Category: Research
Solar & Wind Each Produced More Electricity Than Coal In USA In April
Solar and wind power plants continue to grow rapidly in the United States, and coal continues to decline — despite the current federal government so heavily putting its thumb on the side of coal. Solar and wind continue to get deployed rapidly due to their pure free-market competitiveness, while the … [continued]
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Scientists have a new tool in the fight against toxic algal blooms: buoys
University of Toledo researchers have developed a system of buoys that slowly release algaecide into the surrounding water.
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Geopolitics Smooths The Energy Transition Curve
One of the easiest ways to misread the energy transition is to stand inside one country and mistake local political weather for the global climate. A U.S. reversal, European permitting drag, Indian coal and grid constraints, Indonesian diesel politics, Pakistani fuel-price exposure, Chinese overbuild, Gulf hedging, African distributed solar and … [continued]
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“Carspreading” To Wipe Out Up To 14% Of On-Street Parking In European Cities — Study
A new study analyses the relentless growth of newly sold cars across all key dimensions. New cars are growing 1.2 cm longer every year, research finds London and Berlin set to lose over 100,000 parking spaces each due to swelling car size “Ever bigger” cars trend could kill 400 more … [continued]
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Electricity Wins Because It Breaks The Fossil Fuel Chain
One of the easiest ways to get the energy transition wrong is to treat electricity as just another fuel. Coal, oil, gas, hydrogen, ammonia, methanol and electricity are often placed in parallel columns, as if the future is mainly a substitution table. That framing preserves too much of the fossil … [continued]
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