Environment-Climate Change
From WikiDemocracy
The world’s first CO2 battery for long-duration energy storage is being commercialized [update]
by Michelle Lewis 28/5/22 electrek
Italian startup Energy Dome has now begun to commercialize the world’s first CO2 Battery, which was launched earlier this month in Sardinia, Italy. The battery uses carbon dioxide to store renewable energy on the grid, and Energy Dome says the technology can be quickly deployed anywhere in the world.
Fossil fuel burning once caused a mass extinction – now we’re risking another
by George Monbiot 3/11/22 The Guardian
Budleigh Salterton, on the south coast of Devon, sits above the most frightening cliffs on Earth. They are not particularly high. Though you don’t want to stand beneath them, they are not especially prone to collapse. The horror takes another form. It is contained in the story they tell. For they capture the moment at which life on Earth almost came to an end.
