One of the major knocks on the electric vehicle revolution is that batteries pose a massive environmental problem, because of how their ingredients are sourced and how they are disposed of at the end ...
Northvolt, Europe’s best hope for a homegrown battery titan, collapsed into bankruptcy this fall. This failure was a big deal in its own right, but it also raises questions about the broader effort to ...
Big tech companies need enormous amounts of clean energy to power their rapidly growing data-center fleets while meeting their climate goals — but it’s increasingly difficult to get that electricity ...
When the founders of LuxWall look through a window, they see money. Windows offer sometimes-stunning views and natural light, but they also create a structural vulnerability that lets heat escape in ...
That’s the bitter truth awaiting hundreds of companies founded in the recent wave of energy and climate entrepreneurship. Success for a venture-capital-funded startup means an exit through a ...
Heat pumps are the single biggest tool for U.S. households to cut carbon emissions and curb unhealthy air pollution. They’re also far more efficient than the fossil-fueled or electric resistance ...
This story was first published by Grist. At a laboratory in Newark, New Jersey, a gray liquid swirls vigorously inside a reactor the size of a small watermelon. Here, scientists with the mining ...