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A person holds a large handful of e-waste up in front of their face above a large container of e-waste.

Murder, mayhem, and minerals: The price of the renewable energy revolution

By | Climate Change

artist's rendering of proposed Morro Bay battery storage

$600 million battery storage project meets resistance in California

By Erin Rode | Climate Change

artist's rendition of guts of electric vehicles and hybrids

Charging ahead: Steven Chu, Nobel Prize-winner and former Energy Secretary, on today’s battery research—and more

By Dan Drollette Jr | Climate Change

The high cost of extraction in the Lithium Triangle

By Tushar Khurana | Climate Change

The A1 Verse: Not very fine and not very mine

By Thomas Gaulkin | Climate Change, Special Topics

No battery? That’s no problem for the future Internet of Things

By Christian Elliott | Climate Change, Disruptive Technologies

Will electric vehicles soon approach the tipping point to acceptance?

By John Paul MacDuffie, Sarah E. Light | Analysis, Climate Change

windmill in Australia and battery storage center

“Big batteries” boost renewables

By Cheryl Katz | Climate Change

rooftop solar with batteries

A solar array on every roof, an (EV) car in every garage, and a battery in every basement

By Paul Hockenos | Analysis, Climate Change

Electric vehicles: Approaching the tipping point

By Daniel Sperling | Uncategorized

A battery of innovative choices—if we commit to investing

By Noah Kittner, Daniel M. Kammen | Uncategorized

Taking stock: Steven Chu, former secretary of the Energy Department, on fracking, renewables, nuclear weapons, and his work, post-Nobel Prize

By Dan Drollette Jr | Interviews