Credit to Author: Steve Hanley| Date: Wed, 18 Dec 2024 23:00:20 +0000
The Miami area is seeing a big increase in building construction, which may be destabilizing existing buildings.
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Read moreCredit to Author: Michael Barnard| Date: Wed, 18 Dec 2024 16:42:07 +0000
In the middle of 2024, I documented the remarkable disappearance of claims of environmental virtue from the websites and social media of Canadian oil and gas companies and the lobbying groups they employed. Overnight, the degree of factual accuracy on their public sites went up by a remarkable amount. Why? … [continued]
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Read moreCredit to Author: Carolyn Fortuna| Date: Wed, 18 Dec 2024 16:28:39 +0000
Let’s just say it: the building industry is responsible for some 40% of the world’s carbon emissions. That’s enormous! Energy positive through low wattage bulbs? Be serious. Huge building industry carbon emissions result from many sources: constructing a building, its years of usage, and dismantling after the building has reached … [continued]
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Read moreCredit to Author: Zachary Shahan| Date: Wed, 18 Dec 2024 04:57:20 +0000
After warnings for years from climate scientists that hurricanes were going to get bigger and more destructive, I’m absolutely shocked to learn that hurricanes this year were bigger and more destructive than normal in the US. Sarcasm aside, I lived through a couple of serious hurricanes, including going through the … [continued]
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Read moreCredit to Author: Michael Barnard| Date: Wed, 18 Dec 2024 03:15:18 +0000
Into Canada’s ongoing challenges with bus fleet decarbonization comes Winnipeg, which hasn’t featured much so far in the ongoing tale of transit think tank CUTRIC’s incompetence, sole sourcing and hydrogen-centric conflicts of interest. However, it did have a role in a piece assessing Canadian bus manufacture New Flyer’s strategic missteps … [continued]
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Read moreCredit to Author: Michael Barnard| Date: Tue, 17 Dec 2024 20:02:33 +0000
Key Takeaways: Transportation is the highest emissions segment in United States Of rail, water, and road, only freight trucking can readily decarbonize Electric trucks are cost-effective and rapidly advancing The United States has unintentionally made itself into the country with the hardest to decarbonize transportation sector, and it matters. Transportation … [continued]
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Read moreCredit to Author: Michael Barnard| Date: Tue, 17 Dec 2024 04:57:13 +0000
In one of my articles related to the debacle that is Canada’s transit think tank CUTRIC’s guidance and modeling on bus fleet decarbonization, especially the Brampton fleet report that was off by about $1.5 billion on a $9 billion price tag, I shared the open letter to the Board I’d … [continued]
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Read moreCredit to Author: Michael Barnard| Date: Mon, 16 Dec 2024 18:29:02 +0000
As someone who spends a lot of time looking at HVDC electricity interconnectors globally, and holding the position that HVDC is the new pipeline, I’m very pleased with the latest Ember report, Security and efficiency: The case for connecting Europe and North America. Let’s step back. I’m sure many of … [continued]
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Read moreCredit to Author: Michael Barnard| Date: Sat, 14 Dec 2024 22:15:35 +0000
Recently I published a roundup of quite awful hydrogen maritime trial efforts, and ended with a request that if others knew of more, they should share. A few additional ones bubbled up and there were a couple of minor corrections and delightful additions. I encourage those who haven’t read the … [continued]
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Read moreCredit to Author: Carolyn Fortuna| Date: Sat, 14 Dec 2024 17:52:03 +0000
The business of decarbonization is too important to wait, say experts. But merely having climate commitments that focus on 2050 isn’t sufficient, as such pledges may lull business leaders into thinking there is still some time left until they need to act. It’s not only possible but prudent for organizations … [continued]
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