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SGH2 building largest green hydrogen production facility in California; gasification of waste into H2

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Energy company SGH2 is bringing the world’s biggest green hydrogen production facility to Lancaster, California. SGH2 will provide a complete performance guarantee of the Lancaster plant by issuing a total output guarantee of hydrogen production per year, underwritten by the largest reinsurance company in the world.

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Why EVs Aren't a Climate Change Panacea

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must cease by 2038 at the latest, according to research company BloombergNEF (BNEF). In states (or countries ) with a high proportion of coal-generated electricity, the miles needed to break-even climb more. In Poland and China, for example, an EV would need to be driven 78,700 miles to break-even. For the U.S.

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War in Ukraine: We Need to Talk About Fossil Fuels

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At the same time, though, Russian energy has been buffeted by announcements from major Western petroleum companies that they’ll extricate themselves from Russia, with whom they've been doing business for decades. The drop was steep enough to force Germany to produce more electricity from coal than from wind in 2021. Consumption of E.U.-produced

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The Future of Fission Reactors May Be Small

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Even more discouragingly, nuclear’s per-unit cost increased 26 percent between 2009 and 2019—while solar and wind power prices plummeted instead. This company has developed a 77 MWe SMR; they envision clumping four, six, even twelve reactors together into larger power plants. startup NuScale.

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