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Slashing carbon emissions: Can the cost of direct air carbon capture be reduced?

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Slashing carbon emissions will be hard to achieve unless ways can be found to reduce the cost of direct air capture technologies. The post Slashing carbon emissions: Can the cost of direct air carbon capture be reduced? appeared first on Innovation News Network.

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CATL to adopt Toyocolor’s conductive carbon nanotube dispersions

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Toyocolor, the colorants and functional materials arm of the specialty chemicals company Toyo Ink Group of Japan, announced that the company’s Lioaccum conductive carbon nanotube (CNT) dispersions ( earlier post ) have been selected by the world’s largest battery manufacturer CATL (Contemporary Amperex Technology Co., in Guangdong, China.

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Shadow Carbon Pricing: The Unexpected Costs of Fossil Fuel Opposition

Energy Institute at HAAS

When … Continue Reading Shadow Carbon Pricing: The Unexpected Costs of Fossil Fuel Opposition. Originally published in The Hill with the title, “Progressives Should Have Supported Manchin’s Permitting Reforms: Here’s Why.”

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Electricity Pricing and the Social Cost of Carbon

Energy Institute at HAAS

New estimates of the SCC make it more important than ever that we lower the cost of electrification. In California’s current discussions of electricity rate restructuring, the focus has been … Continue Reading Electricity Pricing and the Social Cost of Carbon

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Study finds limiting warming to 2 °C would require at least a $200/t carbon tax globally

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Lloyd Distinguished Service Professor in Economics, and José-Luis Cruz of Princeton University assesses the local social cost of carbon (LSCC) and how that cost aligns with the carbon reduction pledges countries made under the Paris Agreement. The price of carbon should then be set at this price, everywhere.

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The Metals Company and Low Carbon Royalties form strategic partnership

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Deepsea mining company TMC The Metals Company ( earlier post ) announced a strategic partnership with Low Carbon Royalties Inc. to finance the development and production of low-carbon fuels and energy transition metals. NORI and Low Carbon Royalties are a great fit.

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BNEF: cost of new renewables rises as inflation starts to bite

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The cost of new-build onshore wind has risen 7% year on year, and fixed-axis solar has jumped 14%, according to the latest analysis by research company BloombergNEF (BNEF). The global benchmark levelized cost of electricity, or LCOE, has retreated to where it was in 2019. The latter cost at $74 and $81 per MWh, respectively.

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