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Energy Monitor: Sodium batteries to disrupt energy storage market

July 9, 2024 David Shirreff 0

With costs fast declining, sodium-ion batteries look set to dominate the future of long-duration energy storage, finds AI-based analysis that predicts technological breakthroughs based on global patent data. Read HERE Image: Tang-Yeon Hwang, Seung-Taek Myung, […]

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Energy Monitor: Is Microsoft’s AI push collapsing its carbon commitment?

May 29, 2024 David Shirreff 0

Microsoft’s data centre expansions have increased its emissions by 30% since 2020. Read HERE Image: K2boy3/Creative Commons

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Energy Monitor: Red Sea crisis could quadruple CO₂ emissions from ships

February 21, 2024 David Shirreff 0

Ships diverting away from the Red Sea put at risk a global goal to reduce shipping emissions by at least 20% by 2030. Read HERE Photo: Muhammad Mahdi Karim/Wikimedia Commons

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Energy Monitor: Net-zero corporate pledges deliver only 40% emissions reductions – report

February 7, 2023 David Shirreff 0

Companies such as Nestlé, Carrefour, Unilever and E.ON are using false, misleading or ambiguous green claims to avoid meaningful action on climate change, finds a joint NewClimate Institute and Carbon Market Watch report Read Here […]

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Energy Monitor: The EU is paying the same amount for 75% less Russian gas

September 22, 2022 Mathew D. Rose 0

Over the past year, Russia has cut gas exports to the EU by 75%, violating long-standing supply contracts. Yet the EU is paying as much for Russian gas as it did before prices rose last […]

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Energy Monitor: Should the UK restrict flying?

June 6, 2022 David Shirreff 0

The UK’s aviation sector has failed to get a grip on its soaring emissions. With the government’s Jet Zero strategy around the corner, demand reduction policies may now be necessary. Read here

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Energy Monitor: New EU state aid rules keep energy transition on the back burner

April 3, 2022 Mathew D. Rose 0

Renewables and community energy get support, but so do fossil fuels, while energy efficiency – among our most crucial tools right now – is undervalued. The European Commission can turn the intentionally vague rules around […]

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Energy Monitor – Just 8% of new cars sold in Norway in December 2021 had traditional combustion engines

January 17, 2022 Mathew D. Rose 0

A series of wide-ranging policies have transformed the traditional perceptions of EVs as too expensive or lacking in range. Read Here

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Energy Monitor: Carbon-neutral LNG: Transition fuel or greenwashing?

December 20, 2021 Mathew D. Rose 0

Shipments of carbon-neutral LNG have been on the rise in recent months, prompting accusations of greenwashing and misleading claims. Read here Photo: Wolfgang Meinhart, Hamburg This file is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike […]

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Energy Monitor: ‘Fit for 55 part II’ doesn’t reflect a climate emergency

December 15, 2021 Mathew D. Rose 0

The European Commission’s proposed action on gas and buildings would not be enough to get the EU to its 2030 and 2050 climate goals. Read here

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A Genocide Foretold: Reporting on Survival and Resistance in Occupied Palestine by Chris Hedges

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Book Review by Chris Green It provides a modicum of relief to one’s mental health to turn from Nicholas Kristof’s lame bothsidesism and Bernie Sanders’s blather about Israel’s “right to defend itself” to reading Chris […]

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Abundance – How We Build a Better Future by Ezra Klein and Derek Thompson

April 21, 2025 0

Book Review by Michael Roberts Abundance is a new book that has been attracting attention and debate among mainstream economists and politicians.  It aims to explain to Democrat members in the US why their party […]

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