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RMI Reality Check: Greener, Friendlier Alternatives Exist for Rare Minerals in Batteries
The Myth For years, commentators have been handwringing about the extraction practices, environmental and social harms, and corporate ownership of mining operations that contribute to clean energy technology, with a focus on cobalt, rare earths, and other rare ingredients of the clean energy transition. Much like governmental, intergovernmental, and private…
COP26 Made Clear That the World Is Ready for Green Hydrogen
After the recent COP26 climate conference in Glasgow, COP26 President Alok Sharma said that “we have kept 1.5°C within reach, but its pulse is weak.” The progress of green hydrogen is one of the developments keeping that pulse alive. Green hydrogen is an innovation that is essential for decarbonization of…
Hydrogen Policy Assumes Natural Gas Prices Are Stable. They’re Not
Natural gas markets have been acting up lately. Consumers and businesses are in uproar, governments are bailing out users, and analysts are scrambling to explain the supply shortage and consequent price increases. In some markets, regulations and market structures have been overridden to protect consumers from the impact of…
Policy Priorities to Spur the Green Hydrogen Economy
As we prepare to transform global economies to avoid the worst effects of the climate crisis, no sector can go untransformed.
Growing Gigawatts of Green Hydrogen
Of all the technologies unleashed in the energy transition, few have generated the level of excitement that green hydrogen has. As a potential enabler of economically viable, zero-carbon solutions for everything from steel manufacturing to marine shipping, green hydrogen is positioned as a cure-all for the “hard-to-abate” sectors. This has…