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## Alejandro de la Garza


Alejandro de la Garza is a staff writer at TIME. He covers climate technology from EVs to geoengineering.


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## Alejandro de la Garza


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* ![An Optics Processing technician prepares a Grating Debris Shield  for inspection in the Optical Processing Facility at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory in Livermore, California, United States on December 8, 2023.](https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blta1a80432732e2bd1/698a432b9d83e8ee37b97f87/national-ignition-facility-fusion-energy-balazs-gardi-03-1.jpeg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1:1)  
Jan 8, 2024  
### [Inside the Nuclear Fusion Facility That Changed the World](https://time.com/6344755/nuclear-fusion-nif/)  
TIME followed government scientists in the year after they achieved the biggest scientific breakthro...  
[CLIMATE](/section/climate/)
* ![Most EVs today use lithium-ion batteries \(pictured here\), but some companies are trying to develop new solid-state technology to boost performance.](https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt69c701d812a45f5d/698a4320db2987738c269a33/lithium-ev-batteries.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1:1)  
Dec 12, 2023  
### [The EV Battery Innovation That Could Usurp Solid-State Technology](https://time.com/6358257/lithium-ion-solid-state-ev-battery-innovation/)  
Despite the solid-state battery hype, the lithium-ion batteries powering today’s EVs are pretty good...  
[CLIMATE](/section/climate/)
* ![A Toyota Prius is seen connected to a electric vehicle charging station in a Washington, D.C., parking garage on March 31, 2021.](https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltcc5c1be577170bbc/698a42d516d884da96c3c877/toyota-electric-vehicle-battery-technology.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1:1)  
Dec 4, 2023  
### [The Strategic Ambiguity of Toyota's EV Play](https://time.com/6341071/toyota-slow-ev-transition/)  
Toyota's overhyped solid-state battery is the latest feint in its slow-moving, abundantly-hedged EV ...  
[CLIMATE](/section/climate/)
* ![Have you passed TIME's 'Turkey Threshold'?](https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blteb37979b2b21a683/698a42b1929fad8273bfa69c/thanksgiving-turkey-climate-impact-holiday-travel.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1:1)  
Nov 22, 2023  
### [The Climate Impact of Your Thanksgiving Travel vs. Turkey](https://time.com/6339053/climate-impact-thanksgiving-turkey-vs-travel/)  
TIME introduces the 'Turkey Threshold': the point at which travel emissions exceed those of the meat...  
[CLIMATE](/section/climate/)
* ![Packages of "Impossible Burger" and Beyond Meat sit on a shelf for sale on Nov. 15, 2019 in New York City.](https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt1c65e13344369e1c/698a42b086f68e47d66f3057/alt-meat-climate-change.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1:1)  
Nov 22, 2023  
### [Alt-Meat Companies Are Grappling With A Harsh Reality](https://time.com/6339050/plant-based-meat-movement-harsh-reality/)  
At a meat-reduction conference in Denver, some people showed flagging spirits amid a year of bad new...  
[CLIMATE](/section/climate/)  
* ![Some experts think fracking technology can help unlock U.S. geothermal energy in a boost for the clean energy transition.](https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltd814c923b4a20ea9/698a429f47ca3884833bb5bb/climate-geothermal-oil-gas-fracking-technology-clean-energy.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1:1)  
Nov 22, 2023  
### [How Oil and Gas Companies Can Help Build Geothermal Energy](https://time.com/6338438/oil-gas-geothermal-energy/)  
Geothermal energy is critical to the clean energy transition. And some say oil companies have the te...  
[CLIMATE](/section/climate/)
* ![Graphyte says it has found a cheaper way to trap carbon emissions underground.](https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt405d95c06c81ce28/698a422f16d884f0d4c3c74e/carbon-capture-storage-technology-graphyte-biomass.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1:1)  
Nov 13, 2023  
### [Affordable Carbon Removal May be Here](https://time.com/6333975/startup-graphyte-trap-carbon-emissions-affordably/)  
Graphyte, a Bill Gates-backed startup, says it can remove carbon from the atmosphere for $100 per to...  
[CLIMATE](/section/climate/)
* ![The sun rises over an oil field over the Monterey Shale formation March 24, 2014 near Lost Hills, California.](https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blta6609304ec4a0242/698a41e9d0753332ace6e8e9/climate-change-study-geoengineering-james-hansen.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1:1)  
