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Used EV winners and losers, renewables trump capture and jargon busting
- Used EV winners and losers
- Energy industry confidence in net zero slipping
- Elsewhere, plans on the up
- Renewables trump capture
- The Australian nuclear debate
- Temporal flexibility, smooth spikes and randomised delay
- Did you know ……
Electricity powers on, thermally efficient mortar and poking Planck’s Law
- Electricity powers on
- CFOs seeing benefit
- New mortar reduces heat loss by 55%
- Selling the family silver to combat climate change
- Defying the laws of physics in heat transfer
- Did you know …….
Offshore wind blows back, community carbon capture and dangerous sponsorships
- Offshore gets a second wind
- Businesses planning to improve disclosures
- Community carbon capture
- Al Gore on tour
- The fastest charging EV on the road
- The power of slime
- Did you know ……
The good, the bad and the upheaval of AI
- Is Deepseek an energy gamechanger?
- Is AI greenwashing?
- Ocean surface is boiling
- Corporates to increase investment in sustainability
- Nature outperforms tech
- Millions at risk from extra heat
Coal hits new peak, EVs live longer than thought and a 2 billion year old nuclear reactor
- Coal use hits new peak
- Heavy industry still off track with emissions
- Australia to get green(er) steel plant
- EVs more enduring than we thought
- Did you know …….
Hijacking “net zero”, Arctic tundra flips role and the 5,700 year battery
- Hijacking “net zero”
- From sink to source – Arctic tundra now emitting more than sequestering
- Climate risk to slash corporate earnings by 7% by 2035
- Shipping hydrogen not viable
- Energy efficiency to contribute 25% of global decarbonisation by 2030
- Flexibility is the key
- The 5,700 year battery
- Did you know ……..
World firsts in – CCUS for cement and AI designed wind turbines and what to do with 19,000 teabags
- Rush on for green hydrogen tax credits in Oz
- World’s first industrial scale carbon capture for cement
- World’s first AI designed wind turbine unveiled
- A material methane fix
- Old tech into new tech – a new application for waste oil
- Proton battery beats lithium
- 600Km range heavy trucks soon to hit the market
- Paint adds 12,000 Km range
- Did you know …….
Insolvencies proliferate, carbon credits back in vogue and how much energy does it take to change an octopus?
- Leading names going out of business
- Is China’s EV boom a tipping point for the oil industry?
- Carbon credit projects attracting record investment
- Australia on target for 2030
- Ozzie capital to get big battery
- Mix things up to maximise forest sequestration
- A credible lithium alternative
- Did you know .........
95% lack efficiency targets, NZ ranking drops and the most emitting city is…
- 95% of large companies have no energy efficiency target
- NZ climate performance drops to rank 41st
- Fossil emissions hit new peak
- 4 million and counting
- And the world's most emitting city is …….
- 1,773 too many
- Adaptive cruise control – fuel friend or foe?
Busting the intermittency myth, a $27trillion opportunity and financing mass market green buildings
- Busting the intermittency myth
- Listed companies slowing down
- Only 40% of large companies have transition plans
- Climate action presents a $27 trillion opportunity
- Climate disaster losses off the scale
- 1.5C nearer than we think
- OECD downbeat
- Global efficiency improvements falling short of target
- Financing mass market Green Buildings
People – the untapped climate asset, 512 billion hours lost and small islands bearing the brunt
- People - the untapped asset
- US$39bn of damage to small island states over 20 years
- The US election
- Business travel progress stalls
- Large cities under threat
- Businesses blaming policy makers
- Feeling tired?
Climate fatigue, efficient carbon capture and solar storage breakthrough
- Climate fatigue
- Business investment bounces back
- Consultation on natural climate solutions launched
- Lithium hoard discovered in Arkansas
- Carbon capture breakthrough
- Storing meaningful solar for months