#Energy and Power

[youthchronical]

Hope for a Trump Energy Boom Is Marred by Anxiety About Tariffs

Tariff threats. Growing uncertainty about the economy. And a push for much lower oil prices. For all of their bravado about U.S. energy dominance and enthusiasm for deregulation, American energy executives are beginning to worry about President Trump’s agenda. Their concerns crept into conversations in hotel meeting rooms and over private meals this week in Houston, where industry magnates…

[sohaibsmart]

Layoffs Increase at Federal Companies, A part of Trump Purge

The Trump administration accelerated plans for widespread work drive cuts throughout the federal government on Friday, as workers at a number of federal businesses realized they might be dropping their jobs. Companies such because the Environmental Safety Company and the Agriculture Division have been the newest to be hit with layoffs as President Trump and a group led by the billionaire Elon…

[mohitbisresearch]

The Asia-Pacific edge data center market, valued at $5.36 billion in 2023, is expected to reach $31.57 billion by 2033, exhibiting a robust CAGR of 19.40% during the forecast period 2023-2033.

[aarunresearcher]

United States industrial PC market size reached USD 1.4 Billion in 2024. Looking forward, IMARC Group expects the market to reach USD 2.3 Billion by 2033, exhibiting a growth rate (CAGR) of 5.85% during ​2025-2033​. The increasing complexity of industrial processes, along with the growing need for real-time data processing and analysis, is driving the industrial PC market.

[liberalsarecool]

Solar energy has so many benefits. Raising salaries for teachers is such a needed narrative.

[nextmscblog]

Transforming Energy Storage: Aluminum Air Batteries Market Progress

Introduction

The global shift towards sustainable energy solutions has catalyzed rapid advancements in energy storage technologies. Among these, aluminum air batteries have emerged as a promising contender, offering a combination of high energy density, cost-effectiveness, and environmental sustainability. According to a study by Next Move Strategy Consulting, the Aluminum Air Batteries Market is projected to reach a valuation of USD 12.51 billion by 2030, with a Compound Annual Growth Rate (CAGR) of 5.5%. This article delves deeper into the progress and potential of aluminum air batteries, exploring their key features, applications, market dynamics, and future prospects.

Understanding Aluminum Air Batteries

Aluminum air batteries operate on a simple yet effective principle: the oxidation of aluminum at the anode and the reduction of oxygen at the cathode. During discharge, aluminum reacts with hydroxide ions in the electrolyte, forming aluminum hydroxide and releasing electrons. Meanwhile, oxygen from the air reacts with water and electrons at the cathode, forming hydroxide ions. This electrochemical reaction generates a flow of electricity, which can be harnessed to power various applications.

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One of the defining features of aluminum air batteries is their high energy density. Aluminum boasts a high specific energy, meaning it can store a large amount of energy per unit mass. This characteristic makes aluminum air batteries particularly well-suited for applications where space and weight are critical considerations, such as portable electronics, electric vehicles (EVs), and unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs).

Moreover, aluminum air batteries are inherently eco-friendly. Unlike conventional lithium-ion batteries, which rely on scarce and environmentally damaging materials such as cobalt and lithium, aluminum air batteries utilize abundant and widely available resources. Aluminum is the third most abundant element in the Earth's crust, making it a sustainable and environmentally responsible choice for energy storage.

Applications of Aluminum Air Batteries

The versatility and scalability of aluminum air batteries make them suitable for a wide range of applications across various industries. In the automotive sector, aluminum air batteries hold significant promise for powering electric vehicles (EVs). With the global push towards decarbonization and the electrification of transportation, there is growing demand for energy-dense and long-lasting battery solutions. Aluminum air batteries offer a compelling proposition in this regard, providing a lightweight and efficient power source for electric cars, buses, and trucks.

In addition to transportation, aluminum air batteries find applications in stationary energy storage systems, grid-level energy storage, and off-grid power generation. As renewable energy sources such as solar and wind power continue to gain prominence, the need for reliable and cost-effective energy storage solutions becomes increasingly critical. Aluminum air batteries offer an effective means of storing surplus energy generated from renewable sources, thereby enabling grid stabilization, load balancing, and energy independence.

