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Liam Denning

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Tesla’s Awful Numbers Put Musk Back Into Campaign Mode

Tesla’s Awful Numbers Put Musk Back Into Campaign Mode
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DeepSeek Is Coming for Sam Altman’s Other Company Too

DeepSeek Is Coming for Sam Altman’s Other Company Too
29.01.2025 1

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Will These 32 Republicans Save Biden’s Green Legacy From Trump?

Will These 32 Republicans Save Biden’s Green Legacy From Trump?
28.01.2025 1

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Trump’s Energy Emergency Is About Getting His Way — Now

Trump’s Energy Emergency Is About Getting His Way — Now

President Donald Trump spent his first evening in office, to paraphrase Steve Bannon, flooding the zone with chits. Among the deluge of day one...

23.01.2025 10

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California’s Wildfires Are a $9 Billion Threat to Power Companies

California’s Wildfires Are a $9 Billion Threat to Power Companies

It is a measure of California’s range of natural dangers that the state’s Wildfire Fund is administered by the California Earthquake Authority....

12.01.2025 10

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Chill, Baby, Chill: Biden’s Offshore Oil Ban Is Just Politics

If an oilfield out in the middle of the sea that was never going to be drilled gets banned by a lame-duck president, would anyone care? Congress...

09.01.2025 8

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Calpine Rides a Power Renaissance Fueled by AI — and Gas

Calpine Corp.’s buyout in 2018 symbolized the end of an era. Is it now heralding a renaissance? Calpine is said to be close to selling itself to...

09.01.2025 10

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Why Would Trump Buy Greenland When He Can Rent It?

President-elect Donald Trump still wants to buy Greenland, having previously likened it to a giant real estate deal. If so, he seems to have...

08.01.2025 20

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A ‘Made in China’ Crisis Awaits Big Auto

When Jaguar’s “copy nothing” brand reboot hit late last year, one self-styled car enthusiast replied on X: “What the actual hell is this.” Jaguar’s...

03.01.2025 4

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Can Biden’s Green Boom Survive Trump’s Wrecking Ball?

The energy transition sustained an electoral trauma as 2024 drew to a close. The incoming administration of President-elect Donald Trump promises...

25.12.2024 10

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Trump's EV Plan Is to Pick Losers

Determined to prevent Democrats from picking winners in the auto market, President-elect Donald Trump looks set to counter by fostering losers. His...

19.12.2024 10

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Exxon's AI Power Play Aims to Beat Nuclear

To most of us, a power plant is a source of electricity. To Exxon Mobil Corp., it’s a machine that converts natural gas into money. And this is a...

13.12.2024 6

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There's an Electric Way for Democrats to Rebrand Climate Action

President-elect Donald Trump’s victory understandably looms large over the future of US climate policy. Equally important, however, is the flip...

11.12.2024 5

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Meta Flirts With Nuclear for AI. It's Still Married to Gas.

The gathering excitement about new nuclear plants powering artificial intelligence is tainted by a whiff of gas. Meta Platforms Inc. has just...

04.12.2024 2

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China's Minerals Export Ban Has a Silver Lining for the US

China is the handmaiden to the energy transition — and will continue to be so once an anti-transition president occupies the White House again next...

03.12.2024 2

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Trump’s Oil and Gas Math Fails to Add Up

There is a certain mental model of the US energy system that envisions a giant valve hidden beneath the Resolute Desk. The notion that the...

27.11.2024 3

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Musk Is Short-Circuiting the EV Revolution He Sparked

There’s a crazy idea going around, fueled by one Elon Musk, that Tesla Inc., an electric vehicle maker, would be unscathed if Republicans ditch the...

19.11.2024 10

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The Time for New York’s Congestion Pricing Is Now

President-elect Donald Trump is doing his part for the environment already, and in his home city to boot. Governor Kathy Hochul of New York is...

11.11.2024 6

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Tesla and Detroit’s Automakers Price In a Trump Joyride. Good Luck.

Detroit voted overwhelmingly for Vice President Kamala Harris, but investors in “Detroit” backed President-elect Donald Trump. Shares in General...

09.11.2024 3

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Amazon’s Nuclear Deal Stalled — But Its AI Power Demand Won’t

Nuclear power plants are designed to withstand a plane crash. We are now getting a live experiment in whether the nuclear sector is built of...

04.11.2024 1

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Musk’s Robotaxi Reboot Buys GM Valuable Time

Tesla Inc.’s Chief Executive Officer Elon Musk will later this week attempt to re-recast the company as a futuristic master of artificial...

09.10.2024 2

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Musk’s Robotaxi Needs to Come With a Time Machine

When Elon Musk hosted Tesla Inc.’s “autonomy day” in March 2019, he was crafting a narrative. When he takes the stage at Thursday’s...

07.10.2024 1

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Tesla Really Needs Musk's Robotaxis to Live Up to the Hype

Guys, you were so close. If it wasn’t for that last little bounce of Wall Street optimism on the last day of September, Tesla Inc.’s latest sales...

02.10.2024 2

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Toxic Waste Is at the Mercy of Climate Change

Among Hurricane Helene’s roster of disasters is a storm surge that deluged a retired nuclear power plant in Florida. While radioactive material...

02.10.2024 3

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Gold’s Record Run Can’t Continue Forever, Right?

Gold is what you buy when everything isn’t goldilocks. Inflation, deflation, war, pestilence — gold is a certain anxious state of mind made...

30.09.2024 3

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Microsoft’s Three Mile Island Deal Isn’t a Nuclear Revival — Yet

When the Three Mile Island nuclear plant became (in)famous in 1979 for a reactor accident, Microsoft Corp. was a baby, still a year away from a...

25.09.2024 2

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Jay Powell Makes a Heckuva Car Salesman

Jay Powell: Federal Reserve Chair, soft-landing pilot … car dealer extraordinaire? The Fed’s big bang cut to its target interest rate heralds...

20.09.2024 9

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AI Heralds a New Deal for Old Coal Plants

The new thing in electricity is datacenters. The new new thing is … coal? Two companies you’ve probably never heard of have signed a deal that...

17.09.2024 2

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The Spirit of Fracking Comes to US Lithium Mining

“Fracking” is an expletive in environmental circles. Yet the spirit of shale is creeping into a business with transformational potential for the...

13.09.2024 2

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Musk’s AI Side Gig Should Keep Its Distance From Tesla

The all-in view of Tesla Inc. was summed up in a line from a report this summer by one of the more all-in analysts covering the company: “The car...

10.09.2024 2

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Trump's Big Energy Plan Is... Recession?

Former President Donald Trump’s big economic speech on Thursday was low energy in more ways than one. Among other things, he intoned to the...

06.09.2024 10

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American Drivers Signal a Top in Gasoline Demand

Labor Day weekend, marking the end of the US summer driving season, is typically the year’s last hurrah for gasoline producers. This year, the...

05.09.2024 3

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California's Crushing Power Bills Challenge Its Climate Goals

California is incredible, but making it livable, what with its droughts, floods, fault-lines and wildfires, has never been cheap. Climate change...

03.09.2024 3

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California’s EV Dreams Face an Awkward Reality

California wants some insurance against pump prices. But in proposing that oil companies there hold a minimum stockpile of fuels, the state is...

27.08.2024 10

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Vance Attacks Harris on Energy by Cherry-Picking Facts

A few days before Senator JD Vance’s Wall Street Journal op-ed on energy policy and “net zero” dropped, his billionaire backer Peter Thiel was...

21.08.2024 8

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Oil’s AI Hedge Works, Just Don’t Mention a Recession

Earlier this year, around the time Nvidia Corp.’s market cap eclipsed that of the entire S&P 500 energy sector, I wrote about whether oil and gas...

16.08.2024 2

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Tesla’s Missing Cybertruck Is a Problem for the EV Revolution

The case of the missing Cybertruck bodes ill, and not just for the company making it. Lower-priced versions of Tesla Inc.’s angular behemoth have...

15.08.2024 6

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Green Spending Has a New Ally: Republicans

House Republicans’ doughty opposition to green spending has cracked in the face of a devious opponent: green spending. Speaker Mike Johnson just...

08.08.2024 2

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Musk the Edgelord Is Driving California Away From Tesla

There’s trouble in America’s electric vehicle heartland, California. That much was evident when state officials this week announced quarterly EV...

07.08.2024 2

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Project 2025? More Like Project 1925 on Energy. Ask Texas.

Project 2025, the Heritage Foundation’s policy blueprint for a second Trump administration — notwithstanding the former president’s vaunted...

05.08.2024 3

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Power Plants’ 833% Windfall May Unleash a Political Firestorm

A fifth of Americans just saw their insurance premium jump 833%. Overnight. The folks earning the premiums, mostly electricity generators in this...

31.07.2024 2

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The National Security Twist in an EV Maker’s Graphite Deal

Graphite, the stuff in pencils, doesn’t typically feature in thrillers; that’s reserved for the likes of uranium and gold. So one doesn’t expect a...

30.07.2024 7

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Trump Can Deliver What Musk Needs for Tesla

Elon Musk and former President Donald Trump have a complicated relationship. Two years ago, Musk tweeted that Trump would be too old for a full...

25.07.2024 30

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Musk May Swing Right, But Tesla’s Profit Leans Left

Tesla Inc.’s latest results, released Tuesday evening, seem almost humdrum now that Chief Executive Elon Musk has finally unveiled the least...

24.07.2024 40

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