David R. Baker
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Energy and cleantech reporter at Bloomberg. Science and infrastructure geek. Gin snob. Views are my own.
San Francisco, CA
Joined October 2011
RT @SStapczynski: LNG export facilities are complicated feats of engineering. The expansion in Qatar, the biggest LNG project ever, require….
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Beaming constant solar energy from space to Earth: It's a longtime dream of scientists, but recently researchers have made real progress. via @climate.
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Caltech researchers are experimenting with a space-based solar power system that would assemble itself after being launched by rockets.
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Toyota's largest North American import facility gets a new kind of power plant that will produce power, water and hydrogen all at once via @climate.
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Each year, 200,000 new cars and trucks roll off ships at the Port of Long Beach in Southern California for processing at Toyota Motor Corp.’s largest North American import facility.
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Until the devastating fires in Maui, this California town was the site of the deadliest US wildfire in a century. Here's how it has recovered, and what remains lost via @citylab.
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A California town rebuilt after wildfire destruction has become an attractive home for new and old residents. But challenges with reconstruction, and trauma, remain.
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As the tragedy’s death toll rose to 99 Monday, Hawaii Governor Josh Green said he had reached out to the state’s attorney general to discuss a moratorium on property sales in the historic seaside town via @business.
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Hawaii Governor Josh Green said he would consider a temporary ban on sales of any properties damaged in the fire that leveled Lahaina last week, to ensure residents aren’t permanently displaced.
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California's biggest fire of the year is burning in one of the only habitats of Joshua Trees, an icon of the American West via @climate.
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The York Fire is threatening the rare plants, which live only at specific elevations in the Mojave Desert.
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Biden’s Climate Law Only Gets US Halfway to Zero, BNEF Finds via @climate.
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US climate policy needs sticks as well as carrots, BloombergNEF says.
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The scientists behind last year’s nuclear fusion breakthrough are close to duplicating their historic achievement via @climate.
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The scientists behind last year’s nuclear fusion breakthrough, which raised the possibility of an abundant and clean future energy source, have not yet been able to duplicate their historic achieve...
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We're not just seeing a boom in plants to make batteries in the US -- efforts to recycle them are ramping up as well. Startup Nth Cycle will open its first recycling plant in Ohio. via @business.
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A new US plant will soon offer a solution for tight supplies of critical metals: Pull them out of dead batteries in a process that produces fewer emissions than competitors.
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RT @Quicktake: Many electric car charges in the US don't work and ChargePoint's process is geared at fixing it http….
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It says something when even the former CEO of a big EV charging company calls the first few generations of DC fast chargers "complete garbage." via @business.
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Auto electrification needs public chargers, but one in five EV drivers in the US say they have been unable to charge at a public station.
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The lab that made last year's big fusion energy breakthrough has run five similar experiments since then, none of them achieving ignition. via @business.
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The US government lab that made a long-awaited breakthrough in fusion energy late last year has run five similar experiments since then without being able to replicate the results.
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It's not a turbine, or an engine, or a fuel cell. This linear generator is new way to produce clean energy. We take you inside the factory via @business.
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Mainspring Energy’s device is a new way to create clean electricity, and it can run on hydrogen.
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RT @climate: Following years of drought, parts of California are seeing colorful "superblooms" or explosions of flowers. But that growth w….
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As flowering bushes transform into tinder following heavy rains, the state is bracing for a delayed but dangerous fire season.
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In Manhattan, EV-charging sites now outnumber gas stations 10 to 1 via @business.
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As electric-car adoption picks up across the US, more cities can expect to see ‘gas station deforestation.’
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Snow made modern civilization in the western US possible. Now from the Sierras to the Rockies, mountain snowpacks are shrinking. via @bbgvisualdata.
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Disappearing snowpack is accelerating the historic drought across the Western US, and so far government responses haven’t matched the scale of the problem.
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Biden’s plan for a nationwide EV charging network means putting some stations in remote places and making sure they don’t break via @business.
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Building a nationwide network requires putting EV chargers in the middle of nowhere.
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The key to the green hydrogen economy is a little-known machine with a name out of 1950s sci-fi — the electrolyzer. Here’s how it works via @business.
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The electrolyzer, obscure for decades, sees its sales soar. Here’s how the technology works.
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The world is pouring billions into hydrogen as a green fuel source. New research shows it can worsen global warming short term if it leaks via @business.
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If it escapes into the air, this green fuel can contribute to global warming — which is why scientists say we need to limit leaks.
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California's cap-and-trade system, meant to be a model for the U.S., has had little impact on greenhouse gas emissions via @business.
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The marquee climate initiative has had little direct impact on greenhouse gases.
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