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The Electrified Future Is Already Here. Canada Just Needs to Build It

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This transcript, lightly edited, is a recorded conversation with a Canadian citizens action group where I walked through a practical, systems-level view of Canada’s decarbonization pathway, grounded in technologies that already work at scale. I focused on what is deployable now, not hypothetical breakthroughs, and explored everything from transmission and … [continued]

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Underground Heat, Urban Cool: The Physics & Promise of Geothermal Cooling

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Cooling in the Persian Gulf is one of the hardest energy challenges anywhere on the planet. Air conditioning is not a luxury in the United Arab Emirates but a necessity, and it consumes as much as 70% of the country’s electricity. That reality has made Masdar City, the experimental urban … [continued]

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Hell’s Kitchen: Can Lithium & Geothermal Power Thrive In The Salton Sea

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The Hell’s Kitchen project in Imperial County, California, has attracted attention because it brings together two ambitions in one place. Controlled Thermal Resources is building a facility that would generate geothermal electricity while also extracting lithium from the same brine. The plan is to deliver 25,000 tons per year of … [continued]

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