Improved resilience has emerged as a top priority for the U.S. power grid. Efforts to mitigate wildfire risk in Northern California last year led to hundreds of thousands of electricity customers being disconnected from the grid. During hurricane season, customers in the Eastern and Southern U.S. often face the associated threat of multi-day power outages. […]
Seagrass and Climate Change
Anitra Thorhaug, Ph.D. USA Club of Rome is the author of a detailed study of blue and black carbon in South East Asia as a partial solution to climate change. Regeneration has been highly overlooked and needs serious contemplation as a global strategy in many sectors. The study is synchronized with her original study in […]
Renewables Increasingly Beat Even Cheapest Coal Competitors on Cost
The world changed drastically in the opening months of 2020, with the COVID-19 pandemic forcing much of the world into lockdown. Now, as we move towards the new, post-COVID normality, renewable power generation must form a key part of global economic stimulus measures. Installing new renewables increasingly costs less than the cheapest fossil fuels. With […]
Electric trucks are the “inevitable future,” fleets say
With 1.3 million electric vehicles on the road in 2020, and with lawmakers pushing for more adoption, fleets have been looking at Class 7 and Class 8 vehicles carefully — kicking the tires and doing the math. But will the coronavirus crisis — and the resulting plunge in diesel prices — cause fleets to suspend […]
Is this Last Mile for the Million-Mile Battery? Or the First?
by John Blyler The much-discussed 1 million mile (1.6 million kilometers) battery may now be a reality. As the name suggests, these batteries would last for 1 million miles without breaking down. Tesla, along with China-based Contemporary Amperex Technology (CATL), have announced such a battery that not only lasts longer but also costs less than […]