GreenTechMedia

AUGUST 7, 2020

Now, he’s out with a new book, “ Rethinking Humanity ,” that predicts the 2020s will be “the most disruptive decade in history” — not just in terms of energy technology, but across every major industry in the world today. Vice : How Solar Power Could Slay the Fossil Fuel Empire by 2030.

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Hydrogen Fuel News

MARCH 17, 2024

Naturally, there is enough information about each of these types to fill books, but the purpose of this list is to gain a brief understanding so you can keep up with some of the language used in recent news published online, and to simply become more familiar with some of these terms so you can look into them further if they are of interest to you.

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The Environmental Blog

FEBRUARY 2, 2024

As Oxford professor Dieter Helm points out in his latest book – Legacy: How to Build the Sustainable Economy – we need to mend our ways in order to meet the needs of future generations. Solar, geothermal and wind power, all offer a cleaner alternative to traditional fossil fuels.

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Charged

FEBRUARY 17, 2022

L-Charge’s “rapidly scalable off-grid ultra-fast chargers” use energy from locally-stored fossil fuels rather than the electrical grid. Customers can call for a charge via a mobile app, and can book charging in advance at pre-scheduled times.

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Hydrogen Fuel News

DECEMBER 3, 2023

According to the US Department of Energy , hydrogen fuel can be produced from a broad spectrum of different technologies and energy sources.    These include “fossil fuels, biomass, and water electrolysis with electricity.” Making hydrogen fuel at home requires only the most basic materials.

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Business Green

APRIL 20, 2022

Fay Milton of Music Declares Emergency welcomed the new technology. It's a no-brainer, why use fossil fuel-based products when you can now simply choose not to? Artists will be extremely keen to use Evolution Music's bioplastic for their physical products," she said.

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DeSmogBlog

JUNE 12, 2023

A hydrogen industry lobby group has produced a comic book aimed at high schoolers that suggests solar and wind power are incapable of fueling decarbonization goals, and that only hydrogen fuel cells provide sufficient energy to eliminate fossil fuels. This is misleading for several reasons,” said Mark Z.

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DeSmogBlog

MARCH 2, 2022

Scientists working with one of the world’s largest climate research publishers say they’re increasingly alarmed that the company works with the fossil fuel industry to help increase oil and gas drilling, the Guardian can reveal. Elsevier is the publisher of some of the most important journals in the environmental space,” she said.

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GreenTechMedia

NOVEMBER 20, 2020

But so much of the discussion in that sector focuses on the supply side: how fast will wind and solar displace fossil fuels? With decades of industry recognition and awards, Trina Solar is committed to delivering reliable and fully bankable solar technology to the world. What will happen with natural gas?

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Grist

SEPTEMBER 21, 2021

Greenhouse gas emissions from burning coal and other fossil fuels accelerated, and over the past decade Earth has been losing around 1.2 The coal-dust tests are just one of many strange episodes illuminated in Alice Bell’s new book, Our Biggest Experiment: An Epic History of the Climate Crisis. trillion tons of ice every year.

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DeSmogBlog

OCTOBER 28, 2022

In February this year, UNIMIB and Eni signed a five-year “Joint Research Agreement,” (JRA) in which the university and the fossil fuel company pledged to collaborate on “research projects of common interest” related to the energy transition, according to an Eni press release. org, an international movement working to end fossil fuels.

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Business Green

JUNE 22, 2021

The Microsoft founder’s new book further strengthens our conviction about investing in the energy transition, according to Schroders. When one of the world's wealthiest individuals writes a book on avoiding climate disaster - and suggests changes we all need to make to our lifestyles - it is easy to be cynical.

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Envirotec Magazine

NOVEMBER 8, 2021

Speaking at the launch of the book in Glasgow on 30 October, he shared some of his views on the measures that might constitute a successful COP, or a not-entirely-disastrous-one, at least. “The Glasgow COP is going to fail us,” writes Rupert Read in one of the essays in a new collection, Climate Adaptation.

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GreenTechMedia

MAY 14, 2020

Late last year, the European Union introduced a $1 trillion plan to reach carbon neutrality by 2050 and achieve a just transition away from polluting technologies. Not only that — we also discuss the fallout from plummeting oil prices, what to do with stranded fossil fuel assets, the outlook for a U.S.

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ThinkGeoEnergy

NOVEMBER 29, 2023

For this reason, subsurface mapping technologies have proven very valuable in geothermal project development in Switzerland. These ambitious targets call for a total abandonment of fossil fuel energy sources and a transition to an energy supply system that is clean, local, secure, affordable, and 100% Swiss.

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Business Green

OCTOBER 4, 2021

Mann was speaking last week about his latest book, The New Climate War , which argues that forces that have for decades sought to oppose climate action have now revised their strategies for a world in which the impacts of climate change are "no longer subtle". It's already cheaper than fossil fuels on a levelised basis.".

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DeSmogBlog

JANUARY 30, 2024

At 9:30 am on March 12, 1963, in Room 1-B of Manhattan’s Rockefeller Institute , six experts gathered to discuss the implications of a newly identified atmospheric phenomenon: the rising level of carbon dioxide (CO2) caused by the burning of fossil fuels. Ordway, Jr., in the foreword to the group’s 1962 Annual Report.

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DeSmogBlog

APRIL 24, 2024

And, eventually, it all became this book, Petroleum 238: Big Oil’s Dangerous Secret and the Grassroots Fight to Stop It — available here on Amazon , here on Bookshop , or it can be ordered at any local bookstore. It is out of this unknowing, and deception, that this book can exist. It almost doesn’t seem real, and you might deny it.