Furthermore, aluminum air batteries have potential applications in the aerospace industry, where lightweight and high-energy-density batteries are essential for powering aircraft and spacecraft. From small drones to larger unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) and satellites, aluminum air batteries offer a compact and efficient power source for extended missions and remote operations.

Market Dynamics and Growth Trends

The Aluminum Air Batteries Market is characterized by a dynamic and rapidly evolving landscape, driven by a combination of technological advancements, market demand, and regulatory developments. Key factors influencing market growth include:

Technological Innovations: Ongoing advancements in battery technology, materials science, and manufacturing processes are driving improvements in the performance, efficiency, and durability of aluminum air batteries. Innovations such as advanced electrode designs, novel electrolyte formulations, and enhanced system integration are enhancing the viability and competitiveness of aluminum air batteries in the marketplace.

Market Demand: Increasing awareness of environmental sustainability, coupled with the growing demand for clean energy solutions, is fueling the adoption of aluminum air batteries across various industries. As governments, businesses, and consumers prioritize energy efficiency and carbon reduction goals, the demand for energy storage solutions capable of supporting renewable energy integration and grid stability is expected to surge.

Regulatory Environment: Regulatory initiatives aimed at reducing greenhouse gas emissions, promoting energy efficiency, and accelerating the transition to clean energy are shaping market dynamics and driving investment in sustainable energy technologies. Policies such as carbon pricing, renewable energy mandates, and incentives for electric vehicles are creating favorable conditions for the deployment of aluminum air batteries and other clean energy solutions.

Market Competition: The Aluminum Air Batteries Market is characterized by intense competition among key players, including battery manufacturers, technology developers, and automotive OEMs. As companies vie for market share and strive to differentiate their offerings, we can expect to see increased investment in research and development, strategic partnerships, and product innovation.

Global Economic Trends: Macroeconomic factors such as GDP growth, industrial production, and consumer spending patterns also influence market dynamics and growth trends. Economic expansion, particularly in emerging markets, can drive demand for energy-intensive products and services, thereby creating opportunities for energy storage solutions such as aluminum air batteries.

Future Prospects and Challenges

Looking ahead, the Aluminum Air Batteries Market holds immense potential for growth and innovation. As the global transition towards clean energy accelerates, aluminum air batteries are expected to play a pivotal role in enabling renewable energy integration, decarbonizing transportation, and advancing sustainable development goals.

However, several challenges and considerations must be addressed to realize the full potential of aluminum air batteries:

Cost-Effectiveness: While aluminum air batteries offer compelling advantages in terms of energy density and sustainability, cost considerations remain a significant barrier to widespread adoption. Efforts to reduce manufacturing costs, improve production efficiency, and scale up manufacturing capacity will be crucial in making aluminum air batteries more economically viable.

Durability and Lifespan: Ensuring the durability and longevity of aluminum air batteries is essential for maximizing their value proposition and minimizing lifecycle costs. Research into materials science, battery design, and operational strategies is needed to enhance battery performance, reliability, and lifespan under real-world operating conditions.

Infrastructure and Compatibility: The deployment of aluminum air batteries may require investments in supporting infrastructure, including battery charging and swapping stations, grid integration systems, and recycling facilities. Ensuring interoperability and compatibility with existing infrastructure and regulatory frameworks will be essential for facilitating the widespread adoption of aluminum air batteries.

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Environmental Impact: While aluminum air batteries offer environmental benefits compared to conventional battery technologies, attention must be paid to the environmental footprint of battery production, operation, and end-of-life disposal. Minimizing resource consumption, optimizing recycling processes, and adopting sustainable manufacturing practices are critical for mitigating the environmental impact of aluminum air batteries.

Regulatory and Policy Support: Government policies, regulations, and incentives play a crucial role in shaping market dynamics and driving investment in clean energy technologies. Continued support for research and development, market incentives for renewable energy deployment, and regulatory frameworks that encourage innovation and sustainability will be essential for fostering the growth of the Aluminum Air Batteries Market.

