Category: “Middle Column”
- CO2 levels rising at fastest rate in 50,000 years
- Scientists use microbial electrosynthesis to convert CO2 into carotenoids, which have antioxidant and anticancer effects
- The “surge in deaths from heat” is now said to be the biggest problem posed by climate change
- California rooftop solar installs plunge as incentives cut, which is what utilities wanted
- CDR companies to watch: Rewind (biogenic CDR,) RepAir (electrochemical cell,) Airhive (available equipment and low-cost minerals,) and Cella (injects captured CO2 into volcanic rock.)
- U.K.’s 3.2 GW Sizewell C nuclear plant is part of kingdom’s plans to quadruple nuclear capacity
- EV logic: Being skeptical of the economics of electric vehicles is similar to thinking cigarettes are good for you?
- Global healthcare industry under scrutiny after revelations that if it was a country, it would be the fifth-biggest carbon emitter in the world
- Why are rural people skeptical of having skyscraper-sized industrial wind turbines near their homes? NYT figures it out — it’s a “digital misinformation campaign.”
- New federal energy rules are a gifit to wind and solar industries as public funds pay for grid upgrades