Renewable Energy World

MAY 20, 2021

When a lithium-ion battery reaches a critical temperature, the liquid electrolyte inside the battery can vaporize and release toxic, flammable gases including hydrogen, carbon monoxide, methane, and propylene. During normal operating conditions the battery discharges power from the solar array to the grid.

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EDF + Business

JULY 19, 2019

These sensors are making it easier and more affordable for companies to detect, visualize and manage a wide array of environmental impacts. For example: Methane, the primary component of natural gas, is a potent greenhouse gas responsible for 25% of the warming we’re experiencing today.

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Business Green

AUGUST 5, 2022

At last year's COP26 Climate Summit in Glasgow a new accord between the US and China saw the two countries promise to work together to accelerate clean tech deployment and tackle methane emissions and deforestation. Global Methane Hub and Beyond Oil & Gas Alliance announce $1.5m emissions reduction push.

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EDF + Business

NOVEMBER 10, 2021

At the same time, the sector must reduce its own greenhouse gas emissions, particularly potent methane and nitrous oxide emissions. This is essential to our success, as is a focused effort to serve a diverse array of banks and farmers. Moving forward, the B4ICA partners are working to bring more agricultural banks into the initiative.

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Unsustainable

AUGUST 20, 2019

Of course, we all know that deforestation isn’t just about cutting down trees, it is also about damaging a whole ecosystem as “the majority of the world’s biodiversity (the huge array of insects, birds, mammals, reptiles, amphibians, plants and trees) lives in, and depends on, forests” iv 2.

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Hydrogen Fuel News

JANUARY 19, 2024

Gasification Gasification involves subjecting biomass to high temperatures in an environment with controlled oxygen, which converts the material into a mixture of gases including hydrogen, carbon monoxide, and methane, collectively known as syngas.

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Business Green

NOVEMBER 15, 2023

Local authority decision-makers are faced with a bewildering array of potential options to achieve decarbonisation, so it's important to understand which are the most effective and which could help to spark a wider adoption of low-carbon technologies across the region. methane - CH4).

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Business Green

APRIL 22, 2022

Some of the leading players in China's oil and gas industry this week announced the launch of a new climate-focused investment fund in a bid to boost investment in methane emission reduction efforts and carbon capture and storage projects. China debuts new climate investment fund.

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GreenTechMedia

NOVEMBER 16, 2020

The thinking behind Desertec was that up to 20 percent of Europe’s energy needs could be met with huge solar and wind arrays located in the Sahara, brought into the bloc via a trans-Mediterranean high-voltage power network. At one stage, RWE, Siemens and First Solar were all involved.

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DeSmogBlog

AUGUST 26, 2022

But it has been instrumental in an array of oil industry campaigns meant to sow doubt about climate change , attack climate scientists, and play up the benefits of fossil fuels. . A powerful Washington, D.C., FTI Consulting , a billion-dollar firm that has a global presence, is not a household name.

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Elemental Excelerator

MAY 20, 2020

Joan Salwen, CEO of Blue Ocean Barns , explained that feeding seaweed to cattle can help slash methane emissions. ” We are so very proud and humbled to work with such an array of amazing leaders and their teams, from this latest cohort and all across our entire portfolio. A final goodbye from Dawn and Lily (1.1

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DeSmogBlog

MARCH 2, 2023

Gas stoves emit an array of air pollutants , including nitrogen oxides (nitric oxide and nitrogen dioxide), carbon monoxide, and particulate matter when in use. New research shows that they also leak methane , a powerful greenhouse gas, and benzene , a known human carcinogen , even when turned off.

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Business Green

AUGUST 9, 2022

The details contained in the Bill - $369bn of climate spending, long term tax credits across multiple clean tech sectors, new methane taxes and direct R&D investment - are important, but what is more interesting is how the Inflation Reduction Act (IRA) is framed.

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DeSmogBlog

APRIL 26, 2021

Both EQT and Chesapeake will seek certification from outside providers, including a business called Project Canary, which touts its ability to collect data on methane emissions and pollutants from oil and gas wells and offers a certification it calls TrustWell. But meanwhile, the industry’s methane emissions have continued to rapidly rise.

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Envirotec Magazine

JULY 20, 2021

By coating the silicon dioxide layer with a thin film of aluminum and then heating the entire structure, arrays of nanoscale “spikes” of aluminum that completely bridge the silicon dioxide layer are formed. To get there, Yu and his team used a technique first deployed in the manufacturing of semiconductor electronic chips.

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DeSmogBlog

DECEMBER 1, 2023

Route to Influence 4: COP Initiatives A wide array of “initiatives” are launched and promoted at COPs, often at the various country pavilions. It can also be “important for coming up with common positions, being seen as being on the same side and providing legitimacy,” he says. As COP28 host UAE is also looking to leave its mark.

