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Accelerating Electrification: Freight Trucks Will Dominate In The US

December 20, 2024 admin 0 Comments batteries, carbon emissions, clean power, clean transport, clean trucks, climate change, Coal, electric trucks, Electric vehicles, Energy, Energy Storage, ev batteries, ev charging, Fossil Fuels, green economy, green jobs, grid, investment, Manufacturing, microgrids, natural gas, Oil, renewable energy, Shipping, Solar energy, trains / rail, usa

Credit 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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Deloitte Complicit In Indefensible Brampton Hydrogen Bus CUTRIC Study

December 19, 2024 admin 0 Comments Canada, carbon emissions, clean transport, climate change, electric trucks, Energy, fuel cell buses, green economy, green jobs, hydrogen fuel cell buses, hydrogen fuel cell electric vehicles, investment, Manufacturing, mass transit / public transit, policy & politics, subsidies

Credit 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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HVDC Transmission Between Europe & North America Makes Fiscal Sense

December 18, 2024 admin 0 Comments Canada, carbon emissions, clean power, clean transport, climate change, electricity transmission, Energy, Europe, green economy, green jobs, grid, hvdc, hydroelectric, investment, Manufacturing, policy & politics, renewable energy, Smart Grid, Solar energy, usa, wind energy

Credit 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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More Hydrogen Maritime Trials Surface From Sargasso Sea

December 18, 2024 admin 0 Comments boats, carbon emissions, cargo shipping, clean power, clean shipping, clean transport, climate change, container shipping, Energy, ferries, green economy, green jobs, green shipping, investment, Manufacturing, Norway, renewable energy, Shipping

Credit 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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The Business Of Decarbonization Pays Off — But Don’t Wait To Start

December 17, 2024 admin 0 Comments climate change, climate risks, decarbonization, inflation reduction act of 2022., investment, policy & politics, scope 3 emissions

Credit 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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Electrified Freight: Trucking Will Grow & Big Logistics Players Will Dominate

December 17, 2024 admin 0 Comments batteries, carbon emissions, clean power, clean transport, clean trucks, climate change, electric truck, Electric vehicles, Energy, Energy Storage, ev batteries, ev charging, green economy, green jobs, grid, investment, Manufacturing, microgrids, renewable energy, rooftop solar, Solar energy, usa

Credit to Author: Michael Barnard| Date: Sat, 14 Dec 2024 02:23:18 +0000

Key takeaways Delivering inexpensive, reliable electric truck charging requires scale Major logistics, truck stop and turn-key services firms have the scale and will lead the way The big firms that embrace this will increase market share Movement of freight in the United States (U.S) is going to shift more and … [continued]

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Great Lakes Shipping Grants Will Finalize Before Trump Takes Office

December 16, 2024 admin 0 Comments clean power, Cleveland, climate change, decarbonization, detroit, great lakes, Illinois, inflation reduction act of 2022., pollutants, Shipping

Credit to Author: Carolyn Fortuna| Date: Fri, 13 Dec 2024 16:05:26 +0000

The US Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) plans to finalize more than $200 million in grant funding in the coming weeks to accelerate the clean energy transition at three Great Lakes shipping ports. That action will obligate the federal government to pay roughly $3 billion in grants under the program, even … [continued]

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Hydrogen Ships Are Seeing Same Pattern As All Hydrogen Fleets

December 16, 2024 admin 0 Comments air quality, boats, carbon emissions, cargo shipping, clean power, clean transport, climate change, electric ferries, Electric vehicles, Energy, Europe, ferries, Fossil Fuels, green economy, hydrogen, hydrogen boats, investment, Manufacturing, marine energy, Oil, Shipping

Credit to Author: Michael Barnard| Date: Fri, 13 Dec 2024 03:37:54 +0000

As the years pass and more re-enactments of the Odyssey of the Hydrogen Fleet are played out, they get staged in multiple settings, much like Shakespeare’s Tempest being staged in a waterpark in Germany in 2019. In recent months, I’ve curated a couple of lists of hydrogen bus and train … [continued]

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Why Are Billionaires Often Stupid?

December 15, 2024 admin 0 Comments climate change, elon musk

Credit to Author: Zachary Shahan| Date: Thu, 12 Dec 2024 04:50:01 +0000

In the US, and across much of the world, we have a tendency to idolize the super rich, and we tend to think billionaires must be really smart. In many cases, billionaires may have primarily borrowed money, put it into certain projects or ventures, and then ripped people off. There’s … [continued]

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UN Agreements On Oceanic Geoengineering Don’t Cover Dominant Land-Based Systems

December 14, 2024 admin 0 Comments Canada, Carbon Capture, carbon capture (ccs), carbon dioxide, carbon emissions, climate change, geoengineering, green economy, investment, Ocean, ocean acidification, policy & politics, research, SCIENCE

Credit to Author: Michael Barnard| Date: Wed, 11 Dec 2024 23:54:30 +0000

This morning I had an excellent conversation with a lawyer with a maritime environmental non-governmental organization, Stephanie Hewson at the West Coast Environmental Law Association. She is preparing to testify to one of the highest legislative bodies in the country that they are based in, Canada’s Senate, regarding concerns about … [continued]

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