Lithium-Ion Batteries’ Fire Problem
"San Jose, California-based Anthro’s differentiator is that its electrolyte is a drop-in technology that wouldn’t require battery manufacturers to make any changes to their process, according to Mackanic. Despite these advantages, the startup’s current electrolyte production costs are about twice that of producing conventional liquid electrolytes, due in part to the cost of its materials. He expects to be able to get that down to a 10% to 20% premium at commercial scale."
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Biden’s Liberal Internationalists
"Chinese leaders will be only too happy to make future promises on climate in return for American acquiescence today to their security priorities of Taiwan, the South China Sea and Huawei. Sending Mr. Kerry to negotiate with Chinese President Xi Jinping on climate is a recipe for returning home dressed in a barrel. An obsession with climate will turn a U.S. security strength into a vulnerability."
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End the War on Nuclear Power—Start with Radiation
"Nuclear energy is the cleanest, safest, densest, and most reliable energy source. The value proposition for nuclear energy is unparalleled; it’s the only commercially proven, dispatchable clean energy technology that can be scaled up fast enough to meet the demand for electricity in a decarbonizing scenario."
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How the political landscape in Afghanistan could impact the mining of rare earth minerals
Frank Fannon, Managing Director of Fannon Global Advisors and the Former Assistant Secretary of State at the Bureau of Energy Resources, joins Worldwide Exchange to discuss the impact of the unstable political Afghan landscape on rare earth mineral mining, and what the ripple effects could be.
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