Articles by Christopher Mims
Christopher Mims's dystopian non-fiction is sought after by an ever-growing roster of publications.
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A battery large enough to power the U.S. would be the size of 2,200 Walmart SuperCenters
Renewables are intermittent, so they'd have to be backed up by about 80 gigawatts worth of batteries.
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Newt’s new energy slogan doubles down on the crazy
It's not clear who Newt Gingrich thinks he's fooling, but over the weekend his team unveiled this nifty new graphic on which he apparently plans to hang the entirety of his comeback for the GOP nomination.
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DOE-funded battery breakthrough to halve cost, triple range
A new breakthrough from California-based Envia Systems will yield lithium-ion batteries that are less than half the cost of current cells, while also having three times the energy density.
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LEGO buys $500 million worth of wind turbines
The world's third-largest toy manufacturer is going to be putting "made with wind power" labels on all those boxes of LEGOs, and not just because they bought their power from utilities with wind turbines.
