1. Slowing Industrial Emissions
Industrial sector emissions remain one of the most difficult and vital clean energy challenges, which is why ClearPath added this exciting challenge to our portfolio earlier this year.
What’s clear: Combined with the power sector, we are going from tackling a quarter of U.S. carbon emissions to half.
What do we mean by the “industrial sector?” Manufacturing of products we use, drive, live-in, and love, happens in factories and industrial facilities all across the world every day. We’re focused on three technology areas with high emissions reduction potential:
- Metals, such as iron and steel
- Building materials, such as concrete & cement, and
- Hydrogen, a leading clean replacement fuel for industrial heat
Watch our video entitled, "How to Slow Industrial Sector Emissions", on four critical steps to decrease industrial emissions.
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2. Offshore CCUS project could store 225M+ tons of CO2
Storing captured carbon offshore is real, and it’s big. A new project site off the shore of Beaumont and Port Aurthur, Texas is able to sequester 225 - 275 million metric tons of CO2.
- Capturing and sequestering 225 million metric tons of CO2 is the equivalent of taking more than every vehicle in Texas off the road for one year.
- Talos Energy and Carbonvert were awarded the lease for the offshore CCUS proposal in TX state waters.
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3. HydroPower Fast Facts
In honor of National Hydropower day, the National Hydropower Association shared a video with key facts about America’s first baseload renewable energy source:
- 7% of U.S. electricity and 90% of energy storage comes from hydropower.
- The equivalent of 30 million American homes are powered by hydropower.
- Marine energy, an exciting innovation, has the potential to deploy 1 gigawatt by 2035.
Plug in: This Introduction to Hydropower has some additional facts and explanations.
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4. Small Reactors, Big Future for Nuclear Power
Without clean nuclear, carbon-reduction goals cannot be met, according to a letter published in the Wall Street Journal by U.S. Nuclear Innovation Council President Bud Albright this week.
Plug in: “Ultimately, nuclear innovations will deliver power to many of the estimated two billion people in the world who currently have no access to electricity,” wrote Albright.
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5. DAC Innovations are big in Texas
Innovations in direct air capture (DAC) of carbon dioxide will be happening in a new partnership of the Texas A&M Energy Institute and AIR TO EARTH®.
What’s clear: DAC represents exciting opportunities and technologies that innovators are adding to the toolkit to lower global emissions by removing carbon from the atmosphere. Specifically the partnership plans to
- Develop state-of-the-art materials, called chemical sorbents.
- Focus on porous polymer networks (PPNs) that could drive down costs.
- Optimize airflow and carbon capture to improve performance.
Plug in: Go deeper with this video, A New Tool In The CO2 Reduction Toolkit: Direct Air Capture (DAC).
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6. ICYMI
- The Energy Sector Innovation Credit (ESIC) Act is an industry game-changer according to an op-ed in The Hill by Jeremy Harrell of ClearPath Action & Quill Robinson at ACC.
- The Energy Impact Center Podcast with Jake Levine, Chief Climate Officer, at the US International Development Finance Corporation covers the goal of net zero investments including nuclear. Go deeper: Nuclear Energy Export Financing Unchained.
- Check out the new and improved Nuclear Matters website making it easier for advocates to contact policymakers and express support for nuclear energy!
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