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Boris Johnson: 'We are progressing with gale force speed on the green economy'

Business Green

Prime Minister takes swipe at 'people used to sneer at wind power 20 years ago' in speech that majors on green economy ambitions. The long-awaited Energy White Paper setting out the government's road map to net zero power and heating is also thought to be imminent. Well, they forgot the history of this country. "But

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“Learning” Frontiers In The Energy Transition

Energy Innovation

This point was reinforced last year through a white paper from the Oxford Institute for Energy Studies, which cautioned against overreliance on past trends for solar and wind cost declines, noting how in the past some technological advancements have led to ongoing breakthroughs whereas others have led to stalemate.

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Climate-Science Deniers, Right-Wing Think Tanks, and Fossil Fuel Shills Are Plotting Against the Clean Energy Transition

DeSmogBlog

.” More recently, Morano has been talking about whales—specifically, the idea that the higher-than-usual number of dead ones washing ashore along the East Coast is the result of President Joe Biden’s push to develop 30 gigawatts of offshore wind power by the end of the decade.