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Rhodium Group estimates US GHG emissions rose 1.3% in 2022

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Despite efforts to continue stimulating the US economy in the wake of the pandemic, high inflation put a damper on economic growth, which was exacerbated by a spike in oil prices as a result of Russia’s invasion of Ukraine. Little change in transportation and industry. Consequently, the US economy grew 1.9% in 2022, down from a 5.7%

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

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New-build onshore wind and solar projects are now around 40% lower than BNEF’s global benchmarks for new coal- and gas-fired power. While demand for low-carbon technologies in the energy sector bounced back strongly in the second half of 2021, supply has struggled to keep up. The latter cost at $74 and $81 per MWh, respectively.

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

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The City of Lancaster will supply guaranteed feedstock of recyclables, and will save between $50 to $75 per ton in landfilling and landfill space costs. Unlike other renewable energy sources, hydrogen can fuel hard-to-decarbonize heavy industrial sectors like steel, heavy transport, and cement.

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Global CO2 emissions stalled for the third year in a row

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Other main findings include: In 2016, China, US, EU28, India, Russia and Japan, the world’s largest emitters in decreasing order of CO 2 emissions, accounted for 51% of the population, 65% of global Gross Domestic Product, 67% of the total primary energy supply and emitted 68% of total global CO 2 and circa 65% of total global GHGs.

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Green Hydrogen Cars: How They are Different?

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When most of us consider ways to reduce carbon emissions in the transportation sector, we immediately think of electric cars or vehicles in general, and in that case, we are right to a greater extent.  We will create energy without spewing carbon dioxide into the environment if this power is supplied from renewable sources.

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The Future of Fission Reactors May Be Small

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Giorgio Locatelli, Polytechnic University of Milan But SMR plans are not in short supply. So far, Rosatom has avoided Western sanctions over Russian aggression in Ukraine. The 2022 Inflation Reduction Act invested $700 million to research and develop ways of producing and transporting HALEU within the country.

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We Need More Than Just Electric Vehicles

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But EVs come with important weaknesses, and so people shouldn’t count on them alone to do the job, even for the transportation sector. Manufacturing an EV battery using coal-based electricity results in more than three times the greenhouse-gas emissions of manufacturing a battery with electricity from renewable sources.