
Patrick O'Rourke
@pat__orourke
Energy and Climate Policy | Opinions are my own
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24-12-2016 07:03:36
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Out for a field work counting whale CDR and brainstorming the new year’s new paper idea. Zeke Hausfather Glen Peters Patrick O'Rourke @JayFuhrmanClimate: the meeting was supposed to be *in person* this year.




🌍 Thread 1/8: Open Source Milestone 🚀 Exciting announcement: GCAM-China is now open source at github.com/umd-cgs/gcam-c…, a groundbreaking development in the IAM community, jointly supported by Peking University, Tsinghua University, UMD’s Center for Global Sustainability. #OpenScience #ClimateAction #GCAM_Empire


I have been pretty silent on #AmmoniaFuel bashing lately.. In this new paper, the lead author Paul Wolfram convinced me that turning natural gas to ammonia and shipping it to Korea is not the WORST idea. (It is still a pretty BAD idea.) Read his post👇 linkedin.com/posts/pwolfram…




🌏NEW PAPER🌏 “The hydrogen economy can reduce costs of climate change mitigation by up to 22%” published today in One Earth. Led by Paul Wolfram In collaboration with PKyle, JFuhrman, Patrick O'Rourke and yours truly. 📄sciencedirect.com/science/articl… 🧵linkedin.com/posts/pwolfram…

We can achieve #netzero #CO2 #emissions with or without hydrogen. But did you know? It'll be A LOT cheaper (up to 22%) with #hydrogen! Read more in the latest issue of One Earth: sciencedirect.com/science/articl… Patrick O'Rourke, @hmcjeon.bsky.social, Jay Fuhrmann, Page Kyle



Our new Nature Communications paper is out Nature Communications with Nate Hultman Xingchi Shen. Power supply disruptions deter electric vehicle adoption in cities in China. UMD Research UMD Public Policy Center for Global Sustainability


A new Center for Global Sustainability-led study in Elsevier | ScienceDirect finds that meeting net-zero CO2 targets by 2050 will require rapid and deep changes to the U.S. energy system, with the power sector needing to expand by up to 190 GW/year in the 2040s. doi.org/10.1016/j.egyc…


