As the price of lithium has skyrocketed over 400 percent in the past year, the demand for lithium-ion batteries is more intense than ever. Lithium’s moniker is ‘white petroleum’ due to dramatic need for supplies from the rise of battery giga-factories, electric vehicles, powerwalls and energy storage businesses. Battery makers are budgeting for the rising cost of lithium (a metal crucial to the batteries for electric car....
From raging wildfires in Australia at the start of 2020, to the devastating flash flooding across much of Europe in July 2021, recent years have been scattered with natural hazard events that have destroyed property and infrastructure, devastated businesses and taken lives. In the US, Hurricane Ida brought back painful memories to the people of New Orleans, a city which is still rebuilding after Hurricane Katrina caused 1,800 deaths and ....
The hydrogen energy industry typically differentiates final products in “colors of the rainbow,” such as gray, green, purple, and blue, with each corresponding to a particular carbon intensity. No single color of hydrogen, however, is the solution for the energy transition. It’s time we moved away from the colors to a system that evaluates all hydrogen by the same merits and metrics. André Nascimento and his team at H2 Bull....
The complexities of being a solar installer today require many skills. A residential installer with staying power has their operations, sales, service, and supply systems refined and reviewed via quality control measures. They also need the ability to secure all three financial options: cash, bank loan, and leasing. Many US installers come from construction backgrounds. While there’s a bit of a learning curve involved in converting that e....
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