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Global warming is projected to exceed 1.8°C, according to McKinsey report

Envirotec Magazine

The energy transition continues to gain steam, with oil demand projected to peak in this decade, perhaps as soon as 2025, according to new research by global consultancy firm McKinsey & Company. To keep up with these net-zero ambitions, the global energy system may need to significantly accelerate its transformation.

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Korean scientists develop an alternative technology for 'SF6', a major culprit of global warming

TechXplore

Korea Electrotechnology Research Institute (KERI) has developed a world-class "eco-friendly insulating gas" that replaces SF6 (sulfur hexafluoride), the main cause of global warming in the field of electric power equipment, and developed a design technology to make it applicable to ultra-high voltage transmission circuit breakers.

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5 Major Technologies Changing The Future Of The Renewable Energy Industry

The Environmental Blog

There is no doubt that the emergence of renewable energy has revolutionized our world. It has driven awareness about serious issues like Global Warming and Climate Change. This awareness has led to both governments as well as normal human beings trying to take steps to make the transition from fossil fuels to clean energy.

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IPCC: ‘Limiting global warming will require major transitions in the energy sector’

Smart Energy International

The UN IPCC has released its latest climate change mitigation report, which provides an updated global assessment of mitigation progress and pledges. One of its core findings is that major transitions in the energy industry will be key to mitigating the climate crisis. This offers significant untapped potential.”. C is beyond reach.

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Ed’s note: Solar dimming – the answer for global warming?

Smart Energy International

In January a group of scientists from across the globe published an open letter advising against dimming the Sun as a measure to lessening the impact of global warming and calling for an ‘International non-use agreement on solar engineering’. Powering a Moon village Rethinking the energy grid: The evolution of mission-critical power.

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Research: Limiting global warming to 2C could create eight million green energy jobs

Business Green

Limiting global warming below the Paris Agreement temperature target of 2C would create around eight million jobs worldwide by 2050, research published in the journal One Earth estimates. million jobs in these technologies by 2050, with about 36 per cent of new jobs in the energy sector dedicated to manufacturing solar and wind.

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National Renewable Energy Laboratory - NREL Analysis Reveals Benefits of Hydropower for Grid-Scale Energy StorageAssessment Shows Global Warming Potential Lowest Among Technologies Studied

Global Renewable News

Closed-loop pumped storage hydropower systems rank as having the lowest potential to add to the problem of global warming for energy storage when accounting for the full impacts of materials and const.