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Make Hydrogen in developing nations: share prosperity while meeting our climate goals

January 26, 2023 by Dolf Gielen, Silvia Carolina Lopez Rocha and Priyank Lathwal

The new hydrogen economy will not just be global, it must be used as a major economic development opportunity for low income nations and promoting shared prosperity, explain Dolf Gielen, Silvia Carolina Lopez Rocha and Priyank Lathwal at the World Bank. They carefully lay out the obstacles and pathways for making hydrogen in developing countries. It’s very capital intensive, but such projects – think of existing fossil fuels, mining, etc. – have … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Energy, Hydrogen Tagged With: Aman, ammonia, capital, demand, development, exports, hydrogen, India, investment, iron, jetfuel, jobs, Mauritania, methanol, Namibia, prices, steel

From lab to commercialisation: what is the optimal pathway for Clean Energy Technologies?

January 11, 2023 by Madeline Geocaris and Andrea Wuorenmaa

It’s a considerable challenge to predict, decades in advance, what the world will need and get it from lab to market. Madeline Geocaris and Andrea Wuorenmaa at NREL summarise four case studies that reveal the key elements required: a good balance of technology, R&D, and public-private partnership; regulatory and market force alignment; good timing for market opportunities. The goal is the optimal pathway to the successful first … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Energy, Innovations Tagged With: blades, development, DOE, HydrogenFuelCells, innovation, JISEA, markets, NREL, refrigerators, regulations, research, solarPV, standards, wind

Wellbeing peaks at just 75GJ per capita: a reachable target for poorer nations to rise to (and rich ones to fall to)

April 26, 2022 by Josie Garthwaite

Energy consumption is strongly linked to health and wellbeing, in particular life expectancy, infant mortality, happiness, food supply, access to basic sanitation services and access to electricity. But as Josie Garthwaite at Stanford University explains, new research is saying that those improvements cease above a certain number of gigajoules per person per year. Knowing that number will make understanding and setting targets much easier. For a … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Energy, Energy efficiency Tagged With: consumption, development, efficiency, electrification, health, poverty, sustainability, wellbeing

Fossil Fuel divestment is premature: instead, enable investment to keep prices low, and tax consumption

April 12, 2022 by Schalk Cloete

We need to shift investment from fossil fuels to other climate-friendly energy sources, but it must be done more intelligently than we’re doing it today, says Schalk Cloete. The rapid global economic development needed to uplift the 86% of the world’s population currently living below $1,000/month is inextricably linked to the continued and timely growth in an abundant supply of affordable energy. It would be unjust – and probably futile – to … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Energy, Oil, Gas & Coal Tagged With: coal, demand, development, divestment, gas, growth, investment, oil, prices, supply, surpluses, transition

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