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21

The One Thing That's Holding Back the Heat Pump (wired.com)

a year ago | thelastgallon | wired.com | frontpage

21

Elegant Wind Turbine Blades Made of Wood Can Outperform Composites (cleantechnica.com)

a year ago | thelastgallon | cleantechnica.com | best

6

Electric 10000 ton container ship has begun service with over 50MWh in batteries (electrek.co)

a year ago | thelastgallon | electrek.co | frontpage

4

China's Electric Cars Keep Improving, a Worry for Rivals Elsewhere (nytimes.com)

a year ago | thelastgallon | nytimes.com | newest

37

Johnson and Johnson to pay $6.5B to resolve talc ovarian cancer lawsuits in U.S. (cnbc.com)

a year ago | thelastgallon | cnbc.com | best

3

Insight: Why BYD's EV exports sell for twice the China price (reuters.com)

a year ago | thelastgallon | reuters.com | newest

2

AI Factory for the New Industrial Revolution – Nvidia GTC24 [video] (youtube.com)

a year ago | thelastgallon | youtube.com | newest

2

US came up with a plan to upgrade 100k miles of transmission lines in 5 years (electrek.co)

a year ago | thelastgallon | electrek.co | newest

1

Ford just reported a loss on every electric vehicle it sold (cnn.com)

a year ago | thelastgallon | cnn.com | newest

1

Fossils of snake Vasuki unearthed in India mine (reuters.com)

a year ago | thelastgallon | reuters.com | newest

10

Louisiana's flagship university lets oil firms influence research – for a price (theguardian.com)

a year ago | thelastgallon | theguardian.com | frontpage

0

Carbon, Climate Change and Ocean Anoxia in an Ancient Icehouse World (2022) (ucdavis.edu)

a year ago | thelastgallon | ucdavis.edu | newest

8

Kia's $15,000 EV2 caught in the wild as affordable EV offensive kicks off (electrek.co)

a year ago | thelastgallon | electrek.co | frontpage

6

Expect financial fallout when the fossil fuel bubble bursts (thehill.com)

a year ago | thelastgallon | thehill.com | newest

0

Two lifeforms merge in once-in-a-billion-years evolutionary event (newatlas.com)

a year ago | thelastgallon | newatlas.com | newest

0

USA Pulls Mexico into Its Anti-Chinese EVs Policies (cleantechnica.com)

a year ago | thelastgallon | cleantechnica.com | newest

2

The century-old transmission line is getting a 21st century upgrade (dallasnews.com)

a year ago | thelastgallon | dallasnews.com | newest

2

Bad Times for Big Cities (businessinsider.com)

a year ago | thelastgallon | businessinsider.com | newest

10

Govt awards $45B to company treating 50M gallons of leaking radioactive waste (thecooldown.com)

a year ago | thelastgallon | thecooldown.com | frontpage

1

The 401(k) industry owns Congress: $300B windfall to the wealthy (politico.com)

a year ago | thelastgallon | politico.com | newest

2

Giant battery to be installed underground as deep as Empire State Building (thecooldown.com)

a year ago | thelastgallon | thecooldown.com | newest

2

New York's open-access solar-projection tool beats commercial competition (pv-magazine.com)

a year ago | thelastgallon | pv-magazine.com | newest

2

A New Dawn for Solar Cells: 190% Quantum Efficiency Is Possible (cleantechnica.com)

a year ago | thelastgallon | cleantechnica.com | newest

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Replacing Wires Could Double How Much Electricity the US Grid Can Handle (cleantechnica.com)

a year ago | thelastgallon | cleantechnica.com | best

2

90-GWh thermal energy storage facility could heat a city for a year (newatlas.com)

a year ago | thelastgallon | newatlas.com | newest

25

Flame retardants found in consumer products linked to cancer (cnn.com)

a year ago | thelastgallon | cnn.com | frontpage

20

[flagged] Should You Be Rinsing Your Plates Before Loading the Dishwasher? (allrecipes.com)

a year ago | thelastgallon | allrecipes.com | newest

1

Scientists Predict Prostate Cancer Cases to Double Within 20 Years (sciencealert.com)

a year ago | thelastgallon | sciencealert.com | newest

2

Saudis Scale Back Ambition for $1.5T Desert Project Neom (bloomberg.com)

a year ago | thelastgallon | bloomberg.com | newest

1

Devin, the first AI software engineer (cognition-labs.com)

a year ago | thelastgallon | cognition-labs.com | newest

2

Backlash against wind and solar projects is real, it's global and it's growing (foxnews.com)

a year ago | thelastgallon | foxnews.com | newest

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Generational Luck in the Housing Market (awealthofcommonsense.com)

a year ago | thelastgallon | awealthofcommonsense.com | best

1

The dismantling of GE, once America's iconic everything company,is now complete (cnn.com)

