Just Have a ThinkChina's perceived march towards global domination appears to be ruffling some feathers here in the Western world. Their version of the industrial revolution has lifted hundreds of millions out of abject poverty, but it is still held up by some as the greatest modern sin against humanity and our climate. So, how accurate is that allegation?
How China is winning the GREEN ENERGY race.Just Have a Think2024-04-28 | China's perceived march towards global domination appears to be ruffling some feathers here in the Western world. Their version of the industrial revolution has lifted hundreds of millions out of abject poverty, but it is still held up by some as the greatest modern sin against humanity and our climate. So, how accurate is that allegation?
Our Eden youtube.com/@OurEdenCheck out Agora Energy Technology agoraenergy.ca/agora-growing-operationsSolar Power can now be generated at NIGHT! Its really TRUE!Just Have a Think2024-10-20 | Solar power is a fast growing contributor to our global electricity grids. After all that sunshine hits our planet during the day, some of it goes back up into the atmosphere, mostly at night time. Until now, harnessing that energy has been regarded as too difficult to do. But now a team at the University of New South Wales has achieved that elusive goal. So, can we look forward to 24-7 solar power?
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Our Changing Climate : youtube.com/channel/UCNXvxXpDJXp-mZu3pFMzYHQWhy HYDROGEN for home heating is a REALLY DUMB idea.Just Have a Think2024-10-13 | Hydrogen is an extremely useful element here on earth. We use it for all sorts of essential chemical processes. But we don't tend to burn it as a fuel, because it's already made from a fuel - methane, in a process that releases more carbon dioxide than simply burning the methane itself. Canadian petrochemical expert Paul Martin recently co-wrote a peer-reviewed paper examining why filling existing gas pipelines with hydrogen is a very bad idea indeed, and this week we talk to him about his findings.
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Paul Martin's Paper Martin P, Ocko IB, Esquivel‐Elizondo S, et al. A review of challenges with using the natural gas system for hydrogen. Energy Sci Eng. 2024;1‐15. doi:10.1002/ese3.1861
Our Changing Climate : youtube.com/channel/UCNXvxXpDJXp-mZu3pFMzYHQSolar PV with more than 40% efficiency is now achievable.Just Have a Think2024-10-06 | Perovskite and silicon appear to be the dream combo for improved efficiency in solar PV technology, with the potential to more than double the performance of anything you may have on your roof today. If you live in America, you can now buy perovskite/ silicon solar panels manufactured in Europe. So what is Perovskite, how does it work with silicon, and when will you be installing 43% efficient panels for your home?
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Our Changing Climate : youtube.com/channel/UCNXvxXpDJXp-mZu3pFMzYHQFINALLY! Fully recyclable wind turbine blades!Just Have a Think2024-09-29 | Wind power is becoming an ever more dominant force in global electricity grids. But it's 'dirty secret' is that the turbine blades are currently almost impossible to recycle. Now a team at the US National Renewable Energy Laboratory (NREL) claims to have used plant-based biomass to create blades that can be completely broke down at the end of their operational lifetime and refabricated into new products. So, how do they do that then?
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Our Changing Climate : youtube.com/channel/UCNXvxXpDJXp-mZu3pFMzYHQThe INSANE effect of Artificial Intelligence on Climate Change.Just Have a Think2024-09-22 | Artificial intelligence is transforming our lives every day. Internet of Things devices now control building temperatures, humidity and lighting, and even know what each of us is doing. It's all designed to optimise energy efficiency and minimise the carbon footprint. So, should we let Artificial Intelligence take over the job of fixing the climate?
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Our Changing Climate : youtube.com/channel/UCNXvxXpDJXp-mZu3pFMzYHQArctic Sea Ice minimum 2024. Three degrees Celsius warming now baked in?Just Have a Think2024-09-15 | Arctic Sea ice reaches it's minimum extent each year around the middle of September. This year is one of the lowest in recorded history. Ocean temperatures have been so 'off the charts' in 2023 and 2024 that scientists fear those waters have reached their capacity to mop up after us humans and are now starting to release that energy. On our current trajectory, by 2100, our planet will reach a temperature not seen for 3 MILLION years!. So...what's the plan???
