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DOE issues RFI on renewable fuel scale-up and demonstration

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The RFI, titled “Overcoming Barriers to Renewable Fuel Scale-Up and Demonstration,” ( DE-FOA-0002615 ) seeks input from biofuels producers and technology developers about their readiness to scale process technologies to pilot- and demonstration-scale sustainable aviation fuel (SAF), renewable diesel, and renewable marine fuels.

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The Case for Nuclear Cargo Ships

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Vard Group is part of NuProShip , a consortium of the Norwegian maritime authority, universities, shipbuilders, and shipping companies that aims to develop a Generation IV reactor for marine vessels. The feasibility study with Fincantieri will guide how the two companies develop the technology for marine use. Nuclear reactors for U.S.

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Energy ministers agree to help speed up global deployment of carbon capture and storage

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The World Resources Institute released a report titled CCS Demonstrations in Developing Countries: Priorities for a Financing Mechanism for Carbon Dioxide Capture and Storage.

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Perspective: The UN Approval Process for Carbon Offsets

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Moreover, developers must show that the project would make no economic sense without CDM funds and that documentation exists to demonstrate that these factors were considered by the company’s board of directors in their decision to pursue CDM financing.

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Solar Smackdown in Torrance – Installer Sues City on Behalf of the Sun

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I said I would consider it, but that I was really hoping to establish a precedent, legally speaking, beyond Torrance. He wasn’t a finance guy, thinking “I’m going to make money.” It’s expensive and my clients don’t finance. Because for one, financing isn’t available anymore and two, early adopters are a different crowd.

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RESPONSE TO: Ministry of Transport’s Charging Our Future: Discussion Document

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It could be an informal arrangement or a legal entity. In addition, electrifying heavy freight, aviation and marine provide considerable opportunities for decarbonisation at scale. We have more than 70 members from the sector. through funding or partnership). There are many forms this mechanism could take.

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Perspective: Why Carbon Emissions Should Not Have Been the Focus of the UN Climate Change Summit and Why the 15th Conference of the Parties Should Have Focused on Technology Transfer

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This article discusses: (a) why the focus should have been on the transfer of proven renewable energy technology from developed to developing countries; and (b) how this technology transfer can be financed with currently available funds. But starting to raise immediate finance is more important than determining its exact future size.