R-Squared Energy
JULY 27, 2020
Fossil fuels are composed of carbon and hydrogen. When hydrocarbons are combusted, the carbon forms carbon dioxide and the hydrogen forms water. Regulations eventually reined in that problem, but coal-fired power plants still emit pollutants like mercury. They even emit more radioactive elements than a nuclear power plant.
Business Green
AUGUST 7, 2020
It estimates that if the recovery emulates the recovery from the 2008 financial crisis then global temperature will rise by more than 1.5C Germany advances plans for green hydrogen hub. "We do not have to go back to where we were, because times of crisis are also the time to change.". The report analysed a number of recovery scenarios.
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Business Green
JUNE 18, 2020
The IEA said its plan was designed to avoid the kind of sharp rebound in carbon emissions that accompanied the economic recovery from the 2008-2009 financial crisis and instead put global emissions into structural decline.
Energy Innovation
JULY 14, 2020
The survey evaluated 700 economic recovery policies from 2008-2020 (categorized into 25 archetypes) and their ability to be implemented reasonably quickly, reduce GHG emissions, and provide large economic multipliers (as authors define it the long-term return for every dollar of expenditure). From Hepburn et al. As such, Hanna et al.
Business Green
MARCH 26, 2020
Electricity generation from natural gas fired power plants also fell back slightly by 2.2 per cent, while nuclear power dropped 14 per cent to its lowest level since 2008 due to a series of prolonged outages at Dungeness B and Hunterson B last year, the statistics show.
Climate Tech VC
JANUARY 22, 2024
A supply-demand chain reaction for uranium prices Uranium prices went nuclear on Monday, blasting past $100/lb for the first time since 2008. While prices spiked due to a shortage from the top global uranium producer, the supply-demand mismatch has been mushrooming for over a decade amid changing tides for more nuclear development.
DeSmogBlog
MARCH 31, 2023
He died in 2008. From 1974-1977, Shell was among the multinational companies that funded and loaned staff to a study known as the Workshop on Alternative Energy Strategies — or WAES — coordinated by Carroll Wilson, a professor at MIT who had begun to champion coal after becoming disenchanted with nuclear power.
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