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.
Roadmap Shows How Expanding New York's Solar Energy Will Help Meet Green Goals To meet New York's green energy targets, solar developers can look at using lower-quality agricultural land for solar energy, encourage dual-use (combined agriculture and solar) alternatives, discourage concentrated solar production, and involve communities early, according to a new Cornell University study.
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Monitoring Labor Unions
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In 2019, Ed Gilliland, the foundation s senior director, told HuffPost, The last time we were monitoring union labor, it was anything like 3% of the total workforce. It was a small group of people. We believe it is still fairly small.
As a result, when the group s survey figures were collected this year, Gilliland came to an unexpected conclusion: more than 10% of the industry has already unionized.
The discovery, combined with a rosy view of employment instead of other energy markets, may be a handy talking point for President Joe Biden as his administration seeks to accelerate the transition away from fossil fuels and hand union organizers their biggest legal boost in decades. It comes only weeks after the country s largest coal-mining union said it would back climate policies that would include new clean-energy opportunities for its members.