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Emily Pontecorvo@emilypont.bsky.social |
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Emily Pontecorvo
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But it clearly doesn't provide the same benefit as something like DAC. And under current carbon market schemes, it will be counted as the same. (oops that was more than 2 posts.)
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There's a logical argument to call this carbon removal. And incentivizing CCS at ethanol plants is a positive thing...
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The question is especially pertinent as "offsets" fall out of fashion and everyone is searching for affordable carbon removal credits.
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I wrote about the ethanol industry's entry into carbon removal, and how it highlights key disagreements in the field about how we should define "carbon removal" in the first place. 1/2 heatmap.news/climate/what...
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Emily Pontecorvo
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U.S. forests are burning faster than we can replant them. A new paper found a 4 million acre backlog of burned land that remains barren. Reading about why our capacity to plant trees in the U.S. has been gutted got me thinking about the Great Tree Debate. heatmap.news/climate/refo...
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For a piece about the 10 'Make or Break' projects of the energy transition, I checked in on how things were going for NET Power... and saw something that surprised me. Despite a grid "breakthrough" in 2021, its pilot project has not yet produced net power. heatmap.news/sparks/net-p...
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Here are the top 10 clean energy projects that we're keeping an eye on, including:
☀️ Intersect Power's solar farm, Easley
🔋 Cambridge Energy Storage Project
💨 SunZia Wind
Read more from @emilypont.bsky.social and @zeitlin.bsky.social below.
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Coal is already on the way out. The real potential of the new EPA power plant rules, re: coal, is to bring about a more orderly — and potentially less painful — exit. I tried to understand where the Biden admin is and isn't helping on that front. heatmap.news/economy/bide...
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Thanks! I figured out how to get what I needed by making a pivot table with the 'generator' sheet.
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Nvm just needed to refresh my memory of pivot tables 😅
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Please help me #energysky, why doesn't the EIA 860 plant data include what type of plant it is or how much it generated? Is it possible to get the data in this format?
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Its so gross I can't go there
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It's difficult, maybe impossible, to measure or manage corporate emissions with precision. What if we focused on the point of extraction instead? This piece is about a scathing critique of life cycle analysis and the case for a "carbon takeback obligation" heatmap.news/climate/life...
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"...we model this and we model that, and we get so far away from reality that we actually can’t tell if something is positive or negative in the end."
I spoke w/ scientist Stephanie Arcusa about lifecycle analysis, a problematic tool that permeates the climate economy heatmap.news/climate/life...
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There is simply not enough support for homeowners to pay for electrification or navigate the process. I wrote about an innovative plan to "aggregate demand" to drive down costs that just got $2 billion in govt. funding to get started. heatmap.news/economy/heat...
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Don't sleep on the "climate superfund" bills making their way through several state legislatures right now. I wrote about why they may have an advantage over lawsuits against big oil for climate damages, none of which have even gone to trial...
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It is called “Coastal Carbon Capture Development Fund”
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Environmental protection laws weren’t written with the prospect of altering ocean chemistry to address an existential crisis in mind. But Vesta
has navigated the process to secure the 1st federal permit for an open ocean carbon removal field trial w/ olivine. My latest:
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What do these two images have to do with each other?
Find out on this week's episode of SHIFT KEY, where @robinsonmeyer.bsky.social and @jessejenkins.bsky.social talk about Rivian's quest to survive, the future of EVs, and why everything comes back to minivans.
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Nidhi Subbaraman
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Scoop: Superconductor Scientist Engaged in Research Misconduct, Probe Finds
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The Biden administration is taking the major step of finalizing new auto emissions rules today. Here's everything what we know so far about what this means for automakers, consumers, public health, and the climate. heatmap.news/electric-veh...
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lol thank you Lissa!
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Lissa Harris
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here, in case I haven’t already inflicted it on you personally, is my account of how my 5 mini-split heat pumps did last winter in a long minus-15F cold snap
I’ve had them 2 winters, they cut my heat bill by more than 60%, and my house is warmer now
www.empireofdirt.wtf/i-switched-t...
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Lissa Harris
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this study validates the hell out of stuff I’ve been talking and writing about the past couple years! -heat pumps are BIG climate action -almost every house will cut emissions, even on dirty grids -it’s hard to get the $ to pencil out for nat gas houses bc upfront cost -cost of tech needs to ⬇️
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Emily Pontecorvo
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Happy 1-yr birthday 🎂to @heatmap.news!
Also, happy bday to me! 🎈
I love this job and am so excited for all we have in store. If you read our stuff but haven’t bought a sub, today is a great day to do so. (Code ANNIVERSARY gets you 25% off an annual!) heatmap.news/st/subscript...
