Deep Dive into Key Climate Topics

Country highlights, Carbon Capture and Carbon Markets, Hydrogen and Synthetic Fuels, Renewables, Critical minerals and energy Storage, IEA reports, Biodiversity and Land

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Until I return on Friday, you might like reading some collections of posts focused on specific areas:

• IEA Reports

• Country highlights - India, US, Canada, UK

• Hydrogen and Synthetic Fuels

• Carbon Capture and Carbon Markets

• Renewables

• Critical Minerals and Energy Storage

• Biodiversity and Land

I would start with Space-based solar power, next-generation geothermal energy or Marine cloud brightening.

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IEA reports

• IEA’s Battery and Secure Energy Transitions Report - current battery deployments, emerging technologies, what can scale storage

• Costs of Cleantech Manufacturing - covers the cost of setting up manufacturing facilities for solar modules, wind power turbines and equipment, batteries, electrolysers and heat pumps

• Global EV Outlook 2024

• Tripling Renewable Capacity by 2030

• World Energy Investment 2024

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Country Highlights

• What is India doing to address climate change

• 2070 Net-zero strategy for India

• Climate and Real Estate Insurance in the US + Canada’s Nature Strategy 2030

• Repurposing Retired Coal Power Plants to Nuclear + Scaling Offshore Wind in the US

• UK Renewables Supply Chain

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Hydrogen and Synthetic Fuels

• Hydrogen powered combustion engines

• Making economical electrodes for Proton Exchange Membrane (PEM) electrolysers

• Natural and biological hydrogen

• Storing Hydrogen underground

• Hydrogen production costs in 2050

• Converting CO₂ to methanol using solar energy

• Green ammonia and methanol for shipping

• Plasma catalysis for making hydrogen and methane

• Economics of hydrogen for electricity

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CCUS and Carbon Markets

• Current challenges in Voluntary Carbon Markets and what can be done to scale them

• Carbon capture with seawater + Ocean Alkalinity Enhancement

• Materials for Direct Air Capture

• State of Carbon Dioxide Removal

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Renewables

• Reliability of new solar PV technology

• Life cycle emissions of PERC solar modules

• Tidal stream energy

• Lead-cooled small modular reactors

• Space-based solar power

• Next-gen Geothermal Energy

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Critical Minerals and Energy Storage

• Recycling critical minerals with plasma arc furnaces

• CO2 Battery

• Finland’s Water-Based 90GWh Energy Storage

• Compressed Air Energy Storage

• Liquid Air energy storage

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Biodiversity and Land

• Environmental DNA

• Protecting apes to preserve species diversity

• Drones for biodiversity protection

• Nuclear technology to manage soil salinity