Headline News:
- “BYD Unveils New Fire-Resistant And Explosion-Resistant Blade Battery” • BYD announced its new Blade Battery. The company says it can withstand all sorts of punishments that cause ordinary lithium battery cells to burn or explode. These are things like being punctured by a nail, crushed, bent, heated to 300°C, or overcharged by 260%. [CleanTechnica]
BYD Blade Battery (Image credit: BYD)
- “No One Is Buying Canada’s Oil: A Preview Of The Near Future New Normal” • As Saudi Arabia and Russia engage in a price war, lower grades of oil get hard to sell. One result is that Alberta’s crude oil is selling for less than it costs to ship it. Western Canada Select, the domestic heavy oil benchmark, has come in at $4.58 (US) per barrel. [CleanTechnica]
- “Coal Miner’s Coronavirus Calamity” • Troubled Pan-Pacific coal miner Coronado Global Resources had to idle its Central Appalachian thermal and metallurgical coal mines. It blamed the COVID-19 induced economic downturn in much of the world. All hourly employees will be laid off. Essential salaried workers will keep working. [mining-journal.com]
- “Plastic-Eating Bacteria Could Be Small Step Toward Tackling World’s Pollution Crisis” • When products are made out of polyurethane, a synthetic chemical compound, they typically end up being buried in a landfill. Now, scientists have discovered a strain of bacteria that can degrade the harmful compounds in polyurethane. [CNN]
- “US Rig Count Crashes As Oil War Takes Hold” • The oil price war and impact of COVID-19 has hit the US fracking sector like a sledgehammer las the number of active oil rigs slumped by 40 or 8% in just one week. That is 8% of the total. The fall was one of the largest ever recorded and followed a week in which the number fell by 19. [ShareCafe]
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