Stanford Study Supports Use Of Fire Bricks For Process Heat

Credit to Author: Steve Hanley| Date: Mon, 05 Aug 2024 15:00:09 +0000

The latest study by Mark Jacobson at Stanford finds that fire bricks can store the process heat needed by industry inexpensively.

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Proven Climate Solutions — A New Book On Accelerating Change

Credit to Author: Michael Barnard| Date: Mon, 24 Jun 2024 18:20:01 +0000

A couple of years ago, BF Nagy contacted me, asking if I would be interested in contributing to a book he was assembling. He already had Bill McKibben, Mark Z. Jacobson and others signed up, so how could I disagree? Fast forward two years, and the book, Proven Climate Solutions: … [continued]

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The World Should Be 100% Powered By Renewable Energy Before Nuclear Fusion Is Commercially Competitive

Credit to Author: Zachary Shahan| Date: Thu, 15 Dec 2022 04:57:29 +0000

The U.S. Department of Energy announced some big nuclear fusion news this week. It is truly gigantic scientific news, and I don’t intend to downplay the breakthrough at all here. I’m amazed and thrilled U.S. scientists were able to produce net-positive energy for a brief moment in a laser-based nuclear fusion ignition. Though, I think […]

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We Can Have (Just About) Everything We Want For Energy & The Climate

Credit to Author: George Harvey| Date: Mon, 04 Jul 2022 21:05:31 +0000

Solar FarmThe only things we have to give up are killing people and wrecking the environment. Okay, let’s start with a list of the things we would really like to have for energy and the climate in the year 2050. For many CleanTechnica readers, the list of things we want to replace the business-as-usual (BAU) approach […]

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Transitioning the World to 100% Renewable Energy — Part 2

Credit to Author: Winter Wilson| Date: Tue, 18 Feb 2020 03:51:47 +0000

In the second half of this special two-part episode of our CleanTech Talk podcast interview series, Michael Barnard, Chief Strategist of TFIE Strategy Inc. and CleanTechnica contributor, take’s Zach Shahan’s place as host to talk with Mark Z. Jacobson, professor at Stanford University and cofounder of The Solutions Project, about transitioning the world to 100% renewable energy

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Yikes — One Of My Favorite Political Commenters Bombs On 21st Century Energy

Credit to Author: Zachary Shahan| Date: Mon, 17 Feb 2020 06:24:22 +0000

Ah, man. It’s annoying as heck to see people who you think are idiots screw up a topic you know well, but it’s an extra special kind of annoying when brilliant people screw up — massively — on that same topic. In this edition of “Smart people who don’t understand the energy industry of 2020,” we’ve got Fareed Zakaria of

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Transitioning the World to 100% Renewable Energy

Credit to Author: Winter Wilson| Date: Sun, 16 Feb 2020 22:16:50 +0000

In the first half of this special two-part episode of our CleanTech Talk podcast interview series, Michael Barnard, Chief Strategist of TFIE Strategy Inc. and CleanTechnica contributor, take’s Zach Shahan’s place as host to talk with Mark Z. Jacobson, professor at Stanford University and cofounder of The Solutions Project, about transitioning the world to 100% renewable energy

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More Evidence Of A Republican Pivot On Climate

Credit to Author: Michael Barnard| Date: Fri, 17 Jan 2020 23:55:12 +0000

The Republicans are pivoting on climate. Giving only lip service to climate and weak policy suggestions will not gain them votes in #Election

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Green New Deals For The World Are Green Good Deals

Credit to Author: Mark Z. Jacobson| Date: Sun, 29 Dec 2019 21:45:57 +0000

The Earth is rapidly approaching 1.5°C global warming, air pollution kills over 7 million people worldwide each year, and diminishing fossil fuel resources portend social instability. Yet, recently, world leaders at the United Nations Madrid climate talks failed to agree on a path forward. The core of the problem is the belief by some leaders that solving global warming will be expensive and drain the economy of their country. However, new research indicates that this belief is incorrect

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