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Superconducting Transmission CEO Talks Grids In Brussels

December 9, 2024 admin carbon emissions, clean power, climate change, electric grid, electricity transmission, Energy, Europe, green economy, grid, hvdc, investment, Manufacturing, renewable energy, Solar energy, wind energy

Credit to Author: Michael Barnard| Date: Fri, 06 Dec 2024 03:02:15 +0000

When I was in Brussels recently speaking at the launch of the second edition of Supergrid Super Solution, Eddie O’Connor and Kevin O’Sullivan’s handbook for Europe’s renewable power grid of the future, I had the opportunity to sit down with John Fitzgerald, CEO of Supernode, a startup developing superconducting transmission. … [continued]

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Lyme Disease Risk Has Increased Because Of Climate Change

December 8, 2024 admin climate change, HEALTH, INTERVIEWS, lyme disease

Credit to Author: Jake Richardson| Date: Thu, 05 Dec 2024 16:50:48 +0000

Whether you believe climate change is caused by humans or not, climate change and its impacts are happening. Most obviously, extreme weather events are taking place with regularity. The impacts of droughts, hurricanes, record temperatures, floods, coastal erosion from storms, wildfires, and more, are active and measurable. The damage caused … [continued]

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Best Practices for Mitigating Hail Damage to Solar Projects

December 7, 2024 admin aon, Business, climate change, damage, full coverage, hail damage, insurance, International, news, Plant Design, power, risk mitigation, Solar, solar panels

Credit to Author: Contributed Content| Date: Sun, 08 Dec 2024 03:39:03 +0000

Mitigating against the risk of hail for solar projects is both extremely complicated and more straightforward than you may think. Natural catastrophes (NatCat), particularly hail, pose a significant risk for […]

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Lessons For Europe & North America From Northvolt Collapse

December 6, 2024 admin batteries, carbon emissions, China, clean power, clean transport, climate change, Electric vehicles, Energy, Energy Storage, Europe, ev batteries, green economy, green jobs, hydroelectric, investment, Manufacturing, northvolt, policy & politics, subsidies, Sweden, usa

Credit to Author: Michael Barnard| Date: Wed, 04 Dec 2024 04:50:39 +0000

The European Union lost a few things in the past week. The least of them was a couple of billion euros of loans and grants. A big one was a new supply of fresh and shiny Europe-made batteries. The biggest was a belief that anything China could do, they could … [continued]

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Finnish GTK Risks Credibility By Publishing Bad Minerals Study In Peer-Reviewed House Journal

December 6, 2024 admin batteries, battery minerals, carbon emissions, clean power, clean transport, climate change, Coal, Electric vehicles, Energy, Energy Storage, Fossil Fuels, grid, hydroelectric, lithium-ion batteries, natural gas, Oil, policy research, pumped hydro storage, renewable energy, research, SCIENCE, Shipping, Solar energy, trains / rail, wind energy

Credit to Author: Michael Barnard| Date: Wed, 04 Dec 2024 03:02:17 +0000

A year ago I published an assessment of a quite remarkably bad, non-peer-reviewed paper by one of the Geological Survey of Finland’s (GTK) associate professors, Simon Michaux. The paper’s quite risible conclusions were that there wasn’t nearly enough metal in the ground to be able to electrify everything with renewables. … [continued]

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Water Infrastructure, Disasters, Water Scarcity & Security, Potable Water, & Conflict — “We Love Our Children, Don’t We?”

December 6, 2024 admin asheville, climate change, hurricane helene, hurricanes, Water, water scarcity, water security, water shortages, water stress

Credit to Author: Cynthia Shahan| Date: Tue, 03 Dec 2024 21:50:21 +0000

Water-related disasters currently make up over 90% of all disasters on Earth, with record-breaking floods and droughts making headlines around the world. Over the past ten years, the number of fatalities from these catastrophes has doubled. Climate change, warming surface water temperatures, and more aggressive hurricanes making their way up … [continued]

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North Dakota Carbon Capture Project in Limbo After Canada Group’s Exit

December 5, 2024 admin Canada, Carbon Capture, CCS, climate change, Coal, news, NORTH DAKOTA, power, project tundra, tc energy corp.

Credit to Author: Darrell Proctor| Date: Wed, 04 Dec 2024 20:24:04 +0000

A Canada-based energy group reportedly has withdrawn from a $2 billion carbon capture project in North Dakota. Project Tundra, which aimed to capture carbon dioxide from flue gas from two […]

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Hydrogen Use Cases for the Power Industry

December 4, 2024 admin air products, Business, climate change, distributed energy, Environmental, fuel cells, full coverage, Gas, hydrogen, microgrid, news, power, power podcasts, Solar, the power podcast, Wind

Credit to Author: Aaron Larson| Date: Wed, 04 Dec 2024 13:47:32 +0000

Hydrogen is becoming increasingly important to the electric power generation industry for several reasons. One is that hydrogen offers a promising pathway to decarbonize the power sector. When used in […]

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Solar Power Leads Buildout of India’s Renewable Energy

December 3, 2024 admin adani group, climate change, Environmental, grew energy, India, news, nextracker, power, renewable energy, Renewables, Solar, Technology, Wind

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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Let’s Give Thanks Today For Climate Activists — Their Voices Still Ring Strong In Our Turbulent Times

December 1, 2024 admin Agriculture, air quality, climate change, climate change agriculture, greta thunberg

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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