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Hindenburg report delays Adani's green hydrogen project with French firm
https://www.freepressjournal.in/business/hindenburg-report-delays-adan
is-green-hydrogen-project-with-french-firm
Also, Hydrogen: 
Good luck on your maiden voyage.
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Growing up in a Republic was nice... Shame we couldn't keep it.
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Jet Fuel Burns, 6ix:
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MIT team makes a case for direct carbon capture from seawater, not air
February 17, 2023
The team projects an optimized cost around US$56 per ton of CO2 captured from seawater.
Cost per ton of CO2 ranges between US$300-$1,000 if removed from air.
The concentration of carbon dioxide in seawater is more than 100 times greater than in air. Suck the carbon out of the seawater, and it'll suck more out of the air to re-balance the concentrations. The ocean currently soaks up some 30-40% of all humanity's annual carbon emissions, and maintains a constant free exchange with the air.
The team has a practical demonstration project planned for sometime in the next two years, and says there are plenty of things that still need work. For one, the researchers would love to be able to separate the gas out without a vacuum system. And mineral precipitates are fouling the electrodes on the alkalinization side, so there's plenty of progress yet to be made.
More at https://newatlas.com/environment/mit-carbon-capture-seawater/
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Solar capacity in Europe doubled since 2018, and is on track to triple in the next four years.
Two things happened in 2022 that made renewables out compete both coal and gas: Renewable technology is getting reliably cheaper while its competitors are getting more expensive.
Oil, gas, and coal are commodities, and as physical goods, their prices are dictated by volatility in markets. Oil price shocks occur once every few years. But solar and wind prices depend on technology getting better, which follows a much more predictable curve as it gets cheaper and more advanced.
While the technology still has room for improvement, what’s needed is not so much a better wind turbine or solar panel as much as broader policy changes that encourage more widespread adoption.
The Russia-Ukraine war turned out to be the crisis to propel that adoption.
European households and businesses turned to rooftop solar last year as they worried about skyrocketing electricity costs. They added three times as many gigawatts in 2022 as in the year before.
Better technology can also help us slash energy usage. Heat pumps require less energy than traditional furnaces and boilers. Heat pumps were already on the rise in Europe before the Russian invasion of Ukraine, and sales soared in 2022, doubling in countries like Poland, Italy, Austria, and the Netherlands.
This year is likely to see the beginning of the end of natural gas in Europe because it’s now the most expensive fuel in Europe, due to the sanctions on Russia.
More at https://www.vox.com/climate/2023/2/21/23594544/europe-electricity-natu
ral-gas-renewable-energy-russia
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The world is on track to overshoot 1.5 degrees of warming, so it's time to study reflecting sun away from the earth, says UN
https://www.cnbc.com/2023/02/27/speculative-tech-to-reflect-sun-away-f
rom-earth-needs-focus-un.html
Antarctic sea ice likely shrunk to a record low last week, US researchers said Monday, its lowest extent in the 45 years of satellite record-keeping
https://www.france24.com/en/environment/20230227-antarctic-sea-ice-shr
inks-to-new-record-low-us-data-center-says
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How a high school in Estonia has almost achieved carbon neutrality
By Aurora Velez • Updated: 27/02/2023
All energy sources at the school are green. Some are more obvious, like the 144 solar panels, which produce 37.4 kWh.
The building, which dates back to Soviet times, was completely rebuilt in 2016. The total budget for this project was over €5.7 million. More than 260 students and teachers benefit from the project, says Polva Gümnaasium. The school is also open to the local community for concerts, meetings and other events.
This project has been used as a model both within Estonia and abroad and was recently recognised as one of the best European projects at the 2022 REGIOSTARS Awards.
More at https://www.euronews.com/my-europe/2023/02/27/how-a-high-school-in-est
onia-has-almost-achieved-carbon-neutrality
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China tops nuclear fusion patent ranking, beating U.S.
https://asia.nikkei.com/Business/Science/China-tops-nuclear-fusion-pat
ent-ranking-beating-U.S
The Chinese have raced ahead of the pack in filing patents in nuclear fusion technology
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China tops nuclear fusion patent ranking, beating U.S.
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The Chinese have raced ahead of the pack in filing patents in nuclear fusion technology
That's what happens when you don't prioritize diversity hiring above everything else.
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Quote:6ix, how many operating fusion power plants are in the world? Zero. When will the first one be built? There is none scheduled. To get to the future shown in Firefly or Star Trek will require either fusion power plants that fit inside a starship or di-lithium crystals as in Star Trek. I don't think travel to the stars will be part of history until after humans get more than half of their electrical power from the fusion power plant of the Sun, which means solar cells and wind turbines, both things that Trumptards despise as much as "prioritize diversity hiring".
Originally posted by 6IXSTRINGJACK:
That's what happens when you don't prioritize diversity hiring above everything else.
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State senators are aggressively pursuing a plan to build more natural gas power plants and curb the growth of wind and solar energy in Texas. Senators say the federal government offers unfair incentives to wind and solar plants, making it tough for non-renewable energy providers to compete.
The legislation would add to laws the Legislature passed after the deadly winter freeze in 2021, which Gov. Greg Abbott and other Republicans have unduly blamed on wind and solar generation. Those failures were mostly attributable to a massive drop in natural gas production, federal investigators determined.
Another measure would require at least half of all new generation built in Texas to be coal or natural gas-powered starting in 2024.
Doug Lewin, a renewable energy consultant, warned that the proposals will be “extremely expensive.” "Any time that you hear a policymaker talking about raising costs on renewables, that's raising costs on customers,” Lewin said. “Renewables benefit customers, and it's nothing but a tax on electricity. That’s what it is — a massive tax on electricity that all Texans are going to pay” to benefit natural gas producers.
University of Houston Energy Fellow Ed Hirs said Texas would be facing problems even if renewables hadn’t come onto the system with so much gusto. But because wind and solar energy have become so cheap to produce and don’t have a fuel cost like natural gas, it has been hard for legacy plants to compete in the Texas system.
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e.com/politics/article/texas-senate-natural-gas-renewables-17827911.php
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