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Northwestern/Princeton study explores air quality impacts of aggressive conversion to EVs

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solar, wind, hydroelectric, and nuclear) as compared to the eastern US (EUS), where the electricity market is dominated by pollutant and precursor emitting combustion sources (i.e., —Jordan Schnell. NH 3 -poor for PM). coal, oil, natural gas, and biomass). Schnell, Vaishali Naik, Larry W.

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Arizona’s largest battery will help feed your Google habit

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Photo: Salt River Project Arizona’s largest battery storage system is now online and, along with solar and wind, will help power a new Google data center – here’s why that matters. terawatt hours in 2022 – more than what the entire country of Jordan consumes. Statista reports that Google’s energy consumption reached 22.29

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IEA: Estonia is pioneering technologies for more efficient and cleaner use of oil shale

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The extracted rock can be used directly as a power plant resource or it can be processed to produce shale oil, which in turn can be refined into gasoline, diesel or jet fuels. There are also significant reserves in Jordan, Morocco, Sweden, Syria and Turkey. Different that shale oil—i.e.,

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Study Finds that US Subsidies for Fossil Fuels Are Almost 2.5x Those for Renewables

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Fossil fuels include petroleum and its byproducts, natural gas, and coal products, while renewable fuels include wind, solar, biofuels and biomass, hydropower, and geothermal energy production. ELI researchers applied the conventional definitions of fossil fuels and renewable energy.

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