Credit to Author: Steve Hanley| Date: Wed, 10 Jul 2024 18:14:24 +0000
Rondo Energy is on a mission to prove that heat storage is cost competitive with more traditional technologies.
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Read moreCredit to Author: Tina Casey| Date: Mon, 24 Jun 2024 16:25:04 +0000
A new, quick-and-nimble fueling system will deploy green hydrogen and mobile “smart” technology for fuel cell electric trains.
The post More Bad News For Fossil Fuels: Locomotives To Run On Green Hydrogen, Not Diesel appeared first on CleanTechnica.
Read moreCredit to Author: Michael Barnard| Date: Thu, 20 Jun 2024 21:40:05 +0000
Cement is the gray glue that holds our economy together. It’s ubiquitous, if often hidden behind paint or plaster. It holds together the rock, sand, and steel that keep our buildings upright, our bridges spanning chasms, and our dams holding water for irrigation, generation, and recreation. And it’s a carbon … [continued]
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Read moreCredit to Author: Michael Barnard| Date: Thu, 13 Jun 2024 16:01:13 +0000
How much steel does a person need to have a “first world” standard of living? Most people in the developed world never think of this question. They just get up from their beds held together with steel screws and bolts, stand on their floors which are held up with steel … [continued]
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Read moreCredit to Author: Michael Barnard| Date: Wed, 12 Jun 2024 17:55:33 +0000
During what has become concrete month, I’ve explored the full range of actual and purported solutions to the climate problem that is the cement, steel, and concrete used in construction. The industry’s emissions are high, with every ton of reinforced concrete having a carbon debt of 0.3-0.4 tons of carbon … [continued]
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Read moreCredit to Author: Michael Barnard| Date: Tue, 11 Jun 2024 15:25:28 +0000
Reinforced concrete was invented in the mid-19th century, a game-changer in the construction world. French gardener Joseph Monier is often credited with its creation. While experimenting with materials to build stronger garden pots and tubs, he had the idea to combine concrete with iron mesh in 1849. Monier patented his … [continued]
The post Steel Reinforcement Is The Invisible Miracle Of Concrete Construction, But Comes With A Carbon Price appeared first on CleanTechnica.
Read moreCredit to Author: Contributed Content| Date: Wed, 12 Jun 2024 12:38:33 +0000
Deloitte, a group providing a variety of services for business and industry, in a new report published June 12 notes the importance of distributed energy resources (DERs) to the future […]
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Credit to Author: Michael Barnard| Date: Fri, 07 Jun 2024 16:15:59 +0000
A few days ago I went deep on cement again, using an assessment of the processes of American clean cement startups to define the scope and magnitude of the problem, the chemistry and energy requirements of cement, why fixing it is critically important, and incidentally evaluate a couple of companies’ … [continued]
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Read moreCredit to Author: Michael Barnard| Date: Wed, 05 Jun 2024 17:55:16 +0000
During concrete day… errr … week … errr … verging on two weeks this time, I’ve explored a lot of carbon emissions solutions for the full value chain of the gray glue that ensures our buildings don’t collapse, our bridges stay up, and our underground working chambers don’t pancake. We … [continued]
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Read moreCredit to Author: Carolyn Fortuna| Date: Tue, 04 Jun 2024 10:35:56 +0000
The need for greater climate finance has been the focus of numerous industry analyses, including at the 2023 United Nations Climate Change Conference (COP28). The World Economic Forum explains that we are in a place in which investment levels remain multiple times below what is needed to reach net zero … [continued]
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