“Led by a new chief executive, BP is trying to reinvent itself as an energy company in the age of climate change. The company is shrinking its oil and gas business, revving up offshore wind power and developing solar and battery storage.”
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Smart Money Is Betting On These 5 Exciting Energy Technologies
“Although most high-profile energy investments have been in batteries and energy storage, recent funding rounds have favored novel technologies from fusion and graphene to solid-state circuit breakers, direct-air capture of CO2, and geothermal drilling.”
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GE Hitachi, TerraPower Team on Nuclear-Storage Hybrid SMR
“TerraPower and GEH’s emphasis on cost reductions for the Natrium design is a crucial consideration for commercial success in a burgeoning global SMR market, where more than 50 designs and concepts with varying levels of technology readiness are vying for first customers.”
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How a new solar and lighting technology could propel a renewable energy transformation
“Despite their cheap and versatile processing, these materials have been shown to be remarkably efficient as both solar cells and light emitters.”
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Pennsylvania to develop carbon capture infrastructure plan
“Alongside proposed tax credits and other financial incentives for carbon capture from industrial facilities and power plants, Wolf said expanding this infrastructure would preserve high-paying jobs in energy-producing, agricultural and industrial states and significantly reduce net carbon emissions.”
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California Burnin’ — a Warning Against One-Party Rule
“The big problem is not that climate change is coming to every state. It is, though most states will mitigate it better than California. The problem is that Democratic governance could be coming to the nation as a whole, starting on Jan. 20.”
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A Moonshot Energy Innovation Initiative Could Help Rebuild Our Economy
“A massive innovation effort is underway right now to develop a COVID-19 vaccine. But as the response shifts from immediate relief to long-term economic recovery, it is important we avoid losing momentum in efforts to innovate and invest in our future. More than ever, it is critical to continue fueling the innovation engine that will help rebuild a stronger, more resilient nation—putting Americans back to work today and ensuring jobs far into the future.”
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How America wins from a pro-climate trade policy
“A well-designed climate policy can address this unfairness, help return important supply chains back to the U.S. and create more American jobs for the future. It can also serve to check China’s growing economic power and call out its practice of claiming climate progress while promoting carbon-intensive industrialization in emerging economies. “
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Climate Change or Forest Management? Both Are to Blame.
“Our ability to avoid disastrous situations like the one currently engulfing the Western United States is impeded by partisans on both sides refusing to acknowledge the complexities of the issue—one can push common-sense climate policies alongside repealing onerous government regulation. The two are far from mutually exclusive.”
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Innovation and regulation can curb climate change. We need bipartisan support for both.
“We agree that ambitious environmental standards are important, but impractical plans without the necessary resources are not the best way to do the job.”
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