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A decidedly impartial review of Mark Jacobson’s 100% Clean, Renewable Energy and Storage for Everything

Renewable Energy World

When you’ve followed the evolving research of a leading clean energy expert and become a supporter of his vision for a global clean energy transition, it should come as no surprise that I was eager to crack open Mark Jacobson’s 2021 book release, 100% Clean, Renewable Energy and Storage for Everything.

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Analysis: How did the 2019 legislative session fare on climate justice?

Front And Centered

This affects not only issues like education, but the states policies and resource allocations related to issues like climate, energy and the environment. Legislation also passed that phases out Hydrofluorocarbons (HB 1112) a potent greenhouse gas used in refrigeration and cooling products. Photo by Samantha Bushman.

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The Overview Effect

Grist

In interviews afterward, Shatner made a plea for the planet as TV hosts tried to steer him toward topics lighter than death and global warming. A half-century later, ex-NASA astronaut José Hernández said that the view aboard the Space Shuttle Discovery in 2009 turned him into “an instant treehugger.”.

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? Africa’s inaugural climate summit #165

Climate Tech VC

An historic climate summit in Nairobi last week underscored the need for drastic changes in climate finance and clean energy development. Africa is home to vast thermal, wind, solar, and hydro energy resources (some 60% of the world’s renewable energy potential ) as well as mineral deposits essential for the global energy transition.

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A North-Pole, How Much Longer?

Mr. Sustainability

Some have actually called the Arctic the world’s “air-conditioning system” because of the role of the large ice sheets in cooling the surrounding continents. In the absence of thick multi-year ice, which can be up to five meters deep, any water that refreezes would take the form of much thinner, more navigable seasonable ice.