Energy commentary articles
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Burning Plastic Waste is Not an Energy Solution
The world has a plastics problem. Never mind the horrifying pictures of a seahorse riding a cotton swab or a beached whale found with hundreds of plastic bags in its stomach. Plastic pollution has now progressed up the food chain to our diets, ingested as microplastic particles and even transferred from mother to fetus. Each More
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Energy fog – trust your lying eyes
Attending an Anzac Day service, I only noticed the fog as it lifted and the sun emerged. In a similar…What to read next: Chris Bowen on the brink: energy cost blowouts and improbable Net Zero targets | Energy crisis: a call to professionals | The Covid vaccine is dead! Long live the Covid vaccine…?! | The heir of Orwell
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The energy transition’s effects on jobs
A county-by-county analysis by MIT researchers shows the places in the US that stand to see the biggest economic changes from the switch to cleaner energy because their job markets are most closely linked to fossil fuels. While many of those places have intensive drilling and mining operations, the researchers find, areas that rely on…