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Hydrogen-Powered Data Centers Poised to Transform AI Infrastructure

Hydrogen Fuel News

These facilities promise faster deployment times and a significantly lower carbon footprint compared to conventional setups connected to strained energy grids. The hydrogen is delivered in tanks and, currently, most of it originates from natural gas using processes like steam methane reforming.

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Why Flexible Gas Generation Must Be Part of Deep Decarbonization

GreenTechMedia

“They are donating all of this electricity they paid highly for in subsidies to other countries, often with negative prices,” said Jussi Heikkinen, director of growth and development for the Americas at Wärtsilä, a Finnish company that manufactures battery storage and flexible gas power plants.

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LNG Promoted as Climate Solution at Vancouver Expo Despite Evidence

DeSmogBlog

But discussions of natural gas’ negative aspects — namely excessive, typically underreported methane emissions that are considerably worse for the climate than carbon emissions — did not take place. Renewable carbon gases is a euphemism for biomass and hydrogen, among others.

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Understanding the Anthropocene, Resilience Thinking, and the Future of Industry

Green Business Bureau

This article will cover the Holocene—the era of conditions that enabled society to grow and thrive, the theory of the Anthropocene, planetary boundaries, tipping points, and resilience thinking while urging readers to consider their impact and how to secure the future they want. The Anthropocene: Pushing Society Past Its Limits. The Holocene.

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What COP26 means for climate technology innovation

Elemental Excelerator

Several ambitious pledges emerged to phase down fossil fuels, limit methane emissions, stop deforestation, and turbocharge the adoption of electric vehicles. Methane: 105 world leaders signed onto the Global Methane Pledge, a US and EU joint initiative to cut methane emissions by 30% by 2030.

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Study: Failure to improve global waste management will push climate goals out of reach

Business Green

After modelling the emissions reductions waste reduction policies could deliver in eight cities around the world, researchers from GAIA found that some were able to reach net-negative emissions by 2030, including Sao Paolo in Brazil and Detroit in the US. Better waste management is a climate change solution staring us in the face," he said.

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Big Meat Unveils Battle Plans for COP28

DeSmogBlog

Animal agriculture is the largest emitter of methane, a greenhouse gas 80 times more potent than carbon dioxide when measured over a 20 year period. Scientists say that unless swift action is taken, methane from agriculture alone will take us beyond a 1.5C Past marketing drives run by the AHDB include the £3.5-million