Climate change will hinder global economic growth within the next 25 years, according to the Norwegian oil giant Statoil, unless societies achieve the 2-degree limit on warming that many climate scientists already consider unrealistic.
The world can…
2015
When MIT Professor Donald Sadoway hires people for his promising battery startup, Ambri, he makes sure they don't have any battery experience.
"I don't turn to experts. The last person I'd turn to is a battery person," Sadoway said Wednesday in an…
Mastercard CEO Ajay Banga said he wasn't sure why he was on a panel last night with former treasury secretaries Robert Rubin and Hank Paulson and former New Zealand Prime Minister Helen Clark. But he uttered the event's most tweeted line when he…
Last year, analysts hired by Oncor Electric Delivery Company were toiling away on a study of the costs and benefits of installing enormous batteries on Oncor's grid in Texas. The benefits would surpass the costs, they calculated, if Oncor could buy…
It would be almost three hours until Tesla's big announcement, but inside a Northwestern University classroom near Chicago Thursday night, the famed nuclear critic Arnie Gundersen had the inside scoop:
Tesla Motors CEO Elon Musk was about to announce…
Environmental advocates who sound alarmist about climate change may be fomenting divisiveness in public discourse, a leading climate scientist said in Chicago Monday.
"I think environmental advocates have done a disservice by trying to amplify heat…
China could use an expected boom in electric vehicles to stabilize a grid that depends heavily on wind and solar energy, officials from an influential Chinese government planning agency said Monday in Washington D.C.
"In the future we think the…
Carbon emissions signal inefficiency in a system, an energy expert said in Chicago this week, so reducing emissions usually means increasing savings.
"In household after household and small businesses and schools, we've consistently found that…
Facing a sudden shift from coal to natural gas, the Environmental Protection Agency is likely to revise its Clean Power Plan to give states more clean energy options, EPA Administrator Gina McCarthy signaled in Chicago Friday.
"We may have designed…
Last month Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell urged states to ignore the Environmental Protection Agency's Clean Power Plan, but the states are ignoring McConnell and working toward compliance, EPA Admninistrator Gina McCarthy said Friday at the…
