Kurt Degoede

https://www.canarymedia.com/articles/california-is-closing-in-on-repurposing-ev-batteries-to-store-clean-energy-for-the-grid/ ” The vast majority of retired electric car batteries have considerable capacity remaining in them, generally about 80 percent. While the reduced capacity impacts a vehicle’s range between charges, it’s expected to be more than enough to provide cost-effective energy storage. It also is far less demanding for batteries to provide stationary storage than … Continue reading →

“A new report suggests Texas could have avoided February’s power crisis if it had heeded federal recommendations ten years ago to winterize its grid, which relies on interdependent energy sources and is susceptible to cascading failure. Texas isn’t alone, writes Michael Webber, with similar interdependence common across the US demanding attention to address grid vulnerabilities … Continue reading →

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” Elizabethtown College alumna Kyla Strickler ‘20 was recently awarded the 2021 Engineering for Change (E4C) Fellowship.” https://news.etown.edu/index.php/2021/05/04/etown-alumna-awarded-engineering-for-change-fellowship/

June 3 ” Inventors have recast the bicycle as a cheap power supply for myriad products. The world’s most efficient transportation device now handles everything from poop to ice cream. Several groups are even working on bike-powered laundry machines, including MIT and their “Spincycle” (get it?). Ten creative ways that bicycles are serving people around the … Continue reading →

EZRA KLEIN: I think you really see that dynamic in terms of what risks and problems we will politically accept and which ones we turn on the sirens for. So the existence of entrenched poverty in this country, just taken for granted. … Meanwhile, though, like the minute there is a risk of inflation, …the … Continue reading →