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An Olympic Dream

17 min read

When U.P. snowboarder Nick Baumgartner lost in a qualifying round at the 2022 Olympics, he broke down on national TV. It was his fourth Olympics, he’d never medaled, and he was 40 years old. He might not get another shot at a medal. But then he got some news.

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Canada Opens Up To China’s EVs: Motivated By The Long Term, Not Tariffs

6 min read

Our sources are once again proven reliable. In our earlier exclusive a few days before the news broke globally, we spoke of how China’s automobile and industry organizations were pushing (caressing) the Canadian government to reduce EV tariffs so that they could export their EVs to Canada. EV makers in … [continued]

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When Steel Outlives Strategy: The Climate Cost of Germany’s Hydrogen Pipeline

9 min read

Germany’s 400 km hydrogen backbone segment is now pressurized, full of fossil hydrogen, and waiting. There are no meaningful suppliers connected to it and no contracted offtakers drawing molecules out. That fact alone makes it worth slowing down and doing the accounting carefully, because large infrastructure decisions do not become … [continued]

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