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DeSmogBlog

JULY 18, 2021

JBS’s CEO Gilberto Tomazoni announced last year that the company had already taken “a giant step” towards a more sustainable production process thanks to an array of technologies and that it had “a huge capacity to produce more without devastating anything.” Some go as far as claiming these will enable the industry to go fully carbon neutral.

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AGreenLiving

NOVEMBER 1, 2021

In addition, cows contribute to methane release, which is a greenhouse gas that adds to the carbon footprint. Part of the food chain perhaps, but eating plants straight from the source eliminates many of the required resources for raising livestock. The third primary benefit of eating plant-based food is for your health.

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Mr. Sustainability

APRIL 18, 2021

Besides the electrolyzers needed to produce the green hydrogen, a vast array of chemical systems are needed to create synthetic fuel. 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. No surprise there.

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Mr. Sustainability

APRIL 18, 2021

Besides the electrolyzers needed to produce the green hydrogen, a vast array of chemical systems are needed to create synthetic fuel. 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. No surprise there.

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Business Green

MARCH 25, 2022

Washington and Brussels team up in support of wide-ranging plan to diversify Europe's sources of LNG, ramp up renewables development, plug methane leaks, and boost energy efficiency. EU and US team up for energy security push. China latest mega-hydropower plant comes online.

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DeSmogBlog

APRIL 22, 2021

And since 1997 about one million barrels worth of oilfield waste has been brought to Lotus’s disposal site, situated off a dusty desert road located 19 miles west of Andrews, Texas (and just several miles from a massive solar array financed by Facebook and which provides energy to Shell’s fracking operations).

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DeSmogBlog

MARCH 9, 2024

Still, the cheniers and the surrounding wetlands provide critical habitat for fish, shrimp, ducks, and an array of migratory birds travelling across the Gulf of Mexico. As Gas Outlook reported last year, the LNG terminals themselves are leaking methane that is going unrecorded. They also provide a buffer against floods and storms.

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Green Market Oracle

AUGUST 30, 2020

The Complicated Potential of RNG (Panel Discussion): It seems that everyone wants a piece of the nascent renewable natural gas market.RNG, which is created through capturing methane that otherwise would be released into the atmosphere, is attractive to every sector looking to decarbonize, since the emissions are considered to be carbon negative.

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Business Green

FEBRUARY 8, 2023

The reserve is home to a vast array of rare and critically endangered animal species, including pangolins, sun bears, and - perhaps most famously - the Sumatran Tiger, of which there are less than 400 left in the wild. Alongside restoration, research is also a major pillar of the RER project.

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DeSmogBlog

MARCH 30, 2021

The update was sparked by decades old changes in drilling technology already used in an area that gained notoriety for having one of the largest methane hot spots on the planet — because of leaking oil and gas wells. Whichever update the BLM and BIA choose will have to take account of an array of competing goals.

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DeSmogBlog

MARCH 16, 2024

He is a retired real-estate investor who has been involved in an impressive array of local energy fights over the past 15 years. ” A mostly rural area outside of Columbus, Knox County happens to be home to the Ariel Corporation, a major manufacturer of methane gas compressors. One of those names is John Droz.

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Andrew Winston

DECEMBER 22, 2021

It captures a huge array of corporate goals, announcements, partnerships, government action, and more. Cargill will sell cow face masks to catch burps full of methane… here. Sustainability has finally mainstreamed (which is my grand conclusion for this year’s HBR article, coming out in a few days).

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DeSmogBlog

APRIL 21, 2021

It is important to note that while natural gas carries a lower carbon dioxide footprint when compared to coal, it also results in methane leaks up and down the supply chain. Methane arguably wipes out the perceived benefit of gas over coal.

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Green Market Oracle

FEBRUARY 20, 2020

I went out to tech -- you have a facility where you have one of the largest, largest solar panel arrays in the world. If we could enforce some of the rules on fracking so that they don't release methane into the air and into the water, you'll make a big difference. That's where most of the greenhouse. You frack oil, as well.

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Business Green

AUGUST 8, 2022

The citing of concerns over its potentially inflationary effects was widely seen as a convenient cover story that allowed Manchin to torpedo a vast array of measures that would have curbed fossil fuel production. The US is set to get its first ever carbon equivalent tax - on methane. temperature goal is to be kept alive.

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Business Green

AUGUST 8, 2022

For example, it extends tax credits for renewables projects for a decade providing developers with significant long-term certainty, offers new payments to extend the life of nuclear plants, and provides significant new clean tech R&D funding for a wide array of sectors.

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