Category: Research
Solar With Firming Now Beating Gas In Asia, & EVs Could Save Region $350 Billion A Year
While the solar industry really got its jumpstart in the US, and then grew to a significant level in Germany, it’s China that completely exploded the industry while driving costs down to unbeatable levels. The same thing basically happened with electric vehicles as well. However, there’s still much more that … [continued]
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Molecules Do Not Disappear. Their Market Shrinks.
A lot of energy-transition arguments begin with today’s fossil fuel demand. Coal, oil, and gas still dominate global primary energy, so it is tempting to draw a straight line from the current fuel system to a future molecule system. Replace natural gas with hydrogen. Replace bunker fuel with ammonia or … [continued]
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New Most Efficient Solar Panels, Turning Ocean Water into Drinking Water — Top Stories of the Week
It’s time for another rundown of the most popular stories of the past week here on CleanTechnica. Take a look below at what grabbed people’s interest, and then also see the various CleanTechnica originals we published in the past week. Most Efficient Solar Module in the World — New Record … [continued]
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Economic Growth No Longer Guarantees Fuel Growth
For most of the 20th century, a simple assumption worked well enough for energy forecasting: when economies grew, fuel demand grew with them. More people, more housing, more vehicles, more factories, more roads, more ports, more airports, more concrete, more steel, more coal, oil, and gas. The relationship was not … [continued]
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Fossil Fuels Are 40% Of Freight Shipping Tonnage, But Half Its Fuel Use
Maritime fuel debates usually start with the wrong object. They look at today’s bunker fuel demand, line up replacement molecules, and ask whether ammonia, methanol, hydrogen, LNG, biofuels, or synthetic fuels can scale far enough to replace it. That sounds like a practical question, but it skips the larger one: … [continued]
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