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Our Changing Climate : youtube.com/channel/UCNXvxXpDJXp-mZu3pFMzYHQThe power is finally in YOUR hands!Just Have a Think2024-09-08 | Power to the people!! The old fashioned, centralised energy monopolies are crumbling to make way for distributed smart grids enabling us consumers to run appliances, energy storage, and electric vehicles while contributing to overall grid stability. Here's how it works...
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Our Changing Climate : youtube.com/channel/UCNXvxXpDJXp-mZu3pFMzYHQOur oceans have learnt how to EAT PLASTIC!Just Have a Think2024-09-01 | Plastic pollution is a huge problem on every continent, and increasingly in our oceans. Land based microbes have been discovered that have learnt how to digest certain plastics, but new research has now discovered that nature is at it in our oceans as well! So has evolution gifted us a solution to the Great Pacific Garbage patch?
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Our Changing Climate : youtube.com/channel/UCNXvxXpDJXp-mZu3pFMzYHQNew report: Biomass CO2 emissions 4X higher than COAL!!Just Have a Think2024-08-25 | Biomass is touted as a sustainable, 'net-zero' alternative to fossil fuels. It's even recommended by organisations like the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change and the UK Climate Change Committee. But environmental groups and scientists have disputed this claim for many years, and now new research shows that burning biomass releases much more carbon dioxide into our atmosphere than burning coal or gas. So, what's going on?
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Our Changing Climate : youtube.com/channel/UCNXvxXpDJXp-mZu3pFMzYHQFresh water with 80% energy savings. Revolutionising desalination!Just Have a Think2024-08-18 | According to UNICEF, one in four people globally doesn’t have safe drinking water in their homes and nearly half the world’s population lacks safely managed sanitation. And according to the World Bank, in many of the hottest and driest regions across a hundred and fifty countries, desalination of seawater is the only thing keeping about three hundred million people alive. Now an Australian research team has come up with perhaps the simplest and cheapest way to produce fresh water yet. And the best part is, it requires less than 20% of the energy used in traditional desalination methods.
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Our Changing Climate : youtube.com/channel/UCNXvxXpDJXp-mZu3pFMzYHQElectric vehicle import tariffs are a really dumb idea! Discuss...Just Have a Think2024-08-11 | Electric Vehicles are coming our way from China like a tsunami over the horizon. But in some kind of misguided collective homage to King Canute, both the European Commission and the US Government believe they can keep back the tide simply by applying very high tariffs on those imported cars. All rational analysis suggests that strategy is doomed to failure. So what really is the future of East-West transport electrification relations?
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Our Changing Climate : youtube.com/channel/UCNXvxXpDJXp-mZu3pFMzYHQBattery powered flights from Washington DC to LA. No longer a pipe dream?Just Have a Think2024-08-04 | Battery technology is developing at breath-taking speed all over the world, but China still leads the way. Now they've created batteries with such high energy density that they're using them to develop a commercial aircraft with a range of 2,000 miles - enough for most commuter flights in the US or Europe. So, has battery chemistry reached yet another previously impossible milestone?
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Our Changing Climate : youtube.com/channel/UCNXvxXpDJXp-mZu3pFMzYHQNatures batteries at the bottom of the ocean!Just Have a Think2024-07-28 | Polymetallic Nodules. Never heard of them? Well there are trillions of them on the deepest sea beds of our oceans. Mining companies want to scoop them all up for the valuable elements they contain, like manganese, cobalt and nickel. But new research has demonstrated that those metallic constituents are causing a reaction that creates oxygen in the total absence of sunlight or photosynthesis. So...is it really a good idea to remove them?
