This is an excellent survey and intermediate explanation of the technology and economics (and trends) affecting heat pumps. Well worth reading if you are interested in Building Electrification & Efficiency.
Is this NIMBYism? “The organizers of the week-long festival worry a geothermal energy project could damage Nevada desert’s hot springs.”
Nevada’s Great Basin region found itself at the epicenter of the nation’s most pressing priorities: renewable energy, wildlife conservation and Indigenous rights. … This geothermal power plant could help meet Biden’s ambitious plan to run the U.S. power grid entirely on clean energy by 2035.
‘The fact that we’re seeing such clear increases in ocean heat content, extending over decades now, shows that there is a significant change underway,’ one longtime researcher says.
from Singularity Hub, By Vanessa Bates Ramirez | December 27, 2022 As the sense of urgency around climate change intensifies, most of the focus is on shifting energy production away from fossil fuels and electrifying…
from Bloomberg Lithium-ion battery storage has expanded by orders of magnitude since the 1990s, with new devices creating ever-larger demand. Camcorders came first, followed by personal computers and then smartphones and other personal electronics. In the 2010s,…
Just last month, the Biden Administration recommended that the government nearly quadruple its social cost of carbon — a monetary estimate of the costs to the economy, environment and human welfare for every ton of carbon dioxide emitted into the atmosphere.
When I joined CCL in 2017, I went to the DC conference and learned about the carbon budget — the amount of GHGs that the IPCC said we could add to the atmosphere and still…
Fred Wilson, an influential VC with Union Square Ventures issues predictions for 2023, including: Climate, where USV has been actively investing for the last three years and now has two funds dedicated to the sector,…
This is a newsletter summary of a full IEEE Report, Renewables 2022. As the chart shows, renewables are growing, but they need to scale faster, bigger. Carbon pricing (and more green bank financing) would help!
On Jan. 1, middle-income households will be able to access over a half-dozen tax credits for electric stoves, cars, rooftop solar and more. Sometime in mid-2023, lower-income households will be able to get upfront discounts on some of those same appliances. This handy online tool shows what you might be eligible for.
Deep uncertainty looms over the Colorado River and the 40 million people who depend on it for their water supply. Plagued by decades of overuse and human-caused climate change, demand for the river’s water has vastly outpaced its supply. In 2023, [officials] must reduce use by 4 million acre-feet of water – 30% of what the Colorado River states have historically used.
