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Bioenergy carbon capture: climate snake oil or the 1.5-degree panacea?
Bioenergy Carbon Capture and Sequestration, known as BECCS, is one of the technologies we may need to limit warming to 1.5 degrees.
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Victoria officially opens state’s first big battery at Ballarat
Victoria's first big battery officially opened, paving way for more renewables and grid services. Developers say costs are falling quickly.
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Know your NEM: Election season scores one for climate
Team No Action has struggled lately to link renewables to high prices or low reliability. But a summer black-out could change that in an instant.
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CP Daily: Monday October 22, 2018
Snowy says cost of “firm” wind and solar significantly below current base-load prices
Snowy Hydro to boost capacity allocated under wind and solar tender, and will deliver 2 terrawatt hours of "base-load" renewables at significantly lower prices than the current wholesale market.
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RINs continue downward descent as single digits breached
Canadian government to reveal ‘backstop’ carbon price plan details on Tuesday
Microplastics found in human stools for the first time
Study suggests the tiny particles may be widespread in the human food chain
Microplastics have been found in human stools for the first time, according to a study suggesting the tiny particles may be widespread in the human food chain.
The small study examined eight participants from Europe, Japan and Russia. All of their stool samples were found to contain microplastic particles.
Continue reading...Hydro pumps up support for workplace diversity
The Hydro Tasmania Group is doubling its commitment to Engineers Australia’s Women in Engineering Scholarships as the business steps up its push for workplace diversity.
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Stakeholders call out California’s carbon price collars, offset regulations
Australia's kangaroo plague
National census for Australian birds
Severe thunderstorm covers Rome in hail and floods - video
A severe hailstorm hit Rome on Sunday evening, bringing a dramatic end to a long spell of hot weather and covering the streets of the Italian capital in hail and floodwaters.
Drivers found themselves stranded in high waters, while the runoff poured into underground stations. The temperature around the city dropped by 10C during the storm.
An area of low pressure moving south from northern Europe to Italy over the weekend brought disruption to most of the country, with other Italian cities – such as Milan and Palermo – experiencing floods as well.
Continue reading...EU Market: EUAs drop nearly 4% as new view on trading data prompts reassessment of speculator impact
Anti-plastic focus 'dangerous distraction' from climate change
President, California Council for Environmental and Economic Balance (CCEEB) – San Francisco
UK’s plastic waste is a burning issue | Letters
In August, exchequer secretary Robert Jenrick said: “Tackling the scandal of plastic pollution is one of our top priorities.” But it’s now confirmed what many have long suspected, that the UK recycling industry is riven with corruption (Report, 19 October) and only now is government dimly aware of the problem. Taxing coffee mugs and plastic straws, and placing a charge on plastic bags are commendable actions, but in the face of ever-increasing plastic production, single-use or not, are minuscule and potentially token. In addition to stamping out the illegal export of waste and reducing single use plastic at source, a radical upheaval of domestic recycling is required. Local authorities pay waste management companies to collect, sort and, hopefully, recycle domestic plastic waste. Yet they only recycle a proportion of it and ship the rest abroad. Much ends in landfill or in the oceans. The council tax we pay for these destructive processes could be better deployed.
With rapid progress now being made on carbon capture, home and industrial-based pyrolysis (waste to energy), and other plastic-to-fuel processes, there is a strong case to stockpile plastic that is difficult to recycle or contaminated. In compacted or granulated form at 10% of its previous volume, it can be stored for future use as feedstock for negative emission energy production and other innovative uses. We used to have grain mountains and wine lakes. Why not temporary plastic mountains?
Patrick Cosgrove
Chapel Lawn, Shropshire