According to an analysis by Rhodium Group, greenhouse gas emissions are up 6.2% from 2020, but are still 5% below pre-pandemic levels. Agriculture is the smallest producer of greenhouse gases, but will be most affected by climate change as drought and severe weather intensifies. Following the recent report from the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, […]
Top electric vehicle news of the past day or so has included Nissan teasing two new fully electric models, a new electric Audi factory in China, and Canada reaching 5% EV market share. Opinions and comments published on this site may not be sanctioned by and do not necessarily represent the views of CleanTechnica, its […]
A US appeals court rejected Tesla’s request to reinstate higher civil penalties for automakers who fail to meet US fuel economy standards, Reuters has reported. Tesla has been criticized before for selling credits to other automakers. Automakers that fail to meet these fuel economy standards have complained that raising the penalties could cost them around […]
Carbonfuture has gained a huge vote of confidence in its ability to deliver on its promise of “carbon removal you can trust,” with investors putting $2.8 million in seed funding into the company. If humanity is to stand any chance of meeting the targets laid out in the Paris Agreement, then we need to use […]
The low consumption of electricity presents a challenge to minigrid developers in the quest to increase the average level of revenues and hence profitability. This leads to an average monthly revenue per user of around $2.96 – $4.83, whilst OPEX costs are between $2.50 – 6.00 per customer per month. For traditional centralized minigrids, transmission […]
Depending on who you ask, Bitcoin is either a wretched abomination of worthless pseudo-money designed to help criminals and shape-shifting reptilian aliens trade tourists for guns and drugs in pizza shop basements or a perfect, idealistic cure-all for the evils that money and banking have wrought upon the world. BTC’s energy use is so bad […]
Depending on who you ask, Bitcoin is either a wretched abomination of worthless pseudo-money designed to help criminals and shape-shifting reptilian aliens trade tourists for guns and drugs in pizza shop basements or a perfect, idealistic cure-all for the evils that money and banking have wrought upon the world. BTC’s energy use is so bad […]
The remainder was setting aside some forest in Indonesia, but it seemed pretty clear that there were no protections around the forest next door getting cut down or it burning up in fires that ravage Indonesia, etc. The four of us set out on that journey in 2018: Shaun Meehan, Kelly Hering, Kevin Meissner and […]
An EU law intended to drive the uptake of clean fuels by ships will actually lock in the use of fossil fuels for decades, according to a leaked proposal, making the European Green Deal goal of decarbonisation by 2050 impossible. More than half of the energy used by ships calling at EU ports could be LNG […]
Green hydrogen fans have lots to cheer about these days as one huge mega-project after another takes shape, but there is also some interesting activity bubbling up on the small end of the scale. Electric cars get props for having nothing coming out of their tailpipes, and they also have this extra benefit of not […]