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Opinion: Ukraine’s Next Crisis? Economic [and energy] Disaster

Green Car Congress

Ukraine’s next crisis will be a devastatingly economic one, as violent conflict destroys critical infrastructure in the east and brings key industry to a halt, furthering weakening the energy sector by crippling coal-based electricity production. Key industry sources say they will potentially run out of coal in less than three weeks.

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BNEF: steel industry set to pivot to hydrogen in green push; additional $278B for clean capacity and retrofits

Green Car Congress

Another 45% could come from recycled material, and the rest from a combination of older, coal-fired plants fitted with carbon capture systems and innovative processes using electricity to refine iron ore into iron and steel. Retrofit or close any remaining coal-fired capacity by 2050. Source: BloombergNEF.

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Mad Power thoughts

EV Info

Wind farms stand idle for days on end, a fire interrupts a vital cable from France, a combination of post-Covid economic recovery and Russia tightening supply means the gas price has shot through the roof – and so the market price of both home heating and electricity is rocketing. Climate Change. Gas is the only answer.

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

Tony Karrer Delicious EVdriven

The vision is fuelled by the fear of climate change and the need to find green alternatives to dirty coal, unpopular nuclear power and unreliable gas imports from Russia. Electric cars in the garages would double as battery packs for when energy supplies are scarce. Cheers — Al Louard 11. The elegance of that is wonderful.

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Joe Manchin continues to ponder the advantages of an all-EV future

Teslarati

Senator Joe Manchin, a Democrat from West Virginia, continues to show his coal-based roots are far from gone. After President Joe Biden aimed for half of all new cars sold to be all-electric by 2030, Manchin said the target was “unattainable,” especially as Russia started its invasion of Ukraine. I remember those days.

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