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2014/3 Offshore Vertical Axis Wind Turbines Are Sinking Not Swimming
2014/8 Electric buses best, hydrogen worst
2015/12 Electric Cars Don't Pay Gas Taxes: So What?
2015/9 EVs Could Cut Global Gasoline Use By 2040
2016/1 Carbon capture is expensive because physics
2016/1 Carbon Capture Is Expensive Because Physics
2016/1 Uber not so climate friendly?
2016/11 Can clean tech save the Maldives?
2016/11 Capturing Carbon Would Cost Twice The Global Annual GDP
2016/11 For-fee Tesla supercharging: Good or bad for Tesla?
2016/11 How real is NET Power's zero-carbon gas generation tech?
2016/12 Soil Carbon Capture: Great Loamy Hope Or Bandaid?
2016/4 Carbon Pricing Is Necessary, But Has Limits
2016/5 7 Factors Show Why Wind & Solar Are The 1st Choices
2016/5 Gates and Thiel are wrong on energy, but Thiel is more wrong
2016/5 Will electric cars break the grid?
2016/8 California: A case study in HOV lane EV policy, and future possibilities
2016/8 What Is Tesla's Path To Truck & Bus Domination?
2016/8 Wind & Solar Aren't Alternative Energy Anymore
2016/9 Economic Growth Has Decoupled From Carbon For Good
2016/9 Faraday Isn't A Threat To Tesla, But To Chevy & Others
2016/9 Indonesia: Huge Islamic Country, Emerging Economy, & Climate Risk
2017/10 Hydrogen Isn't For Cars But Still Might Have A Transportation Role
2017/10 Musk's Suborbital Flights Likely Lower Carbon, If Not Actually Cheap Or Pleasant
2017/11 6 Factors Will Hasten Or Defer Peak Oil Demand
2017/11 6 of 10 Big Electric Car Companies Are in China
2017/11 7 Reasons The Future Is Electric
2017/12 Hydrogen Might Fulfill 3–4% of Total Transportation Fuel Needs
2017/12 Science Tells Us How To Help US Citizens Accept Climate Change
2017/2 Appalachia Can't Shift From Coal To Clean Easily
2017/5 80% of Private Cars Won't Disappear by 2030
2017/5 What are the primary clean energy sources for cities of the future?
2017/5 What Are The Top 5 Innovations For Low-Carbon Cities?
2017/6 "Believe in Climate Change" the way you believe in gravity
2017/6 Don't Clean Up After Carbon, Stop Emitting It
2017/6 Tidal Power: Still Expensive, Still Unlikely To Contribute Much
2017/8 Global warming will be good for humanity
2017/9 Dyson's Electric Car Play Has (Some Of) The Right Stuff
2017/9 Electric cars have obvious and not-so-obvious impacts
2017/9 Fewer Denialists: The Tiny Silver Lining of Irma & Harvey
2018/1 Blockchain for the grid Major blockchain technologies
2018/1 Cryptocurrency's Electrical Demand Will Drop Drastically
2018/10 Cities and global warming have a complex relationship
2018/10 Cleantech Solutions To Meet 1.5 Degrees Of Warming Are Proven & Scalable
2018/10 Electric bicycle fatalities and injuries are rising
2018/10 Electric cars will disrupt more than the automotive industry
2018/10 The seven reasons renewables are dominant today
2018/10 Want to be a techno-optimist? Here are some basic guidelines
2018/11 A manifesto for pragmatic techno-optimism
2018/11 Nori In Its Own Words: 6 Questions (Blockchain Report Excerpt)
2018/12 Cities should embrace electric bikes
2018/12 Electric Bikes Are Triggering Mixed Regulatory Action Globally
2018/12 Hydrogen Is Competing With Batteries & Overhead Lines For Rail Energy
2018/12 Jordan Peterson Climate change denier and faux science-loever
2018/12 New study on soil carbon capture has deniers in rapture
2018/12 Should you buy a hydrogen car? Ask yourself these simple questions
2018/12 The Dark Side Of Blockchain: Electricity Consumption (Blockchain Report Excerpt)
2018/12 US Wind Energy Could Already Power A Third Of US Cars For A Year
2018/12 What motivated North Carolina rednecks to block Tesla superchargers?