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Our Changing Climate : youtube.com/channel/UCNXvxXpDJXp-mZu3pFMzYHQWould you be OK with a Semi Solid State?Just Have a Think2024-07-21 | Solid State batteries...BLAH, BLAH, BLAH! Sick of hearing about them? Well, that's understandable. They've been 'on the horizon' for far too long, haven't they? But the big dogs of the battery industry are now telling tell us they've come up with a neat solution to get these things onto the market and into our electric vehicles. That solution is 'Semi-Solid-State' chemistry. So, what's the difference and when will we get them?
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Our Changing Climate : youtube.com/channel/UCNXvxXpDJXp-mZu3pFMzYHQAmericas grid battery revolution.Just Have a Think2024-07-14 | China is often held up as leading the way in renewable energy, but it's actually the USA that has most enthusiastically embraced battery energy storage to help stabilize the electricity grid, and in some surprising locations. But is it all about the noble effort of decarbonisation or are we seeing some market profiteering here?
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Australia battery energy storage https://www.energy-storage.news/australia-installed-2-5gwh-of-battery-storage-in-record-breaking-year-of-the-big-battery/
Our Changing Climate : youtube.com/channel/UCNXvxXpDJXp-mZu3pFMzYHQDC to DC charging. One more step to off grid living!Just Have a Think2024-07-07 | Living off grid is a dream for many. But if you want to combine that lifestyle with an electric vehicle, then charging that vehicle up at home is going to be a headache. At least it was...until now. A US start-up has just started taking orders for a DC to DC 'Solar to Vehicle' battery charger, and one of the worlds largest solar PV brands, Solar Edge, is hot on their heels with their own competitive product. One more step on your off-grid odyssey?
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Walmart parking lot research paper (Open Source) https://www.academia.edu/44915411/Electric_Vehicle_Charging_Potential_from_Retail_Parking_Lot_Solar_Photovoltaic_Awnings
Our Changing Climate : youtube.com/channel/UCNXvxXpDJXp-mZu3pFMzYHQCharging an EV faster than filling a gas guzzler? Surely not!?Just Have a Think2024-06-30 | The ability to charge an electric vehicle in just a couple of minutes is the 'game changer' that car makers and car drivers are all waiting for. Batteries will always take time to charge up, but capacitors can store charge instantly. The challenge is creating one with enough energy density to make a real difference. Now a team in the USA has taken a very big step towards that goal.
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Our Changing Climate : youtube.com/channel/UCNXvxXpDJXp-mZu3pFMzYHQWe need to talk about your starving grandchildren.Just Have a Think2024-06-23 | You might not want to think about this one, but our scientists tell us if we carry on the way we are now, the global food system will have completely broken down by the time a child born today hits retirement age. The good news is, it can be solved. The question is, can we be bothered?
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Our Changing Climate : youtube.com/channel/UCNXvxXpDJXp-mZu3pFMzYHQA coal power station without the coal! How WIN-WIN solutions could save an industry.Just Have a Think2024-06-16 | Coal fired power stations are being retired in record numbers all over the world as we move towards more sustainable energy. But the huge turbines in those facilities provide essential inertia to maintain grid frequency, so losing them is a problem. Wouldn't it be great if we could get rid of the coal and carbon dioxide emissions but keep everything else? Well, now we can...
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Our Changing Climate : youtube.com/channel/UCNXvxXpDJXp-mZu3pFMzYHQHigh voltage electrons from Morocco to the UK. The blueprint for a global internet of energy?Just Have a Think2024-06-09 | Electrifying everything with renewable technologies like solar PV, wind turbines and battery energy storage is a 'holy grail' that energy transition naysayers tell us is an impossible dream. In 2021, an ambitious UK start-up called Xlinks set out to prove that theory wrong, embarking upon a multi-billion dollar project to install 7.5GW of solar capacity, 3.5GW of wind capacity and 22.5GWh of battery energy storage in Morocco that will be enough to run 7 million British homes for more than 20 hours a day, all year round, via four 4,000km subsea HVDC cables. In 2024 they received the seal of approval and a multi-million pound cash injection from Britain's largest electricity provider. We talk directly to the Chief Executives of both companies.
