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A UNIVERSITY professor was among protesters outside Downing Street calling for the government to go further with their climate commitments.

BBC News Published Charging an electric car at home is much cheaper than using public charge points. This could put pressure on people who are less able to afford it, the Transport Select Committee said. The government also needs to make charging infrastructure accessible and reliable, and make sure people in rural areas have equal access, the MPs added. The UK plans to ban the sale of new petrol and diesel cars by 2030, and hybrids by 2035. That should mean that most cars on the road in 2050 a...

Two’s a crowd   https://beyondnuclearinternational.org/2021/06/06/twos-a-crowd/    June 6, 2021 by beyondnuclearinternationa Nuclear and renewables don’t mixTwo’s a crowd — Beyond Nuclear International Only renewables — and not nuclear power — can deliver truly low-carbon energyNote: The third in the new Beyond Nuclear series of Talking Points, features the work of Benjamin Sovacool, Andy Stirling and colleagues, compar...

By Linda Pentz Gunter, 31 May 21, “My advice is to look out for engineers. They begin with sewing machines and end up with nuclear bombs.” Marcel Pagnol My normal rule of thumb is to ignore the unrelenting pro-nuclear trolls who pepper our sites with incessant nay-saying and, occasionally ad hominem name-calling. After all, they have only one goal in mind — other than to get up one’s nose — which is to dominate and thereby control the narrative. But recently, a recurring theme has e...

By Frank Raczon, Senior Editor / April 21, 2021 As pickup trucks have achieved more popularity than ever, truck makers have piled on the amenities and jacked up model sizes, weights, and horsepower—as well as their profit margins—but the race to develop electric-powered pickups is well underway and holds some promise for fuel- and environment-conscious fleets. The first questions fleet managers will likely have about electri...

Governors Wind Energy Coalition What Happened to Pickup Trucks? Source: By Angie Schmitt, Bloomberg • Posted: Tuesday, March 16, 2021 As U.S. drivers buy more full-size and heavy-duty pickups, these vehicles have transformed from no-frills workhorses into angry giants. And pedestrians are paying the price. To get a handle on what’s happened to pickup trucks, it really helps to use a human body for scale. In some nerdy Internet circles — specifically, bike and pedes...

Nuclear power too expensive for hydrogen production Senior UN IPCC figure says reactors are not competitive with other low-carbon forms of power generation so the industry would require substantial subsidies to produce H 2 on either side of the Atlantic The recent spike in net-zero commitments by companies and countries has brought with it the realisation that massive amounts of decarbonised hydrogen will be needed in the future to slash emissions in hard-to-abate industries. In the UK and US, ...

By Reuters Staff 12 Min Read During a historic cold snap that has left millions of Texans without electricity, water, and heat for days, claims that the state’s use of renewable energy sources, specifically wind energy, are to blame have circulated on television and social media. These claims are misleading, as they shift blame for the crisis away from what appears, so far, to be the root cause: record cold temperatures that affected generation and transportation across all fuel types (includ...

Why Did Wind Turbines Freeze in Texas When They Work in the Arctic? On 2/18/21 at 8:27 AM EST Temperatures in the state fell as low as 0 degrees Fahrenheit earlier this week, causing widespread disruption. Thermal energy sources, including gas, coal and nuclear energy were all affected due in part to frozen instruments. But it was wind turbines which drew the attention of Sid Miller, Texass Commissioner of Agriculture. He said in a Facebook post Tuesday: "We should never build another wind turb...

AS HPC is slowly being built, all the recent evidence from analysts and academics is that the business markets have already moved away from nuclear.