EIA Releases 2050 Projections For Energy & Makes It Clear That It Hasn’t Been Paying Attention

Credit to Author: Michael Barnard| Date: Wed, 19 Feb 2020 04:00:36 +0000

It’s unclear why the EIA 2050 projections are so skewed from observable realities of costs, age of fleets, and global industry transformation. Like most major energy analysis organizations, they are very poor at predicting the rapidly declining costs of wind and solar, very poor at predicting the rapidity of growth of those technologies, and very poor at understanding that the existing technologies are fairly radically outcompeted

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Renewable Hydrogen Battles For The Soul Of Hyundai

Credit to Author: Tina Casey| Date: Mon, 17 Feb 2020 17:41:15 +0000

renewable hydrogen fuel station IVYSHyundai giveth to renewable hydrogen with one hand and giveth to fossil hydrogen with the other, but it looks like green H2 will get the upper hand

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Red Flags A-Plenty for Natural Gas In New Sustainable Energy Report

Credit to Author: Tina Casey| Date: Thu, 13 Feb 2020 06:00:37 +0000

Natural gas pushed out coal and upset the US energy apple cart between 2010 and 2019, but now the change-making shoe is on the clean tech foot

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9 EV ETFs To Invest Your TSLA Profits In

Credit to Author: Michael Barnard| Date: Wed, 05 Feb 2020 22:04:34 +0000

I’ve been saying for a few years that I’d love to have a good EV and autonomy index fund that had global reach, and that covered car brands, OEMs and batteries. I’ve been looking for similar good funds in the larger cleantech and clean energy space as well, but this article is just about my findings on the EV+autonomy front. 

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108 Million Americans Live In Areas That Had 100+ Days Of Polluted Air In 2018

Credit to Author: Guest Contributor| Date: Wed, 29 Jan 2020 22:58:07 +0000

One-third of all Americans live in areas that suffered through at least 100 days of poor air quality due to air pollution in 2018, according to a new report by Environment America Research & Policy Center, Frontier Group and U.S. PIRG Education Fund

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Finding Climate Change Needles In Climate Haystacks Using Machine Learning

Credit to Author: Michael Barnard| Date: Wed, 29 Jan 2020 22:00:37 +0000

machine learningMachine learning can find patterns that are much more difficult to predict or analyze, and find predictive value in massive data sets when humans can’t discern them. But human’s have neural nets too, goopy ones between our ears, and the practice of hypothesis-test-assess continues to yield value without any intelligence of the artificial sort

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Birds & Oceans & Wildfires, Oh My! How Machine Learning Is Changing Climate Research

Credit to Author: Michael Barnard| Date: Sat, 25 Jan 2020 23:35:52 +0000

The varied techniques and technologies in the category of machine learning have become much more accessible to many more researchers and are enabling massive gains in climate and environmental research. Global policy and local budgetary and response practices are increasingly informed by this transformative approach. 

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