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US oil and gas companies should consider redirecting investments from new drilling to renewable energies

Renewable Energy World

In Europe, companies and countries are diversifying into renewables as illustrated by the following: Denmark, leading the world in wind power, recently stopped exploration for oil and gas, and plans to close its oil production by 2050. If supply follows demand, oil and gas could fall by 30% from now to 2035-2040.

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‘Math Doesn’t Yet Add Up’ for Utility Decarbonization Goals: Deloitte

GreenTechMedia

But Deloitte has pushed these demand-side efforts into the 2030-2040 timeframe due to the complexity of enabling them at scale, "even if you assume you’re able to get the regulatory support you need to allow DER to play the role it can.".

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Exploring Europe’s approach to offshore wind and green hydrogen

Renewable Energy World

Scottish offshore energy company Equinor has revealed its preferred floating wind foundation design for full-scale gigawatt (GW) commercial floating offshore wind, if successful in the ScotWind leasing round. They currently have 25GW constructed and a target of another 27+GW by 2040. Courtesy: Equinor).

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The Sierra Club's Top 20 Cool Schools

Green Market Oracle

At this ag-ed powerhouse, popular courses include Food Systems and Intro to Sustainable Agriculture, and researchers are working to enhance carbon sequestration through crushed-rock soil amendments and devising seaweed-based cattle feed amendments to slash dairy cows’ methane emissions.

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How to build a green hydrogen refinery for the maritime industry in Rotterdam

Mr. Sustainability

Given our lack of knowledge on this specific topic, we cannot state with confidence the energy required to create a metric ton of synthetic fuel, whether it would be methane or diesel. For methane it is close, as you would need 1 carbon atom and 4 hydrogen atoms, CH4. No surprise there. GW of renewable hydrogen capacity by 2030.

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How to build a green hydrogen refinery for the maritime industry in Rotterdam

Mr. Sustainability

Given our lack of knowledge on this specific topic, we cannot state with confidence the energy required to create a metric ton of synthetic fuel, whether it would be methane or diesel. Apparently they aim to produce 60,000 kg of green hydrogen on the Tweede Maasvlakte using green electricity from offshore wind. No surprise there.