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Solar Panel Waste is Tiny—Coal & Gas Emit Hundreds Of Times Mass Per MWh

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Every few months, another wave of media reports predictably warns about the supposed “looming crisis” of solar panel waste. Given the urgency of climate action, it’s frustrating to see the conversation repeatedly derailed by these exaggerated concerns. I’ve previously examined this narrative around wind energy, demonstrating clearly in my CleanTechnica … [continued]

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China Walks Away: U.S. LNG Expansion Plans Unravel as Trade War Escalates

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China has just suspended all LNG imports from the United States. No warning, no phasedown, just an apparent state directive that Chinese buyers, including the national oil companies, were no longer to sign, lift, or receive U.S. liquefied natural gas. The decision comes in the wake of a rapidly escalating … [continued]

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Yara, Ørsted, and the €200/ton Mirage: What Northern Lights Really Teaches Us About CCS

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Northern Lights, Europe’s flagship cross-border carbon capture and storage project, is now ready to receive carbon dioxide for sequestration, with the first ships in the water and expected to start delivering waste gas from customers this year. It’s being celebrated as a triumph of climate leadership and engineering. But when … [continued]

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CO₂ By Sea: The Risky Bet Beneath Europe’s Biggest Carbon Storage Project

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Northern Lights is Europe’s most ambitious carbon capture and storage project, and possibly the most operationally serious one in the world. It deserves credit for getting past the pilot stage, for designing an end-to-end storage system with real injection capacity, and for contracting with emitters in four different countries. But … [continued]

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