Conclusion

In conclusion, aluminum air batteries represent a transformative technology with the potential to revolutionize the energy storage landscape. With their high energy density, eco-friendliness, and versatility, aluminum air batteries offer a compelling solution for addressing the challenges of energy storage and advancing the transition towards a sustainable energy future. As research and development efforts continue to accelerate and market demand grows, aluminum air batteries are poised to emerge as a key enabler of clean energy technologies, driving progress and innovation across various sectors and contributing to a more sustainable and resilient energy infrastructure for future generations.

[greykolla-art]

Charlie: “I’m so glad my most villain-coded friend is at full power again! 🥰💕”

*throws this to you angst goblins like raw steak* ❤️

(No I will not do a part 2!❤️)

[reasonsforhope]

"The man who has called climate change a “hoax” also can be expected to wreak havoc on federal agencies central to understanding, and combating, climate change. But plenty of climate action would be very difficult for a second Trump administration to unravel, and the 47th president won’t be able to stop the inevitable economy-wide shift from fossil fuels to renewables. 

“This is bad for the climate, full stop,” said Gernot Wagner, a climate economist at the Columbia Business School. “That said, this will be yet another wall that never gets built. Fundamental market forces are at play.”

A core irony of climate change is that markets incentivized the wide-scale burning of fossil fuels beginning in the Industrial Revolution, creating the mess humanity is mired in, and now those markets are driving a renewables revolution that will help fix it. Coal, oil, and gas are commodities whose prices fluctuate. As natural resources that humans pull from the ground, there’s really no improving on them — engineers can’t engineer new versions of coal. 

By contrast, solar panels, wind turbines, and appliances like induction stoves only get better — more efficient and cheaper — with time. Energy experts believe solar power, the price of which fell 90 percent between 2010 and 2020, will continue to proliferate across the landscape. (Last year, the United States added three times as much solar capacity as natural gas.) Heat pumps now outsell gas furnaces in the U.S., due in part to government incentives. Last year, Maine announced it had reached its goal of installing 100,000 heat pumps two years ahead of schedule, in part thanks to state rebates. So if the Trump administration cut off the funding for heat pumps that the IRA provides, states could pick up the slack. 

Local utilities are also finding novel ways to use heat pumps. Over in Massachusetts, for example, the utility Eversource Energy is experimenting with “networked geothermal,” in which the homes within a given neighborhood tap into water pumped from underground. Heat pumps use that water to heat or cool a space, which is vastly more efficient than burning natural gas. Eversource and two dozen other utilities, representing about half of the country’s natural gas customers, have formed a coalition to deploy more networked geothermal systems.

Beyond being more efficient, green tech is simply cheaper to adopt. Consider Texas, which long ago divorced its electrical grid from the national grid so it could skirt federal regulation. The Lone Star State is the nation’s biggest oil and gas producer, but it gets 40 percent of its total energy from carbon-free sources. “Texas has the most solar and wind of any state, not because Republicans in Texas love renewables, but because it’s the cheapest form of electricity there,” said Zeke Hausfather, a research scientist at Berkeley Earth, a climate research nonprofit. The next top three states for producing wind power — Iowa, Oklahoma, and Kansas — are red, too.

State regulators are also pressuring utilities to slash emissions, further driving the adoption of wind and solar power. As part of California’s goal of decarbonizing its power by 2045, the state increased battery storage by 757 percent between 2019 and 2023. Even electric cars and electric school buses can provide backup power for the grid. That allows utilities to load up on bountiful solar energy during the day, then drain those batteries at night — essential for weaning off fossil fuel power plants. Trump could slap tariffs on imported solar panels and thereby increase their price, but that would likely boost domestic manufacturing of those panels, helping the fledgling photovoltaic manufacturing industry in red states like Georgia and Texas.

The irony of Biden’s signature climate bill is states that overwhelmingly support Trump are some of the largest recipients of its funding. That means tampering with the IRA could land a Trump administration in political peril even with Republican control of the Senate, if not Congress. In addition to providing incentives to households (last year alone, 3.4 million American families claimed more than $8 billion in tax credits for home energy improvements), the legislation has so far resulted in $150 billion of new investment in the green economy since it was passed in 2022, boosting the manufacturing of technologies like batteries and solar panels. According to Atlas Public Policy, a research group, that could eventually create 160,000 jobs. “Something like 66 percent of all of the spending in the IRA has gone to red states,” Hausfather said. “There certainly is a contingency in the Republican party now that’s going to support keeping some of those subsidies around.”

