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Solar Job Training, EV Predictions For 2013, Ford C-Max Breaks Hybrid Launch...
Other than our own stories, here’s some top cleantech and climate news of the day: Solar Power Top PV Module Suppliers Developing Own Utility Projects: “Research from Wiki-Solar has found that the...
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US Solar Targets Could Save Americans $20 Billion Annually By 2050
Solar energy could supply one-third of all electrical demands in the Western US by 2050 while massively cutting emissions - if DOE's SunShot Initiative succeeds, according to a new report from...
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Cleantech Buffet (2nd Porsche PHEV, Bike Elevator For Treehouse…)
Some top cleantech munchings that we haven’t covered: EVs 260½-EV Parade — New World Record Norway is a clear EV leader. It is likely the most EV-friendly country in the world, which is why it was no...
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Coal Is On Its Way Out
Originally published on RenewEconomy. By Giles Parkinson. King Coal rules no more in the biggest electricity market in the world. The combined impact of new technology and regulation means that there...
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Nuclear Energy Verdict: Very Disappointing
Originally published on Renew Economy. By Giles Parkinson. The story we published on Friday comparing the costs of new nuclear, now that they have been defined by contract signed by the UK Government...
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Science Smackdown: Key Points On Renewable & EV Revolution From Mark Z Jacobson
I just recently ran across this video below. I actually shared it not long after it was published, but that was a year and a half ago. The video includes excellent talks by Mark Z Jacobson, Mark...
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Gore Rejects Geoengineering As Climate Change Panacea
Former U.S. vice-president Al Gore pulled no punches about geoengineering in a phone conference with reporters on Wednesday. He was apparently reacting to a suggestion in a leaked draft summary of the...
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Electricity Source With Lowest Carbon Intensity Is… (Chart)
Originally published on Shrink That Footprint. By Lindsay Wilson The new French Prime Minister Manuel Valls recently reiterated President Hollande’s plan to cut French dependence on atomic power to...
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Renewables Are Cheaper Than Nuclear Or CCS, Finds German Decarbonization Study
Originally published on sister site Planetsave. Agora Energiewende this week released the results of a cost analysis of four different CO2-free power scenarios in Europe. Says Patrick Graichen,...
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Wind Subsidies & Solar Subsidies ~50% Nuclear & CCS Subsidies (Charts)
Originally published on Renew Economy. By Sophie Vorrath After a week which saw the use of renewable energy support schemes in Australia described as “plain crazy”, it seems like a good time to take...
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“Gradual change will not save us,” Says IEA Chief Economist Fatih Birol
Originally published on Energy Post. By Karel Beckman The latest major report from the International Energy Agency (IEA), the Energy Technology Perspectives 2014, states that “radical action is needed...
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Wind Energy Beats Nuclear & Carbon Capture For Global Warming Mitigation
There’s an enduring myth related to wind energy and nuclear energy that needs to be put to bed. That myth is that only nuclear can be scaled to sufficient capacity to reduce the impacts of global...
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First Large-Scale Carbon Capture Power Plant In World Now Online In Canada
The first large-scale carbon capture power plant in the world recently came online in the Canadian region of Saskatchewan. The $1.3 billion, 110 MW project represents the first time that the real-world...
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The Cost Of Global CCS: At Least $17.6 Trillion
Originally published on Kompulsa. A study has now revealed how much it would cost to use carbon capture and storage (CCS) to mitigate climate change. It would be $17.6 trillion (er, well over that...
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A Renewable Electricity Scotland By 2030
Scotland could entirely decarbonise by 2030 and supply all its electricity needs using renewable energy, according to a new report published Monday by WWF. The new report, which tested Scotland’s...
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Obama Administration Announces Methane Plans
The announcement this morning by President Obama of a revised target for US methane emissions is not just another gimmick to shackle the American oil and gas industry. Nor is it new. Back in 1971, the...
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Former Shell Chairman Calls For Fossil Fuels To “Change Profoundly”
Chairman of the Carbon Trust and former chairman of Shell UK James Smith has called on oil and gas companies to “change profoundly over the next couple of decades … if costly climate damage is to be...
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Solar News, Renewable News, Climate News (Link Drop)
It’s the weekend! Time for another big solar energy, wind energy, energy efficiency, climate, etc, link drop. Enjoy! Solar Solar Power Pros And Cons: Is Solar Power Worth It? World Economy Decoupled...
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Nissan Has Superfast Charging Plan For New LEAF … It Seems
For years now, we and many others have been saying that no company can compete with Tesla in the electric car market until they offer a good network of superfast charging stations for their drivers....
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In A Blow To “Clean Coal,” Engie & Uniper Withdraw From Dutch Carbon Capture...
Originally published on RenewEconomy. By Sophie Vorrath European power giants Engie and Uniper have withdrawn from a test project to capture and store carbon dioxide generated by one of several major...
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Carbon Capture and Storage Progressing Toward Feasibility
[social_buttons] Carbon Capture and Storage (CCS) has the potential to cut global Co2 emissions dramatically. We’re talking huge cuts. It has been estimated that a plant implementing CCS can cut...
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Scientists Examine Injecting Liquid Carbon Dioxide Underground
[social_buttons] While carbon capture and sequestration technology remains controversial, studies to delve deeper into it are ongoing in hopes of presenting one way to alleviate emission levels. A team...
