Credit to Author: Tina Casey| Date: Mon, 30 Sep 2024 02:07:46 +0000
Floating solar projects enable water treatment systems and other facilities to generate renewable energy within their property, without impinging on land needed for other uses.
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Read moreCredit to Author: Michael Barnard| Date: Sun, 29 Sep 2024 00:41:50 +0000
The free rider problem in climate action arises when some countries or actors benefit from the efforts of others to mitigate climate change without contributing their fair share. Since the atmosphere is a global common good, actions taken by one country to reduce greenhouse gas emissions benefit the entire world, … [continued]
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Read moreCredit to Author: Michael Barnard| Date: Sat, 28 Sep 2024 03:55:39 +0000
A regular feature of my life is having long-term friends, co-workers, collaborators and even complete strangers reach out to me to ask how they can pivot or start their careers to help with climate change or the environment more generally. Most recently, a recent sciences graduate from Cambridge, Hari Kukreja … [continued]
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Read moreCredit to Author: Tina Casey| Date: Wed, 25 Sep 2024 12:43:37 +0000
The idea of putting solar panels on electric cars is gaining more traction, both as a charging convenience and as a contribution to grid reliability and resilience.
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Read moreCredit to Author: Michael Barnard| Date: Tue, 24 Sep 2024 23:15:41 +0000
Recently John Haffner, responsible for sustainability at Hong Kong’s US$1.4 billion annual revenue Hang Lung Property Group, reached out to me. ReThink HK, which bills itself as Hong Kong’s best-attended and most ambitious business event for sustainable development, was hosting a debate he would be part of in front of … [continued]
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Read moreCredit to Author: Tina Casey| Date: Thu, 19 Sep 2024 15:19:31 +0000
Ford has a plan to hook up EV and hybrid EV drivers in the US with low-cost renewable energy, through a new vehicle-to-grid platform called ChargeScape in partnership with BMW and Honda.
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Read moreCredit to Author: Michael Barnard| Date: Thu, 19 Sep 2024 03:30:13 +0000
For three years, the International Chamber of Shipping has been running a survey of ship owners, covering multiple domains, including biggest risks to shipping, changes in shipping patterns with initiatives like friendshoring and most relevantly for this discussion, decarbonization. Recently they dropped their 2023-2024 survey, and the results indicate ongoing … [continued]
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Read moreCredit to Author: Michael Barnard| Date: Mon, 16 Sep 2024 21:45:36 +0000
The latest installment of the ongoing seminar series on global decarbonization that I’m leading for India’s utility professionals under the auspices of the India Smart Grid Forum was on carbon capture and sequestration (CCS). It’s an overly hyped, overly hoped for solution that isn’t and won’t scale remotely economically. When … [continued]
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Read moreCredit to Author: Tina Casey| Date: Fri, 13 Sep 2024 19:08:23 +0000
The rooftop solar and home energy storage trends are pushing the case to replace gas peaker plants with zero emission “virtual” power plants.
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Read moreCredit to Author: Carolyn Fortuna| Date: Thu, 12 Sep 2024 00:14:53 +0000
Politics is such a nasty game. While the two major US Presidential candidates had many topics about which to debate on Tuesday night, the climate crisis was the one most pressing on many of our minds. Unfortunately, it did not receive the attention it deserved. When the single question about … [continued]
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