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Sheep To Defend US Solar Industry With Agrivoltaic Projects
The solar grazing phenomenon is taking off like a rocket as more developers incorporate agrivoltaic design into solar arrays on farmland.
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How Many Sales Will Tesla Have in 2025?
Okay, the story has been repeated enough: Tesla was supposed to be achieving 50% growth per year through 2030, yet sales actually declined year over year in 2024. Some Tesla fans want us to be positive about that, but even beyond the fact that sales didn’t match the longer-term forecast ... [continued]
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Borobotics Unveils Autonomous Drill For Geothermal Applications
Borobotics, a Swiss startup company, has created a compact boring machine that is compact enough to be used almost anywhere.
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Fossil Fuels Advertising Banned In The Hague, Netherlands
A ban on fossil advertising in the Hague went into effect in January 2025. The city council approved the ban in September 2024. The Hague is the first city in the world to implement such a ban, which covers fossil fuel advertising in public spaces. A city council is by ... [continued]
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Is Tesla’s Decline Good or Bad for the EV Revolution?
Tesla’s sales dropped in 2024 year over year. You don’t have to be a genius to know that isn’t close to what Tesla’s plans were for 2024 just a few years ago, or even in 2023. It was a significant failure to reach the company’s growth targets. It also came ... [continued]
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Renewable Energy Production & Use In Utah
In my travels across the country, I’ve seen massive wind farms in Wyoming, South Dakota, and Iowa, as well as huge wind farms and solar farms in southern California. However, living in Utah for 20 years and traveling north to south and east to west, the only grid-scale clean energy ... [continued]
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Tesla’s Autonomous Driving Strategy Stranded By Technological Divergence
It’s been a decade since I first wrote about Tesla’s approach to autonomous driving, comparing it to Google’s (now Waymo’s). At the time, my technical assessment based on my experience with both AI and robotics was that Tesla’s approach was superior. It still is, but it might need to pivot. ... [continued]
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Battery Fires & Plane Crashes: Shocking Events Make Us Forget Routine Mass Death
Recently, there was a large fire at a utility-scale battery storage installation in California. Rather than rehash that story, I’ll just point you to Steve’s article on that if you haven’t heard about it. As you can probably predict, a large battery fire was seized upon by anti-renewable propagandists, who ... [continued]
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Canoo Goes Bust. Who’s Next?
EV manufacturer Canoo has filed for bankruptcy, bringing an end to years of chaos and dashed dreams that stretched back to 2017.
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SK On: Solid-State Battery Developments
We’ve been hearing about solid-state battery breakthroughs for a decade, or more than a decade actually. Solid-state batteries are the future of batteries, and the future of EVs — as they have been for several years. Given the many announcements on solid-state battery breakthroughs and solid-state batteries being the future, ... [continued]
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Donald Trump Reverses Joe Biden’s LNG Pause on Day 1
Donald Trump has taken office. One of his first actions as president (again) has been to end the pause on liquefied natural gas (LNG) exports. More fossil fuels are allowed to flow again. Here’s the full statement from the US Department of Energy: “The U.S. Department of Energy (DOE), effective ... [continued]
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Louisiana Aims To Dominate US Offshore Wind Industry (Good Luck!)
The new 2.4-gigawatt SouthCoast Wind offshore wind project nailed down approval for a construction plan in a federal lease area off the coast of Massachusetts, just in time for Inauguration Day.
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The End of the Green New Deal?
The Biden era is over, and the second Trump era is here. While most of the talk about a “Green New Deal” came several years ago, and there’s been no specific “Green New Deal” legislation that has been passed or close to it, two big pieces of legislation that were ... [continued]
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Why I Think The Tesla Model Y Might Be Uniquely Good For People Nearing Retirement
This article explains the unique financial, safety, and self-driving advantages of EVs in general and the Tesla Model Y in particular. I’ve long been a fan of Tesla’s Model Y. I wrote 3 articles the day of the unveiling (almost 6 years ago), including this one claiming the 3rd row ... [continued]
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6 Organizations Join US Green Workforce Collaborative
The most critical resource needed in the ongoing transition to electric vehicles isn’t lithium, silicon, or nickel — it’s an adequate workforce. Training people for the green industrial workforce needed for the 21st century industrial revolution is critical, needed in high volume, and hard to get and keep at the ... [continued]
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