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Europe’s wood pellet market is worsening environmental racism in the American South

GreenBiz

In 2013, when Enviva Biomass opened a new plant near Belinda Joyner’s community in Northampton County, North Carolina, she already knew what to expect. And then once [Enviva] start building it, then they were saying ‘oh this is coming,’ and I told them ‘this is what I tried to tell you all about.’” .

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Ramping Up Renewables Can’t Provide Enough Heat Energy in Winter

Gail Tverberg

US residential use of energy, based on EIA data. Solar energy is most abundantly available in the May-June-July period, making it a poor candidate for fixing the problem of the need for winter heat. California solar electricity production by month through June 30, 2022, based on EIA data.

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PowerWells: How a startup is solving the dual problem of energy poverty and electronic waste

Cisco CSR

What problem is your technology solution trying to solve? We get the good cells that are working, and then we use those cells to build bigger packs. We also use TV and computer screens, and we use the Perspex (a type of acrylic) inside of that and put that into the laser cutter to build the battery enclosure.

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Ramping up wind turbines, solar panels and electric vehicles can’t solve our energy problem

Gail Tverberg

Many people believe that installing more wind turbines and solar panels and manufacturing more electric vehicles can solve our energy problem, but I don’t agree with them. As a result, EROEI indications tend to suggest that innovations such as wind turbines, solar panels and EVs are more helpful than they really are.

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Why No Politician Is Willing to Tell Us the Real Energy Story

Gail Tverberg

At the same time, wind and solar and other “clean energy” sources are nowhere nearly able to substitute for the quantity of fossil fuels being lost. When this does not happen, history shows that civilizations tend to collapse. This unfortunate energy story is essentially a physics problem. Coal is also high-priced.

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Climate Talks - Episode 01: What Is Sustainability?

3BL Media

But what does “sustainability” even mean today? But what does sustainability even mean? CHORUS OF VOICES – WHAT DOES SUSTAINABILITY MEAN TO YOU? When I think of the word sustainability, I think of mostly the future and what we have ahead of us. It’s a buzzword, it’s a big word. It can mean everything and nothing.

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The economy is moving from a tailwind pushing it along to a headwind holding it back

Gail Tverberg

We also know that there is a physics reason why this happens. When this happens, economies tend to collapse. This is the reason for saying that headwinds are beginning to hold the economy back in the title of this article. In 1957, Admiral Hyman Rickover of the US Navy gave a very insightful speech.