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From Beacon to Amber, Flywheels Missed the Grid

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Amber Kinetics crossing my screen today was a reminder that electricity markets are littered with technologies that never quite die. Flywheels are one of those ideas. They are mechanically elegant, grounded in physics everyone understands, and they solve a real problem in principle. Store energy in a spinning mass, pull … [continued]

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BYD Shark 6 Is A Predator, Now More Than Ready To Eat The Philippine Pickup Market

12 min read

This will be my first test drive report for CleanTechnica. Since I started off with that statement, let me say that I am nervous writing a test drive report for the US market, knowing how much knowledge and experience there is out there regarding EVs. I don’t even have one. … [continued]

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More Proof That Trump’s War On Renewable Energy Is Failing, Badly

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For all the damage US President Donald Trump has done to the domestic wind and solar industries, they just keep persisting. The latest example is the massive, 550-mile, 3-gigawatt SunZia SouthWest Transmission Project linking renewable energy assets in sunny (and windy) New Mexico with Arizona and California. Construction began less … [continued]

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Philippine Coach Builder Makes EV Isetta-like EV and Hopes to Scale

4 min read

In the world of high-performance automotive engineering, “Class-A surfaces” and aerodynamic symmetry are the benchmarks of success. These are the standards Adonis Lagangan mastered while building the fiberglass shell of the original British Keating TKR supercar capable of blistering speeds exceeding 400 km/h (~248 mp/h). But today, Lagangan isn’t focused … [continued]

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Joi Scientific’s Long Hydrogen Illusion

21 min read

Joi Scientific is back, at least in the sense that matters for companies built around stories. The website is live again. The company is issuing press releases again. The language has been refreshed. A new patent family has been published. Advisors and physicists are being named. A Florida corporate shell … [continued]

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