Hopes and costs are high for UK's nuclear energy future
Wedged between the southwestern town of Bridgwater and the Severn estuary is a 430-acre site where some of the U.K.'s future electricity hopes are pinned.
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Taking freight trucks electric would have big economic and environmental benefits for India
Diesel-fueled freight trucks play an outsized role in producing India's total greenhouse gas and air pollution emissions. While the country has promoted policies to transition to electric vehicles for public transportation ...
Nov 14, 2022
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While some countries race to renewables, others see natural gas wealth, but it may be short-lived
Russia's war on Ukraine has cast a shadow over this year's United Nations climate summit in Sharm el-Sheikh, Egypt, where officials from around the world are discussing the costs of climate change and how to cut emissions ...
Nov 14, 2022
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'There's no legally mandated exit from fossil fuels': Expert discusses trade-offs between renewable fuels
Researchers at the Green Fuel Center (GFC) on the Technical University of Munich (TUM) Straubing Campus are working on the production of renewable fuels. Prof. Jakob Burger talks about the advantages of these alternative ...
Oct 26, 2022
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Africa needs country-specific narratives for a clean energy future, says study
Ahead of COP27, academics from 50 institutions have called for a shift in how politicians, funders and researchers think about the clean energy transition in the African continent, as a new study today highlights radically ...
Oct 26, 2022
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UN urges 'complete transformation' of global energy system
Climate change risks undermining global energy security unless the use of renewables is dramatically scaled up, the UN warned Tuesday, suggesting the Ukraine conflict's ripple effects could speed up the green transition.
Oct 11, 2022
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Deal reached for civil aviation to try for net-zero emissions by 2050
UN aviation agency members reached an agreement Friday to try to achieve by 2050 net-zero carbon emissions in air travel—often criticized for its outsized role in climate change.
Oct 7, 2022
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On-site reactors could affordably turn carbon dioxide into valuable chemicals
New technology developed at the University of Waterloo could make a significant difference in the fight against climate change by affordably converting harmful carbon dioxide (CO2) into fuels and other valuable chemicals ...
Oct 6, 2022
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Clean hydrogen: A long-awaited solution for hard-to-abate sectors?
One of the world's biggest climate challenges is decarbonizing fossil energy uses that cannot be directly electrified using renewable power. Among so-called "hard-to-abate" (HTA) sectors are major industries that rely on ...
Sep 29, 2022
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Bio-what? Half of Danes don't know what biomass is
Nearly half of Danes have never heard of Denmark's largest source of renewable energy. The finding, reported in a study from the University of Copenhagen, is the first to explore Danish attitudes to woody biomass as an energy ...
Sep 28, 2022
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