Cement is a big polluter. Heidelberg Materials in Norway is betting it can profit from carbon capture that will reduce the carbon dioxide.
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Jenny Chase 2024 “opinions about solar” thread
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Firebrick thermal energy storage could reach 170 GW in the US by 2050
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Global average solar Levelized Cost of Electricity stood at $0.044/kWh in 2023, says IRENA
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Barcelona is turning subway trains into power stations
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Modeling shows that reconductoring can quickly beef up grids
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Even solar energy’s biggest fans are underestimating it
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Lawsuits allege deadly 2021 Texas blackouts were an inside job, that energy companies reduced energy supply before storm
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The UK helped usher in the coal era — now it’s closing its last remaining plant
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Battery giant Northvolt to cut 25% of workforce in Sweden as part of a major cost-cutting drive – roughly 1,600 employees, including 1,000 positions at its factory in Skellefteå
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Constellation to restart Three Mile Island unit, powering Microsoft
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CO2 turned into fuel: Japan’s scientists convert captured carbon into green fuel
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Actually, we can deploy energy infrastructure very quickly
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Negative European energy prices hit record level – Rapid rollout of solar and wind generation has outpaced ability to store power
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Swedish battery company Northvolt has announced it would be laying off a large part of its workforce and selling or consolidating several sites as the electric vehicle market slows down
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Hydrogen-powered skyscraper set for Egypt’s new capital outside Cairo
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China added more solar power in 2023 than US has ever built
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Can solar costs keep shrinking?
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Charging lithium-ion batteries at high currents just before they leave the factory is thirty times faster and increases battery lifespans by 50%, according to study
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Solar will get too cheap to connect to the power grid
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Painting one turbine blade black has shown promise for preventing bird collisions
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Finland's Fortum starts using US nuclear fuel in bid to reduce Russian dependence
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The FactoBattery
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Cache Energy’s mysterious white pellets could help kill coal and natural gas
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New nanogenerators achieve 140-fold power density gain, could rival solar cells
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Three Danish energy tech firms have opened the doors to the first ever green ammonia plant in the world, capable of producing 5,000 tons per year
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AI tech giants hide dirty energy with outdated carbon accounting rules
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The gigantic and unregulated power plants in the cloud
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Could Britain's soaring taxes push energy companies to Norway? Taxes on oil and gas profits have risen from 40% to about 78%, prompting several to think about pulling out.
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Scientists are now preparing to drill into the rock of Krafla in Iceland to learn more about how volcanoes behave
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What if Germany had invested in nuclear power? A comparison between the German energy policy the last twenty years and an alternative policy of investing in nuclear power.
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Form Energy to build world’s largest battery energy storage system in Maine
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Danish wind power giant Ørsted delays major US offshore project – news follows scrapping of two other Atlantic windfarms and axing of hundreds of jobs as costs surge
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China rules solar energy, but its industry at home is in trouble
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Sweden has cut 80% of its net emissions since 1990 – while growing its economy twofold. How have they done it?
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First officially approved Gen IV nuclear reactor in the US breaks ground
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Young people should be banned from buying drinks with high levels of caffeine, say health and consumer groups in Denmark
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Solar to meet half of global electricity demand growth in 2024 and 2025
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Generative AI requires massive amounts of power and water, and the aging US grid can't handle the load
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Engineers develop a recipe for zero-emissions fuel: soda cans (aluminium), seawater and caffeine
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Climate hero or villain? As it rapidly adopts clean technologies while drilling furiously for oil and gas, Norway is a paradox.
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Ireland’s datacentres overtake electricity use of all urban homes combined
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"Dark oxygen" production defies knowledge of the deep ocean, potentially upends standard model for discovering life on other planets
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We’re building nuclear spaceships again—this time for real
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The underwater 'kites' generating electricity as they move beneath the waters of the Faroe Islands in the North Atlantic
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Cutting-edge technology could reduce the amount of energy used for air conditioning
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AI boom risk: Can the world's power grid handle the technology's meteoric rise?
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Space data centres: ‘A figment of the imagination’ but one that could make Europe a space leader
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Labour lifts Tories’ ‘absurd’ ban on UK onshore windfarms
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What's up with solid state batteries? A conversation with Siyu Huang of Factorial Energy
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