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California scientists push to create massive climate-research programme
California has a history of going it alone to protect the environment. Now, as US President Donald Trump pulls back on climate science and policy, scientists in the Golden State are sketching plans for a home-grown climate-research institute — to the tune of hundreds of millions of dollars per year. The initiative, which is backed by […]
Two-factor learning curve published in Nature Energy
RAEL and Technical University of Munich team publish: “Energy storage deployment and innovation for the clean energy transition” in Nature Energy. Access at Nature Energy here. ___________________________________________________________ New Study Find That Energy Storage Prices are Falling Faster than Solar PV or Wind Technology Costs, Outcompeting Coal and Natural Gas Plants Berkeley, CA, July 31, […]
Scenarios to decarbonize residential water heating in California
New paper looking at the opportunities for dramatic decarbonization of water heating, published in Energy Policy, by joint RAEL–Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory team, Shuba Raghavan, Max Wei & Dan Kammen.
Actualizing the Vision of Laudato Si’: On Care for Our Common Home
Actualizing the Vision of Laudato Si’: On Care for Our Common Home Roundtable at the Pontifical Academy of Sciences November 2, 2016 On the Vatican website: click here. Laudato Si’ is a powerful text, political and poetic, and deeply inspiring. It addresses the most critical issues of our time in vision and substance. It […]
Ecoblock featured in “The Promise of Berkeley”
Featured in June 2017 The Promise of Berkeley The EcoBlock website is here. And also featured in Scientific American.