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EGEB: Chemical giant buys nearly half of huge 1.5 GW Dutch offshore wind farm

Electrek

In today’s Electrek Green Energy Brief (EGEB): BASF will buy 49.5% GW offshore wind farm in the Netherlands. UnderstandSolar is a free service that links you to top-rated solar installers in your region for personalized solar estimates. more… The post EGEB: Chemical giant buys nearly half of huge 1.5

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New Jersey resuscitates offshore wind with two new projects

Baua Electric

Photo: Ocean Wind 1 Ørsted dealt New Jersey a massive blow by canceling 2.2 gigawatts (GW) of offshore wind last year, but the state just added 3.7 New Jersey was expected to announce another offshore wind solicitation at the beginning of 2024, and it’s delivered. GW of new projects to its pipeline.

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This new $5,000 electric drone can carry you and your brave friends

Baua Electric

They do advertise it with a few images of a person suspended beneath it to show off the drone’s carrying capacity. Some companies even seem to use them to clean wind turbine blades. You can barely buy an electric motorcycle for that much, and those only move in a single plane.

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Nevada put big battery energy storage where a coal plant used to be

Baua Electric

It’s a two-hour energy storage system that stores and dispatches excess wind and solar power. And so, we have often had to go out to the market, the energy market, and buy energy to meet the needs between 5 pm and 9 pm. Because what happens, at that point, is the solar energy has really started to ramp off as the sun’s going down.

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How Much Privacy Do You Really Have In Modern Vehicles?

The Truth About Cars

It looked into 25 popular brands representing a majority of the vehicles people tend to buy and determined that none of them are seriously interested in protecting your privacy. Our main concern is that we can’t tell whether any of the cars encrypt all of the personal information that sits on the car. Though they weren’t all equal.

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Imported oil pays for corruption and war. Electricity pays for local jobs.

Plug in America

When you buy electricity, you are investing in building out the grid, renewable power generation and charging infrastructure. At any earlier point in my life, I lived in Ukraine for a year and I personally know many people whose lives have now been utterly upended. This war in Ukraine is a catastrophic human tragedy.

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Opinion: Fmr President Trump was wrong to call Elon Musk “another b t artist”

Teslarati

Elon is not gonna buy Twitter. ’ So he’s another b t artist but he’s not going to be buying it. And his reasoning for not buying Twitter is, I think, due to the bot issues that plague the social network. The Bot Attack On Elon Musk Before He Decided Against Buying Twitter. Where did you hear that before?