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JPL Director Michael Watkins to Return to Academia

August 10, 2021
. JPL Director Michael Watkins to Return to Academia After having served five years as director of JPL, Michael Watkins will move to the Caltech campus as professor of aerospace and geophysics. Larry D. James becomes interim director of JPL. JPL Director Michael Watkins announced Monday he will step down from his position as the director of the Jet…
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A Florida utility ditches coal, doubles its solar, and leaves out a big part of its story

August 10, 2021
Florida utility Tampa Electric Co. has announced it will retire three coal units and double its solar output within two years. That’s good news, but in an interview published last week, its CEO doesn’t mention the fact that the vast majority of its power comes from natural gas or whether it plans to transition away from the methane-producing fossil fuel. Tampa Electric’s solar… Tampa…
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Quick Charge Podcast: August 9, 2021

August 10, 2021
Listen to a recap of the top stories of the day from Electrek. Quick Charge is available now on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, TuneIn and our RSS feed for Overcast and other podcast players. New episodes of Quick Charge are recorded Monday through Thursday and again on…
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The IPCC climate change report – what it says and what we can do

August 10, 2021
The world’s largest-ever report about climate change was published today by the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC), a United Nations group of nearly 200 leading climate scientists that looked at more than 14,000 scientific papers. It’s pretty grim – but far from hopeless. There are things we all can and must all do. As US Senator Ed Markey says, “We can’t agonize – we…
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Tesla lobbying effort in India could result in EV import duties getting slashed

August 10, 2021
India is reportedly considering Tesla’s proposal to greatly reduce import duties for electric cars, which would enable the automaker to finally enter the market. Tesla has been talking about entering the Indian market for years, but regulations have slowed down their efforts. The country is extremely protective of its domestic auto manufacturing and enforces high import duties that almost…
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