#Bioenergy

Felix Creutzig

efesce

1/7 Bioenergy for climate change mitigation overrated? Our paper suggests that sustainability threshold translate into much more limited bioenergy and BECCS potential. https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/gcbb.12798#.YCuLYJT9rTk.twit

Siim Kuresoo

SiimKuresoo

ThreadA common industry claim is: only trees that “have no other use” are used in bioenergy. Difficult to counter if we don´t know the actual trees we are talking about.

Kenneth Richter

kenneth_richter

(1/7)Today the EU Commission’s JRC published an important study, providing further evidence why burning forest biomass must no longer be supported as RE: It found that 19 out of the

Ben See

ClimateBen

What if I told you the Paris Agreement on climate change relies on technologies that scientists know DO NOT and WILL NOT WORK?[Thread] Carbon dioxide removal (CDR) systems like Carbon

Drax

Draxnews

'Without negative emissions from bioenergy with carbon capture and storage (BECCS), #netzero cannot be achieved.'-- @ng_eso's Future Energy Scenarios report https://www.nationalgrideso.com/future-energy/future-energy-scenarios/

Michael S. Taylor

mtaylor_nz

Does Concentrating Solar Power #CSP have a cost problem?The global weighted avg. LCOE fell by half 2010-19, & auction/PPA prices suggest new projects in the USD 7-10 ct/kWh range. That's

Glen Peters

Peters_Glen

1. Will energy technologies grow exponentially until they reach "materiality" & then have linear growth?A common perception, but what does history say?[Short answer: Old technologies are growing exponentially (not nuclear),

Josh Gabbatiss

Josh_Gabbatiss

I took a look at Shell's first ever 1.5C scenario and found that it is... remarkably similar to its “well-below 2C” scenario.Oil, gas, coal, solar.... all basically unchanged.The key difference:

nigel pugh 🌍

nspugh

The planning permission given to the #Biomass Plant in #Cardiff is of ‘National Significance’, it’s not a decision for a local authority. If Wales is to succeed in slashing its

Glen Peters

Peters_Glen

IPCC: By 2050 a Brazil-sized area of new forests and/or crops may be needed to meet 1.5°C climate goal…No, this is not the new Shell scenario, this is the IPCC

David Roberts

drvolts

1. I'm listening to a presentation on this big new report from the National Academies on decarbonizing the US by 2050, focused on policy recommendations. Worth checking out the whole

Zeke Hausfather

hausfath

There has been a lot of discussion about negative emissions technologies (NETs) lately. While we need to be skeptical of assumed planetary-scale engineering and wary of moral hazard, we also

Dave Jones

CoalFreeDave

THREAD: Our new half-year research on Europe's electricity transition, published today..1/9: For the first time, renewables generated more than fossil fuels! Covid sped it up, but the trend was there

Peter Zeniewski

PZeniewski

So I’ve spent the last several months living and breathing the @IEA #India Energy Outlook. I was thinking about which figures I would jam into a nice thread that could

CEEW

CEEWIndia

#Thread | What's in #Budget2021 for clean #energytransition & #sustainability? Reactions from our team The bailout offered this time around needs to incorporate learnings from the lacunae of #UDAY 1.0,

Prof. Kimberly Nicholas

KA_Nicholas

Steeling myself with a strong coffee to sit down and read major new report on avoiding dangerous #climatechange (@IPCC_CH #SR15, available here: http://www.ipcc.ch/report/sr15/ ). My takes to follow (1/n) As always,

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