2018/4 NORI Fighting global warming with blockchain
2018/7 Your next motorcycle just might be an electric bike
2018/8 Capturing CO2 From Exhaust Pipes Is A Bad Idea That Won't Die
2018/8 Chaos theory does not invalidate or explain global warming
2018/8 Climate Change 'Skepticism': 6 Overlapping Drivers
2018/8 Male Right-Wing Nationalists Are Now All Climate Change Deniers
2018/8 No, Magnesite Isn't The Magic CO2 Sequestration Solution Either
2018/8 Real estate in the age of global warming What will be the best places to live?
2018/8 Ryan Zinke Is Blaming Eco-Terrorists Who Don't Exist For Wildfires
2018/8 Sea-level rise is a major urban economic risk
2018/8 Tesla = 1st to lose US tax credits but Tesla vehicles will still sell very well
2018/8 Tesla semi trucks won't use runaway truck lanes as often as others
2018/9 Climate change deniers are increasingly angry and hostile
2018/9 Future of electricity transmission is HVDC
2018/9 Hurricane Florence Is Part Of What Al Gore Got Right In An Inconvenient Truth
2018/9 Miami's Existence Is Threatened With As Little As 18" Of Sea Level Rise
2018/9 Want to buy a new car for free in 10 years? Buy an electric car today
2019/1 An all-renewable grid is economically superior to mixed generation
2019/1 New Analysis: Wind Energy Developers Leaving Field Of Social Media To NIMBYs
2019/10 A cause study into a technology that should be set aside until 2050 Carbon Engineering
2019/10 A conversation with a conservative American about the Green New Deal
2019/10 BC Is A Global Climate Leader, But Needs Canada & US To Keep Up
2019/10 Democratic Candidates Climate Plans Are All Flawed But Together They Add Up to a Great Plan
2019/10 Elizabeth Warren's Climate Plan Is Much Stronger With Addition Of Inslee-Related Commitments - #Election2020
2019/10 Low-carbon transformation faces headwinds in the US and Canada
2019/10 The Short List Of Climate Actions That Will Work
2019/10 Upcoming Canadian Federal Election Is About Climate Change
2019/10 Why Thorium Nuclear Isn’t Featured on CleanTechnica Redux
2019/11 Airborne Wind Energy It's All Platypuses Instead of Cheetahs
2019/11 Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez Comments That Miami Is At Climate Risk, & Right-Wing Media Erupts In Howls
2019/11 China is much stronger on climate action than western media asserts
2019/11 Democratic Candidates’ Climate Plans Comparison, Now With Mayor Pete
2019/11 Elon Musk Should Build Pumped Hydro With Tesla Energy, The Boring Co., & Coal Miners
2019/11 Heliogen Is Bill Gates’ Latest Venture That Is Only Good For Oil & Gas
2019/11 Joi Scientific's Perpetual Hydrogen Illusion Comes Tumbling Down
2019/11 Mayor Pete's Climate Plan Has Good Coverage and a Carbon Price
2019/11 Only China Has Scaled Manufacturing & Leading Practices For Rapid Low-Carbon Transformation - Part 4
2019/11 Ranking Democratic Presidential Contenders Climate Policies - Podcast
2019/11 Some Of Vox's 9 Experts On Billionaire Climate Spending Are Off Base
2019/11 Southern Florida Among Spots At Greater Risk Due To Sea Level Rise, Finds New Machine Learning Study
2019/11 The billions spent on carbon capture over 50 years would have gone much further with wind and solar
2019/11 US & Canada Have To Overcome Patchwork Regulations In Low-Carbon Transformation - Part 2
2019/11 US & Canada Low-Carbon Transformation Requires Solutions To 4 Major Challenges - Part 1
2019/11 Utilities & Transit Poorly Positioned For Low-Carbon Transformation - Part 3
2019/11 Warren's plan best, Biden's worst among leading Democratic candidates
2019/11 Wind energy and health - court cases found for wind energy
2019/11 Wind Farm Coming? Here's what to expect How to help your community
2019/12 100% WWS Part 2: Jacobson's Latest Study Covers Storage, Transmission, & More
2019/12 Floating Solar On Pumped Hydro, Part 1: Evaporation Management Is A Bonus
2019/12 There is no cheap solution for concretes carbon emissions yet
2019/2 100% Clean Energy & Cars In 20 Years Is Viable (But Unlikely)
2019/2 Afrer Florida Arizona's Real Estate Market will be Hit Next by Global Warming
2019/2 Climate change and metaphors A primer
2019/2 US Could Achieve 3X as Much CO2 Savings with Renewables Instead of Nuclear
2019/2 What Carbon Offsets Would be Required for a Fleet of 15 Cars?
