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It would take huge amounts of clean energy to make the chemicals industry go green

Greening the chemical industry requires massive amount of renewables

13 May 2019

To go green, the chemicals industry could use carbon dioxide from the air instead of fossil fuels, but this would require vast amounts of renewable energy
Power lines

UK goes a week without coal but the renewables revolution is stalling

8 May 2019

The country that first started turning coal into electricity has managed without it for a week. But don't be fooled by the good news

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