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Global decrease in coal burning leads to stalling of CO2 emissions in 2015
In 2015, after three years of slow growth, the growth of global CO2 emissions from fossil-fuel use and from steel and cement production was brought to a standstill. One of the main causes was the 2% global decrease in coal burning and cement production - the largest decrease over the past five decades, apart from recessions. The global decrease in CO2 emissions from coal use was offset by ...
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Hawaiian PUC Approves Special Rates for Electric Buses
The move to replace fossil-fueled, combustion engine buses with cleaner, quieter, more efficient electric buses on O ahu, Maui and Hawaii islands got a boost from Public Utilities Commission approval of a pilot program offering special time-of-use rates for electric bus charging. The commission approved the Hawaiian Electric Companies' new rates for a total of up to 20 bus fleet customers on ...
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Wind and air’s hope for new energy
Two sets of scientists in the US have devised new ways to snatch more power from thin air. One group of Californian chemists reports that it has found a way to filter carbon dioxide directly from the air and turn it into clean-burning methanol. While scientists at Sandia National Laboratories have announced a design for an offshore wind turbine rotor blade 200 metres long − so huge that ...
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Calculating carbon payback times for biofuels
Biofuels can only contribute to reducing greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions if crop production does not lead to further deforestation in tropical regions. New research introduces the concept of ecosystem carbon payback time (ECPT), which can be used to help identify the best means of expanding biofuel production worldwide, without causing unacceptable levels of carbon emissions from crop production. ...
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Renewable Energy is Growing in the UNECE Region, But Uptake is Lagging Far Behind Targets and Ambitions
In 2014, the UNECE region accounted for 42% of global GDP, 40% of the world’s total primary energy supply and 34% of global carbon emissions from fossil fuel combustion. It is the only region which has substantially increased the share of renewable energy in the global energy mix in the last years. Installed capacity from renewable energy increased to 869 GW in 2016 in the UNECE countries. This ...
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Silk green caps for a greener world helps consumers raise funds for a green cause
More and more people are looking for simple ways to help make the world a healthier place. But often the pressure and bustle of day-to-day life can make it seem overwhelming to seek out and implement the small changes that can make a big difference. Now, for the third year, Silk Soymilk's Green Caps for a Greener World program provides people with an opportunity to support clean wind energy or ...
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IEA urges a quick and global push to develop and deploy Carbon Capture and Storage technologies
Carbon dioxide capture and storage (CCS) is one of the most promising technological solutions to curb greenhouse gas emissions and to salvage our climate. Still, many questions remain. To date, only four full-scale CCS projects exist in the world; none of these projects captures carbon dioxide (CO2) from a coal-fired power plant. “The window of opportunity is closing for the global community to ...
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Rock-solid carbon storage hopes rise
Geologists have resolved one great problem about the capture of carbon dioxide from coal-fired or gas-fired power stations and its sequestration deep in the Earth, with what appears to be the prospect of rock-solid carbon storage. Once there in the right rock formations, there’s no reason why it should escape. That is, it won’t react with groundwater, corrode the rocks around it and ...
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Figuring out where to put the carbon
To meet our immediate energy needs without exacerbating climate change, most experts agree, we’ll need to find a way to store the carbon dioxide given off by the combustion of coal, oil and natural gas. But no full-scale storage systems exist, and the plans to create them have many unknowns. New projects at MIT could help to fill that information gap. At the American Geophysical Union’s fall ...
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WBA and REN Alliance to hold side event at COP19 18th Nov
Side event: Integrated technologies towards 100% renewables: Case studies and examples at national and regional levels Venue: Room Cracow, National Stadium, Warsaw Date: Monday 18 November 2013 Time: 16:45 - 18:15 WBA President, Heinz Kopetz, together with the leaders of the REN Alliance (Renewable Energy Alliance) will be holding an official side event at the COP19 Warsaw. Program for the ...
