"Should it come to fruition, the facility would be built on 1,700 acres in the RiverPlex MegaPark, a 17,000-acre swath of land in Ascension Parish that is bordered to the north by the Mississippi River and to the east by Iberville Parish. It is close to industrial feedstocks, ports and other facilities such as BASF, CF Industries and Honeywell, to name a few."
Dow will deploy X-energy's Xe-100 small modular reactor at Dow's Seadrift site along the Texas Gulf Coast.
It’s not only politically expedient but also morally correct for conservatives to lead on climate issues rather than leaving it to the left to set the terms of environmental policies.
"Google and Microsoft have also teamed up with Nucor, a giant American operator of steel mini-mills, which consume lots of electricity. In March the trio announced that they will aggregate demand and jointly offer contracts to clean-energy projects, both early-stage commercial ones and entirely novel 'first-of-a-kind' ventures. The idea is to guarantee custom for developers of promising technologies like long-duration energy storage, clean hydrogen, next-generation geothermal and nuclear energy."
As energy demand increases and regulators warn about grid reliability, underground storage may have an important role to play in shoring up the grid and keeping energy affordable.
"NET Power’s patented process consists of burning natural gas along with oxygen to create heat and a mixture of pure CO2 and water that spins a turbine and creates power. Some of the CO2 is reused in the system and the rest is sequestered underground—which means that a plant using the technology will emit virtually no CO2, according to the company."
While more reforms will be needed, the Energy Permitting Reform Act of 2024 is a good start.
"To extract enough heat in places with cooler rock, geothermal developers must drill 15,000 feet or deeper, which is more expensive. Faster drilling helped the oil and gas industry dig deeper to squeeze more profits out of shale rock, and analysts expect geothermal drilling speed to similarly improve."
The Bantam facility in Oklahoma is an encouraging sign that innovators in the private sector are ahead of schedule.
As global clean water challenges persist throughout the world, eco-innovation is leading the charge against ‘forever chemicals.’
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