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Can We Drill A Hole Deep Enough For Our Nuclear Waste?

Jim Conca

Deep Isolation takes advantage of recently developed fracking technologies to place nuclear waste in a series of two-mile-long tunnels, a mile below the Earth’s surface, where they’ll be surrounded by a very tight rock called shale. And their recent field demonstration worked just fine.

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225 leaders of color gather at Front and Centered’s Statewide Environmental Justice Summit

Front And Centered

On Jan. 11 and Jan. 12, Front and Centered hosted our Statewide Environmental Justice Summit at University of Washington’s (UW’s) Alder Auditorium. We were inspired by the response, maxing out Summit capacity at 225 participants. Never before have this many leaders of color and indigenous leaders across our state gathered in one space for two days specifically to connect on local environmental justice and climate issues.

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Bill Lemon's "10 Years, 10 Insights"

E8 Cleantech Angels

Bill Lemon, E8 Board Member and former. E8 Co-Chair, offers his thoughts and wisdom on the cleantech investing landscape. Originally posted on the website of Michael Marc Grossman , local cleantech PR maven. Reprinted with permission, with minor edits. Looking back on ten years as a cleantech angel investor, I carry with me ten truths (or opinions, if you must). 1.

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Trending Topics – How Market Rules Are Holding Back Energy Storage

Energy Innovation

A version of this article was originally published January 24, 2019 on Greentech Media. By Mike O’Boyle and Ron Lehr. Energy storage is surging. The U.S. Energy Storage Monitor Q4 2018 estimates that installations totaled 338 megawatts in 2018, and will grow to 3.9 gigawatts by 2023, much of it front-of-the-meter utility-scale projects. This exponential growth has been driven by state mandates and regulatory actions (especially in California) and limited to vertically integrated utilitie

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Electrofuels Are the Future: The Driving Force to Decarbonizing Heavy Transport

Speaker: Ayesha Choudhury - Senior Vice President, Head of Capital Markets at Infinium

With the first wave of the energy transition, renewable energy sources (such as solar and wind) have begun replacing coal power generation. However, some sectors are lagging behind and struggling to decarbonize more than others, including large-scale transportation like commercial aviation, shipping, and rail transit. Electrofuels (aka eFuels) are the next generation of solutions to help the hardest-to-abate sectors pivot from their reliance on fossil fuels.

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How Do Electric Cars Measure Up To Uber Drivers’ Favorites?

Jigar Shah

You need more than bells and whistles when your car is your livelihood. You need longevity and reliability. With 15 million trips completed on the Uber app each day , you have to wonder what kind of car a serious driver prefers for keeping up with demand. Turns out there are quite a few crowd favorites?—?and drivers are die-hard about their choices.