Five Projects To Produce Fresh Water From CO2 Storage Sites
The Department of Energy announced the selection of five projects that will study the feasibility of using salty water – or brine – from carbon dioxide…
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US-China climate pledge: true or false, good anyway
Three days ago the United States and China pledged to strengthen cooperation on climate and clean energy. Boom. Enthusiasm everywhere. When the US and China…
Refracking is the new fracking
The technique itself is nothing new. Oil crews across the world have been schooled on its simple principles for generations: Identify aging, low-output wells and…
Energy Storage Will Likely Follow Renewable Energy’s Rapid Growth Path
As can be gleaned from recent reports in the popular and trade press, activity is swirling around energy storage systems, highlighted by Tesla’s April 30…
Climate change? Not now, not in the US
Climate change can do more harm to the U.S. economy than to the environment. This is basically what Florida senator Marco Rubio said when replying to…
GE Signs Largest Battery Storage Deal to Date
General Electric (GE) signed its largest energy storage deal to date to provide Coachella Energy Storage Partners with a 30-megawatt battery system as part of…
Nuclear Is Still the Lowest Cost Option
Nuclear costs aren’t on the rise globally as has been widely thought, says a new report from the International Energy Agency (IEA) and Nuclear Energy…
Aluminium boss: Chinese dumping a ‘slow death’ for European industry
Unfair Chinese aluminium trading is killing the European industry and, if the country is given market economy status by the European Union, it could have…
A new CDM hub in Bangkok
A new step to promote the Clean Development Mechanism (CDM) in the Asia-Pacific Region. The further boost comes with the establishment of a centre in Bangkok, Thailand, which…
Lion hunting debate: Africans see two sides
When Zambia banned lion hunting in 2013, animal welfare groups roared in approval, but rural Zambians who face a threat from big cats and receive…
(Always earlier) Earth Overshoot Day
Earth Overshoot Day has moved from early October in 2000 to August 13th this year. Earth Overshoot Day marks the date when humanity’s annual demand…
Sendai nuclear plant restarted
A nuclear reactor has been restarted in Japan for the first time in nearly 2 years. The No.1 reactor at the Sendai nuclear plant in…
On the road to Paris
100 to go. Developed country Parties under the Kyoto Protocol today enter the final 100 days of the emission reduction treaty’s accounting period during which they ensure…
An inconvenient truth
High expectations are being built around the forthcoming 21st Conference of the Parties (COP-21) to the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC), which will…
Hiroshima and the Nuclear peace myth
It was 70 years ago today that the US dropped the world’s first atomic bomb on Hiroshima in Japan. Three days later, on 9 August 1945,…
Obama’s Crucial Step on Climate Change
President Obama’s Clean Power Plan has rightly been hailed as the most important action any president has taken to address the climate crisis. The new rule…