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Ocean-the largest source of Clean energy
Water makes up seventy one percent of the planet earth and ninety eight percent of it constitutes the ocean. It is a single source of water for all forms of life on earth and it also plays an important role in climate changes in the atmosphere. Ocean is the biggest heat sink and absorbs sun’s heat and also a carbon sink absorbing excess carbon dioxide from atmosphere. The surface ...
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The hidden costs of energy production—US$120bn in 2005
A report just released by the National Academies of Science estimates the “hidden” costs of energy production and use. These costs, which include human health effects, physical damages to buildings and other structures, and reduction in grain crop harvests caused by air pollution are not reflected in market prices of coal, oil, other energy sources, or the electricity and gasoline produced from ...
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Frost & Sullivan bestows JITF Urban Infrastructure Ltd. with the 2010 waste to energy deal of the year award in the Indian Municipal Waste to energy market
JITF Urban Infrastructure Ltd. received the Frost & Sullivan - Waste to Energy Deal of the Year Award in the Indian Municipal Waste to Energy Market for the year 2010. The Award was presented to JITF at the 2nd Annual Environment Awards night held in Mumbai, to commend its success in winning a 25-year-long concession from the New Delhi Municipal Corporation (NDMC) and Municipal Corporation of ...
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RMI: Treasury’s 45X guidelines will supercharge U.S. clean energy manufacturing & technological innovation
Today, the US Department of the Treasury unveiled initial guidance on one of the highest-value tax credits in the Inflation Reduction Act, the 45X Advanced Manufacturing Production Tax Credit, which incentivizes the domestic production of solar, wind, inverter, and battery components. This guidance provides certainty to investors on the specific technologies and production conditions that qualify ...
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Global Rechargeable Batteries Industry
Reportlinker.com announces that a new market research report is available in its catalogue: Global Rechargeable Batteries Industry http://www.reportlinker.com/p092504/Global-Rechargeable-Batteries-Industry.html#utm_source=prnewswire&utm_medium=pr&utm_campaign=Battery This report analyzes the worldwide markets for Rechargeable Batteries in US$ Million by the following Battery ...
By ReportLinker
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Others may see waste … we see fuel!
Over recent times there has been a growing debate about the vast amounts of waste that modern living generates. The main arguments surround firstly the sheer volume of today’s waste accumulation; and secondly the difficulties, cost and the environmental impact involved in the disposal of it. As one of the world’s leading waste incineration specialists we can see a simple solution ...
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Tipping the Balance Toward Renewables
Global investment in renewable energy, against expectation, now outstrips spending on fossil fuels. Across the planet, economies have been either dependent on or addicted to fossil fuels for 150 years, but there appears to be global momentum towards better energy use and more sustainable approaches, according to a new study in Nature Energy journal. Catherine Mitchell, professor of energy ...
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E.ON and Siemens switch on pilot CO2 capture facility at the Staudinger coal-fired power plant
E.ON and Siemens are starting up a pilot CO2 capture plant at the E.ON power plant Staudinger in Grosskrotzenburg near Hanau. The two companies are thus pushing further ahead with the development of a process geared toward climate-friendly coal-based power generation. A lab-proven process is to be employed under real operating conditions at the power plant’s hard-coal-fired Staudinger Unit 5. The ...
By E.ON AG
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Bloom Energy Announces Hydrogen-Powered Energy Servers to Make Always-On Renewable Electricity a Reality
The race to reduce greenhouse gas emissions is the defining challenge of our generation. The world needs more clean and renewable power quickly, but the accelerated deployment of renewables comes with multiple challenges, including reliability, resiliency, scalability and land use.At peak times, we already have more renewable power than the grid can handle in some US states and countries. Despite ...
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Understanding the ‘why’ is key to effective energy-saving behaviour
To increase energy efficiency, many countries are encouraging their citizens to make individual energy-saving changes, such as changing the type of light bulbs they use. This study investigated the relationship between understanding of environmental issues and effective energy-saving behaviour and shows that informed citizens are key to successful policy. The depletion of fossil fuels, and the ...
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