Environment

January 19th, 2021 by Steve Hanley  Hydrogen can be a really big deal in the push to lower global carbon emissions but the source of that hydrogen can be an issue. Siemens Energy says in a press release dated January 13, 2021, “Currently 80 million tons of hydrogen are produced each year and production is

January 19th, 2021 by Johnna Crider  Alaska’s Department of Revenue has raised its stake in Tesla (TSLA) stock and reduced its investments in three other stocks to make room for that stake, Barrons reports. Those stocks are as follows: Intel (INTC) — sold 219,744 shares. Gilead Sciences (GILD) — sold 165,058 shares. Qualcomm (QCOM) —

SINGAPORE — Natural gas prices in Asia hit a record high last week and will likely go down from here, according to political risk consultancy Eurasia Group. “We’ve heard single cargos indeed sell in the high $30s, I heard one at $39 [per million British thermal units],” said Henning Gloystein, director of energy, climate and resources

January 18th, 2021 by Steve Hanley  Rooftop solar is great. It takes a part of your home that is used for nothing except keeping the rain and snow out and turns it into a place that generates electricity for you to use in your home or sell back to your local utility if local policies

January 18th, 2021 by Zachary Shahan  The top 20 CleanTechnica stories of the past week included a look at increasingly popular lithium, nickel, and EV battery stocks; a council member of a small town in England asking Elon Musk to take over a Honda factory; a look at why the Tesla Cybertruck is so lovable;

This image, taken in Tokyo, Japan on August 7th 2020, shows a prototype of Sony’s Vision-S electric vehicle. Kiyoshi Ota | Bloomberg | Getty Images Sony has started testing its Vision-S electric car on public roads, with the Japanese tech giant stating that the development of the prototype vehicle has “reached the next stage.” In

January 17th, 2021 by Kurt Lowder  Everything is bigger in Texas, and wind power is no exception. Wind power has been growing in Texas for years. Now, for the first time, wind power has beaten coal power in the Lone Star State. In 2020, Texas received 22% of its electricity from wind and only 18%

SINGAPORE — Oil producer group OPEC left its 2021 forecast for crude demand growth unchanged on expectations of an economic recovery. But that could change, warns energy expert Dan Yergin. Yergin, vice-chairman at IHS Markit, told CNBC on Friday that a lot hinges on how effective the coronavirus vaccines are, and whether the number of

January 16th, 2021 by Johnna Crider  Weddle & Sons, which is a certified solar roof installer serving Kansas, Colorado, Nebraska, some areas of Missouri, Iowa, and Oklahoma, has shared how they installed a Tesla Solar Roof in a single day in a new video on YouTube. They traveled to Loveland, Colorado, to install a 30

View of the road sign “Tesla Straße 1” in front of the construction site of the Tesla factory. Tesla boss Musk visits the construction site of his electric car factory. Jorg Carstensen | picture alliance | Getty Images Tesla has been ceding ground in Europe, with its Model 3 now only the fourth-best selling pure

An electric charger being placed into a Renault Zoe car at a dealership in the U.K. on October 21, 2020. Chris Ratcliffe | Bloomberg | Getty Images Renault’s deputy CEO emphasized the importance of investing in the infrastructure required for low and zero-emission vehicles, with the French automaker aiming to launch seven fully-electric models by

January 15th, 2021 by U.S. Department of Energy  Today, the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) announced up to $14.5 million for environmental research to support U.S. offshore wind development. This Funding Opportunity Announcement (FOA) will support regionally-focused, coordinated research efforts to increase understanding of the environmental impacts of offshore wind, as well as projects that advance

January 15th, 2021 by Barry A.F.  One of the ways to slow the advance of climate change is to reduce your personal carbon usage. While we can’t efficiency our way to climate neutrality we can buy ourselves time by slowing the rate of carbon emissions and conservation/Negawatts are often the cheapest form of clean energy

January 15th, 2021 by Jo Borrás  Genius is a difficult thing to understand. To those of us who, like me, are on the outside of it, genius can sometimes seem like madness, and it’s the sort of blurry area where an idea is actually so stupid that it loops back around into genius that we’re

A view of the Exxon Mobil refinery in Baytown, Texas. Jessica Rinaldi | Reuters Shares of Exxon slipped more than 5% on Friday after The Wall Street Journal reported that the Securities and Exchange Commission opened an investigation into the oil giant over how it valued a key asset in the oil-rich Permian Basin. The

An oil pumping jack, also known as a “nodding donkey”, in an oilfield near Dyurtyuli, in the Republic of Bashkortostan, Russia, on Thursday, Nov. 19, 2020. Andrey Rudakov | Bloomberg | Getty Images LONDON — Oil producer group OPEC on Thursday kept its 2021 forecast for global oil demand growth unchanged, but warned uncertainties over