Soren B. Scott

Copenhagen votes on its climate plan today Copenhagen City Council is expected to pass its Climate Strategy 2035 and Climate Action Plan 2026-2028 today. For the past year, I've been following the process closely and working with councilmember...

Copenhagen City Council votes today on the major components of the city's Climate Plan 2035. I've followed it through city hall, and it has major holes that need to be plugged. Alternativet (Denmark's Green Party) is proposing amendments to fix it! Read more here:
www.linkedin.com/pulse/copenh...

*2 If a heavily agricultural country like Denmark needs to import biomass, it is absolutely not scaleable. For the scientific concensus against forest biomass, read e.g. this short open lettersigned by 700+ researchers:
www.pfpi.net/wp-content/u...

* The model they cite is here: chrome-extension://efaidnbmnnnibpcajpcglclefindmkaj/https://vbn.aau.dk/ws/portalfiles/portal/534311584/Fakta_om_atomkraft_V2_FINAL.pdf
It involves 42 TWh of biomass energy in Denmark. The only type they name directly is biogas, but that's projected only 13 TWh in 2035.

⚛️With so much ad space in Copenhagen Metro, Andel seems to think nuclear energy in Denmark is closer than I thought!
But if we exclude imported biomass*, to me it's an open question whether nuclear is the greenest way to get Copenhagen through a cold, dark, windless week.
What do you think?
#dkpol

As a new dad I got a pass to teach online, so this week I've been waking up at 3 AM to teach in China. My module on #catalysis bridges scales from #nanoscience to the global climate crisis - and the Sino Danish Center builds bridges to a green technology superpower.
sdc.university/education/ma...

Colleagues and I read the literature about the way that CO2 can be turned into fuels and chemicals by electrocatalysis, developed a systematic way to describe the step-by-step atomic pathways involved, and came up with this, our best guess. Improve it if you can! :)
github.com/ScottSoren/C...