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Hydrogen Hype Meets Hard Costs: Europe’s Pipeline Plan in Trouble

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The molecules for energy industry has been working hard for years to make it seem as if transporting hydrogen by pipeline is going to be cheap and easy, cheaper and easier than moving electrons in fact. I’ve been tracking this set of bad studies and assessing realities for years. Three … [continued]

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BYD Earns Contract for “World’s Largest Grid-Scale Battery Storage Projects” in Saudi Arabia

4 min read

Grid-scale energy storage is all the rage. Battery costs have come down tremendously in the past decade, and that has enabled large-scale battery storage projects to help the grid balance out supply and demand. This is also particularly useful for integrating low-cost but intermittent renewable energy projects — terawatts worth … [continued]

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China Electricity Expert Talks Wind, Solar, & Storage In The Country

40 min read

Recently I had the opportunity to sit down with one of the leading experts on electrical generation in China to discuss the absurd scales of all forms of electrical generation and storage. In the first half of our conversation, we talked coal, gas, and nuclear. In the second half — … [continued]

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We Need To Keep Our Eye on the Ball to Save the Planet

6 min read

Air pollution, global warming, and energy security are three of the biggest problems facing the world today. Each year, at least seven million people die from air pollution and hundreds of millions more become ill. About 90% of this pollution is from energy. Global warming is already causing tremendous damage, … [continued]

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