Archive for the 'Energy' Category
Hertz Orders 100,000 Tesla Model 3 Electric Vehicles
October 26th, 2021Via: CBS: Car rental company Hertz has ordered 100,000 electric vehicles from Tesla in a move that some analysts say further validates a growing electric vehicle movement in the U.S. Hertz said Monday that it’s buying the Tesla Model 3 cars by the end of 2022, and it also will create its own electric vehicle-charging […]
185 Employees Leave Los Alamos Nuclear Weapons Lab Due to Vaccine Mandate
October 25th, 2021Via: Epoch Times: The New Mexico lab that produced the world’s first nuclear bomb has lost 185 employees because of a COVID-19 vaccine mandate that took effect on Oct. 22, according to a lawsuit (pdf) filed against the operator of the facility the same day. An additional 153 employees at the Los Alamos National Laboratory […]
MIT-Designed Superconducting Magnet Is Major Advance Toward Fusion Energy
September 15th, 2021Via: MIT News: It was a moment three years in the making, based on intensive research and design work: On Sept. 5, for the first time, a large high-temperature superconducting electromagnet was ramped up to a field strength of 20 tesla, the most powerful magnetic field of its kind ever created on Earth. That successful […]
Australian Navy Goes Nuclear With Future Submarine Force
September 15th, 2021Via: The Warzone: The Royal Australian Navy is set to get a fleet of nuclear-powered submarines as part of a new trilateral advanced defense agreement with the United States and the United Kingdom. The Australian government is also reportedly poised to cancel its long-troubled deal with French shipbuilder Naval Group to build advanced conventionally-powered attack […]
First Rivian R1T Pickup Bound for Customer Rolls Off Assembly Line
September 15th, 2021I’d like to see how it would hold up against WhistlinDiesel’s testing protocol *chortle* Via: CNBC: EV start-up Rivian is the first automaker to bring an electric pickup to the consumer market, beating Tesla, General Motors and others in what’s expected to be a hotly contested segment in the years ahead. Rivian founder and CEO […]
Tesla Cofounder JB Straubel Announces New 100 GWh Battery Material Factory in the U.S.
September 15th, 2021Via: Electrek: The company describes the situation in a press release today: Redwood will produce strategic battery materials in the US, supplying battery cell manufacturing partners with anode copper foil and cathode active materials. We plan to transform the lithium-ion battery supply chain by offering large-scale sources of these domestic materials produced from as many […]
The U.S. Military Is Exploring Portable Land-Based Nuclear Reactors Again
September 1st, 2021Via: Atlas Abscura: Nearly 60 years after the PM-2A was installed and the ML-1 project abandoned, the U.S. military is exploring portable land-based nuclear reactors again. In May 2021, the Pentagon requested $60 million for Project Pele. Its goal: Design and build, within five years, a small, truck-mounted portable nuclear reactor that could be flown […]
Billions Spent on Afghan Army Ultimately Benefited Taliban
August 16th, 2021Flashback 2009: ‘Absurd’ Conspiracy Theories Prevalent in Afghanistan And now, here’s an actual AP headline from today, “Billions Spent on Afghan Army Ultimately Benefited Taliban.” The Afghanistan operation was primarily about shoveling trillions of dollars into the gaping maw of the U.S. military industrial complex and getting kilotons of opium out the other end. Another […]
Tesla Claims 92% Battery Cell Material Recovery in New Recycling Process
August 9th, 2021Via: Electrek: Tesla released more details about its effort to deploy large-scale battery recycling, and it claims that it can recover about 92% of battery cell materials with its recycling process.
Daimler to Invest $47 Billion Into Electric Vehicle Production
July 22nd, 2021Via: Reuters: Mercedes-Benz maker Daimler plans to invest more than 40 billion euros ($47 billion) by 2030 to be ready to take on Tesla in an all-electric car market, but warned the shift in technology would lead to job cuts. Outlining its strategy for an electric future, the inventor of the modern motor car said […]
