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Rio Tinto Produces Metals Critical to the rEVolution

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At a local level, Queensland is encouraging miners to prepare for the time when coal is no longer their main product. But there is also a lot of movement on the international stage. Australian miners are global companies that are leading the search for critical minerals and materials to enable the green industrial revolution.

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Global geothermal industry passes 12,000 MW operational

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The international geothermal power industry is poised to place between 500 and 1,000 MW on line per year for the rest of the decade, said GEA. In Nevada, NV Energy is looking to replace coal plants with 300 MW of renewable energy, including geothermal. Ormat Technologies, and AltaRock Energy.

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Stanford, UC Santa Cruz study explores ramifications of demand-driven peak to conventional oil

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Second, recent global efficiency standards for passenger vehicles, international freight, and domestic freight present significant changes from decades of stagnation in efficiency. Recent trends suggest that a demand-driven peak is increasingly plausible. First, demand for passenger travel may be saturating in industrialized countries.

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The Dirty Truth of Petrol & Diesel Vehicles

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These cars and trucks have internal combustion engines that are extremely inefficient. Even if electricity is produced from burning coal, the power plant is far away from population centers, transferred over power lines keeping any direct pollution away from the population. In India 39.1% In Europe it is even better at 56%.

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EIA projects world liquid fuels use to rise 38% by 2040, driven by growth in Asia and Middle East; transportation 92% of demand

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World petroleum and other liquid fuels consumption will increase 38% by 2040, spurred by increased demand in the developing Asia and Middle East, according to the Reference Case projections in International Energy Outlook 2014 ( IEO2014 ), released by the US Energy Information Administration (EIA). oil sands, either diluted or upgraded).

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PwC analysis finds meeting 2 C warming target would require “unprecedented and sustained” reductions over four decades

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The International Energy Agency, for example, now considers 4°C and 6°C scenarios as well as 2°C in their latest analysis. The pace of reducing global carbon intensity has been slow despite growing international focus on climate change. Other G20 (Australia, Korea, EU, South Africa, Saudi Arabia, Argentina). —PwC report.