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11 Jan 2024

LNG export facilities are complicated feats of engineering The expansion in Qatar, the biggest LNG project ever, requires 45,000 workers from 50 countries This marks the world’s final wave of mega LNG projects. But these plants will be exporting LNG for a long time 🧵 complete

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David R. Baker @DavidBakerSF

26 Oct 2023

Beaming constant solar energy from space to Earth: It's a longtime dream of scientists, but recently researchers have made real progress. bloomberg.com/news/features/… via @climate

Beam Solar Energy From Space? These Scientists Achieve a Breakthrough

Caltech researchers are experimenting with a space-based solar power system that would assemble itself after being launched by rockets.

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David R. Baker @DavidBakerSF

7 Sep 2023

Toyota's largest North American import facility gets a new kind of power plant that will produce power, water and hydrogen all at once bloomberg.com/news/articles/… via @climate

At Toyota Import Center, One Plant Makes Power, Water and Hydrogen

Each year, 200,000 new cars and trucks roll off ships at the Port of Long Beach in Southern California for processing at Toyota Motor Corp.’s largest North American import facility.

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David R. Baker @DavidBakerSF

30 Aug 2023

Until the devastating fires in Maui, this California town was the site of the deadliest US wildfire in a century. Here's how it has recovered, and what remains lost bloomberg.com/news/features/… via @citylab

Nearly Five Years After Fires, Recovery in Paradise Holds Lessons for Lahaina

A California town rebuilt after wildfire destruction has become an attractive home for new and old residents. But challenges with reconstruction, and trauma, remain.

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15 Aug 2023

As the tragedy’s death toll rose to 99 Monday, Hawaii Governor Josh Green said he had reached out to the state’s attorney general to discuss a moratorium on property sales in the historic seaside town bloomberg.com/news/articles/… via @business

Hawaii Governor Doesn’t Want Developers Buying Burned Lahaina

Hawaii Governor Josh Green said he would consider a temporary ban on sales of any properties damaged in the fire that leveled Lahaina last week, to ensure residents aren’t permanently displaced.

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2 Aug 2023

California's biggest fire of the year is burning in one of the only habitats of Joshua Trees, an icon of the American West bloomberg.com/news/articles/… via @climate

California’s Biggest Fire Is Burning a Desert — And Joshua Trees

The York Fire is threatening the rare plants, which live only at specific elevations in the Mojave Desert.

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2 Aug 2023

Biden’s Climate Law Only Gets US Halfway to Zero, BNEF Finds bloomberg.com/news/articles/… via @climate

Biden's Climate Law Halves US Greenhouse Gas Emissions by 2050: Study

US climate policy needs sticks as well as carrots, BloombergNEF says.

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18 Jul 2023

The scientists behind last year’s nuclear fusion breakthrough are close to duplicating their historic achievement bloomberg.com/news/articles/… via @climate

Scientists Behind Nuclear Fusion Milestone Near Repeat of Feat in Recent Test

The scientists behind last year’s nuclear fusion breakthrough, which raised the possibility of an abundant and clean future energy source, have not yet been able to duplicate their historic achieve...

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David R. Baker @DavidBakerSF

26 Jun 2023

We're not just seeing a boom in plants to make batteries in the US -- efforts to recycle them are ramping up as well. Startup Nth Cycle will open its first recycling plant in Ohio. bloomberg.com/news/articles/… via @business

EV Metals Will Come From Dead Batteries at New US Plant

A new US plant will soon offer a solution for tight supplies of critical metals: Pull them out of dead batteries in a process that produces fewer emissions than competitors.

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Bloomberg Originals

@bbgoriginals

18 May 2023

Many electric car charges in the US don't work and ChargePoint's process is geared at fixing it trib.al/XxBJZNG

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18 May 2023

It says something when even the former CEO of a big EV charging company calls the first few generations of DC fast chargers "complete garbage." bloomberg.com/news/articles/… via @business

Why So Many Electric Car Chargers in America Don't Work

Auto electrification needs public chargers, but one in five EV drivers in the US say they have been unable to charge at a public station.

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David R. Baker @DavidBakerSF

8 May 2023

The lab that made last year's big fusion energy breakthrough has run five similar experiments since then, none of them achieving ignition. bloomberg.com/news/articles/… via @business

Fusion Breakthrough Hits Hurdles as Five Experiments Fail

The US government lab that made a long-awaited breakthrough in fusion energy late last year has run five similar experiments since then without being able to replicate the results.

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David R. Baker @DavidBakerSF

18 Apr 2023

It's not a turbine, or an engine, or a fuel cell. This linear generator is new way to produce clean energy. We take you inside the factory bloomberg.com/news/features/… via @business

How to Sell a Power Generator No One Has Heard Of

Mainspring Energy’s device is a new way to create clean electricity, and it can run on hydrogen.

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Bloomberg Green

@climate

17 Apr 2023

Following years of drought, parts of California are seeing colorful "superblooms" or explosions of flowers. But that growth will dry out, transforming plants into fire kindling 🧵 bloom.bg/41gxg9N

California’s Historic Wet Winter Risks Making Wildfire Season Even Worse

As flowering bushes transform into tinder following heavy rains, the state is bracing for a delayed but dangerous fire season.

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3 Oct 2022

In Manhattan, EV-charging sites now outnumber gas stations 10 to 1 bloomberg.com/news/articles/… via @business

Manhattan’s EV-Charging Sites Now Outnumber Gas Stations 10 to 1

As electric-car adoption picks up across the US, more cities can expect to see ‘gas station deforestation.’

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David R. Baker @DavidBakerSF

3 Aug 2022

Snow made modern civilization in the western US possible. Now from the Sierras to the Rockies, mountain snowpacks are shrinking. bloomberg.com/graphics/2022-… via @bbgvisualdata

US West, Already in Drought, Is Facing Dwindling Snowpacks

Disappearing snowpack is accelerating the historic drought across the Western US, and so far government responses haven’t matched the scale of the problem.

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29 Jul 2022

Biden’s plan for a nationwide EV charging network means putting some stations in remote places and making sure they don’t break bloomberg.com/news/features/… via @business

Biden Has a $5 Billion Plan to Eliminate America's EV Charging Deserts

Building a nationwide network requires putting EV chargers in the middle of nowhere.

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David R. Baker @DavidBakerSF

22 Jul 2022

The key to the green hydrogen economy is a little-known machine with a name out of 1950s sci-fi — the electrolyzer. Here’s how it works bloomberg.com/news/features/… via @business

A Green Hydrogen Economy Depends on This Little-Known Machine

The electrolyzer, obscure for decades, sees its sales soar. Here’s how the technology works.

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David R. Baker @DavidBakerSF

31 May 2022

The world is pouring billions into hydrogen as a green fuel source. New research shows it can worsen global warming short term if it leaks bloomberg.com/news/features/… via @business

Miracle Fuel Hydrogen Can Actually Make Climate Change Worse

If it escapes into the air, this green fuel can contribute to global warming — which is why scientists say we need to limit leaks.

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David R. Baker @DavidBakerSF

11 May 2022

California's cap-and-trade system, meant to be a model for the U.S., has had little impact on greenhouse gas emissions bloomberg.com/news/articles/… via @business

California’s $19 Billion Carbon Market Falls Short in Fight to Curb Emissions

The marquee climate initiative has had little direct impact on greenhouse gases.

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