Inside two mining operations turning Texas power into crypto profits
Amid the loud fans and a towering wall of supercomputers, a digital gold rush is taking place in Texas.
Nov 27, 2023
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Energy & Green Tech
How pre-cooling homes could dramatically reduce energy usage
It's a typical, sweltering August day in Los Angeles, with temperatures pushing 95° downtown. When people get home from work in the late afternoon, the first thing they do is crank up the AC to cool their overheated homes.
Oct 11, 2023
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Energy & Green Tech
Mineral-hungry clean tech sees countries seeking to escape China's shadow
With a clean energy transition hungry for more minerals, representatives from dozens of countries and industry met in Paris on Thursday looking to shore up deliveries against supply chain snarls and geopolitical tensions.
Sep 28, 2023
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Protecting workers as we shift to electric vehicles
The United Auto Workers strike is, in part, a response to concern about the impact on labor of the transition to electric vehicles (EVs). Electric vehicles have fewer parts than those with internal combustion engines, and ...
Sep 18, 2023
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Threatened by shortages, electric car makers race for supplies of lithium for batteries
Threatened by possible shortages of lithium for electric car batteries, automakers are racing to lock in supplies of the once-obscure "white gold" in a politically and environmentally fraught competition from China to Nevada ...
Jun 28, 2023
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Energy & Green Tech
Electric water heaters that store renewable energy could do the work of 2 million home batteries—and save billions
Australia's energy transition is well under way. Some 3 million households have rooftop solar and sales of medium-sized electric cars are surging. But as we work towards fully electric households powered by renewable energy, ...
Jun 5, 2023
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Electronics & Semiconductors
France announces massive state aid to chips factory
France is plowing 2.9 billion euros ($3.1 billion) of public money into a factory to make microchips, officials said on Monday, heating up a global race for the lucrative market.
Jun 5, 2023
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Energy & Green Tech
Brazil clean electricity hits decade high
Brazil burned fossil fuels for electricity at the lowest level in more than a decade in February, thanks to booming use of wind and solar power, said a study published Thursday.
May 18, 2023
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Taxing electric vehicles will impact 2023 UK motoring trends, says operations expert
Dwindling government income from car sales may mean the introduction of taxes on electric vehicles (EV) in 2023, according to a leading operations expert.
Jan 10, 2023
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UN urges 'complete transformation' of global energy system
Climate change risks undermining global energy security unless the use of renewables is dramatically scaled up, the UN warned Tuesday, suggesting the Ukraine conflict's ripple effects could speed up the green transition.
Oct 11, 2022
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