Clean Technica Research

She Wanted To Write Fantasy. Now, She Is Rewriting Recycling.

10 min read

Meet Taylor Uekert, the Gymnast-Turned-Nanoengineer Who Harnesses Molecular Machines To Remake Plastics, Chemicals, and More By Caitlin McDermott-Murphy, NLR Three days after 9-year-old Taylor Uekert moved to the foothills outside San Diego, her parents woke her and her brother in the middle of the night. “Get up and get to the car,” … [continued]

The post She Wanted To Write Fantasy. Now, She Is Rewriting Recycling. appeared first on CleanTechnica.

Agriculture Clean Technica Climate change Research

Drones, Diesel, & Policy: Two Countries, Two Agricultural Futures

12 min read

China’s rapid adoption of agricultural drones is one of the most interesting examples of technological divergence between two major food producers. The contrast is striking. Chinese pilots are now treating an amount of land with drones each year that is larger than the total farmland base, which means multiple drone … [continued]

The post Drones, Diesel, & Policy: Two Countries, Two Agricultural Futures appeared first on CleanTechnica.

Clean Technica Climate change Research

Big Loads, Small Loads, & A Changing Grid: A Better Path for Scope 2 Accounting?

15 min read

An advocacy piece published by WattTime and REsurety was brought to my attention because it reflects the tension building around the proposed revisions to the Greenhouse Gas Protocol’s Scope 2 accounting rules. These rules are not American regulations. They are global and voluntary, governed by the World Resources Institute and … [continued]

The post Big Loads, Small Loads, & A Changing Grid: A Better Path for Scope 2 Accounting? appeared first on CleanTechnica.

Clean Technica Research

A New Billing Architecture To Transform EV Charging Economics

10 min read

TL;DR — Public charging is expensive and messy because the business model is wrong. Instead of selling electricity, charging operators should just provide infrastructure — and utilities should bill drivers directly at their home rate. A single API can make this happen and unlock the kind of seamless experience Tesla … [continued]

The post A New Billing Architecture To Transform EV Charging Economics appeared first on CleanTechnica.