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US electricity demand is about to surge – here’s what needs to happen

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ICF’s report asserts that renewables such as wind and solar could meet the expected demand growth, but challenges include upgrading the grid, speeding up the permitting and approvals process, and finding ideal locations for new clean energy infrastructure. Of course rapid electrification is going to put added demand on the grid.

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Why Wall Street is throwing billions at the Permian

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It looks like we’ve come out of the trough portion of the cycle for the oil-and-gas sector and are on the road to recovery, though the road will likely be winding and it will take some time to get there,” Angelo Acconcia, who oversees Blackstone’s oil and gas investing, told The Wall Street Journal. Link to original article: [link].

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12 Exciting Engineering Milestones to Look for in 2022

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With its higher frequencies, 6-GHz Wi-Fi is expected to find use in heavy traffic environments like offices and public hotspots. Green hydrogen is hydrogen produced in sustainable ways, using solar or wind-powered electrolyzers to split water molecules into hydrogen and oxygen. According to the International Energy Agency, only.

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USDOT awarding $55M to support purchase of Low-No buses; electric buses and infrastructure

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This project is unique in that the buses will be charged during the day to take advantage of the renewable energy made available by the abundant solar and wind energy available on the island. Project partners are Oahu Transit Services, Gillig, Hawaiian Electric Company and the Center for Transportation and the Environment.

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Exploding Chips, Meta's AR Hardware, and More

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Cass: And you need this stuff because you need the chip to be able to do all this computer vision processing to process what’s going on in the environment and reduce some sort of semantic stuff that you can overlay things on. Moore: This is a group at University of Vermont and Marvell Technology. Moore: Yeah, let me start with that.

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Perspective: Regional Greenhouse Gas Cap-and-Trade Programs May be the Solution

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The legislation would also provide new incentives for domestic oil and gas drilling, nuclear power plant construction, carbon capture and storage, and renewable energy sources like wind and solar. Graham recently declared, “ Economy-wide cap-and-trade is dead. ” There will never be a cap-and-trade bill passed by the United States Senate.

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