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Our Changing Climate : youtube.com/channel/UCNXvxXpDJXp-mZu3pFMzYHQIs the Lithium-ion crown slipping?Just Have a Think2024-05-26 | Can lithium-ion technology ever lose it's crown as the undisputed king of battery energy storage? Well, if it is to happen, it could be one of these contenders that takes the title.
Our Eden youtube.com/@OurEdenCheck out Agora Energy Technology agoraenergy.ca/agora-growing-operationsSodium-ion batteries in the USA. Beating China at their own game!Just Have a Think2024-05-19 | China has cornered the market in green energy transition technologies in recent years, and very effectively gained control of raw material supply chains so any other country has to go through them to get things done. There is one notable exception though. Sodium. It's so ubiquitous that even China can't monopolise it as a commodity. And that means European and US battery makers have spotted a chink in the Great Dragon's armour!
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Our Eden youtube.com/@OurEdenCheck out Agora Energy Technology agoraenergy.ca/agora-growing-operationsGlobal Economy or Climate Emergency. Is that our choice?Just Have a Think2024-05-12 | If you want to know the truth...FOLLOW THE MONEY! The people who control the world's money rely on financial risk assessors to give them accurate data about future scenarios that could adversely affect their vast portfolios. The message coming from those risk assessors right now is...your money is in grave danger if the world does not act urgently to mitigate the worst consequences of our rapidly warming climate. Now a new report sets the challenge out in painful detail.
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Potsdam Institute assessment of global financial damage https://www.pik-potsdam.de/en/news/latest-news/38-trillion-dollars-in-damages-each-year-world-economy-already-committed-to-income-reduction-of-19-due-to-climate-change
Our Eden youtube.com/@OurEdenCheck out Agora Energy Technology agoraenergy.ca/agora-growing-operationsHeating cities with sand and waterJust Have a Think2024-05-05 | The Green Energy Transition is starting to tease out some very smart solutions to ditching fossil fuels. Our friends in the North are leading the way in the decarbonisation of buildings and industry. Here's a couple of perfect examples.
Our Eden youtube.com/@OurEdenCheck out Agora Energy Technology agoraenergy.ca/agora-growing-operations100% wind and solar is coming!Just Have a Think2024-04-21 | 100% electrification from renewables like wind, solar, geothermal and hydro power, backed up with interconnections and energy storage is now just around the corner, and already the cheapest option available. But there are still bumps in the road. Can we overcome them in time?
Our Eden youtube.com/@OurEdenCheck out Agora Energy Technology agoraenergy.ca/agora-growing-operationsOcean Electricity Grid. How do they do that?Just Have a Think2024-04-14 | Pylons are ugly and nobody likes them! Filling up our countryside with thousands more of them to facilitate a massive electricity grid expansion is proving to be a very tricky challenge with lots of local opposition. But what if you could build your electricity grid out at sea and just bring cables to shore where they’re needed?
Our Eden youtube.com/@OurEdenCheck out Agora Energy Technology agoraenergy.ca/agora-growing-operationsIs El Niño really getting worse?Just Have a Think2024-04-07 | Average surface temperatures across Europe soared to 3.3 degrees Celsius above pre-industrial levels in February 2024. The global average was almost 1.8 degrees above pre-industrial. Some say this marks the start of Abrupt Global Warming. So, is that true?
Our Eden youtube.com/@OurEdenEurope is cooking at double speed! Are Europeans ready?Just Have a Think2024-03-31 | Europe is now the fastest warming continent on the planet. The European Environment Agency has just published it's first ever Climate Risk Assessment, which finds that EU policies are nothing like robust enough to cope with what's coming our way. So, what's the plan??
Our Eden youtube.com/@OurEdenCheck out Agora Energy Technology agoraenergy.ca/agora-growing-operationsRethinking electricity grids.Just Have a Think2024-03-24 | As renewable energy developers struggle with the almost impenetrable complexity of regulatory and permitting bureaucracy that can add more than a decade to the timeline of a new installation, clever boffins have been quietly revolutionising the materials used to make the wires that run between the pylons that take electrons from where they're generated to where they're needed. The cost savings, energy efficiency improvements, and speed of installation that those materials are facilitating may just make the difference in the race for decarbonisation.
