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IEA finds CO2 emissions flat for third straight year even as global economy grew in 2016

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This was the result of growing renewable power generation, switches from coal to natural gas, improvements in energy efficiency, as well as structural changes in the global economy. The decline was driven by a surge in shale gas supplies and more attractive renewable power that displaced coal. Fatih Birol, the IEA’s executive director.

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Geely invests in Carbon Recycling Intl.; vehicles fueled by methanol from CO2, water and renewable energy

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This investment will build on our existing methanol technology, facilitating even more valuable solutions and helping to propel this part of our business in China. Methanol can be produced from a range of renewable sources and fossil-fuel based feed-stocks; in practice methanol is mainly produced in coal-rich China from coal.

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IEEE’s Plan To Help Combat Climate Change

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that provides buildings with energy-efficiency solutions. This ad hoc committee will serve to better connect and coordinate these efforts. IEEE can also provide resources to its members so they can give talks to local schools about topics such as coal-burning power plants or solar energy. It’s as simple as that.

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Hey Exxon! Hey Chevron! My Friends At the EPA Are Declaring What You Do Dangerous & You Will Pay. Pack Up Losers, It’s Time For You to Go!

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They’re “fuming&# just like the deadly CO2 fumes they’re spewing into the atmosphere as you read these very words. One of the other big business groups the WSJ is talking about is the motley group of US Senators and US Congress members who got their money directly from the oil, gas and coal industry.

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Wind-to-Hydrogen Tech Goes to Sea

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Then, as now, wind farms are operating off the world’s coasts—but not all of these offshore sites are connected to the mainland via underwater power cables. Sweden’s Vattenfall is aiming to build an offshore, hydrogen-producing wind-turbine demonstrator in the same area. The process emits about 10 tonnes of CO2 per tonne of hydrogen.

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Mercedes-Benz takes stake in H2 Green Steel; to begin use of green steel in 2025

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By using a new, innovate manufacturing process, the production of steel at the supplier level is CO2 free. In the new process, the supplier uses hydrogen and electricity from 100% renewable energy sources instead of coking coal in steel production. Unlike the use of coking coal, this does not produce CO 2 , but water.

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Figuring Out Semiconductor Manufacturing's Climate Footprint

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For instance, the extraction of coal for electricity production. Moore: And so why do you feel like you have to look at all the upstream stuff that a chip-maker may not really have any control over, like coal and such like that? This has a GWP value of 25,200 kilograms of CO2 equivalent. That’s the cradle. Boakes: Exactly.

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