Henry Harrell"s Blog: November 24 Green Energy News

Headline News:

A privately held real estate investor based in Missouri believes that the waterfront site of a former coal-fired thermal power station in Massachusetts could be turned into an offshore wind port. Commercial Development Company Inc said it intends to invest significant resources to reposition the Brayton Point facility for post-coal utilization. [Renewables Now]

Brayton Point (Commercial Development Company image)

Marine Renewable Energy Collaborative installed its Bourne Tidal Test Site in the Cape Cod Canal. It is ready for test engineers to assess tidal energy equipment performance and output. The next step in preparing the site for testing is to install data acquisition, processing and transmission systems on top of the platform. [Renewable Energy Magazine]
A study by scientists at the University of Bath shows that the fatty acids released into the air while frying food may help clouds that cool the atmosphere to form. Fatty molecules in the air form complex structures that endure longer than most molecules, allowing moisture to gather and form into clouds, which in turn cool the air. [Daily Sabah]
According to ClimateWise, a global network of 28 insurance industry organizations, not only is 2017 likely to be the most expensive year on record due to natural disasters and extreme weather events all over the globe, but over the past decade only 30% of catastrophic losses were insured, leaving a climate risk protection gap of $1.7 trillion. [CleanTechnica]
In Australia, the Turnbull government’s goal of reducing emissions by 28% by 2030 only requires an additional 1.5 GW of new large-scale renewables, Bloomberg New Energy Finance estimated. That target “could decimate large-scale wind and solar construction,” while a 45% reduction target advocated by the Labor party would “continue the current boom.” [Bloomberg]

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