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DOE Offers $90 Million for Enhanced Geothermal Systems
The U.S. Department of Energy will seek applications for funding for the research, development, and demonstration of enhanced geothermal systems (EGS), an advanced geothermal technology that drills deep wells into hot rocks, fractures them, and circulates a fluid through the fractures to extract heat. EGS technologies can be used to create new geothermal reservoirs or [...]
British Columbia Preps for North America’s First Carbon Tax
On Canada Day, British Columbians will be paying 2.5 cents to a liter of fuel because of a new provincial carbon tax passed by the Liberal government. Effective July 1, the carbon tax will be phased in over five years to give consumers and businesses time to adjust and begin to understand there is a [...]
Ecopolitology Weighs-in On Dr. Jim Hansen’s Ideas for Climate Change
Today is the final day of the On Day One/Grist/Ecopolitology/UN Dispatch collaborative salon covering climate change ideas for the next president. We were fortunate to have the week’s final idea submitted by NASA physicist Dr. James Hansen, which you can watch below. For my written response, as well as those of Kate Sheppard, David Roberts, [...]
Climate Change Ideas for On Day One – Volume III
[Climate Change Ideas for On Day One - Volume II] [Climate Change Ideas for On Day One - Volume I] [Climate Change Ideas for On Day One - Volume IV] My collaboration with Grist and UN Dispatch continues today with a discussion of the top user-rated idea on On Day One: ‘Eat the View,’ by [...]
