Japanese firm believes it could make a solid-state battery with a range of 745 miles that charges in 10 minutes

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    1 year ago

    I haven’t seen anything that sounded like good news regarding biofuels in years. Issues with inability to scale while keeping costs reasonable as well as it still generating lots of pollution.

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      There is no good news for biofuels, excluding the narrow category of recycling things like cooking oil. The category is trash. Plants are wildly inefficient; we have much better technology for extracting maximum energy from sunlight. The whole thing is just an agribusiness subsidy with countless extra steps.

      There IS some good news for renewable combustible fuels. E.g., this recent episode of Volts where the CTO of ET Fuels talked about his company’s current deployments (and plans for a big scale up) of off-grid, renewably-powered facilities to produce green e-methanol.

      But even the guys who are in this industry don’t even entertain the idea that this will ever be a car fuel. They market it as a shipping fuel.

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        1 year ago

        And agribusiness is just three chemical companies in jean overalls masquerading as a “humble farmer”.