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The Complex Calculus of Clean Energy and Zero Emissions

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Energy-system models that marry engineering, physics, economics, and policy constraints and concerns allow us to test assumptions, explore actions, and build intuitions about how those systems work. The best we can do is to build tools that allow us to explore possible futures.” There’s just so much that is contingent and unknowable.

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Live Blog: Tesla (TSLA) 2021 Annual Meeting of Stockholders

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I will be updating this article in real-time, so please keep refreshing the page every minute or two to view the latest updates on this story. 15:50 PT – Elon notes that Giga Texas would be making the Cybertruck and the Tesla ATV. 15:48 PT – More energy storage projects will likely happen in Texas. Now signing off!

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Oversold Lithium could be about to rally

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Last year’s 12 percent slide by the Bloomberg Commodity Index —spurred by 20 percent-plus declines by industrial bellwethers like West Texas Intermediate crude, steel and platinum—came in the wake of two years of modest gains. Link to article: [link].

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Study finds paved surfaces in Houston worsen air quality

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New research by a team from the US, China and Japan focusing on the Houston, Texas area suggests that widespread urban development alters weather patterns in a way that can make it easier for pollutants to accumulate during warm summer weather instead of being blown out to sea. Credit: UCAR. Click to enlarge.

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Test of Planet-Cooling Scheme Could Start in 2022

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Keith is also the founder of Carbon Engineering, a Canadian firm building a sprawling facility in West Texas that will pull carbon dioxide directly from the air.). But at present, there is no United Nations agency to build a global consensus or U.S. There were nearly 40 million such flights in 2019. agency to provide oversight.

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Solar Smackdown in Torrance – Installer Sues City on Behalf of the Sun

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Its wholly interpretive guidelines can be used to approve or disapprove a building, addition or remodel completely on subjective principles. But Bradley thought the article was fine in telling the basic details of his story. And then the senior gentlemen in the building with the Safety Dept. What happened?”.

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Mattershift scales up CNT membranes; potential for zero-carbon fuels for less than fossil

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Molecular Factories work by combining processes such as catalysis, separation, purification, and molecular-scale manipulation by nanoelectromechanical systems (NEMS) to make things from molecular building blocks. The basic building block of a Mattershift Molecular Factory is the Programmable Molecular Gateway. —Rob McGinnis.

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