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We have long known that the energy markets are not completely free. In his article in PV Magazine, Erci Weshoff explainswhich artificial regulatory constructs and financial structures built into energy markets can favor certain parties (utilities) and fuels (legacy coal, gas, and nuclear).
Even though it is the crucial element of the fast energy transition, wind power is still subject to many obstacles and false reports. In the Catalan newspaper La Vanduardia, Dr. Josep Puig dispels the most common myths. If your Spanish is not that fluent, you will soon find an English translation on EUROSOLAR TIMES.
Never in the history of mankind has a threat been as immediate to our common livelihood as now. We still have the chance to turn it away. Ivana Kottasová, Swati Gupta and Helen Regan explain ob cnn.com why we're about to waste it.
By Thilo Werner
Aliko Dangote, Africa’s richest man, plans to build one of the world’s largest oil refineries. With the aim of transforming Nigeria’s economy, he could create up to 70,000 jobs.
But not only are the corruption of Nigeria’s political and economic elite, the Covid-19-pandemic and the collapse of the oil price difficult challenges that need to be faced to reach the aim of an independent and sustainable Nigerian economy. Moreover, Dangote’s project, portrayed as an alleged symbol of hope and Nigerian progress, is not sustainable, yet modern, at all.
As the newspaper the Guardian reports, a temperature of 54.4C has been recorded in Calfornian Death Valley last Sunday. Some weather watchers believe this could be the hottest reading ever reliably recorded on earth.