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USA & China Electricity Generation TWh & CO2e Trajectories Since 2000 Are Startling

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For a decade I’ve been tracking the exponential expansion of wind, solar, and to a lesser extent hydro electricity generation. continued] The post USA & China Electricity Generation TWh & CO2e Trajectories Since 2000 Are Startling appeared first on CleanTechnica.

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Udokan Copper to cut carbon intensity of copper production up to 75% by 2035

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The company’s plan to decrease carbon emissions involves the possibility of purchasing low-emissions electricity from power sources such as hydro, wind and solar, as well as its own power generation from renewable sources. Chechetkin, VS & Yurgenson, Georgi & Narkelyun, LF & Trubachev, AI & Salikhov, VS. (2000). Geologiya i Geofizika.

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BP Statistical Review finds global oil share down for 12th year in a row, coal share up to highest level since 1969; renewables at 2%

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Oil demand grew by less than 1%—the slowest rate amongst fossil fuels—while gas grew by 2.2%, and coal was the only fossil fuel with above average annual consumption growth at 5.4% Coal was again the fastest growing fossil fuel with predictable consequences for carbon emissions; it now accounts for 30.3% globally, and 8.4%

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EIA: US energy-related CO2 dropped 2.7% in 2015; of end-use sectors, only transportation increased

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Specific circumstances, such as the very warm fourth quarter of 2015 and relatively low natural gas prices, put downward pressure on emissions as natural gas was substituted for coal in electricity generation. Coal’s share of total electricity generation in the power sector fell from 54% in 1990 to 34% in 2015. between 2014 and 2015.

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Berkeley Lab releases 8th edition of databook on China’s energy and environment; finding the “missing” energy consumption

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They used a lot more coal than they originally admitted to, several hundred million tons more. Like many other people, we were writing articles around 2000 about the decline in China’s energy consumption in the late 1990s. Like the United States, China has become among the world’s largest importers of oil, gas and coal.

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Global CO2 emissions up 3% in 2011; per capita CO2 emissions in China reach EU levels

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Some of the findings of the report include: Global consumption of coal (responsible for about 40% total CO 2 emissions) grew in 2011 by 5%, whereas global consumption of natural gas and oil products increased by only 2% and 1%, respectively. Coal consumption in China increased by 9.7% Japan (4%).

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Evidence from glacier ice: Until it was banned, leaded gasoline dominated the anthropogenic lead emissions in South America

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Apart from combustion of leaded gasoline, major sources of anthropogenic Pb emissions include mining, metallurgical processing, and coal burning. Record of the ratio of the lead isotopes 208Pb/207Pb in the Illimani ice core during the period AD 1850–2000. —Anja Eichler, first author. Resources. Eichler, G. Gramlich, T.