"If Taiwan fails to meet the green energy and natural gas goals while facing a hard deadline for eliminating nuclear power, it will either face power shortages or be forced to continue operating coal-fired power plants that were set to be retired."
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Coronavirus Pandemic Speeds Shift to Cleaner Energy
“The world’s transition to cleaner sources of energy is gaining speed as the coronavirus pandemic accelerates a shift in investment away from fossil fuels, according to the International Energy Agency.”
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Quarterly Warning On Copper Before It Derails The Energy Transition
"A lot of the drivers for recent protests of copper mines, and of the companies producing them, are due to ESG concerns. It remains unclear if the connection will be made that without copper there will be no energy transition, or if the snake will simply keep eating its tail."
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Utilities Look to Green Hydrogen to Cut Carbon Emissions
“U.S. utilities are increasingly exploring the use of what is called green hydrogen made from wind and solar energy to reduce emissions from power plants and pipelines.”
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The Global Environmental Apocalypse Has Been Canceled
Shellenberger is in a good position to parse the motives behind the purveyors of doom.
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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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How Innovation Works For the Environment
“Crucially, the very incentives that drive private sector innovation also drive ever-greater economic and environmental efficiency – serving both humanity and the planet well. Free markets are good for innovation, and innovation is good for the environment.”
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The Green New Deal Can’t Break The Laws Of Physics
“If all that weren’t enough, there’s also the roughly 20 to 100-fold increase in land use that comes with using green machines to replace hydrocarbons. And, of course, there’s the mother’s milk of a Green New Deal, the trillions of dollars in subsidies, necessarily funded by increased costs and taxes for all consumers."
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This Century-Old Law Is Holding American Shipping Back
Ending dredging protectionism would put American taxpayers and consumers first.
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The State of Carbon Capture, Removal and Utilization
“It's become increasingly clear that we're unlikely to reach net-zero at any significant scale without some pretty heavy carbon management. That means carbon capture, carbon removal and carbon utilization.”
