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Europe Should Buy Chinese Transformers Now Available Due To Trump’s Trade War

7 min read

The global clean energy transition has been throttled by an unlikely villain: the humble transformer. This once-overlooked piece of grid infrastructure has become one of the most critical bottlenecks in the race to electrify everything. As wind and solar projects stack up, as data centers expand to meet AI-driven demand, … [continued]

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Grunge Meets Grid: How Pearl Jam’s Carbon Price Led Me to Battery ETFs

11 min read

The world is electrifying at an accelerating pace, and while solar panels and wind turbines grab most of the headlines, the real power behind the transition lies buried in rocks and embedded in chemistry. Batteries and the critical minerals that go into them are the plumbing of the clean energy … [continued]

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Americans Pay More For Clean Tech, Fossil Fuel Firms Catch Tariff Shrapnel

8 min read

Imagine slapping a 30% surcharge on your prescription medication—not because it suddenly got more expensive to make, not because there’s a shortage, but because you want to make a point to a pharmacy halfway across the world. That’s the economic logic—or lack thereof—behind Donald Trump’s newest volley of tariffs. On … [continued]

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