Opinion:
¶ “Tesla Share Price Is Under Pressure. Will The Cybertruck Help?” • If the Cybertruck is a hit with the public, the price of Tesla shares could soar and everyone will say what a genius Musk is. If it does not, the share price could sink and people will say Musk is an idiot. Could it be that both statements are true? “We’ll see,” said the Zen master. [CleanTechnica]
Tesla Cybertruck (Tesla image)
¶ “Atoms For Peace Was Never The Plan” • Atoms for Peace had a nice ring to it. But it was a fantasy at best, at worst, a lie. Atoms for Peace was never the intention. Atoms for war, as it turned out, was brewing in the background even before Dwight Eisenhower became president of the US. Whose idea was it? Dr Charles A Thomas, of Monsanto, for one. [Counterpunch]
Science and Technology:
¶ “Study Reveals Effects Of Fast Charging On Electric Car Battery Health” • Recurrent Auto published a report on DC fast charging and battery degradation. “We compared cars that fast charge at least 90% of the time to cars that fast charge less than 10% of the time. … The results show no statistically significant difference in range degradation. [CleanTechnica]
Charging an EV (Ernie Journeys, Unsplash)
¶ “SunDrive Innovation Aims To Reduce Solar Costs” • SunDrive Solar is set to take a giant step towards a new type of cheaper solar panels at commercial scale. The Australian company’s technology replaces one of the most expensive components of a solar cell with an alternative about 100 times cheaper and much more efficient. [Australian Renewable Energy Agency]
World:
¶ “‘Shame On You, Tesla!’ Sweden’s Labor Unions Fight Back” • Dock workers in Sweden are threatening to block deliveries of new Teslas entering the country. They are standing by metal workers at Tesla’s Swedish repair shops who went on strike on October 27. Their dispute rises from Tesla’s refusal to sign a collective agreement with their union. [CleanTechnica]
Stockholm (Maxime Gilbert, Unsplash)
¶ “Trina Solar Expands Investment In Vietnam, Accelerating The Country’s Solar Power Growth” • The Chinese solar panel maker Trina Solar announced plans to boost its investment in Vietnam’s Thai Nguyen province by an additional $420 million. The boost will raise Trina’s total investment in the country to nearly $900 million. [EnergyPortal.eu]
¶ “EU Wind Package Must Protect Workers” • IG Metall Coast, Germany’s largest trade union is calling for a joint assessment of the EU Commission’s Pact for Wind Energy and the industrial policy concept of Federal Economics Minister Robert Habeck. It said regional value creation and collectively agreed working conditions must be given more consideration. [reNews]
Wind turbine workers (Dennis Schroeder, NREL, public domain)
¶ “2024: The Commencement Of Taiwan’s Floating Wind Farm Era” • Taiwan is making significant strides in the development of floating offshore wind power, as the capacity for wind power in shallow coastal areas gradually reaches its limit. It is anticipated that 2024 will mark a pivotal year for development of floating wind farms in Taiwan. [Digitimes]
¶ “REC Issues Dual Tenders Totaling 11 GW For Renewable Power Evacuation Projects In Rajasthan” • REC Power Development and Consultancy has issued two tenders for the establishment of an Inter-State Transmission System aimed at evacuating a total of 11,000 lakh (1.1 billion) units of power from Renewable Energy Zones in Rajasthan. [SolarQuarter]
Transmission tower (Shruti Singh, Unsplash)
¶ “Solar Mini-Grids Offer Clean-Power Hope To Rural Africa” • Mini-grids, small power systems usually supplying rural villages, are not new. But the drop in cost of solar PVs has driven growth in clean energy mini-grids, with rural Africa poised to benefit the most. The village of Sabon Gida has more reliable power than Lagos, Nigeria’s economic capital. [Forbes India]
¶ “China, Japan And South Korea Reaffirm Pledges For Climate Action” • The environment ministers of China, Japan, and South Korea reaffirmed their commitments to tackle climate change, biodiversity loss, and environmental pollution. The countries said they remain committed to multilateralism and are willing to encourage close collaboration. [China Daily]
Biodiversity (Rui Silvestre, Unsplash)
US:
¶ “NREL Study Finds Rapid Adoption Of ZEVs Will Move To US To 80% Or More Drop In GHG Emissions By 2050” • The rapid adoption of zero-emission EVs will move the US close to an 80% drop in transportation greenhouse gas emissions by 2050 from the 2019 level according to researchers from the DOE’s National Renewable Energy Laboratory. [Green Car Congress]
¶ “Dominion Sees Cheaper Wind Power At Massive Offshore Project” • Dominion Energy Inc expects to deliver power at a cheaper price than originally expected from the largest approved offshore wind project in the US, a rare win for a wider wind sector recently beleaguered by bad news. The shares soared the most in almost a year. [Supply Chain Brain]
Block Island Offshore Wind Farm (Ionna22, CC-BU-SA 4.0)
¶ “West Virginia PSC OKs Major Solar Energy Project In Mason County” • The Public Service Commission of West Virginia gave a green light to New Haven PV I to site a 100-MW solar facility on 1,555 acres in Mason County. The array will consist of 226,356 solar panels. The company will invest $97 million, creating 319 construction jobs. [WV News]
¶ “University Of Arkansas Outlines Plan For Renewable Energy” • The University of Arkansas’s 2022 Sustainability report had a solar energy plan that would save the school over three million dollars every year. Now, Eric Boles, director of Sustainability says expanding the school’s use of solar power is a cost-efficient way to reduce its carbon footprint. [KNWA]
Have an unambiguously exciting day.
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