Before Biden’s climate legislation passed, much more progress was happening at a state and local level. New York, for instance, set a goal to reduce its greenhouse gas emissions from 1990 levels by 40 percent by 2030, and 85 percent by 2050. Colorado, too, is aiming to slash emissions by at least 90 percent by 2050. The automaker Stellantis has signed an agreement with the state of California promising to meet the state’s zero-emissions vehicle mandate even if a judicial or federal action overturns it. It then sells those same cars in other states. 

“State governments are going to be the clearest counterbalance to the direction that Donald Trump will take the country on environmental policy,” said Thad Kousser, co-director of the Yankelovich Center for Social Science Research at the University of California, San Diego. “California and the states that ally with it are going to try to adhere to tighter standards if the Trump administration lowers national standards.”

[Note: One of the obscure but great things about how emissions regulations/markets work in the US is that automakers generally all follow California's emissions standards, and those standards are substantially higher than federal standards. Source]

Last week, 62 percent of Washington state voters soundly rejected a ballot initiative seeking to repeal a landmark law that raised funds to fight climate change. “Donald Trump’s going to learn something that our opponents in our initiative battle learned: Once people have a benefit, you can’t take it away,” Washington Governor Jay Inslee said in a press call Friday. “He is going to lose in his efforts to repeal the Inflation Reduction Act, because governors, mayors of both parties, are going to say, ‘This belongs to me, and you’re not going to get your grubby hands on it.’”

Even without federal funding, states regularly embark on their own large-scale projects to adapt to climate change. California voters, for instance, just overwhelmingly approved a $10 billion bond to fund water, climate, and wildfire prevention projects. “That will be an example,” said Saharnaz Mirzazad, executive director of the U.S. branch of ICLEI-Local Governments for Sustainability. “You can use that on a state level or local level to have [more of] these types of bonds. You can help build some infrastructure that is more resilient.”

Urban areas, too, have been major drivers of climate action: In 2021, 130 U.S. cities signed a U.N.-backed pledge to accelerate their decarbonization. “Having an unsupportive federal government, to say the least, will be not helpful,” said David Miller, managing director at the Centre for Urban Climate Policy and Economy at C40, a global network of mayors fighting climate change. “It doesn’t mean at all that climate action will stop. It won’t, and we’ve already seen that twice in recent U.S. history, when Republican administrations pulled out of international agreements. Cities step to the fore.”

And not in isolation, because mayors talk: Cities share information about how to write legislation, such as laws that reduce carbon emissions in buildings and ensure that new developments are connected to public transportation. They transform their food systems to grow more crops locally, providing jobs and reducing emissions associated with shipping produce from afar. “If anything,” Miller said, “having to push against an administration, like that we imagine is coming, will redouble the efforts to push at the local level.” 

Federal funding — like how the U.S. Forest Service has been handing out $1.5 billion for planting trees in urban areas, made possible by the IRA — might dry up for many local projects, but city governments, community groups, and philanthropies will still be there. “You picture a web, and we’re taking scissors or a machete or something, and chopping one part of that web out,” said Elizabeth Sawin, the director of the Multisolving Institute, a Washington, D.C.-based nonprofit that promotes climate solutions. “There’s this resilience of having all these layers of partners.”

All told, climate progress has been unfolding on so many fronts for so many years — often without enough support from the federal government — that it will persist regardless of who occupies the White House. “This too shall pass, and hopefully we will be in a more favorable policy environment in four years,” Hausfather said. “In the meantime, we’ll have to keep trying to make clean energy cheap and hope that it wins on its merits.”"

-via Grist, November 11, 2024. A timely reminder.