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Nadja Popovich
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New piece out today -->
Where Electric Vehicles Are (and Aren’t) Taking Off Across the U.S www.nytimes.com/interactive/...
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"There’s a joke among scientists that there are so many methane-detecting satellites in space that they are reducing global warming."
Why do we keep launching methane satellites? Let @emilypont.bsky.social explain:
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EPA delays regs for gas power plants, some enviros claim victory, others claim tragedy, meanwhile, industry claims victory too. What’s going on? 📥 Emily@heatmap.new
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There are some growing concerns over the sustainability of the carbon removal sector
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Not looking for a catchy news story! Just doing some research for a project. I understand there's no simple answer to this question, but there are papers that have sought to measure/compare individual actions to reduce emissions (i.e. iopscience.iop.org/article/10.1...)
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Putting the question of consequential co2 aside, putting “depends where you live, roof size, etc” aside, has any study attempted to do some kind of consumer-level rough estimate of how much an average household could reduce their carbon footprint by going solar? Like compared to other actions?
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I understand this mostly, but where I get hung up is-- with increasing demand for electricity from data centers, manufacturing boom, electrification, hydrogen, etc... won't there still be just as much demand, if not more, for that utility-scale solar even if there's less from the homes w/ rooftop?
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I am looking for studies that estimate how much an individual homeowner might reduce their emissions by installing rooftop solar. Ideally in the U.S., ideally published in the last 5-10 years. #energysky, #greensky, 🔌💡 help me out!
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“The biggest expense in drilling is time it takes to drill. The easiest way to reduce drilling costs is to drill faster," -@timlatimer.bsky.social. Check out Matt Zeitlin's latest on Fervo Energy's race to drive cost declines in geothermal at the rate of solar
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My latest, on the promise and gamble of WattCarbon, a company trying to fix the hornet's nest that is clean energy procurement, and fund the deployment of more distributed energy resources along the way. heatmap.news/economy/watt...
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I agree! Especially since the description of "moderate" also says that it is unhealthy for sensitive groups... confusing.
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The Air Quality Index is changing. Here’s what you need to know! heatmap.news/sparks/air-q...
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Jesse D. Jenkins
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More than 2/3rds of Americans living along the coast support offshore wind construction in the waters near where they live, finds a new poll. @emilypont.bsky.social @heatmap.news reports: heatmap.news/climate/amer... 🔌💡
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Very excited to dig into this one
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Berkeley researchers have identified big issues in the accounting underpinning yet another type of carbon offset — projects that distribute clean cookstoves. They told me this carbon finance is desperately needed, but it must be based on sound science. heatmap.news/climate/offs...
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Jamie Pew
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This is a really important piece that draws together multiple threads of state DOT climate reform efforts that have been gradually reaching a fever pitch all over the country. A good marker of where we are at in this point in time.
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For some fun weekend reading, check out my interview with the CEO behind the Impulse induction stove, which debuted at CES this week. We talk about the story behind the stove (like all good stories, it begins with pizza) and why stoves are the "wedge" in building decarb.
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“I believe this way of making cement is going to be obvious in retrospect."
Sublime Systems is making zero-carbon cement. @emilypont.bsky.social found out just how they do it:
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“Proponents of unionization say that making sure clean energy jobs are good jobs is essential to building the political will to address the climate crisis.”
Read @emilypont.bsky.social on solar workers’ fight to unionize:
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Unions have a foothold in wind and utility-scale solar, thanks to supportive govt policies. But residential clean energy jobs are the wild west when it comes to labor standards. Inspired by the UAW strikes, some workers are trying to change that. heatmap.news/climate/roof...
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Our and Time's Make Sunsets coverage made @emilypont.bsky.social's enjoyable read on 2023's most cinematic climate stories:
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Subscribe to Heatmap, so you can take a few minutes to read this essential piece by @robinsonmeyer.bsky.social, one of his best this year IMHO, on the end of COP28, where the world may be headed, and what it will take to turn it around. heatmap.news/technology/c...
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Clean energy manufacturing got a $60 billion boost this year, thanks largely to a single tax credit: 45X, which @emilypont.bsky.social deems "the IRA’s X-factor."
Read more about the IRA's “keystone” policy here:
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$10 BILLION *** not million.
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...and I've got a piece about our findings on which climate terms the average American is most familiar with. As the Biden admin pours more than $10 million into "direct air capture" and "green hydrogen" projects, most people have no idea what these words mean. heatmap.news/politics/cli...
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