Credit to Author: Darrell Proctor| Date: Mon, 02 Dec 2024 11:03:17 +0000
India has long been dependent on coal-fired power for much of its electricity, and the country still gets about 70% of its energy from burning coal according to government data. The Institute for Energy
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Credit to Author: Carolyn Fortuna| Date: Fri, 29 Nov 2024 00:29:41 +0000
My mother would say we’re in a “mess.” It’s very difficult to have climate conversations right now, with so many climate deniers and fossil fuel shills preening at the daily news about Trump 2.0. Yet climate activists have shaken themselves off and come back to the forefront, ready to advocate … [continued]
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Read moreCredit to Author: Michael Barnard| Date: Thu, 28 Nov 2024 18:33:33 +0000
Sails on ships are a romantic and idealized vision of the world. Our history as a species includes innumerable tiny vessels pushed by wind across great expanses of featureless ocean, bold explorers and traders risking all on the science of sextants and the vagaries of the weather. But in recent … [continued]
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Read moreCredit to Author: Carolyn Fortuna| Date: Thu, 28 Nov 2024 04:50:19 +0000
Business and biodiversity may seem odd bedfellows at first glance. After all, doesn’t it take every possible effort to create a thriving commercial activity? Strategic roadmaps. Detailed record-keeping. A climate of collegiality. So much is needed to produce profitable goods or services. Who has time to factor in biodiversity? Pharmaceutical … [continued]
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Read moreCredit to Author: Zachary Shahan| Date: Wed, 27 Nov 2024 03:59:36 +0000
This is a wild one. And it’s not even about climate change this time. Apparently, humans are pumping so much groundwater out of the Earth that it’s making our planet tilt more. So far, from this activity, the Earth has tilted 31½ inches. While I said this wasn’t caused by … [continued]
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Read moreCredit to Author: Michael Barnard| Date: Tue, 26 Nov 2024 03:05:53 +0000
Recently I collaborated with David Cebon, head of the Cambridge Centre for Sustainable Road Freight, and interested parties on a complete list of all of the abandoned hydrogen bus trials globally. There are a couple of dozen of them, and I’m pretty sure there are more transit agencies that have … [continued]
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Read moreCredit to Author: Cynthia Shahan| Date: Mon, 25 Nov 2024 20:21:14 +0000
The demand for electricity is generally at its peak during summer afternoons, when many people use their air conditioners. Until this year, the bulk power system — the network of generators and transmission lines — met this demand through hydropower and fossil fuel generation. What a shift this past summer … [continued]
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Read moreCredit to Author: Carolyn Fortuna| Date: Mon, 25 Nov 2024 20:09:34 +0000
A November 2024 article called “The Changing Landscape of Power Generation & Decarbonization Pathways“ offers several insights into ways that the grid is quickly evolving due to the increased adoption of renewable and other energy sources. Here’s a synthesis of the findings from authors René Leven, Aravind Rajagopal, and John … [continued]
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Read moreCredit to Author: Maarten Vinkhuyzen| Date: Sun, 24 Nov 2024 04:16:48 +0000
After the only win from last year’s COP28 was saying out loud “End Fossil Fuels,” the Drill-Baby-Drill crowd under the leadership of Saudi Arabia is doing everything in their power to make it just a line in an “All of the Above” policy agenda. At every international forum — from … [continued]
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Read moreCredit to Author: Maarten Vinkhuyzen| Date: Sun, 24 Nov 2024 03:46:08 +0000
In a recent report, “Contrail avoidance: aviation’s climate opportunity of the decade,” Transport & Environment explained how cheap it was to avoid 80% of the contrails damage. The report was published just before COP29. It got a followup with an event at the conference in BAKU. Recognizing the impact of … [continued]
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