2019/2 Wind and solar in China generating 2x nuclear today will be 4x by 2030
2019/3 Air Carbon Capture's Scale Problem: 1.1 Astrodomes For A Ton Of CO2
2019/3 Public Fear Of Nuclear Isn't Why Nuclear Energy Is Fading
2019/3 The US Is Responsible For 26% Of Global Warming Emissions & Is Morally Responsible To Help Solve It
2019/3 US Commentators point at Germany for bad energy policies but live in glass houses
2019/4 Carbon Capture's Global Investment Would Have Been Better Spent On Wind & Solar
2019/4 Chevron's Fig Leaf Part 1: Carbon Engineering Burns Natural Gas To Capture Carbon From The Air
2019/4 Chevron's Fig Leaf Part 2: Carbon Engineering Burns Gas For 0.5 Tons Of CO2 For Each Ton Captured
2019/4 Chevron's Fig Leaf Part 3: Carbon Engineering's Scale & Power Problems
2019/4 Chevron's Fig Leaf Part 4: Carbon Engineering's Only Market Is Pumping More Oil
2019/4 Chevron's Fig Leaf Part 5: Who Is Behind Carbon Engineering, & What Do Experts Say?
2019/4 Chevron's Fig Leaf Part 6: Carbon Engineering's Air-To-Fuel Plan Is Even Worse
2019/4 Chevron's Fig Leaf Part 7: Carbon Engineering's Fuel Is At Best 25x The Cost, 35x The CO2 Emissions Compared To An EV
2019/4 Fukushima's Final Costs Will Approach A Trillion Dollars Just For Nuclear Disaster
2019/4 Hydrogen Cars Have 4x Annual Fuel Cost and 2-70x the Carbon Debt of Electric Vehicles
2019/4 Some Good News for the US Nuclear Fleet and Renewables
2019/4 Tesla Model 3 Used-Car Sales In USA Continue To Taunt BMW, Audi, & Others
2019/4 Wind energy reduces CO2 emissions
2019/5 "That was Quick" Category Carbon Engineering Partners with Occidental to Pump More Oil
2019/5 Chevron's Fig Leaf Part 8 Carbon Engineering's Diesel? Put Energy into Tesla Semi instead
2019/5 Farming Carbon Capture Has Potential, But Is Not A Magic Bullet
2019/6 A Modest Pumped Storage Proposal For Democratic Candidates
2019/6 An average wind turbine could take a Tesla to the sun in 3 years
2019/6 Best Carbon Capture Facility In World Emits 25 Times More CO2 Than Sequestered
2019/7 A Fungus Is Now Infecting Humans & Global Warming May Be To Blame
2019/7 A Wind Turbine Farm The Size Of Delaware Could Power The Entire United States
2019/7 ExxonMobil's CO2 Sequestration Is Just A Tiny Fraction Of Its CO2 Emissions
2019/7 Planting A Trillion Trees Is A Nice Thought, But An Unlikely Reality
2019/7 Republican politicans may start accepting climate change
2019/7 The Best Trees To Plant For Global Warming Have Three Blades & Generate Electricity
2019/8 Canada Subsidizes Fossil Fuels, Can't Talk Climate Change In Election Year
2019/8 The global rich may not be able to doge clear-air flight turbulence due to climate change
2019/8 US Subsidizes Fossil Fuels To The Tune Of $4.6, $27.4, Or $649 Billion Annually, Depending On Source
2019/9 Adventures In Anti-Renewables PR: North Carolina Duke Energy Solar Edition
2019/9 Bernie Sanders' Climate Plan: Excellent On Electrification, But Concerningly Authoritarian & Populist - #Election2020
2019/9 Biden's Climate Plan is Designed to Appeal to Independents Who don't Think Climate Change is Serious
2019/9 China Is Doing A Lot Better On Climate Action Than Most People Realize
2019/9 Fossil Fuel Greenwashing Invaded A Climate Solutions Conference
2019/9 Greta Thunberg's Angry UN Speech Follows 120 Years of People Ignoring Scientists
2019/9 Is Building Energy Efficiency Overrated
2019/9 Kamala Harris Climate Plan Is Statesmanlike & Strong On Everything Except Military
2019/9 Republicans Must Accept Climate Change Or Lose The Presidency
2019/9 The Short List Of Climate Actions That Will Work
2019/9 The Water Knife Meets Neuromance Machine Learning for Southwestern US Water Quality
2019/9 Warren's Climate Plan: solid, But Sophisticated and Hard to Sell to Voters
2019/9 What Does A #ClimateCrisis Resolution Look Like In A City Transportation Plan?
