Clean Technica Climate change

The Need For Global Growth Is A Billionaire’s Lie — And It’s Killing The Planet

8 min read

With the ongoing global focus on increasing gross domestic products, natural capital becomes an innocent and seemingly inevitable byproduct. Ecosystems and natural resources are not infinite, yet the industrialized economy treats them as if they were. Global growth has resulted in significant damage to the natural world, and it’s an … [continued]

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Hydrogen vs Batteries on Norway’s Lofoten Route: An Engineering Reality Check

17 min read

The recent investigative reporting by Swedish Television and Norway’s NRK into the fuel cell supplier PowerCell has opened a window into the Vestfjord Lofoten hydrogen ferry project that Norway has been building toward for years. The journalists focused on a specific claim about durability. Internal tests suggested that the fuel … [continued]

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Great Lakes Echo

Utilities ramp up tree trimming to address long-standing reliability problems

6 min read

By Sonja Krohn

DTE and Consumers Energy, Michigan’s largest electric utilities, have ramped up tree trimming to improve reliability. Despite improvements, Michigan has the poorest reliability record among the Great Lakes states, the Citizens Utility Board of Michigan says.

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It’s Time For An Authentic Golden Age Of Agriculture

7 min read

A “golden age” is a flourishing period in the history of a nation. It is a period when everything seems really good, peaceful, and successful — not utopian, but a time of extraordinary human achievement. A golden age of agriculture commonly refers to the late 19th century, a time of … [continued]

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Donald Trump: America’s Greatest EV Salesman

7 min read

10–15 years ago, a common joke you’d see in online forums and Facebook groups was that Barack Obama was America’s Greatest Gun Salesman. With the prospect of strict gun control laws (that never had a snowball’s chance in hell of passing or surviving court challenges in the United States), many … [continued]

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