Category: Clean Technica
The Car Industry’s Interests Are Not Always Europe’s Interests
The EU recently made moves to properly check the safety of US pick-up trucks. Now the car industry is calling ‘daddy’ Trump for help. When a three tonne Ram pick-up collides with a VW Polo, the American truck always comes out on top. Europe’s auto lobby is working hard to … [continued]
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Inaugural Sustainability Summit Convenes A Day Before ASEAN Meeting Begins In The Philippines
A day before the 48th ASEAN Leaders’ Summit dominates headlines with its focus on energy and food security in the face of the Middle East crisis, a parallel gathering is quietly reshaping the region’s economic future. The inaugural ASEAN-EU Sustainability Summit convened today in Cebu, marking a decisive shift toward … [continued]
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AI Data Centres Need Big Batteries But Lithium Isn’t Fit-For-Purpose
By Dr. Thomas Nann, CEO and Co-Founder of Allegro The biggest constraint facing AI data centre expansion is not generation. It is storage, and not only storage, but the unique way that AI data centre’s use power. As AI-driven data centres scale, the grid challenge is no longer simply how … [continued]
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Vienna’s Hydrogen Bus Failure Is A Warning To Transit Agencies
Seven of Vienna’s ten new hydrogen buses are sidelined because CaetanoBus cannot supply ordinary spare parts. Not hydrogen tanks. Not fuel-cell stacks. Not high-pressure valves. Door compressors and blind-spot monitoring systems. That is what makes the case important for transit procurement agencies. The reported failure is not exotic enough to … [continued]
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Better Flight Planning Can Cut Fuel & Contrail Warming
Aviation’s decarbonization debate spends most of its time in the fuel tank. Sustainable aviation fuel gets the mandates, hydrogen and synthetic fuels get the hype and VC dollars, and batteries get the short-haul hopes. All of those matter, but they share a problem. They are slow, expensive, infrastructure-heavy and constrained … [continued]
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