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Why is Hydroelectricity So Green, and Yet Unfashionable?

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There is no end of gushing about China’s cheap solar panels—but when was the last time you saw a paean to hydroelectricity? The manufacture of solar panels involves the environmental costs from mining, waste disposal, and carbon emissions. And hydro still matters more than any other form of renewable generation.

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CalSEED awards $4.2M to early-stage clean energy innovations

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Their goal is to test an innovative electrolyzer concept for the cheap production of green (CO 2 -free) hydrogen for a decarbonized future. Hago Energetics, Inc aims to help farms become more profitable by converting farm waste to high-value products, such as hydrogen and valuable carbons. by at least 10 times.

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IEA World Energy Outlook view on the transport sector to 2035; passenger car fleet doubling to almost 1.7B units, driving oil demand up to 99 mb/d; reconfirming the end of cheap oil

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Subsidies that encourage wasteful consumption of fossil fuels jumped to over $400 billion. Oil and the Transport Sector: Reconfirming the End of Cheap Oil. In non-OECD Asia, some 80% of oil consumed comes from imports in 2035, compared with just over half in 2010. billion, around 20% of the world’s population. Click to enlarge.

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Electric Cars and a Smarter Grid - Green Inc. Blog - NYTimes.com

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Every scrap of waste food, garden trimmings and even sewage would be used to ferment gas. “The more fluctuating energy you have from renewables, the more it makes sense to have a smart grid,&# said Markus Ewert from the new technologies team of German utility E.ON Environmentalists see another advantage to local entities ? .

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Cleantech Blog: Smart Grids and Electric Vehicles

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Renewables That Even Coal-Based Utilities Can Love. Millions will plug-in their electric vehicles (EV), plug-in hybrids (PHEV) and fuel cell vehicles (FCV) at night when electricity is cheap, then plug-in during the day when energy is expensive and sell those extra electrons at a profit. ► January (13) What Goes Down, Must Go Up?

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Electric Car Makers: Oregon Wants You - Green Inc. Blog - NYTimes.com

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To deal with this major special waste problem has to my knowledge never ever been brought to the attention of the readers of any paper around the world. Batteries are highly special toxic waste and cannot be dropped on the average dump site, so who is going to pay to get rid of this problem? Posts | Profile Kate Galbraith Reporter Ms.

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Perspective: Why Carbon Emissions Should Not Have Been the Focus of the UN Climate Change Summit and Why the 15th Conference of the Parties Should Have Focused on Technology Transfer

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This article discusses: (a) why the focus should have been on the transfer of proven renewable energy technology from developed to developing countries; and (b) how this technology transfer can be financed with currently available funds. Do we really want to be remembered as the generation that wasted another decade?