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DeSmogBlog

APRIL 15, 2021

There is little evidence to suggest that fossil fuel companies can be trusted to change their ways, says the new peer-reviewed paper published on April 15 in Energy Research and Social Science. Pivoting to align a fossil fuel company with what the science says is required to limit global temperature increases to 1.5°C

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DeSmogBlog

APRIL 15, 2021

There is little evidence to suggest that fossil fuel companies can be trusted to change their ways, says the new peer-reviewed paper published on April 15 in Energy Research and Social Science. Pivoting to align a fossil fuel company with what the science says is required to limit global temperature increases to 1.5°C

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The Verge: Energy

NOVEMBER 30, 2023

Sean Gallup/Getty Images Tens of thousands of negotiators, activists, and corporate execs have descended upon Dubai to wrangle over the future of fossil fuels. The future of fossil fuels Let’s start with some backstory on COP28. Greenhouse gas emissions come from extracting and burning fossil fuels, of course.

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DeSmogBlog

JANUARY 19, 2022

Now she studies right-wing messaging on climate change — like pundits’ use of windmills to imply that wind energy is an outdated technology. She also founded End Climate Silence , an organization focused on strengthening climate change reporting and ending fossil fuel advertising in the media.

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Energy Innovation

DECEMBER 17, 2018

Reducing the fuel portion of consumers’ bills also helps to insulate them from fuel cost volatility, risks and potential liabilities. In a recent earnings call with investment analysts, CEO Ben Fowke noted that the utility could “invest in renewable generation in which the capital cost could be more than offset by fuel savings.”. .”

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DeSmogBlog

MARCH 30, 2023

I’m the author of The Petroleum Papers , which was named a top 10 book of 2022 by the Washington Post. While researching my book, I read through hundreds of pages of internal documents from the company, which revealed that Imperial Oil was studying the link between fossil fuels and global warming as early as the 1970s.

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Low Impact

NOVEMBER 1, 2020

This new book, ‘A Small Farm Future’ published by Chelsea Green, outlines what a post-covid, post-capitalist society might look like, built around a repopulated countryside of small farmers. However, in this review, I won’t go into the details of farming covered in the book. But does it have to be that way?

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Business Green

AUGUST 1, 2022

There's the technological challenge of developing the products and services necessary to decarbonise. They are the materials that make our buildings, the components inside our technologies, the fuels that provide our energy, and even the food we eat. And what does the net zero commodities boom mean for business everywhere?

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Green Business Bureau

JULY 22, 2021

Business travel is of economic importance but as we launch into the last 10 years of the UN’s Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), we find that reducing our fossil fuel dependency must also be an urgent priority. Implement more eco-friendly ways of flying by booking direct flights. Choose Green Hotels.

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DeSmogBlog

SEPTEMBER 5, 2022

In 2012, Truss co-authored the book Britannia Unchained , which took a swipe at “government-subsidised green technology” and argued for a low-tax, deregulated economy. Truss has ties to other American fossil fuel-linked groups. He said Truss should tax fossil fuel company profits, freeze energy bills and insulate homes.

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DeSmogBlog

FEBRUARY 7, 2023

New technologies are allowing for actual measurements of oil and gas methane emissions like never before, whether from leaks or intentional flaring and venting. But implementing measures to control methane pollution from the fossil fuel industry has proven difficult in the U.S.

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GreenBiz

JULY 22, 2020

Climate TRACE is just the latest example of the former vice president’s decades-long commitment to educating the world about the climate crisis, through The Climate Reality Project, and to investing in technologies and solutions that could address it, through Generation Investment Manager. . And let’s go to the semiconductor industry.

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Green Business Bureau

MARCH 25, 2021

These instances each reflect the urgency of investing in renewable energy technologies. As the global population rises and the global middle class expands, countries and industries are given a unique opportunity to leapfrog stages of development and avoid reliance on fossil fuels altogether. SDG 7 Targets.

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DeSmogBlog

APRIL 6, 2021

The findings raise concerns over a systemic conflict of interest at a time when the international financial sector is under increasing pressure to stop funding fossil fuels. Banks are increasingly saying they will decarbonise by 2050, yet a large number continue to finance fossil fuels, the primary source of carbon emissions.

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Green Market Oracle

SEPTEMBER 3, 2020

Here are fifty recently published books on the subjects of global warming, climate mitigation and social change. This is a companion piece to the the 25 books in The Green Market Oracle's well informed readers list. These books are organized in the following six categories: 1. Climate impacts 2. Sustainability and business 3.

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Business Green

OCTOBER 21, 2020

A new book argues that while demand for new electric vehicles will soar, the long life of existing cars means it could take decades to dislodge petrol and diesel fuel infrastructure. Yergin is right to warn that displacing the fossil fuels that have dominated road transport for over a century will prove a "long road".

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GreenTechMedia

MARCH 1, 2021

The energy transition isn’t just sounding the death knell for fossil fuels. According to some experts, it has also revealed flaws in an idea that has bugged some academics for decades: As we move to less energy-dense fuels, could we end up without enough surplus for society? Oil is an energy-dense fuel.

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Green Business Bureau

MARCH 25, 2021

These instances each reflect the urgency of investing in renewable energy technologies. As the global population rises and the global middle class expands, countries and industries are given a unique opportunity to leapfrog stages of development and avoid reliance on fossil fuels altogether. SDG 7 Targets.

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Business Green

DECEMBER 2, 2020

The chosen location would also host a new science and technology hub, it added. We are confident that working together with partners in the UK and around the world will enable the UK to bring a revolutionary technology to market," he added. Land conditions, grid connection, and water supplies will all be taken into account.

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