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Fossil Gas Crisis & EV Taxis in Colombia: A Surprisingly Promising Pair

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Colombia’s fossil gas climate crisis could spark EV adoption as the affordable FAW Nat Taxi lands at $23,000. Climate change is no joke. Last year, Colombia faced one of its harshest droughts in the last three decades, which forced the country to rely heavily on fossil-fuel generation to maintain healthy.

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MIT Report Finds Natural Gas Has Significant Potential to Displace Coal, Reducing Greenhouse Gas Emissions; Role in Transportation More Limited

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The interim report just published is intended to contribute to the energy, security and climate debate. While there is substantial uncertainty surrounding the producibility of this gas, there is a significant amount of shale gas that can be affordably produced. Much of this is from unconventional sources, including gas shales.

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The AI Boom Rests on Billions of Tonnes of Concrete

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As the world’s most widely manufactured material, concrete—and especially the cement within it—is also a major contributor to climate change, accounting for around 6 percent of global greenhouse gas emissions. Other projects are cooking up climate-friendlier recipes for cements. He was frank. Carbon capture may work for the U.S.

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IEA: power use to soar through 2027, but renewables will keep up

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But it also presents evolving challenges for governments in ensuring secure, affordable, and sustainable electricity supply, said IEA director of energy markets and security Keisuke Sadamori. Droughts in Ecuador, Colombia, and Mexico further strained hydropower generation.

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This Essential Element of the Power Grid Is in Critically Short Supply

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New kinds of power-electronic transformers, if they can be made affordable and reliable, would be a breakthrough for solar energy, says Silicon Ranchs de Vries. They would simplify the chore of regulating the voltage going from solar plants to transmission lines. But those efforts wont ease the logjam soon. manufacturers.

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Nearly one in five cars sold worldwide in 2023 was electric: IEA | Autocar Professional

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At the start of 2023, PHEV subsidies were phased out, resulting in lower PHEV sales compared to 2022, and in December 2023, all EV subsidies ended after a ruling on the Climate and Transformation Fund. However, the phase-out of several purchase subsidies in Germany slowed overall EV sales growth.