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Our Eden youtube.com/@OurEdenCheck out Agora Energy Technology agoraenergy.ca/agora-growing-operationsBattery prices just fell off a cliff!Just Have a Think2024-03-17 | Lithium-ion batteries often get a bad rap in the media these days, blamed for high cost, unwanted fires and poor working conditions in the supply chain. But the fact remains that this chemistry provides the power for billions of devices around the world, from the tiniest pacemakers to the largest utility scale stationary energy storage, and the manufacturers are making great strides to improve their systems. So can they do enough to stay at the top of the pile?
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Our Eden youtube.com/@OurEdenCryogenic Air Energy Storage - the new long duration energy solution?Just Have a Think2024-03-10 | Cryogenic Air Energy Storage sounds a bit sci-fi doesn't it? But it's real and in operation today. The question is can it be scaled to become a globally significant long duration energy storage solution that can fit seamlessly in with other storage technologies on national grid networks? Well, that's the aspiration of a UK firm called Highview Power, and they are now well on the way to realising that goal.
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Rio Tinto backing Highview June 2024 https://reneweconomy.com.au/rio-tinto-backs-worlds-largest-liquid-air-energy-storage-plant-with-eyes-on-australia/amp/
Our Eden youtube.com/@OurEdenCheck out Agora Energy Technology agoraenergy.ca/agora-growing-operationsA Carbon Dioxide Battery that could actually work!Just Have a Think2024-03-03 | Decarbonising industry, improving energy storage duration on electricity grid systems, and finding more environmentally friendly ways to make everyday commodities. Three things that most people agree are good goals to strive for. What if a single technology was able to contribute to all of them? Well, here's one that could potentially do just that.
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Our Eden youtube.com/@OurEdenCheck out Agora Energy Technology agoraenergy.ca/agora-growing-operationsSmall Modular Nuclear Reactors. The VerdictJust Have a Think2024-02-25 | Small Modular Nuclear Reactors are yet another apparently promising 'silver bullet' style solution to the Net Zero challenge. All the reliable, safe, baseload power of large centralised nuclear power stations but without the huge cost overspends and crippling project delays. What's not to like, eh? Great on paper...but do Small Modular Nuclear Reactors pass the 'sniff test' in the real world?
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Our Eden youtube.com/@OurEdenSTOP PRESS NEWS from Oxford PV pv-magazine.com/2024/01/31/fraunhofer-ise-announces-25-efficient-perovskite-silicon-tandem-photovoltaic-moduleBattery Energy Revolution. What now?Just Have a Think2024-02-04 | Battery energy storage is already shaking up the automotive industry. But developers are constantly looking for ways to increase energy density, decrease battery pack weight, and add range to their vehicles. It's not just car makers though. The aviation industry is watching progress on battery technology very closely indeed. Now sulphur (or sulfur in the US) has entered the fray to add a new dimension to that progress.
Our Eden youtube.com/@OurEdenSolid State Batteries - FINALLY powering electric vehicles in 2024!Just Have a Think2024-01-28 | "Solid State Batteries are nearly here!" How many times have you heard that phrase in the last 5 years or so?? Myriad developers have tried and failed, but some have persevered, and one or two have succeeded AND got investment AND got production under way. So is 2024 finally, FINALLY the year??
Our Eden youtube.com/@OurEdenWill your next battery be based on salt?Just Have a Think2024-01-21 | Sodium-Ion battery technology promised a lot when it first hit our headlines more than two years ago. But has it delivered? Well, let's find out...
Our Eden youtube.com/@OurEdenCarbon Capture and Storage. Inconvenient new data.Just Have a Think2024-01-14 | So, Carbon Capture and Storage then. Climate change cure-all or delusional diversion by our friends over at Fossil Fuel HQ? Well, some people much smarter than me have been investigating, so I thought we should take at look at their findings
Our Eden youtube.com/@OurEdenHow to fix the climate by 2030?Just Have a Think2024-01-07 | Global leaders recently agreed to triple renewables capacity by 2030 while doubling energy efficiency. That'll solve all our problems, they tell us. And it will ensure the world gets to the apparent Holy Grail of 'Net Zero' by 2050. But is any of what they say really achievable?
