Rare Earth minerals affected by China export ban used in EVs, green energy, and military tech
China has restricted the export of several crucial rare earth minerals to the United States in response to President Donald Trump’s tariff increases.
Green Energy
Rosen: Eco-radicals push watermelon socialism, not science
I recently stumbled on one of my all-time favorite movies on TV. It was the 1965 film of Boris Pasternak’s Doctor Zhivago, starring Omar Sharif and Julie Christie. So, I watched the whole thing for 10th time. One particular scene stands out.
After his service as a doctor in the Russian Army during World War I, Zhivago returns to his family who’d been living with his in-laws, in Moscow. By this time, the Russian Army had disintegrated, the Czar had been overthrown and the Bolsheviks had taken control following the 1917 Revolution.
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Denver’s large building electrification rules updated
Denver’s regulations requiring electrification of all buildings larger than 25,000 square feet has drawn controversy since they were implemented in 2021, especially from businesses and building owners.
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Taxpayers gave $50 million to Thornton’s Solid Power to expand, prove out EV battery technology
Thornton-based Solid Power has a $50 million federal grant to ramp up development of the solid-state EV batteries it considers the technology of the near-future in automobiles, putting the company closer to its goal of developing a mass production facility in the eastern U.S. or Korea.