The foundation for a big change was laid in the month of September, in 2014 when Mayor de Blasio presented the ambitious carbon reduction goal for NYC. It proposed to reduce greenhouse gas emissions by 80% by 2050 compared to the 2005 carbon emission levels.
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The unfortunate California wildfires have made the state and the people rethink their traditional energy sources – gas and electric pipelines.
The leading energy company, Pacific Gas & Electric, faces a $30bn lawsuit for the loss of life and damage to property in the 1500 wildfires in 2 years, in California.
The search for an energy source that causes minimal to no damage to our natural environment has lead scientists to judiciously and actively use hydrogen as a fuel. The latest comes from the production of hydrogen through electrolysis induced via renewable energy sources.
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This method was first deployed by FaHyence, a fuel station in Europe, in April 2017. The energies required for the electrolysis were distributed by Electricity of France (EDF).
The struggle to find sustainable energy resource is getting easier with every renewable source innovation. From treating water from exploding lakes to nanotechnology powered solar panels, countries are gradually moving towards renewable sources of energy.
Europe’s biggest economy, Germany, aims to make a total shift to the renewable energy source by 2030 and completely renouncing coal in recent years. In 2018, the country made renewables as its main source of energy for the very first time.
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The last few decades saw the need for a better, environment-friendly fuel take the research community by storm. Some promising biofuel sources have been found by using certain everyday products. As absurd as they may sound, the scientific community is going gaga over finding the much-needed solution to the world’s fuel problems through these sources.
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With all the advancements in technology, there is still one hurdle we are struggling to cross – finding a dynamic source of energy. Since states and municipalities are working to reduce their carbon emissions, they are looking for other resources.
Following are 5 of the most bizarre ways researchers have been able to produce enough energy to power a whole apartment building, for instance. Scroll down to be amazed:
Body Heat: Yes, your body heat.
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Follow the money. It’s good advice in law enforcement, politics, and finance. It’s just as true in the energy industry. To see the energy industry of tomorrow, look at where money is flowing today. Just looking at energy financing, the revolution is well underway. Already the majority of energy financing and new energy sources are in the renewables and investors are asking fossil fuel companies about stranded assets.
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The price of carbon dioxide and other greenhouse gas emissions has long been a preferred mode of an argument between economists and activists to address the nation against climate change. The concept is simple: to put a fee on the nationwide carbon emissions and hand back the revenue to the masses.
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The earth intercepts up to 173 trillion terawatts of solar power, which is ten thousand times more than what the entire population on the planet utilizes. Safe to say, the sun is the amplest source of energy we could ever have.
Although a far better alternative to fossil fuels, solar energy still has its limitations. Biggest of them all is its high dependency on clear weather conditions.
Now that the midterms have very nearly ended this is a great time to take stock of the results in terms of energy policies and climate change. This is a complicated picture with every side in the energy debate able to claim victories. Because of the sheer scale of the midterms, it makes sense to analyze the results from the local level, the state level where a lot of the action is happening, and at the federal level where the results presage more gridlock.
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