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Nuclear power is back. Or is it? Small Modular Reactors, Fusion - they're all grabbing column inches, but is any of it going to put a meaningful dent in power requirements anytime soon? That's what Hannah Ritchie and I get into with Cat Clifford on the latest episode of Solving for Climate. Cat is Senior Science and Economics writer at Cipher News, and covers the nuclear beat in detail. Subscribe to the show here: https://bit.ly/4hll92h
Read the latest from Cipher News: Anca Gurzu shares takeaways from the Sustainable Energy For All Forum in Barbados.?
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???Under blue skies and palm trees, a stone’s throw from this Barbados' pristine beaches, leaders from across the Global South gathered last week to do some serious soul-searching. The fast-changing world order, fueled by the United States’ pivot away from climate aid and clean energy, as well as Europe’s preoccupation with defense issues, have left poor countries and small island states anxious and unsure how much they can still count on their Western partners to help develop their industries and bring clean energy to hundreds of millions of people currently without electricity. ??I was on the ground for Cipher News and bring you the key takeaways here: https://lnkd.in/eYCe5VWi
Last week, delegates from developing countries around the world gathered in Barbados to talk about how to expand energy access in their countries as the global world order rapidly shifts. Anca Gurzu shares five takeaways from the Sustainable Energy for All Forum: https://nt-z.ro/3XUVF4P
When Bill Spindle last attended CERAWeek back in 2016, fossil fuels were the belles of the ball. This year, fossil fuels were triumphant again — yet so much has changed. Read Bill's reflections from this year's major energy event: https://nt-z.ro/4iXXoyt
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It’s fairly simple. When Cat Clifford writes, you should read. See a summary of her latest below, and don’t miss the other Cipher News folks either (also noted below).
CNBC's Katie Tarasov has a really nice combination video and written story about the race between China and the United States to commercialize fusion, the "holy grail" of clean energy. https://lnkd.in/dctdXHAX This is my #topread for Cipher News today. https://lnkd.in/dwGu3v3n My #hottake: "The US has long been a leader in fusion science, and US companies are still attracting the majority of private funding, but the Chinese government is spending aggressively. They're catching up fast." Thanks to Katie for giving airtime to a bunch of my previous reporting as part of her project (screenshots below). I have been covering fusion for a while and will continue to do so. It's a fascinating story that's still being written. While I have you, check out some of my newest reporting on fusion. For Cipher News, I visited the National Ignition Facility at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, just outside of SF. I wrote about the connection between supercomputers and fusion here: https://lnkd.in/e3CTmG3R And profiled one of the leading physicists, Richard Town, involved in achieving the history-making threshold of "ignition" there: https://lnkd.in/dAjnr-aK And lastly! Check out Cipher News each day to the top reads and hot takes of my most esteemed colleagues: Amy Harder, Anca Gurzu, Amena H. Saiyid and Bill Spindle. I learn from them every day and you should, too!
At this year's giant energy conference in Houston, everyone was talking about the need for more, more, more power, writes Bill Spindle in a #ReportersNotebook. More from Bill on the vibe at CERAWeek by S&P Global: https://nt-z.ro/41NoIII
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This time it’s different — the siren song of energy markets. Well, ok, all markets. But I’m just off a week of all energy all the time at CERAWeek by S&P Global, an industry jamboree to end all industry jamborees, except they do it every year. This year’s unofficial theme was addition, or maybe multiplication is a better word. So much need for so much more. It was repeated over and over — additional fossil fuels, additional renewables, additional energy sources we don’t even have yet. I didn’t hear a panelist hazard even a guess of what we might need less of. There were some rumblings about global oil demand racking up only modest additions in the face of China’s long struggling economy and America’s suddenly shakey expansion, I suppose. Why the voracious energy appetite, mainly for electricity? Artificial intelligence, the new thing panelist after panelist pointed to as the driver of demand. Shiny object or new paradigm? Far less thought was put into that question than to expressions of awe and wonder, and the imperative to make more energy to feed it. Want to read more? https://lnkd.in/egVYcRQN Cipher News
Attending the energy conference CERAWeek by S&P Global last week for the first time in almost a decade made Bill Spindle think of the old story Rip Van Winkle: The more things stay the same, the more they change. Read more: https://nt-z.ro/3DPux0r
Check out our daily top reads & #HotTakes at https://nt-z.ro/4haS35F! A few highlights from this week: + Bill Spindle on the head of the largest U.S. utility announcing that natural gas will only be able to meet a sliver of total energy demand growth in the U.S. + Amena H. Saiyid on the U.S. Supreme Court rejecting efforts to block climate-washing lawsuits brought against major oil and gas firms. + Anca Gurzu on Nigeria’s desire to host the COP32 United Nations climate summit in Lagos in 2027. + Cat Clifford on a collection of large energy users supporting a goal to triple nuclear capacity by 2050.