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Fincantieri and Enel Green Power Italia to explore use of green hydrogen in ports and long-range maritime transport

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Enel Green Power is committed to the creation and development of projects for the production and use of green or renewable hydrogen, derived from the electrolysis of water powered exclusively by renewable electricity.

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BloombergNEF: clean energy investment in developing nations slumps as financing in China slows; coal burn surges to record high

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This is due to wind and solar projects generating only when natural resources are available while oil, coal, and gas plants can potentially produce around the clock. Investment in new wind, solar, and other non-large hydro renewables projects in the country fell to $86 billion in 2018 from $122 billion in 2017. thousand in 2017.

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Bio Architecture Lab and Statoil Partner to Commercialize Macroalgae-to-Ethanol Process in Norway

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The significant commitment of resources and funds from Statoil further validates BAL’s market opportunity and puts us with an elite group of companies in our industry who have partnered with established oil and gas companies to bring technology to market. —Daniel Trunfio, CEO of Bio Architecture Lab. Earlier post.)

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Wärtsilä report finds accelerated adoption of renewables can reduce electricity production costs by up to 50%

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The Front-Loading Net Zero report states that electricity production costs could be reduced by up to 50% by 2050 if countries and states adopt 100% renewable systems faster than currently planned. Utilities should keep repeating steps 1 - 3 until their systems run on 80 – 90% renewables.

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The Dirty Truth of Petrol & Diesel Vehicles

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Diesel or petrol starts as oil, on average 1,798 meters below the surface of the earth. A great deal of oil is extracted using what is called a pumpjack. The electricity usage for the 1,42,054 onshore wells that supply oil to India is over 1,415 GWh a month! That's just oil wells on land. What about deep sea drilling?

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Thermal Solar Goes Where PVs Can’t

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states and countries adopting measures to curb greenhouse gas emissions, now "might be the right time for CSP to become more broadly applicable," said Margaret Gordon , the CSP program manager at Sandia National Laboratories in Albuquerque, N.M. Atacama Desert, Chile The US $1.4 billion project began full operations in June.

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Renault makes public its lifecycle study of Fluence ICE vs Fluence EV

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Quantifies non-natural increase of greenhouse effect gas concentration (CO 2 , N 2 O, CH 4 , refrigerants.) water, and non-renewable energies (crude oil, coal.) Primary Energy Demand (MJ) (renewable and non-renewable). Quantifies the quantity of energy (crude oil, coal.) Tailpipe CO 2 (NEDC). consumption. ?.

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