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.

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Policy Packaging Fossil fuels Politics 59

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.

Investment 61

Investment Demand Startups Batteries 61

DeSmogBlog

MARCH 31, 2023

Society had acknowledged that it had “over-estimated” the carrying capacity of soil, water, and air so “current wisdom” would lead us to “unequivocally condemn such past practice.” He died in 2008. The act of allowing such by-products to blow into the “open air” was no longer seen as “unproblematic,” he wrote.

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Climate change Fossil fuels Pollution Carbon-negative 98

Business Green

AUGUST 8, 2022

It is significantly larger than the clean tech focused stimulus package the Obama administration passed in the wake of the 2008 financial crisis, which played such a big role in accelerating US renewables and electric vehicle deployment. And advanced nuclear power production tax credits of 1.5 per gallon.

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Fossil fuels Methane Carbon-negative Carbon-neutral 36