ChatGPT generated panoramic image of a helicopter with a methane detecting flir camera flying over the Permian Basin and detecting methane leaks
Methane is so hot right now. Well, it’s making the world a lot hotter, because it’s a much more potent greenhouse gas than carbon dioxide and we’ve been increasing the amount we’re dumping into the air. That’s not a good kind of hot. The United States is the worst emitter … [continued]
ChatGPT generated anoramic image of a diesel burning locomotive pulling oil and coal cars with American flags on the side
The free rider problem in climate action arises when some countries or actors benefit from the efforts of others to mitigate climate change without contributing their fair share. Since the atmosphere is a global common good, actions taken by one country to reduce greenhouse gas emissions benefit the entire world, … [continued]
ChatGPT generated panoramic image of Hong Kong strangled by gas and hydrogen pipelines with thin green paint dripping off of them
Recently John Haffner, responsible for sustainability at Hong Kong’s US$1.4 billion annual revenue Hang Lung Property Group, reached out to me. ReThink HK, which bills itself as Hong Kong’s best-attended and most ambitious business event for sustainable development, was hosting a debate he would be part of in front of … [continued]
ChatGPT & DALL-E generated create a panoramic image of an infrared view of methane leaking from a natural gas processing facility, dollar signs in the plume
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.
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]
ChatGPT & DALL-E generated create a panoramic image of an infrared view of methane leaking from a natural gas processing facility, dollar signs in the plume
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]
ChatGPT & DALL-e generated panoramic image depicting the contrast between Germany and Australia in terms of nuclear energy
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]
ChatGPT & DALL-E generated panoramic cutaway illustration you requested, showing the system that extracts natural gas from beneath the North Sea, the CO2 removal process, and the CO2 injection into a subsea salt brine cavern.
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]
Image (cropped): Iron-air battery to provide long duration energy storage, courtesy of Form Energy via CEC
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 is the first state to approve a plan to phase out natural gas as a source for heating residential buildings.
