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Biden just declared heat pumps and solar panels essential to national defense – here's why and the challenges ahead

  • Written by Daniel Cohan, Associate Professor of Civil and Environmental Engineering, Rice University
Biden just declared heat pumps and solar panels essential to national defense – here's why and the challenges aheadPresident Joe Biden authorized use of the Defense Production Act to ramp up production of several climate-friendly technologies.Werner Slocum/NREL

Solar panels, heat pumps and hydrogen are all building blocks of a clean energy economy. But are they truly “essential to the national defense”?

President Joe Biden proclaimed that they are in...

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