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Aptera's hyper-efficient, solar-charged car: Does $2 gas change its appeal?

Green Car Reports

Is it a good idea to market an efficiency-focused car around oil dependence when national-average gas prices are headed toward $2.00 A video recently last Tuesday by Aptera takes exactly that angle—introducing the company’s electric three-wheeler in light of international conflict and climate change, as related to the oil.

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Heating Buildings With Solar Energy Stored in Sand

Cars That Think

Anthropogenic climate change confronts humanity with a challenge: How can we keep warm now as we try to prevent our world from overheating in the future? A Small Country with Large Heating Needs Big problems demand big solutions, and there is perhaps no bigger 21st-century problem than climate change.

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3 Oil Majors That Bet Big On Renewables

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Further, according to Rystad Energy, Big Oil is expected to pump in $166B into new oil and gas ventures over the next five years, thus dwarfing the currently specified outlay of just $18B (less than 10% of capex) for solar and wind energy projects. Good case in point: Italian multinational oil and gas giant Eni S.p.A.

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2019 Keeling Curve Prize winners include Opus 12; conversion of CO2 into fuels and chemicals

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water and electricity to produce higher-energy carbon-based products and a co-product of pure oxygen. This reaction is energetically uphill, so electricity must be added to drive the reaction forward, and it is not possible without a new family of CO?-reducing reducing catalysts. Clean Energy Works (Washington, D.C.)

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A couple of kids wrote a science book about Tesla & EVs, by kids and for kids

Baua Electric

The authors say that they wanted to inspire kids to learn about science and electric cars and to care about the environment. For their research, they read and watched a number of EV news sites and Youtube channels, including us here at Electrek (hi kids!). Or at least, they couldn’t find any others in their own search.

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Test of Planet-Cooling Scheme Could Start in 2022

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The proposal calls for what’s known as “solar geoengineering”: cooling the planet by deflecting sunlight that would otherwise strike the planet. Little is known about how, or whether, solar geoengineering might work and how the particles would react and move in the stratosphere. cancel the launch.

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This Nigerian Startup’s Minigrid Began as a School Project

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But during one of those internships, he visited some of the oil company’s facilities in a rural area and was shocked to see that people living nearby had no access to electricity. In 2008 only about half of Nigeria’s 152 million citizens had electricity, according to a Macrotrends report. The competition is no longer held.)

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