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US Pipelines Contain 4 Years Of US Steel Demand, & Will Be Scrapped For It

March 23, 2023 admin carbon emissions, China, clean power, clean tech, clean transport, climate change, Energy, Fossil Fuels, green economy, green steel, investment, Manufacturing, natural gas, Oil, pipelines, renewable energy, steel, usa

Credit to Author: Michael Barnard| Date: Mon, 20 Mar 2023 17:05:36 +0000

We’ve mined enormous amounts of iron and coal in order to build infrastructure to extract, process, refine, and distribute fossil fuels, and we’re going to have lots of scrap steel to work with.

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Never Mind The Bottlenecks, Wind Farm Repowering Is Taking Off

March 21, 2023 admin clean power, delaware, Iowa, offshore wind farms, onshore wind farms, pivot power, recycling, repowering, texas, usa, waste reduction, wind energy, wind turbines

Credit to Author: Tina Casey| Date: Sat, 18 Mar 2023 15:23:55 +0000

Repowering an existing wind farm is one way to get around the anti-wind movement and keep pumping more clean kilowatts into the grid.

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Best-Selling Author Michele Wucker Talks Gray Rhinos, Climate Change, & Risk Empathy With Michael Barnard

March 19, 2023 admin carbon emissions, China, clean tech, climate change, green economy, INTERVIEWS, investment, Manufacturing, policy & politics, usa

Credit to Author: Michael Barnard| Date: Thu, 16 Mar 2023 21:54:29 +0000

Wucker’s work is much more read and attended to in Asia than in the west. Short-termism and individualism has reached its nadir in too much of US thinking.

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Google & LevelTen Make Renewable Energy PPAs Easy As Pie

March 19, 2023 admin clean power, general motors, google, green economy, investment, levelten energy, McDonalds, power purchase agreement, power purchase agreement (ppa), power purchase agreements, renewable energy, Solar energy, usa, wind energy

Credit to Author: Tina Casey| Date: Thu, 16 Mar 2023 15:55:57 +0000

Google & LevelTen Energy are dialing the renewable energy industry up to 11 with a new streamlined system for negotiating power purchase agreements.

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With Heat From Heat Pumps, US Energy Requirements Could Plummet By 50%

March 17, 2023 admin carbon emissions, clean power, clean tech, clean transport, climate change, Coal, Electric vehicles, Energy, energy efficiency, Energy Storage, Fossil Fuels, green economy, HEALTH, heat pumps, investment, Manufacturing, natural gas, nuclear energy, Oil, pumped hydro storage, renewable energy, Shipping, trains / rail, usa, waste reduction

Credit to Author: Michael Barnard| Date: Tue, 14 Mar 2023 14:25:48 +0000

Electrification and heat pumps radically reduce the requirement to build new wind, solar, nuclear, hydro, and geothermal primary energy sources.

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Canada’s Oil Pipeline To Nowhere Tripling Costs Could Have Built HVDC Across The Country

March 16, 2023 admin Canada, canada trans mountain pipeline, carbon emissions, carbon pricing, clean power, clean transport, climate change, Energy, Fossil Fuels, green economy, investment, keystone pipeline, kinder morgan, Oil, policy & politics, renewable energy, subsidies, usa

Credit to Author: Michael Barnard| Date: Mon, 13 Mar 2023 16:05:40 +0000

The Trans Mountain Pipeline was a bad idea from the start. Dropping federal opposition to it in 2016 to bring in the carbon tax was a good choice. Everything after that has been and will continue to be a spiral into the abyss.