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Slouching towards solutions… From 2024 onwards, solar and wind facilities in the US will generate more electricity than the country’s diminishing fleet of coal-fired power plants, according to the department of energy. The world’s largest economy will likely add 23 gigawatts (GW) of new solar in 2023, alongside 9GW of battery storage capacity. It’s on…
So I guess OPEC is at the denial stage of grief… Oil-producing countries are apparently succeeding in their attempts to eliminate language from an international climate agreement that calls for countries to phase out the use of fossil fuels. Draft forms of the agreement had included text that called upon the countries that are part…
Panic? Maybe… but it does feel like the last throw of the die for the oil producers. I’m getting all those “last days of big tobacco” vibes. DUBAI, United Arab Emirates — The full-scale resistance that oil-exporting countries are mounting against a COP28 deal to end fossil fuel use is a sign of “panic,” said…
This is fossil fuel key jangling … Machines to magic carbon out of the air, artificial intelligence, indoor vertical farms to grow food for our escape to Mars, and even solar-powered “responsible” yachts: the Cop28 climate summit in Dubai has been festooned with the promise of technological fixes for worsening global heating and ecological breakdown. https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2023/dec/10/climate-experts-warn-against-focus-technological-solutions-cop28
Ignoring the fact that Norway is now regretting a car-centric move to electrification… this is an interesting example of how action can happen (and it involves A-ha) Suitably impressed, they set about importing a similar specimen into Norway. They exploited every photo opportunity, and campaigned to make EVs the cheapest, most convenient option by abolishing…
Stan is going to be grimly prescient. As climate change intensifies scarcity and conflict over resources, it displaces people and spreads disease. In Syria, extreme drought has forced more than 1.5 million farmers to move to overcrowded cities. Water shortages and degraded land have exacerbated existing government rights abuses and civil unrest. With over 12 million displaced Syrians,…
This is really exciting to see. I really want to understand the lifetime numbers as Perovskite is traditionally short lived (super efficient, but nowhere near as stable as silicon). Located in the Kubuqi Desert, the project spans 40 mu (2.6 hectares) and has an installed capacity of one megawatt with 11,200 perovskite photovoltaic modules. https://shanghaiist.com/perovskite-solar-project-in-inner-mongolia-connected-to-grid/
Now, the MIT team has shown that the carbon-trapping clays are a product of plate tectonics: When oceanic crust crushes against a continental plate, it can bring rocks to the surface that, over time, can weather into minerals including smectite. Eventually, the clay sediment settles back in the ocean, where the minerals trap bits of…
After so many climate initiatives, from IPCC reports to COP meetings to the Paris Accords, that have generated a lot of hot air and not much climate action, if you are not cynical or jaded, you have not been paying attention. So it is fitting that this year’s COP is being held in Dubai, one…
I think this misses the point of the “wrong story” narrative. But it’s a start. We’re not gonig to solve novel problems with old thinking. Consuming our way out of climate change is as dumb as fucking your way to virginity. The picture Sunak painted was a dishonest one. He argued that ordinary, working people…
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