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Kyoto Accord to Hydrogen-Power California
In a move that can be seen as indication of the far-reaching global effects of European cap and trade legislation, California has been selected by a British subsidiary of BP; to host one of the first...
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Carbon Capture & Storage Projects to be Excluded Under Copenhagen?
In a blow to the deal struck between the Obama administration and India during pre-Copenhagen visits, in which the President arranged for the transfer of innovative new clean coal technologies; Carbon...
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Smart, Strong Climate Policy Will Create 2.8 Million Jobs & Boost Economy
[social_buttons] A new macroeconomics analysis shows that if you want to create jobs and boost the economy, one of the best things you can do at the moment is enact strong, smart climate change and...
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First US State to Codify Law for Carbon Sequestration is Wyoming
Wyoming could be the first state to develop a comprehensive set of legal rules dealing with carbon sequestration risk. Before we begin carbon sequestration projects, say lawmakers in the state, we need...
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Coal Plants Are Shutting Down in Europe
France will shut down about half its coal-fired power stations by 2015, replacing them with natural-gas-fired plants, as part of the European Copenhagen agreement to cut carbon emissions 20% by 2020....
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World’s First Carbon Capture and Storage Project in Basalt Begins in USA
Washington state’s Department of Ecology has just granted the permit for the world’s first pilot test of carbon capture and sequestration in continental flood basalt near a paper mill in Wallula. With...
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CCS Demos Grinding to a Halt
If as few as 3,200 carbon sequestration projects were in operation around the world, that would be enough to provide more than 15% of the emissions reductions needed for a livable climate for the next...
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CCS Pioneer Reddy Patents New CO2 Sequestration Tech
A long-running utility-scale pilot capturing CO2 from the flue gas of a 2,120 MW coal fired power plant in Wyoming is succeeding in capturing about a third of the carbon dioxide by mineralizing it in...
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Forget Carbon Capture & Storage; Think Carbon Capture & Utilization
Rather than treating carbon dioxide as a waste, as is the case with high-profile Carbon Capture and Storage (CCS) technology, energy, industrial and power industry participants, as well as people all...
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Carbon Capture: Pipe Dream or Key to our Energy Challenges?
Every year about 30 billion metric tons of carbon dioxide is released around the world, with almost half that amount coming from coal. In the U.S., coal provides almost half our electricity, making it...
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Plastic “Tree” Uses Biomimicry to Convert Atmospheric CO2 into Green Gasoline
Recycling has always meant reusing materials like glass or plastic, and reducing atmospheric carbon has traditionally meant cutting emissions, but what if the two could be combined and make combating...
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Are Fuel Cells the Answer to Coal Power Plant CO2 Capture?
Fuel cells may hold the key to solving the increasingly urgent problem of how to capture CO2 emissions from coal-fired and other fossil fuel plants, at least that's what fuel cell proponents assert and...
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Fuel Cell-Coal Plant CO2 Capture: Clean Tech Breakthrough or Ill-Conceived...
The third in a series, this post explains the workings and the principal aims of a DOE project in which Connecticut's FuelCell Energy will use its Direct FuelCell technology to capture 90% of a...
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Carbon Capture Safeguards Agreed to at Durban Climate Talks
With the approval of rules on the inclusion of carbon capture and storage allocations at the Durban climate talks that just concluded, a potentially huge carbon capture and storage (CCS) industry is...
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US to Bury Carbon Off Texas Coast?
Capturing CO2 and re-injecting it into offshore geologic formations gets a look as 8 year count-down to carbon price begins. With all 190 nations now agreeing to binding greenhouse gas reductions in a...
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New CO2 Sequestration from Finland Yields Commercially Useful Materials
The Finnish physicist Matti Nurmia has patented a different type of CO2 sequestration with real commercial potential, using very little energy in the conversion process and creating byproducts with...
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China and India Ineligible for Carbon Capture Funding?
China, India, Ghana, Qatar, United Arab Emirates and South Africa may be eliminated as eligible countries for Clean Mechanism Development (CDM) funding for Carbon Capture and Sequestration (CSS)...
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Clapping with One Hand: IEA Applauds Clean, Renewable Energy Progress, Urges...
Applauding the progress being made in developing and deploying renewable energy and clean technologies, the International Energy Agency (IEA), in its latest annual report, also says that they are not...
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500 Years of Underground Carbon Storage Mapped across North America
North America has at least 500 years of underground carbon dioxide (CO2) storage capacity, according to the North American Carbon Storage Atlas
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NREL Publishes Cradle-to-Grave Assessment of Greenhouse Gases from Energy...
The NREL has published a precise profile of greenhouse gas emissions from renewable and fossil fuel energy generation technologies
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Carbon Capture and Storage Growth Stalled in 2011
New Worldwatch Institute report discusses the future of carbon capture and storage technology. Washington, D.C.—Funding for carbon capture and storage technology, a tool for the reduction of...
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$1 Billion Carbon Capture for Alberta Oil Sands
Shell has approved a $1.36-billion carbon capture project for Canada’s Alberta oil sands. This project supposedly will capture one million tons of CO2 each year, which will be stored about one mile...
View ArticleMcKinsey's Guide to Carbon Capture and Storage
Have you been looking for a quick cheat sheet to understand the mechanics behind carbon capture and storage (CCS), which is one of the technologies envisioned by President Obama to allow the United...
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