Technology

The Future of the European Union’s Energy Sector & the Russia-Ukraine Conflict

The Future of the European Union’s Energy Sector & the Russia-Ukraine Conflict

A central concern of Ukrainian-Russian tensions has been Europe’s dependence on natural gas and oil imported from Russia. In 2019, roughly 40% of Europe’s natural gas was supplied by Russia. The timing of Russia’s invasion of Europe has been noted as significant because energy use is higher in the winter months, as people use gas to heat their homes.

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The Complexities of Carbon Capture

The Complexities of Carbon Capture

Unless extreme measures are taken in the next twenty or thirty years to cut emissions, we will need carbon-negative solutions to stay below the 1.5-degree threshold. Direct carbon capture is promising, because if it works as intended - which is a big if - it could lock that carbon away in rocks for millennia.

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