Our Eden youtube.com/@OurEdenDoes energy efficiency just make us use more stuff?Just Have a Think2023-12-31 | Improvements in energy efficiency could give us as much as 50% of the carbon reductions we need by 2050, according to the International Energy agency. But the 'Jevons Paradox' says the more efficient and cheaper we make things, the more we use them. So are we in a no-win situation or is there actually a way out?
Our Eden youtube.com/@OurEdenThe INSANE numbers of a global climate conference!Just Have a Think2023-12-17 | What a super Christmas gift! Our global leaders all gathered in one of the biggest oil producing nations on the planet to discuss with more than two thousand oil industry lobbyists exactly how they should legislate to protect our children and grandchildren from the worst effects of global warming in the coming decades. What could possibly go wrong?
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Our Eden youtube.com/@OurEdenCorporate Net Zero BS is all the rage. Dont get taken in!Just Have a Think2023-12-03 | Everyone's got a 'Net-Zero' plan these days, haven't they? No self-respecting company would be without one. But are these claims a genuine marker of real decarbonisation within a business or just an exercise in corporate box-ticking? Now a new report has analysed 300 of the world's largest corporations to find out the answer.
Our Eden youtube.com/@OurEdenHow can we stop burning fossil fuels if we still need everything else they make?Just Have a Think2023-11-26 | Petroleum-based products like pharmaceuticals, electronics, fertilizers, plastics and a host of other crucial modern world commodities are all impossible to make without first producing hundreds of millions of tonnes of gasoline, kerosene, and diesel. It's just the way the process works. At least that's what the fossil fuel industry would like you to believe. Except, that is NOT TRUE. An independent petroleum industry consultant explains how it REALLY works.
Our Eden youtube.com/@OurEdenMoving waste heat from industry to homes.Just Have a Think2023-11-19 | 50% of global energy generation is heat, much of which is used for industrial processes. As much as 50% of that industrial heat is simply lost to the atmosphere each year. Industry is often too far from cities to be connected by pipework. So, how about a well insulated shipping container that can handle 1300 degrees Celsius and be delivered to small operators who need low grade heat, or to district heating systems to keep you toasty warm in the winter? Everyone's a winner!! Maybe we could call it 'Uber Heats'!
Our Eden youtube.com/@OurEdenGlobal Energy Transition. Are we winning?Just Have a Think2023-11-05 | The Global Energy Transition is the most profound change to human civilisation since the end of the last glacial period about 11,000 years ago. There will be winners and losers, and as a result some are trying to slow or even stop the disruption of their established markets. We all know who they are! So how is it going? Well, the International Energy Agency says it can be done, but ONLY if there is NO NEW COAL, OIL or GAS exploration or exploitation from this point onwards. COP28 has now been completely hijacked by the oil industry...so is the transition a realistic prospect or just a pipe dream?
Our Eden youtube.com/@OurEdenThe money men know the truth about planetary boundaries!Just Have a Think2023-10-29 | Scientists have identified nine so-called 'Earth System boundaries' beyond which life on our planet will become extremely difficult for many species, not least us humans. That analysis has often been met with scepticism, but risk managers at the world's largest financial institutions have been watching the rapid 'real-world' changes in earth's atmosphere and the catastrophic impacts on their asset portfolios, and they're beginning to factor 'Planetary Boundary' science into their spreadsheets. And when the 'money-men' change, the whole world changes!!
Our Eden youtube.com/@OurEdenThis energy storage technology is HOT STUFF!Just Have a Think2023-10-22 | Rondo Energy just secured $60 million of funding from some of the world's shrewdest investors. So, can they now achieve their goal of a 90GWh per annum production facility for their simple heat battery technology, reducing global industrial CO2 emissions by 12 MILLION tonnes per year? Time will tell!