Tag: carbon sequestration
Mass Timber At Parity: Fixing Insurance & Code Bottlenecks
Technical feasibility is no longer the primary barrier for mass timber construction. Engineers and builders have proven that tall, strong, and safe structures can be delivered with cross-laminated timber and related products. The real bottlenecks now lie in insurance premiums and building code adoption. Insurers price risk, and without long … [continued]
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Think How Much Climate Progress We Could Make If We Protected The World’s Forests
The world’s forests play an essential role in mitigating climate change. They absorb billions of tons of carbon dioxide each year, yet sustainable forestation requires analysis of its environment and ecosystems — a delicate melange of continent, terrain, air, soil, and the local climate. Considering societal and industrial benefits and … [continued]
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Large Fully Electric Tourist Ship Launched
A large tourist ship that is 100% electric has been launched. In China, of course. The ship is powered by CATL batteries — a lot of them. The energy storage capacity of the batteries is a whopping 3,918 kWh. Those batteries could have been used to power dozens of electric … [continued]
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What’s Different About A Net Zero Hotel?
While visiting family and friends in Rhode Island, my guy and I are staying at a local low-budget hotel. I admit that I originally thought the affordable price point would mean few amenities, like no pool or hot tub or restaurant on site. What we got, instead, was streetlights blazing … [continued]
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Why Hydrogen Won’t Win The Zero-Carbon Steel Race
Recent adjustments to my projections for global steel demand through 2100, reflecting a significant slowdown in Chinese infrastructure and cement consumption, have sharpened my economic focus on competing new steelmaking technologies. With lower growth trajectories for steel firmly established, every ton produced in the coming decades will increasingly face stringent … [continued]
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