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Reality Check: Greener, Friendlier Alternatives Exist for Rare Minerals in Batteries
Accessible alternatives to “critical materials” can make excellent EV batteries, solar cells, and wind turbines.
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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…
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Fueling the Transition: Accelerating Cost-Competitive Green Hydrogen
This report illustrates the opportunity and the critical tools required to accelerate cost-competitive green hydrogen to market.
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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…
Hydrogen
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.
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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…
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Batteries Spark Biden’s Infrastructure and Jobs Promise
President Biden’s infrastructure plan (The American Jobs Plan) aligns recovery stimulus and climate action. This is smart: experts conclude that the green stimulus delivers high returns in job creation. To date, stimulus hasn’t been that green overall globally but the US plan will…
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Global Cooling Prize: A Pathway to Net-Zero Residential Cooling by 2050
The Global Cooling Prize—a journey that began back in 2018—is now in its final stretch: the winner(s) will be announced during the virtual Grand Award Ceremony later this month.
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Climate: Where Technology, Infrastructure, and Policy Meet
A review of the new Bill Gates book “How to Avoid a Climate Disaster”…
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RMI Relaunches to Transform Energy on a Global Scale, Building on Nearly 40 Years of Analysis, Insight, and Market Innovation
RMI Relaunches to Transform Energy on a Global Scale, Building on Nearly 40 Years of Analysis, Insight, and Market Innovation Energy visionary RMI signals an evolution in its ambition and approach to mobilize transformative change…