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#greentransition

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Emeritus Prof Christopher May

If heat pumps are part of the necessary green transition, then it is pretty clear the economic model for energy needs t change to make the switch a worthwhile project for households.... certainly they may be greener, but in the UK's economy, still experiencing an ongoing cost-of-living crisis, most households cannot afford to transit to heat pumps in the current market structure(s).

#GreenTransition #energy #HeatPumps

theguardian.com/environment/20

The Guardian · Gas boiler fittings outnumbered heat pumps by 15 to one in UK last year – reportBy Fiona Harvey
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Token Sane Person

Want to find out how much those #solar panels will likely generate? pvwatts.nrel.gov/pvwatts.php has a handy calculator. It takes details of the panels, their angle, direction and location. It integrates that with historical weather reports, and gives you a spreadsheet with a daily estimate of how many kWh you can expect on average for each day of the year.
pvwatts.nrel.gov/pvwatts.php

pvwatts.nrel.govPVWatts CalculatorEstimates the energy production and cost of energy of grid-connected photovoltaic (PV) energy systems throughout the world. It allows homeowners, small building owners, installers and manufacturers to easily develop estimates of the performance of potential PV installations
#SolarGeneration#GreenTransition
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Joseph Simons 🍁 🌱

From @hannahritchie.substack.com "My overall takeaway is pretty consistent with the reports above: in many cases (but not all) second-hand #electric cars are now cheaper upfront than #petrol [#ICE] equivalents. At the very least, I think it’s fair to say that they're cost-competitive. I think public perception is probably the opposite: there is still a dominant narrative that electric cars are much more expensive. "

#greentransition #sustainability

sustainabilitybynumbers.com/p/

Sustainability by numbers · Many second-hand electric cars are cheaper up-front than their petrol equivalentsBy Hannah Ritchie
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Why We Went Extinct

In #nl, big energy companies stop their investments in offshore wind, effectively halting the green transition.

Due to big companies not moving away from fossil fuels, the demand for green energy is too low to guarantee that the increasing investments will be earned back.

For the Netherlands, investments in offshore wind are necessary to meet their climate goals.

(Dutch)
nos.nl/nieuwsuur/artikel/25616

nos.nlEnergiebedrijven haken af, Eneco bouwt geen windmolens meer op zeeHet leek zo’n gelukkig huwelijk: wind en zee in Holland. Maar inmiddels is de animo bij energiebedrijven verdwenen. Zo dingt Eneco niet mee naar de bouw van een nieuw windpark op zee.
#breadcrumb#greentransition#climate
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Emeritus Prof Christopher May

If any part of the green transition depends on the global recycling of plastics, then we might s well give up right now.... nearly half of all plastics are dumped in landfill, while less than 10% are recycled. Around 20% or more (including some of the 'mismanaged') are incinerated, no doubt adding more pollution to our degrading atmosphere.

We need a better solution to the one we are currently practicing!

Chart: Sorting the world's plastic. How much plastic waste actually gets recycled globally: 49% landfilled; 22% mismanaged; 19% incinerated; 9% recycled data from OECD (2023)
#GreenTransition#plastics#recycling
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Emeritus Prof Christopher May

If at first you don't succeed try again:

Investors in the failed British battery maker BritishVolt are trying a second bite of the cherry this time in explicit partnership with a Chinese battery maker to develop a British-based 'gigafactory'...

Whether this second try does any better is anyone's guess, but like the UK's nuclear deterrence, its unlikely anyone is going to believe this is a 'home-grown' energy player.

#batteries #GreenTransition
h/t FT

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Paria sans portefeuille

"In a recent piece, #BrettChristophers describes the global shift from active policymaking to acceptance and surrender. He joins Tom to discuss the roles of Europe, the US and China in #climateChange, why solutions like ‘carbon capture’ are futile and where there’s room for cautious optimism."

Have we surrendered to #climateBreakdown?

lrb.co.uk/podcasts-and-videos/
#globalWarming #climateCrisis #climateActivism #greenTransition #FossilFuelLobby #greenwashing

London Review of Books · Podcast: Brett Christophers and Thomas Jones · Have we surrendered to climate breakdown?
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Eric Maugendre

@energyecon @economics 🧵

Assets owners "can push for the acknowledgement of systemic climate risks by asset managers, and influence managers to improve their climate practices. Reclaim Finance has analysed how asset owners engage asset managers, and offers an overview of best practices that can be replicated."
reclaimfinance.org/site/en/202

Reclaim Finance · Asset managers: How their clients encourage them to take action for the climate - Reclaim FinanceAt a time of climate emergency, most of the practices of asset managers are still not aligned with climate science.
#greenCapitalism#funds#assetManagement
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