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China’s Plastic Waste Ban Will Leave 111 Million Tons of Trash With Nowhere To Go
Since 1988, nearly half of the planet’s plastic trash has been sent to China, where the material is recycled to make more plastic goods....- LAOIL Replied
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Goldman Sachs' Grim Number on Solar
Global solar installations will decline by 24 percent this year, according to analysts. And Goldman is not the only one throwing out negative numbers...- Stormysaga Replied
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Apple's $300 fund in China
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Chile Becomes The Latest Country To Commit To 100% Renewables
Chile sets sights on 100% renewables by 2040. The country elected conservative businessman Sebsatián Piñera as president in December. According to Acera, Pinera's renewable...- chile
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IEA Report Warns Of Decline In Renewable Investment
Global investment in renewables fell 7% to $318 billion last year with the decline set to continue into 2018, threatening energy security, climate change...- LAOIL Replied
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Britain should bet more on renewables and less on nuclear
An independent advisory commission to the British government is questioning the nuclear projects and suggests to lean more towards renewables : “An energy system based...- Guillaume Albasini Replied
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Good And Bad News: Global investments in wind power surged during the first half of 2018. At The Same Time Solar is slipping
The good news for clean energy is global investments in wind power surged during the first half of 2018. The bad news? Solar is...- solar
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India going solar?
India is about to launch a tender for 100 gigawatts of solar power, 10 times the size of the current largest solar tender in...- Sefko Trafikant Replied
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Solar Is Starting To Replace The Largest Coal Plant In The Western U.S.
On Navajo land in Arizona, a coal plant and coal mine that have devastated the environment are being replaced by solar–with both enormous benefits...- arizona
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3 Mln EV Batteries Need New Home
"Finding ways to reuse the technology is becoming more urgent as the global stockpile of EV batteries is forecast to exceed the equivalent of...- Marina Schwarz Replied
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Sweden Is a Decade Ahead of Target on Renewables
The Scandinavian country is set to hit its goal for renewable energy more than 10 years before schedule. Swedish utilities and power generators have...- damirUSBiH Replied
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Successes and shortcomings of solar energy in China
We all know that China has a leading role in the development of solar energy. In this good article you'll find how the Chinese...- Guillaume Albasini Replied
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Michigan Town Bans Wind Farms
This is really refreshing. Apparently, people are worried that they have not been given enough information about wind farms but somebody wants to build...- wind power
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Ex-Statoil Launches First Wind-Connected Battery Storage
"Abu Dhabi Future Energy Company, Masdar, and the Norwegian multinational energy company, Equinor, (formerly Statoil) have installed, and will soon begin testing, a new...- wind power
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Renewables to generate 50% of worldwide electricity by 2050 (BNEF report)
Bloomberg New Energy Finance has issued its 2018 Energy Outlook report “Wind and solar are set to surge to almost “50 by 50” – 50%...- Guillaume Albasini Replied
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Saudi Arabia turns to solar
http://www.latimes.com/world/middleeast/la-fg-saudi-arabia-green-power-20180531-story.html.- saudi arabia
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Europe's Electricity Supply Could Drop Just In Time For The Next Blast Of Heat
Thousands of wind turbines from Germany to the U.K. are set to grind to a halt next week, cutting electricity supplies at the same...- rainman Replied
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What If Canada Had Wind and Not Oilsands?
What if Canada had backed wind energy instead of the oil sands? Let the discussion begin.- canada
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1 in 5 British mammals to be extinct
New study estimates 1 in 5 British mammals will be extinct (sometime... no date was given in article). Study cites various reasons depending on...- Rodent Replied
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Pope To Meet With Oil Execs
Pope Francis will meet with top executives in the oil industry and major investment firms next week at the Vatican to discuss the global...- LAOIL Replied
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Another WTH? Example of Cheap Renewables
http://www.digitaljournal.com/news/world/sea-of-solar-panels-turns-mexican-desert-green/article/520548 Quote The $650-million project came online in December and is due to produce 1,700 gigawatt hours when fully operational later this year -- enough to power...- SLL Replied
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Alternatives to Tesla Stock
The huge Tesla loyalty (discussed elsewhere in this forum, I see) is interesting, but I'm wondering if this is not just unique to Tesla....- BeamMeUp Replied
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Australian businesses going renewable
Nearly half of Australian major companies are taking their operations off-grid by installing large solar power and battery storage systems. Capacity of Australian businesses to generate...- Ajan Bosnjacki Replied
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Are Renewable Subsidies Killing Nuclear?
One argument is that renewable energy subsidies are killing off nuclear power, making nuclear plants close down even though nuclear is ultimately one of...- nuclear
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$2.5 Billion in Solar Projects Canceled or Frozen After Trump Solar Panel Tariffs
President Donald Trump’s tariff on imported solar panels has led U.S. renewable energy companies to cancel or freeze investments of more than $2.5 billion...- LAOIL Replied
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US left behind one year after announcing leaving the Paris agreeement,
Trump wanted to undermine the Paris agreement with the US withdrawal but his move is eroding US influence in the world and helping China...- Guillaume Albasini Replied
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Let's talk about biobutanol
Watch out ethanol! Still corn based, so I'm not sure what the corn grower crowd has to say about this. https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/policy/energy/epas-new-super-fuel-could-spell-trouble-for-ethanol BP is looking to roll out...- Rodent Replied
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What's the Carbon Footprint of Recycling?
I want to tap the knowledge of people here on this question. I recycle. I don't mind it and I like reusable things. But:...- carbon print
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South Africa Plans To Add Up To $4 Billion Of Renewable Power Projects
South Africa plans to invite bidders for additional renewable power projects that may amount to as much as 50 billion rand ($4 billion) of...- ThunderBlade Replied
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MidAmerican Going 100% Renewable? Not Yet.
"MidAmerican Energy Co will become the first U.S. investor-owned utility to source 100 percent of its customers’ electricity needs from renewable energy when it...- midamerican energy
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