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Canada’s Timber Moment: CLT As The Fastest Lever for Housing, Jobs, & Climate
Canada is in the middle of two crises that are converging in uncomfortable ways. On one side, housing supply has failed to keep up with demand for decades. Affordability is slipping out of reach for many households, and the workforce that builds homes is aging and stretched thin. On the … [continued]
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Home Batteries = Energy Independence Day
Australia leads the world in household rooftop solar installations. Over 4 million households have solar panels. In the last 20 years, installations have become bigger and cheaper. My solar array was only 1.9 kWh and cost about AU$6000. For much less, you can now get an array 3 times the … [continued]
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Fastned Station Expansion Perspective For Next 5 Years
Fastned was founded to enable “Electric Freedom,” the capability to travel by electric car everywhere the driver likes to go, something that was not possible in the first electric car age. That is roughly the period from 1880 to 1930. The grid, the batteries, and the charging possibilities of those … [continued]
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Smart(er) EV Charging Could Slash US Electricity Bills By $30 Billion, 10% Per Household By 2035
Sophisticated new EV charging management systems have the potential to slash $30 billion from utility costs, leading to an across-the-board 10% savings on electricity bills by 2035.
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Businesses face ‘chaos’ as EPA aims to repeal its authority over climate pollution
A lot of companies want the EPA in charge of setting national climate regulations because it helps shield them from lawsuits and creates a predictable environment in which to make investments.