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Biomass Energy: Pros and Cons Explained

Hydrogen Fuel News

This exploration into the realm of biomass energy untangles the complexities and delves into its multifaceted nature, uncovering the potential of plant-based and waste-derived materials as alternative sources of power. Biomass energy harnesses organic matter, including wood, agricultural crops, and waste by-products, as fuel.

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Using Recycled Paper Is Not Just About Saving Trees

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In addition, it takes “an average of 5 litres of water to produce one piece of A4 paper”, “50% of the waste of businesses is composed of paper”, “recycling 1 ton of paper saves around 682.5 Consequently, deforestation is one of the biggest issues connected to using virgin paper. offices use 12.1

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Where Does All The Radioactive Fracking Waste Go?

DeSmogBlog

On May 8, 2017, a drum of radioactive oilfield waste from Australia arrived at a remote West Texas disposal site operated by local oil and gas environmental services company, Lotus LLC. This drum of waste entered the United States aboard a Singapore Airlines cargo jet, appropriately packaged in a steel drum.

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Online Event - VERGE Energy Conference

Green Market Oracle

Conference New Green Revolution: How to Cut Pollution without Sacrificing Yields (Panel Discussion): Increasing yields often means using more fertilizer, pesticides and herbicides. But more chemicals generally means more greenhouse gas emissions and other pollution. Because you never forget your first.

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Can a tiger change its stripes? Meet the pulp and paper giant bankrolling a huge Sumatran rainforest reserve

Business Green

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. Where managed plantations meet the rainforest edge - Credit: Michael Holder Young, fresh-faced and 'green'?

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Climate Related Excerpts from the Ninth Democratic Primary Debate

Green Market Oracle

I went out to tech -- you have a facility where you have one of the largest, largest solar panel arrays in the world. That's where the asthma is, that's where the groundwater supply has been polluted. BIDEN: It [climate change] is the existential threat humanity faces, global warming. That's where most of the greenhouse.

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Inflation Reduction Act: 10 ways it will turbocharge US climate action (and one way it won't)

Business Green

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.