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Mad Power thoughts

EV Info

Wind farms stand idle for days on end, a fire interrupts a vital cable from France, a combination of post-Covid economic recovery and Russia tightening supply means the gas price has shot through the roof – and so the market price of both home heating and electricity is rocketing. Energy Solutions.

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Crypto’s Slow Motion Gold Rush

Cars That Think

But that's easier said than done, says Dave Perrill, CEO of Compute North , which builds specialized data centers where miners rent space for their chips. We've seen newer miners that haven't done this before thinking you can buy 10,000 machines and just find a spot to plug them in," he says. "It

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This Fusion Reactor Is Held Together With Tape

Cars That Think

The company believes that this novel approach will allow it to build a high-performance tokamak that is much smaller and less expensive than would be possible with previous approaches. Among the magnetic-confinement crowd, CFS leads the pack in fundraising, having secured more than $2 billion to build its Sparc pilot plant.

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Imported oil pays for corruption and war. Electricity pays for local jobs.

Plug in America

And Russia is just today’s example of oil exporters fueling wars. When you buy electricity, you are investing in building out the grid, renewable power generation and charging infrastructure. Instead, that money would be flowing to local utilities, cities, technology investment, electricians, solar installers and wind companies.

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Stories of the War in Ukraine: Hanna

Cars That Think

I live on the 9th floor of a 9-story building that is near the Kyiv International Airport. Yes, everyone has been saying for many weeks that you need to be prepared, that there may be a war, that Russia is going to go to war against Ukraine. Even in peacetime in Ukraine, it is not so easy to buy them, and now it’s basically impossible.

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Tesla supplier Talon Metals on Manchin EV Bill, Tesla & more

Teslarati

So, Manchin isn’t just telling automakers to buy from domestic sources of minerals and metals from domestic sources and leaving it to them. ” “Not just for mines, processing or even EV battery factories – but also solar, wind, hydro and hydrogen projects. So, I asked Todd to share his take–and that of Talon Metals.

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