[youthchronical]

Man Who Shot at Pipeline and Power Station Gets 25 Years in Prison

A Canadian man who, in an attempt to raise awareness about climate change, used a high-powered rifle to fire shots at a pipeline in South Dakota in 2022 and a power station in North Dakota in 2023 was sentenced on Monday to 25 years in federal prison. The man, Cameron M. Smith, 50, who pleaded guilty last September in U.S. District Court in Bismarck, N.D., to two counts of destruction of an…

[multitrackdrifting]

someone might need to hear this

[mohitbisresearch]

The Asia-Pacific Data Center Liquid Cooling Market is poised for remarkable growth between 2022 and 2027. According to a research report by BIS Research, this market is expected to exhibit a substantial increase, with a projected value of over US$ 663.4 million in 2022, set to soar to an impressive US$ 2,609.1 million by 2027. Anticipated to achieve an outstanding Compound Annual Growth Rate (CAGR) of 31.51% during this period, this growth is attributed to various factors. The data is excluding china region.

[vixeneptune]

See yourself being perceived by others in this light bc you already are such a remarkable beauty to witness

Pov : everyone who sees you says this about your looks

"Omg you're drop dead GORGEOUS 😍 "

"HOW are you so pretty 😭😭 what's your secret"

" you're literally the prettiest girl I've ever seen I'm not even kidding"

"Your eyes are so mesmerizing wow😍 ..I'm in love"

"U have the most perfect lips"

"Ur eyebrows are always on fleek"

"I love how long and thick ur eyelashes are"

"You're so beautiful I'm obsessed"

"Ur skin is literally FLAWLESS"

"I'm convinced you're a real life goddess"

"I looove ur hair it looks so healthy and soft and luscious "

"How are u even real? U look so ethereal and out of this world!"

"Ur beauty has me daydreaming and writing poems"

"Ur beauty alone leaves an unforgettable mark on everyone"

"I can't fathom how pretty you are"

"Everything about u is perfect, like youre unbelievably stunning"

"What's it like being the most beautiful girl in the world?😍"

"U have this kind of beauty thats so captivating, haunting and addictive to look at"

"I love ur stylee u always look so chic"

"You're such an eye-candy I could look at you forever"

"Ur face is literally my desired face, ur beauty is the standard"

"Girl I would kill to look like u"

"Ur beauty leaves me speechless everytime, how do u have that effect?"

"I don't think anyone who looks at u can resist falling in love w you"

"Has anyone ever told you how powerful your beauty is? Like it's dangerous how beautiful u are"

"Do you model? U literally have the body and looks for it"

"I love ur fashion sense , u give off IT girl vibes"

"Stop looking at me with those siren eyes 🫠"

Pov : people say this behind your back

"She's def the kind of girl who steals all the attention with her beauty when she walks into a room"

"Y/N had a huge glow up, she keeps getting prettier everytime I see her"

"She looks so stunning in pictures but wait till u see her irl its even better"

"I genuinely think she's the prettiest girl in existence"

"There's something about her beauty thats so hypnotic it sticks in ur mind"

"My heart starts beating so fast when she looks at me. Her beauty makes me nervous"

"Have you seen Y/N? she's the prettiest around here"

"She has that kind of beauty that everyone wanna copy"

"She's naturally beautiful like she doesn't even try"

💌💌💌

Let me know if u want more like this 💫

[atompalace-official]

Celebi and Serperior in Pokémon TCGP:

[1001aus]

Phantom is a member of JLA when everyone finds out that the Bats have contingency plans against everyone else.

While everyone else is shouting about trust and betrayal, Danny can't help but be relieved. He's seen his bad future, after all. Dan is reformed now, but that doesn't retroactively save the timeline he wiped out.

Danny only has one issue with the contingencies for him: Batman mistakenly believes that his intangibility works the same as Martian density shifting.

It doesn't. In fact, they're very different powers. Intangibility is more of a phase shift where he turns his physical form into energy.

This means that none of the contingencies in his file will work because they don't accurately account for one of his basic powers.

(The shouting actually gets derailed for a bit when he brings it up. All the scientists are a bit horrified about the implied energy conversions happening whenever he uses this "basic" power. As a halfa with an actual physical form, Danny should be giving off enough energy to blow up the planet whenever he transforms.)