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Hydrogen Combustion is a Dead-End Technology for Heavy-Duty Trucks

Union of Concerned Scientists

While industry tried to paint hydrogen combustion engines as a “bridge” technology to hydrogen fuel cells, their own presentations undermined that very point—instead, this path is a clear dead end. Regardless of the rule’s stringency, however, it’s clear that hydrogen combustion is a dead-end technology.

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Massachusetts Passes Climate Bill Focused on Clean Energy and Offshore Wind

Law and Environment

GW by 2027. DPU is instructed to study how to make it easier for communities to adopt geothermal heating and cooling systems. The MassCEC funds will also be used to advance and deploy carbon-free energy, including the development of nuclear fusion, networked geothermal and deep geothermal technologies.

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Guide to the New SEC Climate Disclosure Rules

Capaccio

Greenhouse Gas Emissions The rules require large accelerated filers (LAFs) and accelerated filers (AFs) to disclose material Scope 1 (direct) and Scope 2 ( i.e., electricity, steam, heating, or cooling) greenhouse gas emissions. AFs would need to meet this requirement by 2026, and smaller reporting companies and EGCs by 2027.

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Brooklyn startup addresses gun violence with climate jobs

A Greener Life

To date, BlocPower and its contractor partners — which include Augmented Construction , Urban Energy , VRF Solutions , Super Cool HVAC and Ch! The ban takes effect in December 2023 for buildings under seven stories; for taller buildings, developers negotiated a delay until 2027. And a lot of the technology is very approachable.”

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CityU physics: investing in ‘rising stars’ to deliver sustained research excellence

Physics World

Cool heads and clear thinking are mandatory in the competitive world of front-line research as academic leaders strive for that winning – and sustainable – combination of visibility, recognition and impact that will set their physics programmes apart from the rest of the field.

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RePlanet Nederland’s review of the draft Delegated Regulation on nuclear energy and gaseous fossil fuels in the sustainable finance taxonomy

Environmental Progress

We believe we must take a science-based approach and prioritize policies and technologies that enable us to liberate nature and elevate humanity. The Regulation requires the use of “best” technologies and standards for existing and future nuclear energy applications as opposed to accepted and appropriate technologies and standards.

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The ten-billion-dollar gamble: The JWST’s micro-scale windows on the universe

Physics World

In fact, it is one of three: the Vera C Rubin Observatory will see first light in Chile in 2022, while the Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope is currently scheduled to launch in 2027. To make the JWST fit for survey work, its designers had to look beyond the technology already in use at DESI.

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