Credit to Author: Michael Barnard| Date: Mon, 20 Mar 2023 17:05:36 +0000
We’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.
Credit to Author: Steve Hanley| Date: Mon, 20 Mar 2023 16:35:39 +0000
Scope 3 emissions account for 95% of all greenhouse gases released by Shell, but the company doesn’t want to talk about them.
Credit to Author: Carolyn Fortuna| Date: Mon, 20 Mar 2023 15:04:20 +0000
What can be done to minimize EV’s impact on the grid? A recent MIT study concludes that coordinated BEV charging is a potential tool for mitigating the “duck curve” and the need for other storage.
Credit to Author: Carolyn Fortuna| Date: Mon, 20 Mar 2023 11:30:41 +0000
The Senator from West Virginia’s coal country accuses the Biden Administration of elevating “climate goals above the energy and national security of this nation.” Every time he perceives such a move, Manchin says he will refuse to vote for a Biden nominee.
Credit to Author: RMI| Date: Fri, 17 Mar 2023 16:35:08 +0000
Typical emissions metrics are akin to putting a sprinter and marathoner in the same race – but clearer alternatives can help us cut climate impacts now and later.
Credit to Author: Carolyn Fortuna| Date: Fri, 17 Mar 2023 14:15:42 +0000
For the last 5 years, Senator Whitehouse has been sending around a binder to colleagues in which he compiled some of the most compelling warnings about the economic risks associated with climate change. He’s updated it in his new role as Head Budget Honcho. “Have fun with the light reading,” he joked morosely.
Credit to Author: Michael Barnard| Date: Thu, 16 Mar 2023 21:54:29 +0000
Wucker’s work is much more read and attended to in Asia than in the west. Short-termism and individualism has reached its nadir in too much of US thinking.
Credit to Author: Michael Barnard| Date: Thu, 16 Mar 2023 15:25:27 +0000
Expect a lot more announcements about shutting down hydrogen for energy projects like the recent one from Equinor, Aire Liquide, and Eviny.
Credit to Author: Michael Barnard| Date: Tue, 14 Mar 2023 14:25:48 +0000
Electrification and heat pumps radically reduce the requirement to build new wind, solar, nuclear, hydro, and geothermal primary energy sources.
Credit to Author: Michael Barnard| Date: Mon, 13 Mar 2023 16:05:40 +0000
The 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.