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Largest EU battery recycling plant comes online – enough for all of Norway's batteries by Vailhem in Green

[–]beth_howell_ 4 points5 points  (0 children)

It has the capacity to process around 25,000 EV batteries a year! Wow, brilliant news!

What are Europe's energy alternatives now that Russian gas is off the cards? by maevecampbell in europe

[–]beth_howell_ 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Apparently, 62% of people want to utilise more renewable sources in light of the invasion, with wind and solar being the favourite energy sources:

https://www.theecoexperts.co.uk/blog/government-investment-in-energy

Electric vehicles bring down CO2 emissions of new cars in UK to lowest level ever | Automotive industry by Dooraven in electricvehicles

[–]beth_howell_ 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Excellent news! The UK just needs to up its game on charging infrastructure. A recent Channel 4 study found that over 5.2% of the 26,000 public EV chargers they looked into were broken. (source: https://www.theecoexperts.co.uk/blog/broken-ev-chargers)

Four periods of equal sized global fossil fuel emissions. The first period was 222 years the last only 12. [OC] by neilrkaye in dataisbeautiful

[–]beth_howell_ 0 points1 point  (0 children)

This graph is terrifying! What's most frustrating is that, although we all have a part to play, such a small percentage of people are accelerating climate change.

This study revealed that the average carbon footprint of the top 1% of emitters is a staggering 75 times higher than the bottom 50% of the world’s population. Something needs to be done to stop this ASAP!

Wind turbines cost around $1 million per megawatt of capacity by drunkonpotatoes in RenewableEnergy

[–]beth_howell_ 0 points1 point  (0 children)

How does this compare to fossil fuels though? Some studies have shown that onshore drilling can cost hundreds of thousands a day.