Building resilient infrastructure
Middle East and Africa
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Did you know that by integrating trees into agricultural landscapes, we can sequester carbon, improve soil health, enhance biodiversity, and provide farmers with extra income streams. Let's accelerate the adoption of agroforestry to create a more resilient and sustainable future.
Landlocked #Bhutan emphasizes GNH (Gross National Happiness) over GDP. GNH prioritizes:
- Sustainable development
- Good governance
- Resilient culture
No wonder Bhutan leverages its vast hydropower to mine #bitcoin and build economic resilience.
euronews.com/next/2023/05/05…
Concentrated solar power 😏
No need to excessively mine for photovoltaic materials, just water and mirrors producing clean power.
#SolarPower #renewables
#Bitcoin mining helps build resilience in vulnerable communities by supporting renewable energy economics - it is a flexible demand source.
Low-income regions can now build clean power and earn passive BTC.
Very cool @ihate1999 and @GridlessCompute
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Our #RenewableEnergy revolution will be a pyrrhic victory if we destroy our precious resources in the process.
Driving an EV won't save the planet if its materials destroyed a forest or a water source.
Clean energy must have clean origins.
Facing water stress: Chile’s lithium industry under scrutiny in Atacama Desert. Joint byline with @Paul_Messad. euractiv.com/section/energy-…
Mining, sorting, processing, manufacturing, delivery - every vertical of the renewable supply-chain is dependent on gasoline, diesel, coal or #natgas .
Until e-fuels, SMRs or geothermal scale sufficiently, some fossil fuels must remain to ensure #EnergySecurity.
Too many people fall for the illusion that economic strength means high emissions. No.
France, Nordics, Netherlands and Spain are all powerful economies with low emissions per capita thanks to #CleanEnergy policies.
Germany on the other hand...
NEW DATA: Latest CO2 emissions data for every power plant in the EU. #euets #opendata
ember-climate.org/data/data-…
Astounding and alarming.
"It now takes an average of 23 years from discovery of a copper resource to a producing mine"
Government must cut red tape to allow #copper mines to scale up production. Miners must also fix their poor PR image.
Weird how that works. reuters.com/markets/commodit…
Energy resilience requires dispatchable power.
Below is a sobering analysis on how the #WindPower obsession is a systemic vulnerability.
But let's remember our secret weapons: hydrogen fuels, VPPs, next-gen geothermal and #nuclear SMRs to foster clean energy resilience.
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Weird how that works. reuters.com/markets/commodit…
Intermittency issues aside, poor cyber defense leaves billion dollar clean energy projects vulnerable - 10GW of #windfarms were remotely disabled last year in a single attack.
A successful #EnergyTransition demands vertically integrated resilience.
energyglobal.com/special-rep…
#Solar potential isn't just about irradiation/PV potential. Factors also at play: grid infrastructure, regional prosperity, terrain, temperature, elevation.
E.g. Southeast #Turkey is mountainous, volatile, & lacks grid infrastructure - not ripe for solar development at all.
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Explore Türkiye's renewable energy transition - all our data is easy to access and free to use 📈
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Copper resilience hinges on the long tail of miners coming online.
Given the soaring demand for #copper and predicted price increases, countries like Argentina will see huge economic benefits while reducing global reliance on Chilean and Chinese mines.
reuters.com/markets/commodit…
In light of Germany's recent #nuclear energy shutdown and questions over project economics, we have summarized nuclear project risks below.
TLDR: Risks are easily hedged.
Our full assessment can be found in our April newsletter ✉️
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Staggering difference in #decarbonization efforts among US states.
Texas still lags well behind despite its stand-alone and autonomous grid that should reduce red tape.
California's solar and Illinois' #nuclear generation set the national standard.
The US 🇺🇸electricity transition is picking up speed.
15% of generation is now from wind and solar, but fossil fuels are still at 60%.
States like Iowa, California and Texas are rapidly building up wind and solar, but there is a lot left to be done
Here is the breakdown:
ALT The electricity generation mix in the US broken down by state and sorted by their share of electricity produced by non-fossil (clean) sources.
"...ageing hydro plants are not equipped to handle high water temperatures and “dramatically changing” seasonal patterns. There is also limited land to build new hydropower stations."
This is just a modern-day analysis but may explain..
politico.eu/article/europe-s…
