{"id":3095,"date":"2021-11-03T10:07:58","date_gmt":"2021-11-03T10:07:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/eda-news\/?p=3095"},"modified":"2021-11-03T10:07:58","modified_gmt":"2021-11-03T10:07:58","slug":"expert-comment-net-zero-target-will-not-be-met-without-new-clean-energy-alternatives","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/engineering-news\/2021\/11\/03\/expert-comment-net-zero-target-will-not-be-met-without-new-clean-energy-alternatives\/","title":{"rendered":"Expert Comment: Net zero target will not be met without new clean energy alternatives"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Ahead of COP26,\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.kent.ac.uk\/engineering\/people\/3679\/li-bo\">Dr Bo Li<\/a>, an expert in new energy materials and carbon emission reduction technologies in the\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.kent.ac.uk\/engineering\">School of Engineering<\/a>\u2018s \u00a0Mechanical Engineering Group, comments on why \u2018net zero emission will never be achieved at current pace\u2019. He said:<\/p>\n<p>\u2018Climate change challenges our \u2018business-as-usual\u2019 mindset, and scientists are warning us evidently that our efforts to reduce CO2 emission is far behind the claims.<\/p>\n<p>\u2018Decarbonisation of heating and cooling is never an easy task due to the decentralised energy sources we are consuming. From the recent Government announcement, introducing air source heat pumps to replace gas boiler heating will never be a final solution to net zero carbon emission, at least from my point of view.<\/p>\n<p>\u2018What is more important, we have to find more alternatives, new clean energy materials and efficient thermodynamic systems, to clean heating and cooling rather than to continue to use refrigerants that have significant Global Warming Potential and Ozone depletion Potential. We are far behind our claims to phase out existing chlorofluorocarbons (CFCs) and hydrofluorocarbons (HCFCs) in nearly every sector such as transport, infrastructure, and construction. Net zero emission will never be achieved at current pace.<\/p>\n<p>\u2018Efficient and environmental-friendly heating and cooling solutions are imperatively demanded from scientists. What we actually need to invest in is scientific innovation in new technologies and infrastructure and increase investment to scale them up and transform millions of domestic and industrial units for natural gas replacement.<\/p>\n<p>\u2018Needless to say, creatively integrated \u2018Source-Grid-Load-Storage\u2019 energy consumption should be further developed and deployed on a much broader scale, \u2018a wide array of countries and stakeholders\u2019 need to act together. Greater international coordination to accelerate progress in developing solutions to the world\u2019s greatest source of carbon emissions could be critical in bringing new technologies to scale and shaping the low-carbon heating and cooling sector of the future.\u2019<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ahead of COP26,\u00a0Dr Bo Li, an expert in new energy materials and carbon emission reduction technologies in the\u00a0School of Engineering\u2018s \u00a0Mechanical Engineering Group, comments on &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/engineering-news\/2021\/11\/03\/expert-comment-net-zero-target-will-not-be-met-without-new-clean-energy-alternatives\/\">Read&nbsp;more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":55813,"featured_media":3096,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[224523,124,70],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/engineering-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3095"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/engineering-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/engineering-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/engineering-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/55813"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/engineering-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3095"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/engineering-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3095\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3097,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/engineering-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3095\/revisions\/3097"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/engineering-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3096"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/engineering-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3095"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/engineering-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3095"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/engineering-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3095"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}