a year ago | thelastgallon | cnn.com | newest

3

BYD's first electric pickup, coming to global markets this year (electrek.co)

a year ago | thelastgallon | electrek.co | newest

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Botswana threatens to send 20k elephants to Germany in trophy hunting dispute (cnn.com)

a year ago | thelastgallon | cnn.com | newest

3

Cheapest Full Electric Vehicle (ev-database.org)

a year ago | thelastgallon | ev-database.org | newest

1

Sir John Templeton's 2003 Prediction: U.S. Housing Prices Will Fall by 90%(2003) (garynorth.com)

a year ago | thelastgallon | garynorth.com | newest

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CATL launches new EV battery with close to a 1M mile, 15-year lifespan (electrek.co)

a year ago | thelastgallon | electrek.co | frontpage

2

The Upside of Recessions (businessinsider.com)

a year ago | thelastgallon | businessinsider.com | newest

5

China's installed wind turbine cost drops to one-fifth of the US (scmp.com)

a year ago | thelastgallon | scmp.com | newest

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Amazon Bets $150B on Data Centers Required for AI Boom (bloomberg.com)

a year ago | thelastgallon | bloomberg.com | best

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A Drug Half as Good as Ozempic for One-30th the Price (theatlantic.com)

a year ago | thelastgallon | theatlantic.com | frontpage

1

China Engineering Ready to Export Desert Mega-Bases to the World (bloomberg.com)

a year ago | thelastgallon | bloomberg.com | newest

6

Small nuclear reactors may be coming to Texas (texastribune.org)

a year ago | thelastgallon | texastribune.org | newest

2

The Agrivoltaic Juggernaut and the Agricultural Revolution of the 21st Century (cleantechnica.com)

a year ago | thelastgallon | cleantechnica.com | newest

1

Trump's Net Worth Hits $6.5B,Making Him One of 500 Richest People (bloomberg.com)

a year ago | thelastgallon | bloomberg.com | newest

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Company develops technology that allows wind turbines to build themselves (thecooldown.com)

a year ago | thelastgallon | thecooldown.com | newest

1

Chlormequat: A Dangerous New Pesticide Now in People and the U.S. Food Supply [video] (youtube.com)

a year ago | thelastgallon | youtube.com | newest

1

MIT Climate and Energy Prize (cep.mit.edu)

a year ago | thelastgallon | mit.edu | newest

3

Video: Unitree H1 is first humanoid to nail a backflip without hydraulics (newatlas.com)

a year ago | thelastgallon | newatlas.com | frontpage

6

Battery giants BYD, CATL form Chinese powerhouse to build solid-state batteries (electrek.co)

a year ago | thelastgallon | electrek.co | frontpage

2

Beijing accuses Evergrande of inflating revenues by $78B (cnn.com)

a year ago | thelastgallon | cnn.com | frontpage

6

Winged cargo ship saves three tonnes of fuel per day on first voyage (newatlas.com)

a year ago | thelastgallon | newatlas.com | newest

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Only seven countries in the world breathe safe air. Three of them are in Europe (euronews.com)

a year ago | thelastgallon | euronews.com | frontpage

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Taxpayer-funded petrochemical plants are polluting communities, report finds (npr.org)

a year ago | thelastgallon | npr.org | newest

3

A coal billionaire is building the biggest clean energy plant (cnn.com)

a year ago | thelastgallon | cnn.com | frontpage

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Study puts fermented foods, not fire, as pivotal moment in human brain growth (plantbasednews.org)

a year ago | thelastgallon | plantbasednews.org | best

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Two-faced solar panels can generate more power at up to 70% less cost (techxplore.com)

a year ago | thelastgallon | techxplore.com | newest

5

Developed Economies Could Stagnate as Fossil Fuels Reach Their Limits (oilprice.com)

a year ago | thelastgallon | oilprice.com | newest

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Storing Renewable Energy, One Balloon at a Time (nytimes.com)

a year ago | thelastgallon | nytimes.com | newest

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12 months of record ocean heat has scientists puzzled and concerned (nbcnews.com)

a year ago | thelastgallon | nbcnews.com | frontpage

2

Volkswagen announces production start date for its most affordable $20K ID.1 EV (electrek.co)

a year ago | thelastgallon | electrek.co | frontpage

2

China's Best Self-Driving Car Platforms, Tested and Compared (wired.com)

a year ago | thelastgallon | wired.com | newest

2

Transgenic cows boost human insulin production by 10x (newatlas.com)

a year ago | thelastgallon | newatlas.com | newest

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Oil and gas companies emit more climate-warming methane than EPA reports (npr.org)

a year ago | thelastgallon | npr.org | newest

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Elihu Yale: The cruel and greedy Yale benefactor who traded in Indian slaves (bbc.com)

a year ago | thelastgallon | bbc.com | frontpage

1

How a Solar Revolution in Farming Is Depleting Groundwater (yale.edu)

