For the first time, the percentage of wind and solar in global power generation has surpassed 10%, as China and Japan joined more than 50 other nations in 2021.
Over the next decade, the North Sea's fast-growing renewable energy sector will overshadow the UK's half-century history as a leading offshore oil and gas center.
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Hydrothermal processing is one of the technological options BETO is exploring. Prior investment under BETO s algae and conversion research and development platforms has aided efforts to accelerate this technology. Hydrothermal technology and associated processes can process a broad range of wet waste feedstocks, indicating that they will be used widely.
The Pacific Northwest National Laboratory, for example, has successfully developed a diesel blendstock from urban sludge, and larger-scale pilot projects are currently underway. The hydrothermal research activities so far have just scratched the surface of the possibilities in this area. Supercritical water, as well as other high-temperature, high-pressure fluids like carbon dioxide, have interesting possibilities.
Despite the pandemic, global renewable energy output increased by 45 percent to 280 gigawatts in 2020, owing to an "unprecedented surge" in wind and solar energy, according to a recent study from the International Energy Agency. It's the biggest spike in a single year since 1999.