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UK to Announce 2030 Fossil Fuel Car Ban Next Week?
Since the beginning of the year, there have been many rumbling within the UK that the government was planning on formally confirming a cut-off date for the production (or more specifically, sale) of new fossil fuel-based cars. In fact, as recently as September, there was a pretty strong indication that…
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Are Coffee beans the Answer to Fueling Transport as Well as People?
An environmentally minded entrepreneur has said that he wants all buses to run on coffee. This would if applicable, make most major cities buses self-sufficient in fuel. Could it really be done though? A bus that can run on coffee? Does this environmentalist also believe in hemp products? Now, now! Behave…
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Green Energy Generated Six Days of Electricity in UK Last Quarter
A new study has found that more than half of the UK’s electricity came from low-carbon sources during the last quarter (July to September), and that the UK energy output was effectively coal-free for nearly six days during that period. The study, by energy company Drax, shows that electricity generated…
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Tesla Earned More in the Last Quarter than the Oil Industry in the Last Year
While old industries and energy providers desperately cling to inefficient and environmentally toxic fossil fuels, emerging renewable energies – such as wind, wave, and solar power – are becoming increasingly cost-effective without accelerating on-going climate change, and the world is starting to notice. Case in point: last year, the US…
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UK to Build World’s First Negative Emission Power Plant
Drax in North Yorkshire is a giant coal power station. Its 12 cooling towers makes it one of the largest of its kind, and one of the world’s largest emitters of greenhouse gasses, pumping 23 million tonnes of carbon dioxide into the Earth’s atmosphere while it produces up to one-tenth…
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