Steel Is A Major Climate Problem, But Can Decarbonize Rapidly In The Coming Decades

Credit to Author: Michael Barnard| Date: Wed, 22 Mar 2023 17:25:18 +0000

DALL·E generated image of a beached oil tanker being cut up for scrap steel, digital artSteel, like concrete, is such an integral part of our world that we rarely notice it. From wherever you are reading this, I guarantee that there is steel in your line of sight, and likely vastly more of it than you realize. Whatever device you are reading it on has steel inside of it. If […]

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US Pipelines Contain 4 Years Of US Steel Demand, & Will Be Scrapped For It

Credit to Author: Michael Barnard| Date: Mon, 20 Mar 2023 17:05:36 +0000

DALL·E generated image of a rusting pipeline in America, digital artWe’ve mined enormous amounts of iron and coal in order to build infrastructure to extract, process, refine, and distribute fossil fuels, and we’re going to have lots of scrap steel to work with.

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Google & LevelTen Make Renewable Energy PPAs Easy As Pie

Credit to Author: Tina Casey| Date: Thu, 16 Mar 2023 15:55:57 +0000

Google LevelTen power purchase renewable energyGoogle & LevelTen Energy are dialing the renewable energy industry up to 11 with a new streamlined system for negotiating power purchase agreements.

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Another Hydrogen For Energy Play Predictably Fails, This Time In Marine Fueling

Credit to Author: Michael Barnard| Date: Thu, 16 Mar 2023 15:25:27 +0000

DALL·E generated image of a white elephant eating piles of money, digital artExpect a lot more announcements about shutting down hydrogen for energy projects like the recent one from Equinor, Aire Liquide, and Eviny.

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With Heat From Heat Pumps, US Energy Requirements Could Plummet By 50%

Credit to Author: Michael Barnard| Date: Tue, 14 Mar 2023 14:25:48 +0000

DALL·E generated image of an industrial plant wasting lots of heat, reddish, digital artElectrification and heat pumps radically reduce the requirement to build new wind, solar, nuclear, hydro, and geothermal primary energy sources.

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Canada’s Oil Pipeline To Nowhere Tripling Costs Could Have Built HVDC Across The Country

Credit to Author: Michael Barnard| Date: Mon, 13 Mar 2023 16:05:40 +0000

DALL·E generated image of big pipeline leaking a gusher of dollars, digital artThe Trans Mountain Pipeline was a bad idea from the start. Dropping federal opposition to it in 2016 to bring in the carbon tax was a good choice. Everything after that has been and will continue to be a spiral into the abyss.

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Shell Makes Another Green Hydrogen Move, Exxon Gets The Blues

Credit to Author: Tina Casey| Date: Thu, 09 Mar 2023 19:35:19 +0000

shell green hydrogen exxon blueShell takes another step on its green hydrogen journey, while ExxonMobil doubles down on natural gas with carbon capture.

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Major Pumped-Hydro Storage Project Moves Forward in Nevada

Credit to Author: Darrell Proctor| Date: Wed, 08 Mar 2023 14:20:00 +0000

A Utah-based energy developer has filed a final license application for construction of a major pumped-hydro storage project in Nevada. rPlus Hydro on March 8 said it made the filing with the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (FERC) for the company’s 1,000-MW White Pine Pumped Storage installation in White Pine County. White Pine, the first pumped-hydro […]

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US Transportation Blueprint: Good Intentions, Weak Diagnosis, & Possibly Irrelevant

Credit to Author: Michael Barnard| Date: Wed, 01 Mar 2023 17:37:30 +0000

DALL·E generated image of people walking and cycling beside canal with electric container ship, digital artWhile the US will waste a lot of time, money and energy getting there and end up less competitive as a result, most US transportation will decarbonize regardless, although often not as the new transportation blueprint supposes.

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