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Under-Leveraged Best Practices for Scaling Productive Use of Energy Appliances: Part 1 — Sales Support and Market Access

James Militzer

They can not only increase revenue for low-income populations and mitigate climate change effects, but also improve global energy access. In this article, we will focus on the two PUE appliances with the most mature and promising markets, solar water pumps (SWPs) and solar refrigerators.

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Our Oil Predicament Explained: Heavy Oil and the Diesel Fuel it Provides Are Key

Gail Tverberg

1] The most serious issue with oil supply is that there seems to be plenty of oil in the ground, but the world economy cannot hold prices up sufficiently high, for long enough, to get this oil out. We should not be surprised by fibbing on the high side. As I frequently point out, the world economy is a physics-based system.

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Utilities plus telcos: The case for an arranged marriage

GreenBiz

Cooling existing equipment and adding new sites to cater for 5G wireless networks will add to burgeoning energy costs. Network failures are often high-profile, and their negative effects can be lasting. The addition of artificial intelligence to the network will further improve efficiency and reduce energy requirements.

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Housing and Climate: Funding Holistic Solutions

Stanford Social Innovation

The long and continued practice of racist housing practices and policies in the United States means that Black people, Indigenous people, and people of color are the most likely to have insecure access to safe and affordable housing, to be unhoused— and to live in places that are disproportionately vulnerable to the effects of climate change.