"The big question, as always, is what happens next. BNEF’s energy storage team expects prices to closely follow the trajectory of raw material prices. We’re projecting pack costs will fall to $133/kWh next year in real 2023 terms. In the long-term, based on the same learning rate as the previous year, battery pack prices are expected to fall below $100/kWh in 2027."
Food producers turn to greener fertilisers to reduce carbon footprints
"Tesco, the UK’s largest food retailer, is also working with low-carbon fertiliser manufacturers, including several start-ups such as CCm. The retailer recently said that after initial field trials produced vegetables including lettuces, carrots and potatoes with a 50 per cent reduction in emissions levels, from 2024 it would increase the trial area tenfold to 13,000 hectares."
Designing batteries for easier recycling could avert a looming e-waste crisis
“Creating pathways for battery manufacturers to build sustainable production-to-recycling manufacturing processes that meet both consumer and environmental standards can reduce the likelihood of a battery waste crisis in the coming decade.”
Why Our Debt is Bad for the Climate
Interest Payments Undermine Innovation, Infrastructure, and our National Security
De Blasio moves to ban natural gas hookups: ‘Literally’ our ‘only choice is renewable energy’
"‘We need to make clear that New York City will renounce fossil fuels fully. Therefore, we need to ban fossil fuel connections in the city by the end of this decade, literally ensuring that our only choice is renewable energy.'"
Parallel Systems is Revolutionizing Freight Transportation
By shifting some of the nation’s existing freight to electric rail, Parallel’s next-generation connected fleet can help address a number of pressing issues in the country ranging from the current supply-labor crunch of professional truck drivers to rampant congestion in busy American highways and ports.
California’s Energy Woes Display the Need for Bipartisan Climate Solutions
Conservation is conservative, and conservative ideas will forever be a vital piece of environmental policy. If California's Democratic leadership takes a chance by cooperating with their Republican colleagues, they may discover it is exactly what their state needs.
Seaweed Could Change Packaging As We Know It
Seaweed is poised to become the next environmentally friendly way to package food.
How Waste is Powering A Cleaner Future
Renewable natural gas offers businesses, and governments an opportunity to reduce emissions while providing reliable power to consumers.
Genetically Modified Trees Are Taking Root to Capture Carbon
Margaret Osborne of Smithsonian Magazine reports on a startup that is using genetically modified trees to capture carbon. “In 2021, Living Carbon received a $500,000 grant from the Department of Energy, which predicted that the genetically engineered trees could remove billions of tons of carbon dioxide from the atmosphere if planted at scale, writes John...
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