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+4 +1U.S. Treasury to oppose development bank financing for most fossil fuel projects
The U.S. Treasury Department issued new energy financing guidance to multilateral development banks on Monday, saying the United States would oppose their involvement in fossil fuel projects except for some downstream natural gas facilities in poor countries.
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+24 +1The 'world's most powerful tidal turbine' starts to export power to the grid
The O2 turbine weighs 680 metric tons and has a length of 74 meters.
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+14 +1Building Solar Farms May Not Build the Middle Class
Some of the wealthiest companies in the world are investing in the green economy. But they’re not investing in paying union wages.
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+17 +5YouTuber Converts A Knock-Off Game Boy To Run On Nuclear Power
He managed to play Tetris for an hour by harnessing the radioactive energy thrown off by trititum decay.
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+11 +1China’s losing its taste for nuclear power. That’s bad news.
Once nuclear’s strongest booster, China is growing wary about its cost and safety.
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+11 +1South Korean toilet turns excrement into power and digital currency
Using a toilet can pay for your coffee or buy you bananas at a university in South Korea, where human waste is being used to help power a building.
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+27 +4German coal plant closes after just six years, to produce green hydrogen from wind
The 1600W Moorburg hard coal (black coal) power station in Hamburg was closed down for good on July 7, reported public broadcaster Tagesschau, just six years after it was opened. After successfully participating in a government decommissioning tender for payment in return for an early shut down, the 1600MW plant had stopped market operation at the end of 2020 and was only kept operational as a back-up reserve.
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+15 +1America used fewer fossil fuels in 2020 than it has in three decades
Renewable energy, on the other hand, managed to grow.
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+19 +4New Yorkers call on mayor to shut off Times Square lights to save energy
City Hall requested residents turn off air conditioners to conserve energy in high heat
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+20 +5‘Less water means more gas’: how drought will test California’s stressed power grid
California’s diminishing water supply is cutting down hydropower, causing the state to rely more on fossil fuels
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+25 +2Hydrogen isn't as clean as it seems
How much hydrogen, and where and how we produce and use it are important questions that need to be addressed.
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+23 +4Inventor of the graphite anode – key Li-ion battery tech – says he can now charge an electric car in 10 minutes
Dr Rachid Yazami shares his predictions for EV batteries with The Register
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+21 +4This 1,000-foot Multi-Rotor Floating Turbine Can Power 80,000 Homes
WCS, a Norwegian Greentech company, has just unveiled its new "Wind Catcher" offshore wind turbine that could power 80,000 homes.
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+14 +1Reducing poverty can actually lower energy demand, finds research
Turns out human development is a matter of economic justice and climate justice.
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+19 +2Big Oil Is Trying to Make Climate Change Your Problem to Solve. Don't Let Them
A new Harvard study highlights a decades-long trend — how industry creates systemic problems and then blames consumers for it
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+22 +2Exxon uses Big Tobacco's playbook to downplay the climate crisis, Harvard study finds
For decades, ExxonMobil has deployed Big Tobacco-like propaganda to downplay the gravity of the climate crisis, shift blame onto consumers and protect its own interests, according to a Harvard University study published Thursday.
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+4 +1Offshore wind project near Martha's Vineyard approved
An offshore wind project off Massachusetts that would create enough electricity to power 400,000 homes and is touted by backers as a key piece of America’s transition to renewable energy was approved Tuesday by the federal government.
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+14 +5Coal is losing the price war to wind and solar faster than anticipated
The costs of most existing US coal-fired power plants are now more expensive than the total costs of wind and solar.
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+3 +1Joint Venture With Love’s Truck Stops Will Produce 80M Gallons of Renewable Biodiesel Made From 100% Waste
A joint venture between Cargill and Love's truck stops called Heartwell Renewables will produce biodiesel from 100% waste products.
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+3 +1We still blow up mountains to mine coal: Time to end the war on Appalachia
The dying coal industry's last gasp is "mountaintop removal" mining — and it's even worse than it sounds
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