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The New Volvo ES90: A Big Electric Car with a Small Carbon Footprint
With the new and fully electric ES90, which starts production later this summer and is produced with climate-neutral energy, Volvo Cars launches a car designed with sustainability in mind. This is reflected by the new Life Cycle Assessment (LCA) report for the ES90, which describes which materials and processes contribute to the … [continued]
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Tesla: Pigeon CEO, Overcompensated Captive & Useless Board, Failed Targets
By all accounts, I was categorized as a Tesla superfan for about a decade. I defended Tesla, and the face of Tesla himself, Elon Musk, countless times. The company and its CEO were often misunderstood from what I saw. I stand by those defenses — most of them. And Tesla … [continued]
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Geothermal & Borehole Thermal Energy Storage Can Reliably Heat Buildings in Extreme Cold — NREL Modeling Results
New Study Demonstrates Efficient Performance—Even on Frozen Alaska Soils New energy storage research from NREL, a U.S. Department of Energy national laboratory, has demonstrated a way to store and reuse heat underground to meet the heating demands of cold regions like Alaska. Published on June 17 in the journal Energy & Buildings, the … [continued]
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Airports Could Bolster Grid Security & Adaptability — NREL
As Aviation Continues To See Greater Demand, NASA and NREL Show How Regional Airports Can Become Energy Nodes Between fleets of rental vehicles and ground support equipment, electricity demand at U.S. airports might quintuple in the next 20 years. Smaller regional and general aviation airports, which often have simple rural … [continued]
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Collaboration Reveals How Light Unlocks Chemistry of Nickel Catalyst
A team of scientists across several U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) national laboratories has unraveled how light and a previously unknown form of certain nickel-based catalysts together unlock and preserve reactivity. This research, described in the journal Nature Communications, could potentially advance the use of abundant nickel in place of more expensive … [continued]
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