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Energy
A comprehensive list of organizations, companies, and resources to educate Alaskans on all forms of energy!
Let's look at innovative solar & hydro in Rural Alaska villages, a comprehensive guide to understanding hydrogen, nuclear, and CCUS!
Reading Roundup
Tech
Energy is booming on every level. Check out the stories we're pumped about this week!
Each year brings new developments and growth in various sectors of the energy industry. Check out our favorite headlines from 2023!
New year, new energy! Read up on the latest happenings in the energy world from Alaska, to Australia, to the East Coast, and beyond.
How is energy supporting our holiday traditions and travel? Find out here!
EV charging while on the move, microbiomes getting forgotten in climate talks, critical minerals for national security, and more!
Oil giant makes mining move, Occidental and BlackRock wade into DAC technologies, and more energy excitement!
Read about the energy workforce, nuclear perception, copper demand, a $44M bet, and heat pumps.
Updates and articles from the week on our nation's energy transition.
Stories about mining in Alaska, wind power basics, finding solutions for orphan wells, and other fun energy updates!
Exciting movements in mining, Chevron enters the hydrogen storage chat, and more (as always).
Micro-reactors in Fairbanks, the astounding economic benefits of oil & gas, removing carbon from the ocean, and more hot topics!
Californian Lithium, Alaska's Offshore Wind Potential, Why American Oil Exploration "Can't Stop, Won't Stop", Hempcrete, and more.
A year after the passage of the Inflation Reduction Act, we’re celebrating Alaskan infrastructure development, funding for direct air captur
This week's top hits include Alaska's geothermal lease sale, all eyes on Alaska critical minerals, and running to save carbon emissions!
Nuclear reactors are in, the Permian continues to provide, and Alaskan seaweed is making national news!
Recovering rare earth minerals from coal, electrifying the Permian, Alaska’s Hydrogen Working Group, and more!
Just how critical is graphite to advancing our country's clean technologies and national security? Read on to learn the backstory.
Mining
Sometimes, we can't pick just five articles. Let's get caught up on clean tech!
Velocity President Rysen Shirzadi provides his insight into our role as young professionals in the evolving energy space.
A few stories covering Critical Minerals, Texas Heatwaves and the Grid, Rural Alaskan Energy Innovations, and more for your Friday.
We couldn't pick just five articles this week, so we're bringing you a reading roundup.
Some hard hitting articles about what's going on with our near-future energy mix.
A quick bite of news for your Tuesday.
From the Supreme Court to AI improving supply chain, here's what we are following this week.
Care to test your website's footprint?
A Look Inside
If you're planning on getting an EV and are banking on a big tax kickback, you might want to do it immediately. Or hold off.
Green, Blue, Gray, Brown. What do all the Hydrogen colors mean?
Does your state have outsized renewable energy generation?
A myriad of new fuels see potential, but are many of them just hot air?
Going from carbon production to carbon capture and a double scoop of nuclear.
Despite a big focus on addressing the global methane problem in the fall of 2021, CH4 emissions aren’t yet trending down.
From Tetris to clean energy, creating a carbon time machine, and balloons are the new straws.
A new trend fighting the influencer's consumption tactics might be helpful in thinking about climate solutions. It also...might not.
Is an all of the above approach the right approach?
Digging into the solution for the solution of EVs.
Coal mining also includes reclamation and why you should consider becoming an electrician.
These "forever chemicals" are here to stay. At least for now.
What's the deal with the flaming gas stove rhetoric?
Carbon
What does 2022 have to say about what we will look forward to in 2023?
Memes, charts, a fan theory and a questionable gift roundup.
Good news and iffy news about the state of carbon in the UK. Plus a Friday bonus.
Some things on your list to Santa that might be not so great for the environment.
A need for clean tech workers in mining, nuclear fuel, and unpopular solar opinions.
Boats running on ammonia, a green update on the midterms and what's going on at COP27.
New reports show that the plastics we recycle...aren't recycled. So what do we do?
A nuclear SIMs, a pro-high gas prices economist, and what ever happened to 1.5ºC.
We are still talking about climate vandalism but also Elon and mushrooms. But not at the same time.
Just because a small cohort will take the time to parse things out does not make you successful. They were probably on your side all along.
Carbon-emission-based shoes, how much land is required to decarbonize and high heating costs this winter.
RNG (Renewable Natural Gas) is one of the newer additions to oil majors' green portfolios, but is it all just gas?
Should you really feel bad about ordering a meal kit?
Critical to all projects with environmental impacts, an EIS is required to permit projects in the USA. But how do they work?
EVs, heat pumps, more EVs, and some fun for your FriYAY!
There's no doubt that climate change is impacting hurricanes, but how exactly does that work? And do we know all the answers?
But seriously we are stanning ISODOPE.
What’s all the fuss about carbon? And what’s the deal with Carbon Capture and Sequestration?
Patagonia gives itself "to the world" and the word keeps turning...
Ethereum's Merge has them finding solutions to crypto's big energy problems.
New phone who this? Also, how did this get built.
Some see a mining "renaissance" on the horizon. Others spy a battle to protect the environment. We see a chance for both.
The IRA and some other things, but mostly the IRA.
The pros and cons of a climate emergency, anti-styrafoam rhetoric, and using mining waste to capture CO2.
Stories about court cases, permafrost and an electronic nose(?!). Happy Friday.
NIMBYism is not new. But it sure is making it difficult to go green.
Can we have our electric cars, and feel good about driving them too?
Ever wondered what's *actually* under the hood?
Part of our infographic series, we break down ESG to its most basic parts.
Geothermal energy is ubiquitous in some Nordic nations. So why has Alaska not capitalized in the same way?
And then just let Instagram and people’s curiosity do the rest.
A look inside the tech behind LEDs.
Guest author Reed Derrick takes a look at how footprint has a direct effect on environmental impact.
Have you every wondered how oil and gas get from here to there?
Who are Velocity's Innovative Professionals?
A look inside how petroleum is used to create cosmetics.
Let's take a deeper dive into a barrel of oil. (Please don't try this at home.)
Gadolinium is certainly not a metal to forget!
A deep dive into cerium and space travel.
Take a look at the history, physics and chemistry of a celebratory phenomenon.
From headphones to wind turbines, neodymium is everywhere.
Lanthanum is the namesake of the first row of the "lanthanide" metals. But just how special is it?
Come along with us and learn about rare earth materials: what they are, why they come from, and how important they are in our everyday life.
Pipelines are integral to our nation's energy landscape. But they weren't always so high tech.
Concrete is everywhere. And emission intensive. Or is it?