Archive for August 2023
Eos wins $400M DOE loan guarantee to build longer-lasting batteries
To make the switch to clean energy, U.S. power grids are going to need a lot of batteries — including those that can store power for far longer than the two to four hours that lithium-ion batteries can cost-effectively deliver today. On Thursday, the Department of Energy offered a $398.6 million loan guarantee to…
Read MoreNASA’s Lunabotics 2024 Challenge is Open
Across the country, teams comprising hundreds of undergraduate and graduate students – members of the Artemis generation – will vie to be one of the select few competing in the Lunabotics 2024 on-site challenge at NASA’s Kennedy Space Center Visitor Complex in Florida. For teams designing, building, and operating their own lunar robots for the […]
Read MoreHow to get federal disaster aid: FEMA is running out of money, but these strategies can help survivors of Hurricane Idalia and the Maui fires get aid faster
An expert in disaster law explains the steps for securing aid, what to do if everything is lost and the deadlines to watch.
Read MoreGlobal Fossil Fuel Subsidies Reached $7 Trillion in 2022, an All-Time High
Global subsidies for fossil fuels reached $7 trillion in 2022, an all-time high, according to the International Monetary Fund.
Read MoreHawaii quit coal one year ago. Here’s how it’s been going
HONOLULU — In the last three weeks, Hawaii’s electric grid has made headlines for horrifying reasons. Early evidence indicates that power lines owned and maintained by for-profit utility Hawaiian Electric sparked the ferocious brush fire that killed at least 115 people and destroyed the historic town of Lahaina in…
Read MoreTexas hooked up its first virtual power plants to help the grid
The Texas grid is now open for business for small-scale, customer-owned energy devices. Two clusters of Tesla Powerwall customers, in Houston and Dallas, have been cleared to inject power from their battery storage devices onto the Texas grid and earn compensation for their services. It’s a milestone for the…
Read MoreFirst Nations Launch Winners View NASA SpaceX’s Crew-7 Launch
Participants from the 14th First Nations Launch High-Power Rocket Competition watch NASA’s SpaceX Crew-7 launch from the Banana Creek viewing site at the agency’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida on Saturday, Aug. 26, 2023. A SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket carrying NASA astronaut Jasmin Moghbeli, ESA (European Space Agency) astronaut Andreas Mogensen, JAXA (Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency) astronaut […]
Read MoreRedwood Materials lands $1B to boost its battery recycling efforts
Redwood Materials needs a lot of money to scale up its plans to supply U.S. demand for lithium-ion batteries with recycled metals and materials. On Tuesday, the startup founded by Tesla co-founder and former CTO JB Straubel got a big chunk of that funding, landing more than $1 billion in venture investment. …
Read MoreWild Boars in Germany Contaminated by Fallout from Cold War Nuclear Tests, Study Finds
Cold War nuclear weapons tests scattered radioactive material across the globe. That material can still be found in trace amounts in the sea, the soil, and — according to a new study — the flesh of wild boars roaming the forests of southern Germany.
Read More50 years after the Bunker Hill mine fire caused one of the largest lead-poisoning cases in US history, Idaho’s Silver Valley is still at risk
A fire and decades of silver and lead mining created the largest contiguous Superfund site in the nation in what today is one of the fastest-growing states. It includes popular Lake Coeur d’Alene.
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