Republicans’ climate contortions, AI batteries, pricey green ammonia + MORE
💥Energy Flux💥Friday 25th June 2021
The post-Trump Republican Party has finally woken up to the golden opportunity to take a pragmatic lead on US energy and climate policy... and squandered it spectacularly. The new Conservative Climate Caucus falls too far from the political centre to survive contact with the economic realities of the energy transition.
That’s the lead story in today’s edition of Energy Flux, which looks like this:
💥US Republicans want to have their climate cake and eat it
⚡Transition lines – Decarbonisation stories you need to read
🧠Energised minds – Critical thinking on crucial energy issues
GOP wants to have it both ways on climate
US Republicans have launched a Congressional caucus in a bid to seize the initiative on energy and climate policy. The group’s clarion call for painless emission reductions speaks to genuine concerns about an expensive energy transition hurting rural working class families. But it also peddles the fantasy of easy climate fixes. It remains t…