Nov 2, 2023  
### [James Hansen Calls for Geoengineering as a Climate Solution](https://time.com/6330957/james-hansen-climate-warning-geoengineering-study/)  
James Hansen alerted Congress to climate change in 1988\. Now, in a controversial new paper, he has a...  
[CLIMATE](/section/climate/)
* ![Corn silo in Kansas. Charm Industrial sources biomass such as corn stalks which it turns into bio-oil for storing carbon.](https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt0e12159f5be638f5/698a41cecabb1d83c3e51e65/Kansas-Corn-Stover-Bale-Supply-with-Silo.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1:1)  
Oct 31, 2023  
### [Meet the Company Leading The Carbon Capture Race](https://time.com/6328318/charm-industrial-peter-reinhardt-carbon-capture/)  
All eyes are on Silicon Valley startup Charm Industrial to see if its carbon capture model will make...  
[CLIMATE](/section/climate/)
* ![Some ocean carbon capture methods aim to speed up natural processes that cause ocean water to draw CO2 out of the atmosphere.](https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt741641d6e13374f3/698a41b716d8840436c3c658/ocean-carbon-capture-energy-department-research-funding.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1:1)  
Oct 26, 2023  
### [DOE Is Spending $36 Million On Ocean Carbon-Capture Research](https://time.com/6328555/energy-department-funding-ocean-carbon-capture-research/)  
Companies want to store CO2 in the ocean. The U.S. Energy Department is funding new projects to help...  
[CLIMATE](/section/climate/)  
* ![Antora Energy's pilot thermal battery in Fresno, Calif.](https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltb686dd5693d284bf/698a41a6e6e84a7e1b2b0a1b/Antora-Thermal-Battery-1-1.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1:1)  
Oct 24, 2023  
### [This Company Wants To Replace Fossil Fuel Heating With Batteries](https://time.com/6328052/antora-energy-thermal-batteries-factory/)  
Antora Energy is building its first factory to produce thermal batteries. It could be a big move for...  
[CLIMATE](/section/climate/)
* ![Atlantic salmon swimming against the river current.](https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltea0dc7de3c359aeb/698a4184b21a9ca894507b03/atlantic-salmon-river-climate-change.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1:1)  
Oct 23, 2023  
### [Artificially Cooling Rivers Could Protect Fish From Climate Change](https://time.com/6327355/artificially-cooling-rivers-protect-fish-climate-change/)  
Researchers in Canada are experimenting with ways of creating cold spots in warming rivers to help m...  
[CLIMATE](/section/climate/)
* ![Former Speaker of the House Kevin McCarthy \(R-CA\) talks to members of the media as he arrives to a candidate forum with House Republicans to hear from members running for U.S. Speaker of House in the Longworth House Office Building on October 10, 2023 in](https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltdc78b5e757d922f6/698a4133e6e84a4e0c2b0957/kevin-mccarthy-israel-gaza-biden-green-goals.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1:1)  
Oct 12, 2023  
### [McCarthy is Blaming Climate Policy for the Attacks in Israel](https://time.com/6322995/kevin-mccarthy-israel-attacks-biden-climate-policy/)  
Former Republican House Speaker Kevin McCarthy sought to blame Biden Admin. policy, including emissi...  
[CLIMATE](/section/climate/)
* ![This picture taken on Oct. 11, 2023 shows an aerial view of buildings destroyed by Israeli air strikes in the Jabalia camp for Palestinian refugees in Gaza City. Israel declared war on Hamas on October 8 following a shock land, air and sea assault by the](https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt70b52e356d8ee74d/698a413009208f13b141acfd/gaza-israel-no-power-electricity-crisis.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1:1)  
Oct 12, 2023  
### [Gaza's Energy Crisis Could Turn Hospitals into 'Morgues'](https://time.com/6322986/gaza-electricity-crisis-hospital-impact/)  
The day after Gaza's only power station ran out of fuel, the enclave's situation is growing increasi...  
[WORLD](/section/world/)
* ![EGYPT-ENVIRONMENT-NATURE-CLIMATE-CONSERVATION-MANGROVE](https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt137dd97937ed6b8f/698a40a916d8840ceec3c429/GettyImages-1243781598.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1:1)  
Sep 25, 2023  
### [How to Fix Carbon Offsets](https://time.com/6317130/can-we-fix-carbon-offsets/)  
Nature-based carbon offsets have taken a great deal of criticism. Kelly Kizzier at the Bezos Earth F...  
[CLIMATE](/section/climate/)

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