Berkeley Plans New Strategy To Eliminate Methane
The city of Berkeley, California, lost in court last year when it tried to ban new methane hookups, but it is back with a new plan that just might work.
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US Election 2024: Industrial Decarbonization
Four years ago, things looked bleak for federal action in the industrial sector. Biden and Harris’ current plan is light on specific climate action for industry as well. The committed Kigali Amendment and Paris Accord ratifications will have flow-down impacts of course. There are research dollars for low-carbon concrete and … [continued]
US Industrial Natural Gas Consumers Could See 56% Higher Bills With Methane Leak Price
Remarkably, in 2022 the USA managed to get a greenhouse gas price through Congress. It wasn’t on carbon dioxide, the biggest problem, but it was on methane, the second biggest greenhouse gas problem we humans create. Perhaps more remarkably, it was explicitly on the oil and gas industry and excluded … [continued]
Germany’s CO2 Off 10%, Coal & Nuclear Down, Gas Networks Next, Oz Debates Nuclear
Recently I was engaged in an odd conversation online, one that spanned from Australia to Germany, almost exactly the opposite sides of the world. Australia is in the throes of a deeply odd energy conversation about whether nuclear generation is necessary or not (it isn’t). The leader of the Australia’s … [continued]
CCS Redux: “Best” Carbon Capture Facility In World Creates 25x More CO2 From Use Of…
Carbon capture and sequestration in all of its various ineffective, inefficient and expensive forms is having another run up the hype cycle. Nothing has really changed. The problems still exist. The alternatives are still better. The potential for use is still minuscule. And so, the CCS Redux series, republishing old … [continued]
We Need More Than Transmission Lines
We recently got this from the NRDC, in an article, “We Can’t Let Aging Transmission Stall Clean Energy Progress,” published at CleanTechnica: “The good news is that there’s an abundance of clean energy waiting to get online. In fact, there are about 2,000 gigawatts of new resources — primarily renewables … [continued]
Massachusetts Decides To Move Away From Natural Gas (Methane) For Residential Use
Massachusetts is the first state to approve a plan to phase out natural gas as a source for heating residential buildings.
Be Super Critical Of Supercritical CO2 Hype
By far the greatest user is the fossil fuel industry, and they want to multiply its use by orders of magnitude to perpetuate their business.
How Much Will EU Carbon Price Impact Things That Use Natural Gas Like Electricity, Cement,…
If anything in your value stream uses fossil fuels, and you are competing with organizations which don’t have fossil fuels in their value streams, you are going to be losing business fast in the coming years.
Australians Ask About Fossil Fuels in Smart Energy Council Presentation Webinar
Last week I had the opportunity to talk with over 300 participants in an Australian Smart Energy Council webinar. It was organized to exploit my unusual timezone alignment with Oz as I spend a few weeks in New Zealand as a digital nomad. Over 600 signed up, expecting to listen … [continued]
