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What’s another $4 billion amongst friends?

Enviromental Defense

If we assume the same price, but that these plants operate for 13 years (from 2027 to 2040), that’s another $3.2 All told, it will be $4 billion spent on a make-work project for power plant developers and the fossil fuel industry. Why spend $4 billion on fossil fuel infrastructure that may or may not be used?

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Analysis: Is hydrogen the new oil?

A Greener Life

Hydrogen may have lost the race to fuel electric cars but it looks a likely contender to replace fossil fuels in trucks, ships, planes and heavy industry. The Tokyo Olympics will be powered by a fuel with ambition – hydrogen. Japan, once a passionate advocate of nuclear energy , now has serious hydrogen ambitions.

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Hillary Clinton’s Climate Change Plan

Columbia Climate Law

Hillary Clinton’s climate change plan , released last week, centers on two goals: installing 500 million solar panels by 2021, and, relatedly, adding enough electric generation capacity from renewable sources to supply all residential electricity needs. The second component of Clinton’s plan is a “Clean Energy Challenge.”