Tag: energy
How Many Charging Stations Would We Need to Totally Replace Gas...
Buyers curious about making the switch to electric vehicles have made it clear in survey after survey after survey: Charging kind of freaks them...
US Offshore Wind Farms Are Being Strangled With Red Tape
This article is republished from The Conversation under a Creative Commons license.America’s first large-scale offshore wind farms began sending power to the Northeast in...
Everyone’s Pumped About Heat Pumps
Lauren Goode: Yeah. You recommended a podcast episode with her too.Michael Calore: I did, yeah.Lauren Goode: Was it the Fresh Air one?Michael Calore: Yeah....
Tesla’s Controversial Factory Expansion Is Approved
The controversial expansion of Teslaâs only European Gigafactory was approved on Thursday, as the local council in the German municipality of Grünheide voted in...
Bay Area consumer prices hop higher as pace of inflation worsens
The inflation rate in the Bay Area as measured by consumer prices rose at a faster pace in April compared with the last several...
These Electric School Buses Are on Their Way to Save the...
The school bus is in many ways ideal for V2G. “There’s no uncertainty in terms of the use of the bus,” says Patricia Hidalgo-Gonzalez,...
Tesla Temporarily Shuts Factory Down as Environmentalists Call the Company a...
Mara is sick. The 24-year-old has been living in a mosquito-infested forest near Tesla’s German gigafactory since March, and despite the 78 degrees Fahrenheit...
The One Thing Holding Back Heat Pumps
So the demand is there, as is growing support from the federal and state governments. What’s lagging is the workforce—at least temporarily. And the...
A Company Is Building a Giant Compressed-Air Battery in the Australian...
VanWalleghem said there is room to push costs down as the company gains experience from these first few plants. The storage systems have a...
What Kind of Battery Would You Need to Power a Lightsaber?
Melting an ice cube takes 3.34 x 105 joules per kilogram. So a single ice cube with a mass of 50 grams would take...