On his first day in office, Trump froze spending from the Inflation Reduction Act and 2021 infrastructure law, pausing the programs that have lent money to major automakers to build EV facilities and have backed the first new U.S. aluminum smelter in decades. Federal judges have ordered the administration to unfreeze those funds, though money … Continue reading “Chart: GOP districts to lose big if Trump halts clean energy factories”
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Right now, the world is seeing the equivalent of what could only be termed a gold rush to build battery factories, and these plants will be able to produce many more cells than the global economy could conceivably need or use in the coming decade. That warning comes from a new report from BloombergNEF, but … Continue reading “Is the world building far more battery factories than it will need?”
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Thermal energy storage uses cheap, clean electricity to bring rocks, bricks, or molten metals to red-hot temperatures, then taps that heat later to do all sorts of work. The technology is relatively simple and could be deployed now to solve two big energy transition challenges: First, it could replace fossil-fueled heating for a wide range of … Continue reading “Rondo's heat batteries will soon be cleaning up factories in US, Europe”