GM announced today that it will collaborate with CTR to produce lithium in California.

"In an ideal world replete with surplus renewable energy, maybe hydrogen has a future because then its inefficiency is negated by its convenience. But we aren’t in that situation right now, won’t be for decades, and might never be...But if our end goal is combating climate change and global warming, the best place for hydrogen is not cars."

"The face of nuclear energy is changing, and one of the companies working to redefine what nuclear energy looks like is Oklo. The 22-person Silicon Valley start-up has a plan to build mini-nuclear reactors, powered by the waste of conventional nuclear reactors and housed in aesthetically pleasing A-frame structures."

"Today, most rice hulls are burnt worldwide–218 billion pounds a year–but cleantech startup Glanris has developed a process to turn rice hulls into water filtration media–a cleantech solution that has the potential to transform both the rice and the water management industry."

One established generation source that is often left out of public energy discussions is nuclear energy, which generates roughly 40 percent of all low-carbon power and, similar to Texas, about 10 percent of total global electricity.

"What began with an oil boom has diversified into an all-of-the-above energy approach. Today, 40% of our power comes from renewable sources, including wind and solar. We have the second-most affordable electricity in the country, and we have the most electric vehicle charging stations per capita."

"Both climate change and artificial intelligence are sprawling, cross-disciplinary fields. Both will transform literally every sector of the economy in the years ahead. There is therefore no single 'silver bullet' application of AI to climate change. Instead, a wide range of machine learning use cases can help in the race to decarbonize our world."