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Kurt salmen's avatar

BLM gave billions to EV maker Rivian right before the transition didn’t they?

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Sarah Montalbano's avatar

Yes! Biden admin gave (I'm sorry, "loaned,") Rivian $6.6 billion in December for a Georgia plant that I expect will never be finished. Nikola received a lot of money from the state of California and a few smaller DOE loans that I could find. https://open.substack.com/pub/sarahmontalbano/p/is-rivian-the-next-solyndra?r=3p8b78&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web&showWelcomeOnShare=false

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Andy Fately's avatar

things are moving in a better direction. thanks for the updates

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Sarah Montalbano's avatar

Happy to. That's my job!

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Ed Reid's avatar

Sarah, Some thoughts on Hydrogen:

https://www.therightinsight.org/The-Great-Green-Hope

https://www.therightinsight.org/Great-Green-Challenges

Expensive to produce, difficult to transport and store, inefficient to use.

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Sarah Montalbano's avatar

Thank you Ed! Great input, I agree with all of that. I think hydrogen will only enter commercial feasibility if it finds use in space colonization, but I don't know if that'll happen either.

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