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The Charging Station - Issue No. 2

Kevin Stevens

07 Oct 2019 — 1 min read

Hi friends,

A day late this week as allergy season is among us in Texas. Let’s get to this week’s most interesting energy news.

Data-Driven

30 - Electric vehicle charging company Volta will offer 30-minutes of free charging at 150 public access stations nationwide.

5,000,000 - Observations from last week revealed the hole in the ozone layer spanned around 5 million square kilometers, by this time in 2017 it had already stretched to 20 million square kilometers.

Our Latest Post

The Unlikely City Becoming a Mobility Hub - Could Dallas be finding its innovation niche? Only time will tell, but becoming the hub of a $620B market might be the biggest opportunity Dallas has had since the telecom boom of the 80s and 90s.

Our latest posts: Energy’s Innovation Funding Gap, A New Threat

Deep Dives

The Oil Money Fueling America’s Biggest Wind Farm - Phil Anschutz has owned oilfields, railroads, fiber-optic networks, tungsten mines, movie theaters and even a pancake manufacturer. Anschutz doesn’t just love unique businesses—he’s obsessed.

How Oslo Manages Carbon Like Money - Too often, climate pledges are made with a target date set far into the future, requiring someone else to be responsible for the meeting of that target. The City of Oslo, Norway’s capital, is doing the opposite.

Switched Off

This week’s non-energy related long read:

Ramen, Noise, and Rebellion - David Chang’s impact on the food world extends to who cooks, what they cook and how we talk about it. You don’t get to pretend that your name isn’t used as an adjective unless you’ve been as influential as Chang.

Enjoy the rest of your week!

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