Brattleboro Energy Committee - Town of Brattleboro

06/04/2026

So sodium batteries are going into production currently

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06/04/2026

So this is from Nissan and EV’s are still extremely intensive manufacturing product, but there are important innovations that are improving key aspects of renewable energy

https://www.nature.com/articles/d42473-025-00424-z?utm_source=facebook&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=HSCR_NINDX_AWA1_GL_PCFU_CFULF_CM-NSN-AP26&fbclid=IwZnRzaASOQflleHRuA2FlbQEwAGFkaWQBqzXNLyvYnHNydGMGYXBwX2lkCjY2Mjg1NjgzNzkAAR4UQYzbOM9B300n2SOHOyBaxtfgM-bTR30GNBr_4YXXiDsFyLOW6DiQqMsw4w_aem_tm5C-QmhPWKsZcyfPZCiBw&utm_id=120248970214200572_v2_s04_e474_i20260604&utm_content=120248970214180572&utm_term=120248970214200572

Cutting-edge chemistry for recycling lithium-ion batteries could help recover vital rare metals, and reduce the cost of electric vehicles.

05/29/2026

New research resolving discrepancies on seal level rise

05/24/2026

Interesting non chemical thermal sand battery in Finland

https://interestingengineering.com/energy/sand-battery-polar-night-energy?fbclid=IwZnRzaAR_NuNleHRuA2FlbQIxMQBzcnRjBmFwcF9pZAo2NjI4NTY4Mzc5AAEeX8DxkRlwWypXgntckhvPZ4Zj0SGIrVqNtnJlMzUfvG6YxM1RG9SLxzTL-JQ_aem_F5eOUHXWIgdrS5F2mIZssA

We got exclusive access to Polar Night Energy's Pornainen installation. One brutal Finnish winter later, here's what the data showed.

05/21/2026

Good explanation of energy usage changes with Ev adoption

https://www.facebook.com/share/v/1D15RsNd27/?mibextid=wwXIfr

04/29/2026

Don't miss the Portable Solar and Home Energy Options workshop at Brooks Memorial Library this afternoon from 5:30-8:30! We all need more tools to bring down the electric bill! Visit - https://brattleboro.gov/portablesolar/ to take the survey, and find more details on the event.

Please take this survey if you think portable solar could help your household. This survey will help Brattleboro advocate to the state and others for funding and support in seeing these systems get to our community.

04/17/2026

April 29, a workshop with VEEP (Vermont Energy Education Program) including info on portable plug in solar

https://bit.ly/brattpluginsolar

Please take this survey if you think portable solar could help your household. This survey will help Brattleboro advocate to the state and others for funding and support in seeing these systems get to our community.

03/23/2026

World meteorological report on the climate.
It is not good.

WMO’s State of the Global Climate report 2025 confirms that 2015-2025 are the hottest 11-years on record, and that 2025 was the second or third hottest year on record, at about 1.43 °C above the 1850-1900 average. Extreme events around the world, including intense heat, heavy rainfall and tropica...

03/22/2026

Some recent research has shown global temp increases are accelerating. This is the most recent and supports that the last decade is warming faster than previous ones

https://agupubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.1029/2025GL118804?fbclid=IwRlRTSAQswVtleHRuA2FlbQExAHNydGMGYXBwX2lkCjY2Mjg1NjgzNzkAAR7-s1J3R2tZQ0IUXufmNZx9J-9IZxWZJlrg96LEuG_dpEs1-0a-_8D8c5KOWA_aem_nzhDFG7i_xDhzt_6LvdcgA

During the last decade, the rate at which Earth warmed increased substantially After removing the influence of known natural variability factors, the increase of the warming rate is statistically...

03/08/2026

Join us and speaker Dave Jacke on Tuesday March 10th, 7pm, at , for the third event of our ‘Food, Ecosystems, and Community’ workshop series! See flyer for more details🌱