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Converting Coal Power Plants to Nuclear Gains Steam

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On a planet aspiring to become carbon neutral, the once-stalwart coal power plant is an emerging anachronism. Most nuclear plants around the world today are large light-water reactors, with capacities well over a gigawatt—quite a bit more than typical coal plants. coal plants are planned to shutter by 2035.

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Researchers describe the “where” and “when” of life cycle emissions from gasoline and ethanol in the US

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Life cycle inventories have typically been presented at global, national, or regional levels—sufficient for understanding global processes such as climate change and fossil fuel depletion, but insufficient for the analysis of local processes such as air pollution, according to the researchers. 1 , corn ethanol: 10).

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SCOPE Biofuels Project Releases Assessment on Environmental Effects of Biofuel Technologies

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However very few studies include water use impacts. More specifically, only one third of the studies define an alternative land use reference system and calculate the carbon stock. Potential impacts in terms of indirect land use change driven by increased bioenergy demand are not considered in the sample analyzed.

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Inflation Reduction Act – How It Supercharges the Electric Vehicle Industry

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The recently passed Inflation Reduction Act (IRA) is arguably the most significant piece of climate legislation the United States has ever seen, including significant investments in clean energy and consumer incentives to accelerate electric vehicle (EV) adoption. How the IRA will help tackle climate change.

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We Need More Than Just Electric Vehicles

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With all this, consumers and policymakers alike are hopeful that society will soon greatly reduce its carbon emissions by replacing today’s cars with electric vehicles. about 60 percent of its electricity from fossil fuels, primarily natural gas, which produces less carbon than coal does. falls somewhere in the middle, deriving.