Archive for the 'Energy' Category
Lithium-Ion Battery Recycling Finally Takes Off in North America and Europe
January 9th, 2021Via: IEEE Spectrum: Later this year, the Canadian firm Li-Cycle will begin constructing a US $175 million plant in Rochester, N.Y., on the grounds of what used to be the Eastman Kodak complex. When completed, it will be the largest lithium-ion battery-recycling plant in North America. The plant will have an eventual capacity of 25 […]
Wrecked: Tesla Shorts Lost $38 Billion in 2020
January 1st, 2021Via: Electrek: Tesla’s stock (TSLA) is pushing a new all-time high as short sellers, people who bet against it, have lost $38 billion in 2020. That’s more than on any other stock by a wide margin. Related: Less than 1% of EV Owners Want to Go Back to Gas
The Price of Electric Car Batteries Has Dropped 89% in 10 Years
December 31st, 2020Via: Fast Company: A decade ago, a lithium-ion battery pack used in an electric car cost around $1,110 per kilowatt-hour. By this year, according to a new survey, the cost had fallen 89%, to $137 per kilowatt-hour. And by 2023, the cost is likely to fall far enough that car companies can make and sell […]
Can The U.S. Reduce Its Dependency On Chinese Rare Earths?
December 28th, 2020Via: OilPrice: Since the days of President Jimmy Carter and the 1970s oil crisis, the United States has relentlessly pursued the utopia of energy independence. But persistent oil crises, severe oil price shocks, and the global shift to clean energy have made it glaringly obvious that Washington will never achieve true energy independence by relying […]
Tesla Megapack Energy Storage System at Moss Landing Could Be World’s Largest ‘Battery’
December 21st, 2020Via: Electrek: The massive new Tesla Megapack project at the Moss Landing substation in California is starting to take shape as we can see in a new flyover of the construction site. It could soon become the world’s biggest battery. We first learned of the project at PG&E’s Moss Landing substation when they submitted it […]
“Sources”: Apple Targets Car Production by 2024, ‘Next Level’ Battery Technology
December 21st, 2020Via: Reuters: Apple Inc is moving forward with self-driving car technology and is targeting 2024 to produce a passenger vehicle that could include its own breakthrough battery technology, people familiar with the matter told Reuters.
Emails Show Navy’s ‘UFO’ Patents Went Through Significant Internal Review, Resulted In A Demo
December 20th, 2020Via: The Warzone: The War Zone continues to dig into the bizarre U.S. Navy patents authored by enigmatic inventor Dr. Salvatore Pais and the seemingly unusual circumstances of their approval by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO). As part of our investigation, we recently obtained a tranche of internal emails from Naval Air Systems […]
Monarch: The World’s First Fully Electric, Driver Optional, Smart Tractor
December 11th, 2020I don’t know why Monarch waited almost to the end to say it, but fully supporting right to repair is huge, given the diabolical and universally hated behavior of the tractor industrial complex: Big Tractor says farmers have no right to access the copyrighted software that controls every facet of today’s equipment, even to repair […]
Directed Energy Plausible Cause of ‘Havana Syndrome,’ U.S. Government Report Finds
December 5th, 2020Via: Reuters: “Directed” radio frequency is the most plausible explanation for mysterious symptoms experienced by diplomats stationed in U.S. embassies in Havana and elsewhere, a U.S. government report said on Saturday. The symptoms appear “to be consistent with the effects of directed, pulsed radio frequency energy,” said the report by the National Academies of Sciences, […]
Texas Will Host Largest Solar Project in U.S.
November 23rd, 2020Via: Electrek: Invenergy, a Chicago-based global developer and operator of green energy generation and storage, announced a 1,310-megawatt solar farm in northeastern Texas on Wednesday. It will be the largest in the US upon completion.
