Environment

Originally published on the NRDC Expert Blog.By Gabrielle Habeeb & Ashok Gupta  Eliminating carbon emissions from our building and transportation sectors will be critical to maintaining a healthy and livable climate. This week’s IPCC report makes it clear that heat waves will continue to worsen — so we must rise to the challenge in addressing and living

This is the third in a series of articles I’m writing about flow battery technology, with a couple of articles devoted to Agora Energy Technologies’ specific technology. The first article dealt with flow batteries in general, and why they are a strongly promising component for grid storage. The second dealt with Agora’s unique differentiators. This

Municipal sewage sludge ranks high upon the list of things that are sure in life, right alongside death and taxes. The good news is that it can be dried and re-used as fertilizer, or upcycled into various forms of renewable energy. The bad news is that all these processes require energy, which can put you

National Renewable Energy Laboratory (NREL) researchers have been exploring the use of thermoplastic composite materials for wind turbines for several years, but they have only just begun to scrape the surface of how these materials perform underwater. For the first time in history, thermoplastic composite blades, which have the potential to revolutionize the marine energy

In this article @CL.1 XLE CVX It’s been a volatile week for crude oil. West Texas Intermediate was under pressure again on Friday for a second day in a row, falling below $69 a barrel, though it remained on pace for a nearly 1% gain for the week. These moves in the commodity come as

The Climate Crisis team on Quora asked me to assess which industries are ahead and behind in terms of dealing with climate solutions. I’d just finished reading Kahneman’s Noise: A Flaw in Human Judgment (strongly recommended), so instead of attempting to provide a multifactorial scoring, I decided to go with a ranking mechanism instead. And

Solar panels in the Indian state of Karnataka. Jonas Gratzer | LightRocket | Getty Images The Indian government has said that the country’s installed renewable energy capacity had “crossed the milestone” of 100 gigawatts. In a tweet Thursday, R. K. Singh, India’s minister of power, described the news as “another landmark day” in the history

In this article ORSTED-DK RWE-DE Alex Kraus | Bloomberg | Getty Images The chief financial officer of German utility RWE on Thursday acknowledged the importance of weather to its renewables segment, as the company reported “much lower” wind volumes in Northern and Central Europe for the first half of 2021. In an interview with CNBC,

Local jobs. Increased tax revenues. Income for landowners. Clean, homegrown energy. These are just a few of the many benefits wind energy projects offer the communities in which they are located. But when it comes to deciding if a wind project is right for them, communities can find it challenging to weigh potential benefits against

There once was a conspicuous consumer who bought a red Tesla because he thought it looked good and he enjoyed having people notice him. “Virtue signaler,” the conservationists and nature lovers called him. “Were the battery materials sources sustainably? Will they be recycled without destroying the environment?” The conspicuous consumer bought solar panels and put

In this article @CL.1 @LCO.1 The OPEC logo pictured ahead of an informal meeting between members of the Organization of the Petroleum Exporting Countries (OPEC) in Algiers, Algeria. Ramzi Boudina | Reuters Oil prices fell on Wednesday after the White House called on OPEC and its allies to increase oil production to support the global

In this article MSFT A Bronx rooftop with a view of Manhattan in the distance is covered with solar panels. As climate and racial justice are connected, ESG experts say more clean energy projects and jobs need to come to neglected urban communities. DON EMMERT | AFP | Getty Images Climate crises across the country

We are doing a great job — everything bad is someone else’s fault. We are waiting for some magic technology to solve the problem for us — no, we won’t use the technology we already have. We have to give all our money to the fossil fuel industry. FFS! To understand Morrison, you have to

Washington, D.C. — The U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) today announced $45 million for projects that will help seamlessly integrate clean energy sources onto the grid, supporting the Biden Administration’s goal of a decarbonized power sector by 2035. As solar and other renewable energy are rapidly deployed throughout the country, these projects are developing new technologies

In this article ENEL-IT SRG-IT BP.-GB Aleksander Kalka | NurPhoto | Getty Images Oil and gas giant BP said Wednesday “the production of green hydrogen and green ammonia using renewable ‎energy” was now technically feasible at scale in Australia. The energy major’s conclusion is based on the findings of a feasibility study announced in May

Article courtesy of RMI.By Jules Kortenhorst  The emotional weight of the findings in the IPCC’s latest report is real and the conclusion is therefore unmistakable: we must double down and act without delay. We have known for many decades that at some point this day would come when the climate crisis was not a distant future

Nikkei Asia has published an interesting read on Tesla’s patent numbers, which now number in the hundreds and cover a wide variety of topics. It seems like Tesla has a new patent for something every other day. Nikkei conducted the study in collaboration with Intellectual Property Landscape, a Tokyo analytics company, and the two found

A wildfire burn trees on August 2, 2021 in Mugla, Marmaris district, as the European Union sent help to Turkey and volunteers joined firefighters in battling a week of violent blazes that have killed eight people. YASIN AKGUL | AFP | Getty Images The world’s leading climate scientists on Monday delivered their starkest warning yet

With the major averages near record highs, many stocks look untouchable. But a few lesser-known names that are trading at attractive valuations are on track to finish the second half with a rally, two traders told CNBC on Friday. “I think in the second half, what you’ve really got to be looking for is those

I expect that when the large oil companies transition into energy companies and buy up all the renewable generation — thus continuing their oligarchy — the FUD will cease around wind turbines. Very few people cared that birds died from the pollution caused by coal-fired power stations, but one sparrow gets hit by a turbine