David R. Baker

Energy and cleantech reporter at Bloomberg. Science and infrastructure geek. Gin snob. Views are my own.

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LNG export facilities are complicated feats of engineering

The expansion in Qatar, the biggest LNG project ever, requires 45,000 workers from 50 countries

This marks the world’s final wave of mega LNG projects. But these plants will be exporting LNG for a long time

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Beaming constant solar energy from space to Earth: It's a longtime dream of scientists, but recently researchers have made real progress. https://t.co/iQXjifz8Sm via @climate

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Toyota's largest North American import facility gets a new kind of power plant that will produce power, water and hydrogen all at once https://t.co/pQnj1Ssbsv via @climate

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Until the devastating fires in Maui, this California town was the site of the deadliest US wildfire in a century. Here's how it has recovered, and what remains lost https://t.co/mYrJDcA0C4 via @citylab

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As the tragedy’s death toll rose to 99 Monday, Hawaii Governor Josh Green said he had reached out to the state’s attorney general to discuss a moratorium on property sales in the historic seaside town https://t.co/QyFU6xkJlJ via @business

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California's biggest fire of the year is burning in one of the only habitats of Joshua Trees, an icon of the American West https://t.co/soZiBxMQVF via @climate

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Biden’s Climate Law Only Gets US Halfway to Zero, BNEF Finds https://t.co/TYGEsyQVr3 via @climate

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The scientists behind last year’s nuclear fusion breakthrough are close to duplicating their historic achievement https://t.co/kuoQR0d929 via @climate

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We're not just seeing a boom in plants to make batteries in the US -- efforts to recycle them are ramping up as well. Startup Nth Cycle will open its first recycling plant in Ohio. https://t.co/iofqGjmZjc via @business

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Many electric car charges in the US don't work and ChargePoint's process is geared at fixing it https://t.co/nhM966CAEq

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It says something when even the former CEO of a big EV charging company calls the first few generations of DC fast chargers "complete garbage." https://t.co/luAQ0leUSa via @business

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The lab that made last year's big fusion energy breakthrough has run five similar experiments since then, none of them achieving ignition. https://t.co/UfYYnxKAdE via @business

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It's not a turbine, or an engine, or a fuel cell. This linear generator is new way to produce clean energy. We take you inside the factory https://t.co/i7sMaVEBLQ via @business

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Following years of drought, parts of California are seeing colorful "superblooms" or explosions of flowers.

But that growth will dry out, transforming plants into fire kindling 🧵 https://t.co/9YibdD7MBS

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@SgtLobsinger Sergeant, will there be an afternoon or evening press conference for updates on the Pelosi-DePape investigation?

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In Manhattan, EV-charging sites now outnumber gas stations 10 to 1 https://t.co/ftxXFNe3Wu via @business

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@gretakaul Way to go Greta!

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Snow made modern civilization in the western US possible. Now from the Sierras to the Rockies, mountain snowpacks are shrinking. https://t.co/Peb9JBCn4j via @bbgvisualdata

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Biden’s plan for a nationwide EV charging network means putting some stations in remote places and making sure they don’t break https://t.co/mDhKqiSboc via @business

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The key to the green hydrogen economy is a little-known machine with a name out of 1950s sci-fi — the electrolyzer. Here’s how it works https://t.co/G7RiXiANQt via @business