Not So Fast: U.S. Nuclear Plants Won’t Power up Big Tech’s AI Ambitions Right Away

Summary Resurrecting Three Mile Island could take awhile Local opponents hold memories of 1979 incident NRC busy with nuclear power permit requests NEW YORK/WASHINGTON Sept 24 (Reuters) – Constellation Energy  and Microsoft  plan to restart the Three Mile Island nuclear plant, hoping they have scored a quick source of enough climate-friendly energy to power rapidly …

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Northvolt to Cut 20% of Global Staff, Placing Europe’s EV Battery-Making Ambitions at Risk

Struggling to ramp up production as demand for electric vehicles slows Bloomberg News Workers gather at a food truck in the snow at the Northvolt AB plant in Skelleftea, Sweden, on Thursday, Feb. 17, 2022. Photo by Mikael Sjoberg /Bloomberg Sweden’s Northvolt AB will shed 20 per cent of its global workforce and pause its expansion plans to slow …

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Thieves Hunting for Copper are Vandalizing EV Chargers

Nearly 20% of U.S. public charging attempts ended in failure, with roughly 10% of those aborted sessions were due to a damaged or missing cable Bloomberg News Rick Wilmer spends most of his work days at the office. But every so often, the chief executive officer of ChargePoint Holdings Inc. will make his way to …

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U.S. Shale Revolution Has ‘Run Its Course,’ Quantum’s Wil VanLoh Says

Bloomberg One of the top investors in US oil and natural gas companies says the nation’s shale producers are no longer in a position to aggressively ramp up output and give consumers a break on energy prices. “The US shale revolution has run its course,” Wil VanLoh, chief executive officer at Quantum Energy Partners LLC, said Monday …

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Canada’s Federal Greenwash Law Bill C-59: You’re Guilty Until Proven Innocent

“Under this new law, you’re guilty unless you prove your innocence to some back-room bureaucratic body. That’s simply not a Canadian concept.” Photo by THE CANADIAN PRESS/Sean Kilpatrick In its latest display of environmental correctness, the federal government passed a new anti-greenwashing law that requires individuals or organizations making claims or promises about the climate …

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North Dakota Oil Production Down 18,000 Bpd in July vs June to 1,168,000 Bpd – State Regulator

Oil production in North Dakota fell 18,000 barrels per day (bpd) to 1.168 million bpd in July, monthly data from the state Industrial Commission showed on Monday. Wells permitted jumped to 107 in July and 100 in August, versus 78 in June. The state needs to permit roughly 100 wells in a month to keep …

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US Natgas End-of-Season Storage to Reach Four-Year High in October

(Reuters) – U.S. natural gas storage is on track to end the April-October summer injection season at a four-year high of 3.899 trillion cubic feet (tcf) on Oct. 31, according to analysts’ estimates. That compares with 3.809 tcf at the end of the summer injection season in 2023, 3.929 tcf in 2020 and a five-year …

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