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This carbon challenge is bigger than cars, aviation and shipping combined

GreenBiz

To transform basic inputs into stuff we need, manufacturers constantly heat (and cool) minerals, ores and other raw materials to extreme temperatures. The world’s kilns, reactors, chillers and furnaces are powered mostly by fossil fuels. . Making natural gas renewable . Industrial heat is essential but largely invisible.

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The carbon challenge that is bigger than cars, aviation, and shipping combined

Business Green

To transform basic inputs into stuff we need, manufacturers constantly heat (and cool) minerals, ores and other raw materials to extreme temperatures. The world's kilns, reactors, chillers, and furnaces are powered mostly by fossil fuels. Making natural gas renewable. Industrial heat is essential but largely invisible.

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Lessons from a year of reporting on climate solutions in Cascadia

Grist

Renewable solar and wind power now typically costs less than fossil-fuel alternatives. This is also largely true across North America, and beyond. Electric heat pumps can replace furnaces and, despite their name, they can actually heat and cool. If not sooner. And that’s crucial. That’s begun in Cascadia.

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US Cracks 100GW of Wind as Post-Subsidy Era Looms

GreenTechMedia

The American wind market faces a number of major challenges in the years ahead, including the expiration of its longstanding bedrock subsidy, the production tax credit; fierce competition from natural gas and solar; and severe transmission congestion in key development regions. wind capacity from 2019-28. It took the U.S.