Alexander C. Kaufman
Contributor at Canary Media
Senior reporter @HuffPost. I write about energy and getting by in a hotter world. ⚛️⛏️🔋⚡️ Better here, imho: https://t.co/etjS1NmEJR. Email/phone on my website.
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1 week ago |
theatlantic.com | Alexander C. Kaufman
Resources have always determined power. The British empire’s command over coal helped expand the realm to the ends of the earth. The United States entered World War II as a dominant oil power and for decades consolidated control over global supply. This century, power could be built on batteries, solar panels, and artificial intelligence. And China has a grip on the minerals—rare-earth elements, lithium, graphite—needed to make them.
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1 week ago |
latitudemedia.com | Alexander C. Kaufman
For years, Utah’s grid was the planned destination for the first electrons from the United States’ debut commercial small modular reactor project. But in November 2023, as inflation sent prices soaring, NuScale Power’s deal to sell electricity to the public utility Utah Associated Municipal Power Systems collapsed. Now the Beehive State is betting on a new company to revive its SMR ambitions, Latitude Media has learned.
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2 weeks ago |
latitudemedia.com | Alexander C. Kaufman
In 1960, the first geothermal power station in the entire Western Hemisphere opened in California. Dubbed the Geysers Geothermal Complex, the plant’s neat row of steam vents looked like a giant exposed engine of a muscle car nestled in a valley of the Mayacamas Mountains north of the Bay Area. With time, the facility expanded to tap into more of the region’s abundant underground reservoirs of magma-heated water. Today it’s the largest geothermal electrical plant in the world.
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2 weeks ago |
sherwood.news | Alexander C. Kaufman
For USA Rare Earth, it was the best of timing and the worst of timing. Last month, the Tampa-based firm went public on the Nasdaq via a SPAC merger, taking a major step toward breaking China’s monopoly over the metals and magnets needed for electric vehicles, consumer electronics, and fighter jets. This month, in retaliation to President Donald Trump’s trade war, Beijing banned exports of the exact metals and magnets USA Rare Earth aims to mine and manufacture.
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3 weeks ago |
canarymedia.com | Alexander C. Kaufman
OnePlanet uses a novel process to salvage copper, silicon, and aluminum from broken solar panels. It aims to bring its first full-scale plant online in 2027. Each time a hurricane batters Florida, the country’s second-largest market for solar energy, broken panels pile up in landfills. OnePlanet Solar Recycling has a plan to tackle that problem.
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OnePlanet uses a novel process to salvage copper, silicon, and aluminum from broken solar panels. The Jacksonville, Florida-based startup aims to bring its first full-scale plant online in 2027. Reporting by @AlexCKaufman: https://t.co/Nh0hW3uTvy
