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3 Oil Majors That Bet Big On Renewables

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Let this sink in: In 2018, Big Oil spent less than 1% of its combined budget on green energy projects. BIT:ENI) recently unveiled what has been hailed as the most ambitious climate pledge yet by an oil supermajor. Equinor has announced plans to invest $10B into clean energy by 2025, mostly through its offshore wind portfolio.

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Leading UK scientists set out resource challenge of meeting EV targets by 2050

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Last month, the Committee on Climate Change published a report— Net Zero: The UK’s Contribution to Stopping Global Warming —which concluded that “net zero is necessary, feasible and cost effective.” Professor Frances Wall, Professor of Applied Mineralogy at Camborne School of Mines, University of Exeter.

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SGH2 building largest green hydrogen production facility in California; gasification of waste into H2

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It not only solves our air quality and climate challenges by producing pollution-free hydrogen. The market for all recyclables, from mixed plastics to cardboard and paper, collapsed in 2018, when China banned the import of recycled waste materials. That’s why our partnership with SGH2 is so important. This is game-changing technology.

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Australia Goes All-in on Green Hydrogen

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The government elected last year passed the country’s first climate-action law in more than a decade. Building every electrolyzer promised for 2030 would provide only about one-sixth of the green hydrogen required to meet climate targets, according to figures from the International Energy Agency in Paris. Why a hydrogen truck?

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This Fusion Reactor Is Held Together With Tape

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We just hope we can do it in time to be a major part of the solution to the climate crisis.” The largest by far is Iter , a collaborative international effort to build a massive tokamak in Cadarache, France. We showed that we could basically hand-build 16 winding coils and assemble them into one high-performing magnet,” says Sorbom.

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‘The Plane Is Fine’: An Airline Course Looks to Overcome Fear in the Skies

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There’s also a section on how pilots are trained to deal with various scenarios — including cabin depressurization, malfunctioning landing gear, holes in the fuselage and sudden gusts of wind on the runway that force what is called a “go-around” — when a pilot suddenly aborts the landing and sends the plane barreling straight back into the sky.

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Audi highlights its range of electrification efforts; Q7 diesel PHEV, A7 fuel cell PHEV, BEV, 48V and more; 750 Wh/l by 2025

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Covered in greater detail in an earlier post , the battery-electric e-tron quattro concept provides a very close foreshadowing of the production model to follow in 2018. Alternatively they can serve as buffers for renewables such as wind and solar power—whether as part of the grid or as home installations. Global Bioenergies S.A.

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