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Lessons In Chemistry — Microbes, Heavy Metals, And Water
Chemistry is politically agnostic. It can give us wondrous new products, like nylon and Dacron, but it can give us destructive products like napalm and Agent Orange. Here are two stories in the news that came clattering into the teletype machines in the third sub-basement at CleanTechnica world headquarters today. … [continued]
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Electrification Changes What Energy Security Means
For most of the fossil-fuel era, energy security meant securing a continuous flow of things that disappeared when they were used. Oil arrived in tankers, natural gas crossed pipelines or oceans as LNG, and coal moved by rail and ship. Burn the fuel and another shipment had to follow, which … [continued]
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China’s EV Transition Is Four Different Transitions
China has reached a stage of vehicle electrification that is easy to miss if the only number being watched is national EV market share. New urban buses are now essentially all electric, and in many cities the procurement question is no longer whether to replace a diesel bus with a … [continued]
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Battery Swap Uses Fewer Batteries Than You Think
When I wrote an article a while ago about Janus Electric, an electric truck company in Australia that featured diesel semi electric conversions and battery swap, I put it away in my mind, until I happened upon an interview with Janus CEO Ben Hutt. The interviewer asked how much extra … [continued]
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Roth aims to hold back 2 challengers for 104th state House seat
Incumbent John Roth, R-Interlochen, is up against Democrat Mitch Distin and Libertarian Alexander Jarvis for the 104th state House District.