a year ago | thelastgallon | yale.edu | newest

6

Solar Success Is a Curse for China's Manufacturers (bloomberg.com)

a year ago | thelastgallon | bloomberg.com | frontpage

2

Tesla Giga Berlin uses half as much water as asparagus farm (teslarati.com)

a year ago | thelastgallon | teslarati.com | newest

2

$8B in Alberta Renewable Projects in Jeopardy (oilprice.com)

a year ago | thelastgallon | oilprice.com | newest

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A Swedish Heat Pump Startup Plans to Wean Europe Off Gas (bloomberg.com)

a year ago | thelastgallon | bloomberg.com | frontpage

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Coming back from the dead, the largest aircraft just flew a real payload (arstechnica.com)

a year ago | thelastgallon | arstechnica.com | frontpage

1

He's a Renewable-Power Billionaire, Not an Environmentalist (wsj.com)

a year ago | thelastgallon | wsj.com | newest

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Chemical injection brings dying batteries back to life (newscientist.com)

a year ago | thelastgallon | newscientist.com | newest

2

Proposed New York bill doubles residential solar tax credit to $10k (pv-magazine-usa.com)

a year ago | thelastgallon | pv-magazine-usa.com | newest

3

BMW Is a Surprise Winner in Electric Vehicles (nytimes.com)

a year ago | thelastgallon | nytimes.com | newest

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Single dose of LSD provides immediate and lasting relief from anxiety, study say (cnn.com)

a year ago | thelastgallon | cnn.com | best

4

Look inside the largest 3D-printed neighborhood in Texas (2023) (cnn.com)

a year ago | thelastgallon | cnn.com | newest

2

Yotta Energy Is Disrupting Energy Storage with Modular Rooftop Storage Solution (cleantechnica.com)

a year ago | thelastgallon | cleantechnica.com | newest

3

Vertical Bifacial vs. Stilted Agrivoltaics (pv-magazine.com)

a year ago | thelastgallon | pv-magazine.com | newest

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'Everything is rising at a scary rate': Why car and home insurance are surging (npr.org)

a year ago | thelastgallon | npr.org | newest

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$34T debt triggering 2025 meltdown as mortgage rates spike above 7% (fortune.com)

a year ago | thelastgallon | fortune.com | frontpage

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Disaster capitalism – How financial markets benefit from the climate problem [video] (youtube.com)

a year ago | thelastgallon | youtube.com | frontpage

3

BYD's Explorer No.1 Arrives with 3k EVs in Germany, Transforming Auto Market (marineinsight.com)

a year ago | thelastgallon | marineinsight.com | newest

2

Italy is putting a big hybrid floating solar–floating wind farm in the sea (electrek.co)

a year ago | thelastgallon | electrek.co | newest

3

150M gallons of Toxic Wastewater spilled across one State: Nothing Grows (thecooldown.com)

a year ago | thelastgallon | thecooldown.com | newest

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Spain Enjoys Cheap Electricity Amid Record Renewable Energy Output (oilprice.com)

a year ago | thelastgallon | oilprice.com | newest

0

Electric Vehicle Myths (epa.gov)

a year ago | thelastgallon | epa.gov | newest

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Utility solar dethrones coal as the cheapest power source in Asia (electrek.co)

a year ago | thelastgallon | electrek.co | frontpage

6

The False Promise of Carbon Capture as a Climate Solution (scientificamerican.com)

a year ago | thelastgallon | scientificamerican.com | frontpage

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Counties are blocking wind and solar across the US (usatoday.com)

a year ago | thelastgallon | usatoday.com | frontpage

2

Arizona approves "discriminatory" charge on rooftop solar customers (pv-magazine-usa.com)

a year ago | thelastgallon | pv-magazine-usa.com | newest

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9 Charts that show US factory farming is even bigger than you realize (vox.com)

a year ago | thelastgallon | vox.com | best

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Profiteering hampers U.S. grid expansion (ieee.org)

a year ago | thelastgallon | ieee.org | best

3

BYD launches $15K Qin Plus EV Honor Edition kicking off price war with gas cars (electrek.co)

a year ago | thelastgallon | electrek.co | frontpage

7

Florida defies CDC in measles outbreak, it's fine to send unvaccinated kids (cbsnews.com)

a year ago | thelastgallon | cbsnews.com | frontpage

1

The Great Compression (nytimes.com)

a year ago | thelastgallon | nytimes.com | newest

3

Rooftop solar has technical potential to meet 45% of U.S. electricity demand (pv-magazine-usa.com)

a year ago | thelastgallon | pv-magazine-usa.com | frontpage

0

There Is a Stupidly Easy Way to Expand the Grid (heatmap.news)

a year ago | thelastgallon | heatmap.news | newest

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Intel is asking for an additional $10B from CHIPS Act subsidies (pcgamer.com)

a year ago | thelastgallon | pcgamer.com | newest