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Some years ago, I began to feel the most important thing I could do was learn how to replace fossilfuel with renewable energy. For 30 years I have been an advocate for offshore wind development off New England’s coast and for the creation of institutions to support a transition from fossilfuels to renewable energy.
While a wind-powered cargo vessel may seem like a 19 th Century idea, the Grain de Sail may be a herald of a greener future rather than a nostalgic nod to the past. Thanks for signing up for Ocean Conservancy emails. The post Wind-powered Cargo Vessel Holds Hope for a Greener Future appeared first on Ocean Conservancy.
I was joined by Ocean Conservancy colleagues working to advance ocean-climate action. C, we stand to lose ocean and coastal ecosystems we depend on to sea level rise, warming temperatures, ocean acidification and other climate impacts. We focused on the following priorities : The Ocean in the Climate Change Dialogue.
The results include two developers cancelling their offshore windpower contracts with states and utilities, another cancelling two projects altogether, and hesitation elsewhere. The good news-bad news balance, though, would seem to tip decidedly in favor of a whole lot more offshore wind.
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The flagship wind farm made headlines as the operator, Swedens’s Vattenfall in 2018 won the concession to build it without government subsidy. The Netherlands plans to connect more than 20 GW of windpower before 2030. The Dutch are also trialling a cluster of floating solar panels named ‘Oceans of Energy’.
To avoid the worst impacts of the climate crisis, it’s crucial that we shift energy production away from the unsustainable fossilfuels that cause climate change and towards those that release little to no greenhouse gases (GHG), such as solar and windpower. Key Announcements. Momentum Toward COP27.
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This August, Brazil’s senate plans to vote on a regulatory framework for offshore wind that will be essential for the sector to advance, while Colombia is expecting bids by September from companies wanting to explore its maritime area. Offshore windpower is being resisted by sectors linked to fossilfuels.
With 2,800 MW installed and operating by 2040, offshore wind would provide more than half of Maine’s electricity demand, even if the state’s demand more than doubled as the state moves to replace fossilfuels with clean electricity for transportation and heating. Pass this bill!
These early thinkers were Thales (5) who created natural philosophy and theorized that seismological events such as earthquakes had a natural cause (correct) but assumed (wrongly) that landmasses were giant rafts that reacted to ocean ripples which caused the quakes. He was wrong about this too but Anaximander had another idea.
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Announcing recently that the world broke a record by generating 30 percent of all electricity from renewable sources in 2023, the British think tank Ember said the data proves we are in a “new era” of energy in which a permanent decline in fossilfuels is “inevitable.” More on that shortly. But first, the undeniably good news.
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The report’s authors conclude that human influence has warmed the atmosphere, ocean and land and that widespread and rapid changes in the atmosphere, ocean, cryosphere and biosphere have occurred. He has proposed paying for the new breaks by ending fossilfuel subsidies. Commerce, Science and Transportation. Chair : Sen.
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