It’s hard to keep up with all that lithium demand
Hidden within the salt flats high in the Andes mountains of South America are vast deposits of the lithium that Elon Musk may need for his electric-car revolution
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Entries by Landon Hall
As Houston plots a sustainable path forward, it’s leaving this neighborhood behind
Surely you’ve read about the Keystone XL pipeline and other controversial proposed projects that would carry oil from the Canadian tar sands to Gulf Coast refineries? Juan Parras can show you where many of them would end.
After electric cars, what more will it take for batteries to change the face of energy?
No need for subsidies. Higher volumes and better chemistry are causing costs to plummet.
TUM electric car designed specifically for Africa
A group of scientists and engineers at the prestigious Technical University of Munich will unveil the aCar, an electric vehicle designed specifically to meet the driving needs of those living in sub-Saharan Africa.
Methane seeps out as Arctic permafrost starts to resemble Swiss cheese
Measurements over Canada’s Mackenzie River Basin suggest that thawing permafrost is starting to free greenhouse gases long trapped in oil and gas deposits.
Electric vehicle goals ignore some scientific facts and statistics
With today’s constant discussions surrounding climate change, everyone from politicians to companies are reaching for an easy win — catchy sound bites with short sighted solutions.
Inaction on climate change risks leaving future generations $530 trillion in debt
This would be the cost of the “negative emissions” technologies required to remove CO₂ from the air in order to avoid dangerous climate change.
The nuclear tech breakthrough that could make oil obsolete
As various companies work on wind and solar, there’s a group of scientists quietly working on another method of generating electricity, in the lab that once created the atomic bomb.
OPEC: Is this the cartel’s last stand?
Since its creation more than half a century ago, OPEC has become the textbook case of a successful cartel.
Study suggests 75 of top 100 automotive suppliers will be irrelevant by 2030 unless they shift to EVs
The upcoming mass electrification of the automobile was compared by Automotive News to a meteor that wipes out all the dinosaurs … who in this case, are traditional auto parts suppliers.
