As the Department of Energy embarked Tuesday on its third quest to find a permanent disposal site for nuclear waste—this time with community consent—a Chicago audience gave the feds a fresh reminder of the difficulties ahead.
"My guess is that anyone…
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Only next-generation solar technology can offset humanity's use of fossil fuels, meet our energy needs, and do so with the urgency dictated by climate change, an Argonne National Laboratory scientist said in Chicago last night.
Argonne materials…
Ford Motor Company envisions its autonomous vehicles as mobile movie theaters, with screens and projectors that vanish into the ceiling as passengers take over the wheel, according to a patent issued last week.
The patent, for an "Autonomous Vehicle…
Earlier this month The AES Corporation announced partnerships designed to sell its Advancion utility-scale battery system around the globe. But AES did not include income from those partnerships in the 2016 outlook it released today.
AES CEO Andres…
When autonomous vehicles rule the roads, they will eliminate the estimated 90 percent of traffic accidents caused by human error, which could save 30,000 lives per year and, according to an advisor to car insurance companies, wipe out car insurance…
Electric vehicle sales may be driven mostly by policy and preference right now, but they'll soon be powered by dominant economics—including a profitable symbiosis between electrical drive and autonomous control, according to a former researcher for…
Competitor AES Announces Global Expansion
The battery division of Tesla Motors Co. turned a profit in its first quarter shipping Powerwall and Powerpack batteries from the company's Nevada Gigafactory, Tesla CEO Elon Musk said today.
"Even during…
One surprise in the final draft of the Paris Agreement was a pledge by nearly all the world's countries "to achieve a balance between anthropogenic emissions by sources and removals by sinks of greenhouse gases in the second half of this century."
It…
A View Of The Clean Energy Landscape From One Of The First Countries To Arrive
PARIS—The president of Iceland credits renewable energy for reviving the tiny island nation's economy after financial collapse.
Geothermal energy provided the baseload…
PARIS—Just around the corner a future awaits when electricity consumers will no longer have to suffer the vagaries of fuel costs, according to a United Nations under-secretary general, whether the fuel is natural gas, coal, or enriched uranium.
Achim…
