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Space resources, nuclear innovation, energy markets, climate policy Director at Zeno; Fellow, PhD Student at Colorado School of Mines
A record 12 missions are aiming to explore the Moon in 2024. Here’s why 360info.org/its-a-wonder...
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Sustainable Energy Transitions - Socio-Ecological Dimensions of Decarbonization. A textbook from Palgrave MacMillan/Springer.
Made a website with lectures, readings, podcasts, and assignments to accompany Sustainable Energy Transitions: Socio-Ecological Dimensions of Decarbonization.. dustinmulvaney.com/set
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🧵In the newly published Best Practices Guide to Ocean Alkalinity Enhancement (OAE) Research, we make recommendations for monitoring, reporting, and verification (MRV), the multistep process to quantify the amount of CO₂ removed by OAE, a promising CO₂ removal technique. 1/5
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A new IEA report says there's two options left for oil & gas companies in a net-zero transition: disappear or transition. That's it. (Business as usual is not on the list) www.iea.org/reports/the-...
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A new report out of CGEP argues that NRC can improve its licensing efficiency by removing a requirement for a mandatory licensing hearing that largely duplicates modern processes www.energypolicy.columbia.edu/publications...
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A ship and crane erect a massive offshore wind turbine in the ocean.
A ship and crane erect a massive offshore wind turbine in the ocean.
A ship and crane erect a massive offshore wind turbine in the ocean.
It's happening! NY Governor Kathy Hochul announced today that the first offshore wind turbine has been installed at South Fork Wind. Massachusett's Vinyard Wind erected its first turbines recently too. Pictures via NYSERDA:
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The U.S. has eight wind turbines in the water.
This is very much a 2040s-2050s commercial scale technology, but the potential impact is the same order of magnitude as fusion.
Economics is the primary barrier and falling costs of space access are changing that
"A small step forward for space-based solar power technology"
Good review of the recent CalTech mission investigating how to beam power from space
www.thespacereview.com/article/4691/1
