Headline News:
- Deepwater Wind has hit the home stretch at the 30-MW Block Island offshore wind project in Rhode Island. Fred Olsen Windcarrier’s jack-up Brave Tern installed the fourth turbine yesterday and is preparing to erect the fifth and final GE Haliade 150 6-MW machine at the site, about 3 miles southeast of Block Island. [reNews]
Block Island Wind Farm. Deepwater Wind photo.
- Opinion: “Global climate is spinning out of control – but now, we have the technology!” • Heatwaves of more than 50° C in Iraq and India in recent weeks show climate disruption is a present-day reality, not something for a leisurely response. But almost by the week, real-world advances provide a more positive prognosis. [The Ecologist]
- The Netherlands may soon approve of an outright ban on new cars fueled by gasoline or diesel fuel by the year 2025. Only zero-emissions cars powered by batteries or hydrogen fuel cells would be permitted. Germany may not be far behind, with growing murmurs in support of a ban on conventional cars by 2030. [CleanTechnica]
- The federal government calls the impact of carbon dioxide the “social cost of carbon,” and the EPA set a price at $36 per metric ton of carbon dioxide emitted into the atmosphere. A group of refrigerator makers sued, calling the price “arbitrary and capricious,” but a federal district court ruled against them unanimously. [CleanTechnica]
- NASA issued a report that identified 250 sites that release methane in the San Juan Basin around southwestern Colorado and northwestern New Mexico. The two-year study determined that 10% of emitters accounted for more than 50% of the total methane released into atmosphere, estimated at 600,000 metric tons annually. [The Durango Herald]
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August 17 Green Energy News posted first on Green Energy Times
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