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Ørsted reports bumper profits thanks to blustery December

Business Green

Norwegian wind giant says earnings ‘exceeded expectations’ in 2019 and is on track to be carbon neutral by 2025. According to 2019 earnings reported today, Ørsted logged an operating profit of DKK17.5bn ($2.6bn), thanks in part of windier weather than anticipated. He called on other firms to follow suit.

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Vestas Cancels 2020 Guidance as Coronavirus Clouds Wind’s Near-Term Future

GreenTechMedia

Fellow major European turbine supplier Siemens Gamesa has similarly been logging healthy orders in Q1, including 342 megawatts for a German offshore wind project. The epicenter of the pandemic has shifted from China to Europe and the U.S. They’re key to our technological leadership towards a climate-neutral economy.”

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Logging is destroying southern forests — and dividing US environmentalists

Grist

logging and woods products industry has positioned itself as a purveyor of “natural climate solutions.” After they are cut they can be replanted, absorbing carbon once again as they mature. This rosy view of logging, however, is hotly contested. In the fight against climate change, the $300-billion U.S.

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Can burning biomass be sustainable?

Low Impact

Many local people are furious at the damage done to their forests by logging corporations ripping out whole trees with Star-Wars machinery that first churns up and then compacts the soil. In any case, why send wood pellets to Europe to substitute for coal, when North Americans burn more fossil fuels than Europeans do? Carbon Debt.

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Innovative drilling tech at the forefront of Finland geothermal project

ThinkGeoEnergy

Using the GMTracker DTH data-logging software, well drilling data collected, monitored in real-time, analyzed, and reported. Our mission is to assist our customers on their carbon neutrality journey, particularly in heating. All operations are protected by a safety radar system. Our product is clean heating energy.

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Why California is fighting fire with fire

Grist

Forests are so unhealthy they are now emitting more carbon than they produce, according to recent s tudies. At the same time, California is counting on its forests sucking up lots of carbon from cars, factories, and power plants to meet its goals to slash carbon emissions. “If But either way, the result is more carbon emissions.

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Water-to-Air Ratio – GreenRoofs101

Green Roof Technology

In this regard the Green Roof industry is not getting tired in developing a deluge of products and components that are supposed to help with stormwater management, stormwater retention, stormwater detention, stormwater neutralization, and stormwater clarification. This and the additional risk of water-logging increase the stress on plants.