2020 was the first year in which renewable power generation (excluding hydro) surpassed nuclear power generation. Now, proponents of renewables, and I’m certainly one, may find that a heartening statistic. But it’s not. Considering the growth in demand for energy, …
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From Bloomberg: Greenland has decided to drop all future exploration for oil as the government responds to environmental concerns, according to Danish media. Naalakkersuisut, as the island’s government is called, “has decided that the environmental consequences of oil exploration and …
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A tidbit for today from the Writer’s Almanac: On this date in 1859, petroleum was discovered in Titusville, Pennsylvania. It’s been called “the most important oil well ever drilled” because it marked the beginning of the modern petroleum age. Petroleum had been …
As my colleague Jon LeSage points out in his Green Auto Digest, stricter emissions standards and falling battery prices have conspired to transform the automobile industry’s signature event, the Paris Auto Show, into a display case for electric vehicles. The …
The Migration To Renewables Is Happening in Stages Read More »
