Credit to Author: Steve Hanley| Date: Sun, 16 Jun 2024 19:58:30 +0000
Solar power companies are on track to provide more energy to the world than oil and gas soon says Bloomberg.
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Read moreCredit to Author: Steve Hanley| Date: Fri, 14 Jun 2024 16:25:40 +0000
The EPA rule reducing tailpipe emissions in 2032 is under attack from the oil and corn industry, as well as car dealers.
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Read moreCredit to Author: Guest Contributor| Date: Sat, 08 Jun 2024 15:50:02 +0000
New standards will save Americans hundreds of dollars at the pump over the lifetime of their vehicles Washington, DC — The U.S. Department of Transportation’s National Highway Traffic Safety Administration yesterday issued new vehicle fuel economy standards that will save Americans more than $23 billion in fuel costs while reducing … [continued]
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Read moreCredit 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: Mon, 03 Jun 2024 16:35:14 +0000
Remarkably, in 2022 the USA managed to get a greenhouse gas price through Congress. It wasn’t on carbon dioxide, the biggest problem, but it was on methane, the second biggest greenhouse gas problem we humans create. Perhaps more remarkably, it was explicitly on the oil and gas industry and excluded … [continued]
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Read moreCredit to Author: Michael Barnard| Date: Mon, 03 Jun 2024 15:35:06 +0000
It’s not often that a novel energy storage solution crosses my screen. It’s vastly rarer that it doesn’t immediately fail a few basic sniff tests. A solution that pumps water under high pressure a few hundred to a thousand meters underground doesn’t immediately fall apart in technical terms or claims. … [continued]
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Read moreCredit to Author: Michael Barnard| Date: Wed, 29 May 2024 18:09:01 +0000
As I’ve been looking at solutions that people are proposing for eliminating cement’s high carbon dioxide emissions, a set of criteria are clearly emerging to assess whether they are going to be material. These include the source material availability, cost, and distribution. They include integration into worksites. They include the … [continued]
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Read moreCredit to Author: US Energy Information Administration| Date: Tue, 28 May 2024 15:07:21 +0000
Meteorologists are forecasting a particularly intense Atlantic hurricane season this year; they expect 20–25 named storms with a possibility of 30 or more, according to reports from AccuWeather in April. Colorado State University similarly forecasts an estimated 23 named storms this year. The potential for a stronger hurricane season suggests heightened risk for weather-related … [continued]
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Read moreCredit to Author: Michael Barnard| Date: Sun, 26 May 2024 02:25:59 +0000
A few days ago I went deep on cement again, using an assessment of the processes of American clean cement startups Sublime Systems and Brimstone 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 … [continued]
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Read moreCredit to Author: Press Release| Date: Tue, 21 May 2024 05:35:23 +0000
Historic funding to plug orphaned oil and gas wells will address environmental and safety hazards, create good-paying jobs in communities nationwide LOS ANGELES — [Last week], as part of the Biden-Harris administration’s Infrastructure Week, Secretary of the Interior Deb Haaland announced a $35.2 million investment through President Biden’s Investing in … [continued]
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