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Category Archives: Energy
External Pressures on Oil Companies May Prompt Change. We’ll See.
I posted my first blog here on Earth Day, April 22, 2012. I’m now approaching 500 (498) blog posts. Almost all of them, directly or indirectly, have focused on climate change and the energy transition that we are necessarily going … Continue reading
Posted in Climate Change, Energy, Extreme Weather, politics, Sustainability
Tagged BP, Chevron, Clean Energy, Climate Change, climate change denier, commitment, denier, Drought, Energy, energy transition, Extreme Weather, Exxon, fire, Flood, fossil fuel, Gas, Global Warming, green, Heartland Institute, Hurricane, IPCC, motivation, Netherlands, Norway, Oil, renewables, Shell, Solar, US
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Infrastructure Timing
They did it! Today, after a long slog of debate, the US Senate has finally passed a bipartisan version of the infrastructure bill that came out of the American Jobs Plan the Biden administration proposed in April. For more information … Continue reading
Posted in Climate Change, Economics, Energy
Tagged Adaptation, Biden, bill, bipartisan, China, Clean Energy, Climate Change, commercial, competiiton, consumption, Cost, electric car, Electricity, Energy, energy cost, energy services, energy transition, fossil fuel, house, industrial, Infrastructure, input, manufacturing, mining, Mitigation, output, Physics, r&d, refining, residential, senate, Solar, Sputnik, transportation, US, utilities, Wind
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The IEA, Heat, and Net Zero
Summer has officially started. Over the last week or so, I’ve been keeping track of which large US cities have experienced temperatures above 100oF, according to the New York Times weather report (see August 18, 2020 blog for descriptions of … Continue reading
Posted in Climate Change, Electricity, Energy, Sustainability
Tagged Adaptation, Biofuel, Brazil, Carbon, carbon emissions, carbon zero, China, Climate Change, CO2 emissions, decarbonization, Electricity, Emissions, Energy, energy transition, Fossil Fuels, Global Warming, IEA, India, Indonesia, Mitigation, OECD, Solar, South Africa, Sustainability, Utility, Wind
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Electricity Through Fusion: Hope vs. Reality
I am finishing writing this blog on D-Day, Sunday, June 6th. This commemorates the day the Allied forces invaded Normandy on their way to liberating the rest of Western Europe from the Nazi menace. On April 13, 1945, they reached … Continue reading
Posted in Electricity, Energy, Sustainability
Tagged Bomb, carbon emissions, CO2, D Day, Education, elections, Electricity, Emissions, Energy, energy source, energy transition, engineering, fusion, Germany, hydrogen, ITER, JET, memorial, Nuclear, Physics, Pollution, Q ratio, Research, Science, tokamaks, Transition
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Utilities: Calculating our Carbon Footprints
I have used Table 1 in the last few blogs (starting on May 11th) to show the carbon intensities for the various sources of energy that we use in large buildings (greater than 25,000ft2) in NYC. From there, I’ve shown … Continue reading
Posted in Electricity, Energy, Sustainability
Tagged carbon efficiency, carbon emissions, Carbon Footprint, carbon intensity, CO2, Coal, electric car, Electricity, electricity intensity, Emissions, Energy, energy source, EPA, fuel, Future, Natural Gas, Nuclear, NYC, Oil, scope, Solar, Wind
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Electricity Generation: Carbon Intensity and Composition
Two years ago (June 18, 2019), I discussed higher-education carbon emissions. This included the lists that organizations such as the Sierra Club made to rank campuses across the country by their emissions. We split emissions into three categories: Scope 1 … Continue reading
Posted in Electricity, Energy, Sustainability
Tagged carbon emissions, carbon intensity, CO2, Coal, EIA, Electricity, Emissions, energy production, EPA, fossil fuel, Gas, generation, heat, heat rate, Mitigation, Natural Gas, Oil, petroleum, primary energy, secondary energy
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First-Principle Chemistry: Carbon Intensity
My last two blogs (May 4th and 11th) dealt with the challenges inherent in a new law that mandates carbon footprint reduction within large buildings in New York City, where I live and work. As with many other laws, there’s … Continue reading
Posted in Education, Energy, law, Sustainability
Tagged Carbon Footprint, carbon intensity factor, chemistry, CO2, CO2 emissions, Emissions, Energy, law, Methane, mole, Natural Gas, New York, NYC
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Carbon Emissions Calculators and Ways to Improve Your Score
Last week, I looked at a new NYC law that lays out a mandated schedule for buildings larger than 25,000ft2 to reduce their carbon footprints. I also gave an example of an exercise that I give my students, which shows … Continue reading
Posted in Climate Change, Energy
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From Commitments to Penalties: Measuring Carbon Emissions
Since President Biden’s inauguration, I have looked a lot at carbon emissions and what we are doing to minimize them. As an educator and a New York City resident, I am especially invested in this change. Not only do … Continue reading
Posted in Climate Change, Energy, law, Sustainability
Tagged Biden, calculation, Cap and Trade, Carbon, carbon capture, carbon emissions, Carbon Footprint, carbon intensity factor, Climate Change, CO2, CO2 emissions, commitment, Education, Emissions, enforcement, forest, Global Warming, law, legislation, limit, New York, NYC, Paris Agreement, standard deviation, teacher, US
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Help: How Can We Set Up an Energy Education Park?
In 2012, I was with Vinit Parmar, filming the energy transition in the Sundarbans region in India as it moved from traditional hunter-gatherer life to an electrified society (Quest for Energy – 2012, see the April 29, 2014 blog). In … Continue reading
Posted in Climate Change, Electricity, Energy, Sustainability
Tagged Adaptation, Brooklyn, Brooklyn College, Clean Energy, Climate Change, CO2, CO2 emissions, community, CUNY, Electricity, Energy, energy transition, India, learning, Mitigation, NY, Power, Renewable, Research, Solar, Sundarbans, Teaching, Technology, university
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