energy
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Heat Pumps Massively Improve EV Range In Cold Weather
The Washington Post recently published an article about cold-weather EV performance, and as it points out, the need to heat the cabin is one of the biggest factors in why EVs lose so much range when it’s cold out. Freezing temperatures do affect battery performance in general since they operate best at around 20 degrees…
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Why the Keystone Pipeline Oil Spill in Kansas Is So Hard to Clean Up
The Keystone Pipeline spilled hundreds of thousands of gallons of tar sands oil into a creek in northern Kansas earlier this month. TC Energy, which operates the pipeline, says it has recovered a small amount of that oil, but experts say the full cleanup will take a long time.
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Nuclear Fusion Power Has Reached a Turning Point, in a Good Way
To date, developments in fusion power have been funded almost exclusively by the public sector. However, something is changing.
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Renewable Energy Set to Overtake Coal Power Globally by 2025
Renewable power capacity will double in the next five years, says a new International Energy Agency report.