Climate change: ‘Sustainable’ wind energy supply frozen by rare storm

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Climate change: ‘Sustainable’ wind energy supply frozen by rare storm

by WorldTribune Staff, February 15, 2021 Nearly half of the wind power generation capacity in Texas was offline as a winter storm froze wind turbines, reports say. A photograph which has generated several memes online shows a helicopter spraying a de-icing chemical onto the blades of one of the massive wind turbines. The Electric Reliability […]

Do we really need pandemics to reduce emissions? China accounted for third of globe’s total

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Do we really need pandemics to reduce emissions? China accounted for third of globe’s total

by WorldTribune Staff, June 22, 2020 Emissions are likely to decrease in 2020 due to the coronavirus, but the world would need many more pandemics to offset China’s voracious appetite for coal, analysts say. BP’s chief executive Bernard Looney wrote in a LinkedIn post that in order to get to net zero emissions by 2050, […]