Clean Energy Profits, Rich People, and the European Yellowstone
Biden administration boosts EV supply chain with $2B lithium loan.
Also: Biden admin plans historic $6 billion industrial carbon offensive (which includes mac & cheese manufacturers).
The Saudis are leaning into mining the minerals necessary for the electrification transition.
And the EU has a similar (if more nascent) investment fund (so does Germany):
Florida wants to ban alternative meat and make it illegal to mention climate change.
Scientists are still making progress on fusion reactors.
The Presidents of France and Brazil announced a collaborative, Amazon-supporting fund.
A coal billionaire is building a huge clean energy plant.
Clean energy is profitable, and rapidly becoming even more so:
Global weather disaster losses reach $280 billion in 2023.
On North America’s fish-killing culverts.
Philanthropist group buys up land in Romania to create “European Yellowstone.”
A new CO2 drawdown plant may go into operation this year:
Tesla’s been having a hard time (so have Uber drivers in Nigeria, but for a different reason).
Maybe the world can’t afford to have rich people?
And maybe we should rethink nationalism, too?
EVs are already cleaner than gas-powered cars, and are expected to become even more so:
Stellantis is still all-in on EVs, despite sales slowdown (Hyundai, too).
Water desalination is going to become increasingly important (as will the energy required to power it).
The climate scientist fossil-fuel companies can’t stand.
And hay grown for cattle consumes about half the water drawn from the Colorado River: