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Pricing Fertilizer Emissions Is Not A Grocery Shock
A large incentive at the farm gate shrinks to about 2% at the food-at-home basket under deliberately conservative assumptions.
6 hrs ago
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Michael Barnard
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Europe’s 2025 Hydrogen Bus Peak Was A Procurement Hangover
Germany was still receiving buses ordered during the subsidy boom while experienced transit agencies were moving their procurement toward batteries.
22 hrs ago
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Michael Barnard
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Cummins Could Exit Hydrogen. Alstom Inherited The Support Tail.
Cummins absorbed write-downs and moved on. Alstom still has specialized trains, signed contracts and decades of maintenance obligations.
Jul 13
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Michael Barnard
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Ballard - New Flyer 500 Hydrogen Bus Agreement Is For a Non-existent Market
North America’s hydrogen-bus bus orders peaked in 2023 and have plummeted since.
Jul 12
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Michael Barnard
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Germany Is Still Trying To Make Hydrogen Trucks Happen
The oversubscribed subsidy call is not proof that hydrogen freight has arrived. It is proof that Germany is still paying to keep it in the…
Jul 10
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Michael Barnard
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Nuclear-Powered Commercial Shipping Still Doesn’t Work
Shipping’s fuel transition starts by shrinking the fuel pool. Fossil-fuel bulk cargoes and raw iron ore are structurally exposed, while inland and much…
Jul 9
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Michael Barnard
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Prague’s Trolleybus Data Clarify The Hydrogen Bus Problem
The routes claimed to require hydrogen are often better solved with partial wires, smaller batteries, opportunity charging, and higher utilization.
Jul 8
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Michael Barnard
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Wright’s Law Won’t Rescue SMRs
Even generous learning-curve assumptions leave SMRs too expensive, too late and too fragmented.
Jul 8
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Michael Barnard
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Why The Nuclear SMR Story Refuses To Die
Billionaire nostalgia, DOE inertia and local decline keep SMRs alive after the economics fail.
Jul 7
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Michael Barnard
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Zero-Emission Language Is Hiding Port Electrification In Plain Sight
Long Beach’s latest clean-technology funding keeps the hydrogen door rhetorically open, while the cargo-handling denominator points to chargers and…
Jul 6
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Michael Barnard
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Canada’s Missing Barrels
Alberta’s visible oil-sands growth has cheaper exits. The proposed million-barrel west-coast line needs rerouted barrels, a bigger boom or public risk.
Jul 4
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Michael Barnard
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Grid Storage Through 2100: Batteries Lead, Pumped Hydro Anchors
A mostly electrified world needs roughly a hundred TWh of dedicated storage, with batteries leading and flexibility reducing what storage must solve.
Jul 3
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Michael Barnard
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