Category: Climate change
Energy Vault Scaled Gravity Storage. The Battery Benchmark Is Brutal.
Energy Vault’s Rudong gravity-storage project is a particularly useful technology test because it removes many of the excuses that can surround a first-of-kind energy project. It was built in China, with deep domestic supply chains for concrete, steel, motors, power electronics and industrial construction. It had government support, grid coordination … [continued]
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Line 5 remains shut down, weeks after an accident damaged the pipeline in Wisconsin
The damaged pipeline released more than a million gallons of natural gas liquids, mainly propane and butane. The repair work has taken longer than expected.
A ‘Monarch Highway’ in the central U.S. stalled. But states are still planting butterfly rest stops
A decade ago, a federal task force announced a plan to help monarch butterflies along their great migration. The six-state effort along Interstate 35 didn’t take off as expected, but some roadsides are blooming anyway.
A Productivity Strategy For Europe Starts With Cheap Electricity
Europe is running out of workers while still debating how long to preserve machines that burn imported fuel. That is an odd starting point for a competitiveness strategy. Europe’s central economic problem is not electricity prices alone. Mario Draghi’s competitiveness diagnosis is broader: weak productivity, fragmented markets, difficulty turning research … [continued]
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US Lobby’s $1.1 Trillion Freight Rail Electrification Study Intentionally Asked The Wrong Question
Direct electric freight rail is not speculative technology. It already operates across enormous railway systems, moves very heavy freight and works in difficult climates. The interesting North American question is therefore not whether electric freight rail can work, but where catenary should go first, where batteries or dual-mode locomotives make … [continued]
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