A fund that manages $1 trillion of Norway’s assets will divest from oil and gas exploration firms and invest more in renewable energy companies Source: https://www.newscientist.com/article/2206472-norway-to-sell-off-fossil-fuel-stocks-worth-more-than-8-billion/?utm_campaign=RSS%7CNSNS&utm_source=NSNS&utm_medium=RSS&utm_content=home…
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Scottish Power To Build Vast Battery To Improve Wind Energy Supply
Scottish Power is to undertake the most ambitious battery power project in Europe in an attempt to unlock the potential of the UK’s wind and solar farms. From a report: The company will connect an industrial-scale battery, the size of half a football pitch, to the Whitelee onshore windfarm early next year to capture more power from its 215 turbines. The…
Bloomberg To Put $500 Million Into Closing All Remaining Coal Plants By 2030
In what marks the largest ever philanthropic effort to combat climate change, former New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg is pledging $500 million to close all of the nation’s remaining coal plants by 2030 and put the United States on track toward a 100% clean energy economy. The New York Times reports: The new campaign, called Beyond Carbon, is designed to…
Bankrupt US Coal Producer Was Funding Climate Change Denial
The bankruptcy of one of America’s largest coal producers revealed that the company was helping to fund “think tanks that have attacked the link between the burning of fossil fuels and climate change, as well as to several conservative advocacy groups that have attempted to undermine policies intended to shift the economy toward renewable energy,” reports the Intercept. The document shows…
Researchers Solve Scientific Puzzle That Could Improve Solar Panel Efficiency
New solar panels created from a semiconducting material called cadmium telluride (CdTe) “have been found to produce electricity at lower costs than silicon panels and there has been a dramatic gain in efficiency brought about by adding an element called selenium to the cadmium telluride,” reports Phys.Org. “Until now, it was not well understood why selenium increases efficiency but thanks to…
Greening the chemical industry requires massive amount of renewables
To go green, the chemicals industry could use carbon dioxide from the air instead of fossil fuels, but this would require vast amounts of renewable energy Source: https://www.newscientist.com/article/2202691-greening-the-chemical-industry-requires-massive-amount-of-renewables/?utm_campaign=RSS%7CNSNS&utm_source=NSNS&utm_medium=RSS&utm_content=home…
Greta Thunberg became a climate activist not in spite of her autism, but because of it
Source: https://www.vox.com/first-person/2019/5/6/18531551/autism-greta-thunberg-speech…
Coal-free spells are good, but the UK is falling short of carbon goals
Despite growth in renewable energy, the UK still uses plenty of gas – and other sectors are failing to cut emissions Source: https://www.newscientist.com/article/2200384-coal-free-spells-are-good-but-the-uk-is-falling-short-of-carbon-goals/?utm_campaign=RSS%7CNSNS&utm_source=NSNS&utm_medium=RSS&utm_content=home…
This book ranks the top 100 solutions to climate change. The results are surprising.
Source: https://www.vox.com/energy-and-environment/2017/5/10/15589038/top-100-solutions-climate-change-ranked…
10 ways to accelerate progress against climate change
Source: https://www.vox.com/2018/10/10/17952334/climate-change-global-warming-un-ipcc-report-solutions-carbon-tax-electric-vehicles…