2019/9 Yang Would Spend $3 Trillion On Residential Solar, But The Same Money Could Decarbonize The Grid Entirely
2020/1 The 21st century climate connection for diseases
2020/11 Replacing A Coal Plant Takes An Infinite Number Of Wind Turbines
2020/2 105 Cities Have Made The Global CDP 2019 "A" List For Climate Action
2020/2 Coal and Gas Emissions are 1500-3000x the mass of waste wind turbine blades
2020/2 Fixing climate change is much easier than the alternative
2020/3 Not all anti-renewable campaigners are NIMBYs
2020/3 Policy & Global Supply Chain Innovation Are Making Solar Cheap, Not New Solar Chemistries
2020/4 Climate change deniers can change their minds
2020/4 How long will lithium-ion grid storage last?
2020/6 Climate change denial is shifting to climate action delay
2021/11 Batteries & Biofuels, Not Aluminum & Hydrogen, Will Fuel The Airlines Of The Near Future (Part 1)
2021/11 Batteries & Biofuels, Not Aluminum & Hydrogen, Will Fuel the airlines of the Near Future (Part 2)
2021/11 Batteries & Biofuels, Not Aluminum and Hydrogen, Will Fuel the Airlines of the Near Future Part 3
2021/11 Breaking News: Fusion Recedes Into Far Future For The 57th Time
2021/11 How Aviation Will Decarbonize Decade By Decade Until 2100 (Part 1)
2021/11 Vertical Take-Off Air Taxis Are A Solution In Search Of A Problem (Part 1)
2021/12 Peak Oil & Coal Demand Means Peak Shipping Demand Too
2021/12 Shipping Liquid Hydrogen Would Cost 5-7x LNG Costs Per Unit Of Energy
2021/2 What Would Planting 100 Million Trees Per Week Do In 5, 50, & 500 Years?
2021/3 Hydrogen Folly Grows: 55% Used In Oil Refineries
2021/4 Grid Storage Winners Part 1: Assessing The Major Technologies
2021/4 Grid Storage Winners Part 2: How Much Of Which Storage By When?
2021/4 Vaclav Smil has Bill Gates’ ear, which is part of the problem with Gates’ climate actions
2021/5 Hype and hydrogen starting with the same letters isn’t a coincidence
2021/5 Suncor & ATCO’s New Hydrogen Project Is More Fossil Fuel Hydrogen Hype
2021/6 Hydrogen market will shrink not grow
2021/6 Lithium is abundant, so extraction economics and culture matter
2021/7 Carbon pricing will raise the price of gas more than just the retail added
2021/7 Grid storage is necessary, poorly understood and already wide spread
2021/8 10 Major Industries Ranked By Climate Action Progress
2021/8 CleanTech Talk 1/2: CEO Karsten Temme Of PivotBio On Microbes Slashing Agriculture GHG Emissions
2021/9 A Decade Of Wind, Solar, & Nuclear In China Shows Clear Scalability Winners
2021/9 CleanTech Talk: Chemical Engineer Paul Martin Discusses Where Hydrogen Will Be Useful — Part 2
2021/9 The Bauer Et Al "Blue" Hydrogen LCA Paper Isn't Useful In The Real World (Part 2 of 2)
2021/9 Why Is There So Much Tribalism In Alternative Fuels? There Are 39 Trillion Reasons (Part 1 Of 2)
2021/9 Why Is There So Much Tribalism In Alternative Fuels? There Are 39 Trillion Reasons (Part 2 Of 2)
2024/6 CCUS Is Mostly An Oil & Gas Shell Game
2024/8 Shellfish Crisis: How the Latest Carbon Capture Craze Threatens Marine Life
2025/3 Crushing Carbon, Charging Ahead
2025/4 China Is Scaling Geothermal District Heating & The World Should Pay Attention

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