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  • How gophers brought Mount St. Helens back to life in one day

    A great example of how important soil biome is when it comes to regenerating native forests. … the scientists did not expect the benefits of this experiment would still be visible in the soil today, in 2024. A paper out this week in the journal Frontiers in Microbiomes details an enduring change in the communities of fungi…

  • Innovations in Hypocrisy

    https://jensorensen.com/2024/10/03/ai-data-centers-carbon-climate-tech-companies-cartoon/

  • Wind powers a record summer for renewable energy in Britain

    Gotta love down and to the right…. Before August 2024, monthly generation from fossil fuels had never dipped below 4 TWh, even during the lockdowns of 2020 when demand for electricity and transport fuels plummeted. What’s more exciting is that this was the first time fossil fuels (98.5% gas and 1.5% coal) fell to third…

  • Agrivoltaics come of age

    “Far from reducing food production, agri-PV actually increases yields for some crops,” says Ember analyst Paweł Czyżak. “Agri-PV combines the best of both worlds — electricity and food production, preserving precious land for agriculture, yet still enabling the energy transition to move forward, benefitting societies and economies.” https://theprogressplaybook.com/2024/09/10/agrivoltaics-come-of-age/

  • Batteries start to rival gas on California’s electricity grid

    Lithium batteries appear to be undercutting the use of fossil fuels. Gas accounts for 40% of California’s grid. However, its use in April registered its lowest proportion in seven years. “The data clearly shows that batteries are displacing natural gas when solar generation is ramping up and down each day in CAISO,” notes an analysis by Grid…

  • South Australia will enshrine 100% net renewables by 2027 target into law

    Home to the city of Adelaide, South Australia has already more than halved its emissions since 2005 thanks to a rapid shift to wind, solar, and battery technologies, which now meet around 70% of its annual power needs. By 2027, it must reach 100% net renewable electricity, though it’ll keep gas power plants on standby…

  • Christopher Luxon is gaslighting the country amid energy crisis – Chlöe Swarbrick

    They’ll tell you the oil and gas ban, which came into effect six years ago, is to blame. That wilfully ignores how, of the five oil and gas fields that already exist, it has taken an average of 16 years to go from exploration to production. It carefully curates out the fact that gas production…

  • The solar revolution turning sunlight into synthetic fuel

    Terraform Industries is developing machines that create synthetic natural gas from sunlight and air. It sounds like science fiction, but the technology is rooted in simple chemistry and powered by the rapidly advancing field of solar energy. https://www.freethink.com/series/the-freethink-interview/casey-handmer I like the frame work of tackling the problem. Whether it’s the solution, time will tell. An…

  • Study shows which climate policies actually work

    “Instead, the right mix of measures is crucial. For example, subsidies or regulations alone are insufficient; only in combination with price-based instruments, such as carbon and energy taxes, can they deliver substantial emission reductions.” https://theprogressplaybook.com/2024/08/27/study-shows-which-climate-policies-actually-work/

  • I run my electric tractor completely off-grid. Here’s my secret

    But as you can imagine, I don’t always want to rely on a wall outlet that is several acres away. As an alternative, I decided to create a charging shed out of a 20-foot shipping container. https://electrek.co/2024/08/26/i-run-my-electric-tractor-completely-off-grid-heres-my-secret/