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• Tesla Looks To Jump Into Indian Market

  Published 19 March 2019 | viewed 2,025 times

  Elon Musk is not giving up on the potentially huge but largely undeveloped electric vehicle (EV) market in India, saying that he ‘would love’ Tesla…

• The Energy Industry Has A Millennial Problem

  Published 16 March 2019 | viewed 2,200 times

  The oil and gas sector is facing a stiff competition in attracting young talent in science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM) because Millennials and Generation…

• Venezuela Has Yet Another Crisis Developing

  Published 14 March 2019 | viewed 2,685 times

  Ordinary people in Venezuela are bearing the brunt of the ongoing power struggle in the country and last week’s blackout. While the power outage in…

• There Is No Catch-All Solution To Climate Change

  Published 12 March 2019 | viewed 5,978 times

  Polling shows that the majority of United States citizens want the Trump administration to honor the country’s Obama-era commitment to the Paris Agreement to combat…

• $1 Trillion Wealth Fund To Dump All Oil Stocks

  Published 10 March 2019 | viewed 2,203 times

  Norway’s sovereign wealth fund will exit all investments in oil and gas production acting on a government recommendation in line with a more cautious approach…

• Volkswagen Taps Into $50 Billion War Chest To Take On Tesla

  Published 07 March 2019 | viewed 7,565 times

  One of the world’s largest carmakers, Germany’s Volkswagen AG, is betting big on electric vehicles and e-mobility with a war chest of around US$50 billion…

• Gates And Bezos Back Artificial Intelligence Exploration Startup

  Published 06 March 2019 | viewed 7,837 times

  A startup by the name of KoBold Metals is using big data analytics and modeling to create the equivalent of Google Maps of the earth’s…

• Why Did Cobalt Just Crash By 40%?

  Published 04 March 2019 | viewed 6,960 times

  If you want to teach someone the boom-bust nature of the mineral commodity industry, the story of cobalt over the last few years would be…

• Game-Changing Battery Tech Could Transform EV Industry

  Published 03 March 2019 | viewed 6,305 times

  The EV battery race intensified this week with the announcement that a startup financially supported by the U.S. Department of Energy had released a lithium…

• The World's First Fully Digital Oilfield

  Published 28 February 2019 | viewed 6,242 times

  When a few years ago media began calling data the new oil, it was because some pretty direct parallels could be drawn between Big Oil…

• Icahn Wins Big On EPA Biofuel Tweaks

  Published 27 February 2019 | viewed 4,937 times

  It’s been a volatile decade for the United States biofuels industry, to put it lightly. In 2007 the federal government, as part of an effort…

• MIT: The Energy System Of The Future Is Closer Than We Think

  Published 20 February 2019 | viewed 11,045 times

  Thanks to continuously declining costs, a hybrid renewable electricity generation system that combines wind, solar, and storage could become competitive with the cheapest fossil fuel…

• Fans Panic After Tesla Removes Its “Secret Weapon” From Website

  Published 19 February 2019 | viewed 2,744 times

  Tesla has removed all information it had about its Model 3 standard version on its website and some fans of the brand are panicking, Electrek’s…

• China To Build Solar Space Station

  Published 17 February 2019 | viewed 1,677 times

  Chinese scientists have revealed plans to build and launch in orbit a space solar station that could capture the Sun’s rays 24/7, Chinese media report.…

• Are Democrats Right To Dismiss Nuclear Energy?

  Published 14 February 2019 | viewed 1,703 times

  Last week the Democratic party, backed by the new energy of a particularly young and leftist freshman class in the House of Representatives, finally unveiled…

• The Biggest Bottleneck In The Renewable Revolution

  Published 12 February 2019 | viewed 5,668 times

  As the global middle class rapidly expands, so too does the worldwide demand for energy and its subsequent carbon footprint. Global climate change will be…

• Tesla Dominates Latest Global EV Sales List

  Published 11 February 2019 | viewed 2,386 times

  Tesla Model 3 topped the global EV sales ranking compiled by CleanTechnica and EV Volumes for 2018. In fact, Tesla as a brand dominated the…

• Will Russia Be Left Holding The Bag If Maduro Is Ousted?

  Published 08 February 2019 | viewed 2,037 times

  Russia—one of the key supporters of Nicolas Maduro in the Venezuelan crisis—has stood by the Venezuelan leader for years and has poured billions of U.S.…

• Tech Giants Lead Renewable Push

  Published 06 February 2019 | viewed 5,946 times

  Businesses bought a record 13.4 GW of energy produced from renewables sources last year, bringing the total since 2008 to more than 32 GW, an…

• Russia Denies Nuclear Deal With North Korea

  Published 02 February 2019 | viewed 7,970 times

  New reporting has revealed that last fall Russian officials offered a nuclear power plant to North Korea as part of a secretive proposal. The offer…