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Heat Pumps—The Well-Tempered Future of A/Cs

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While governments around the world have dangled greater efficiency as a way of mitigating air conditioning’s climate impact, innovation in air conditioning, narrowly defined, is incremental. Better air conditioners, in a technical sense, really only affect the last link in a long, climate-harming supply chain. This year, the U.S.

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Redwood Materials Will Recycle Hawaiian Grid Batteries

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Lithium-ion battery recycling took a big step forward this week, as a Hawaiian utility announced it is undertaking one of the biggest examples of grid-storage recycling in North America to date. By electric grid standards, Anahola’s 4-megawatt-hour storage facility is not big. They’re not ready for recycling.”

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