Facing the challenge of achieving the goal of carbon neutrality,China is decoupling the currently close dependence of its economy on coal use.The energy supply and demand decarbonization has substantial influence on t...Facing the challenge of achieving the goal of carbon neutrality,China is decoupling the currently close dependence of its economy on coal use.The energy supply and demand decarbonization has substantial influence on the resilience of the coal supply.However,a general understanding of the precise impact of energy decarbonization on the resilience of the coal energy supply is still lacking.Here,from the perspective of network science,we propose a theoretical framework to explore the resilience of the coal market of China.We show that the processes of increasing the connectivity and the competition between the coal enterprises,which are widely believed to improve the resilience of the coal market,can undermine the sustainability of the coal supply.Moreover,our results reveal that the policy of closing small-sized coal mines may not only reduce the safety accidents in the coal production but also improve the resilience of the coal market network.Using our model,we also suggest a few practical policies for minimizing the systemic risk of the coal energy supply.展开更多
Lithium-ion batteries(LIBs)drive the energy transition towards decarbonization by being widely deployed in almost every aspect of our daily life,ranging from portable electronics to e-vehicles and grid storage.In a ty...Lithium-ion batteries(LIBs)drive the energy transition towards decarbonization by being widely deployed in almost every aspect of our daily life,ranging from portable electronics to e-vehicles and grid storage.In a typical LIB,Li-ions shuttle between the cathode and anode upon charging/discharging to store and release energy on demand with high round-trip efficiency.展开更多
Arup,the global design,engineering,and business consultancy,is the creative force behind many of the world’s most innovative and sustainable buildings and transport and civil engineering projects.Founded over 60 year...Arup,the global design,engineering,and business consultancy,is the creative force behind many of the world’s most innovative and sustainable buildings and transport and civil engineering projects.Founded over 60 years ago,Arup has operated in China for more than three decades,and almost a quarter of their worldwide staff of 9,000 is based in Hong Kong and China.Arup was initially commissioned by the Shanghai Industrial Investment Corporation in 2006 to put forward concept proposals for a new sustainable city:Wanzhuang Eco-City,located in Hebei Province.Plans for the 80 sq km site are now being guided by a Development Strategy,the Preliminary Control Plan and Sustainability Design Guidelines.British engineer Peter Head has been a director at Arup since 2004 and is based in London.He is chairman of global planning and leads the company’s planning and integrated urbanism business,which includes development planning,economics and policy,integrated urbanism,transport and environmental consulting and sustainable development.In his early career,Peter worked at the forefront of steel bridge technology,and in 1998 he was awarded an OBE for his services to bridge engineering.He is also chairman of the Steel Construction Institute.Peter was appointed a Commissioner on the London Sustainable Development Commission in 2002,representing the construction sector.There,he was a member of the group that drafted the Sustainable Development Framework for London,which led an initiative to create a voluntary code of practice for sustainable planning,design,and construction of London’s built environment.For the last decade or so,Peter has been dedicated to overthrowing the notion that urbanization is inevitably the fast track to environmental collapse.Specifically,he is fighting to ensure that a growing number of the world’s mega cities,and the associated mega projects,embrace sustainability principles from the outset.From 2004 to 2008 he was project director for the Dongtan Eco-City project near Shanghai,a project that has recently stalled.Over the last five years,Peter Head has lectured all over the world on sustainable development and the transformation of cities.He gave the 2008-9 Brunel Lecture Series for the Institution of Civil Engineers,titled“Entering the Ecological Age,”which he presented in twenty countries.The Brunel Lecture looked,in detail,as to whether there is a model that would enable 9 billion people to live sustainably on Earth in 2050.It asked which policies and investments would be needed to achieve this and whether it could be done without damaging the economy.In focusing on this ecological transition Peter developed retrofit scenarios for existing buildings.Steffen Lehmann met with Peter Head at the IGBC Conference in Singapore in October 2009(where they were both speakers)that discussed the world crises caused by climate change,food and water shortages,and resource constraint problems.Steffen asked Peter what the planner’s and engineer’s role will be in the cities’transformation to sustainable urbanism.Particularly,how such urban concepts and technologies could be scaled to fit the world’s most populous country,China?Here are excerpts from their conversation.展开更多
The conversion and storage of sustainable energy is essential in addressing the global energy and environmental crises.Hydrogen,a clean and abundant energy carrier,plays a pivotal role in decarbonizing energy sectors....The conversion and storage of sustainable energy is essential in addressing the global energy and environmental crises.Hydrogen,a clean and abundant energy carrier,plays a pivotal role in decarbonizing energy sectors.Anion exchange membrane water electrolysis(AEMWE)has gained attention due to cost-effective membranes and non-precious-metal electrocatalysts at the anode.展开更多
基金funded by the National Science Foundation of China(Grant nos.12271519,22120102001,61703079,and 11925103)the Postdoctoral Science Foundation of China(Grant nos.2017M621860 and 2019T120476)+1 种基金the 2nd Xplore Prize sponsored by the Tencent Foundation and the Natural Science Foundation of Hebei Province(Grant no.E2020402075)the STCSM(Grant No.2021SHZDZX0103).
文摘Facing the challenge of achieving the goal of carbon neutrality,China is decoupling the currently close dependence of its economy on coal use.The energy supply and demand decarbonization has substantial influence on the resilience of the coal supply.However,a general understanding of the precise impact of energy decarbonization on the resilience of the coal energy supply is still lacking.Here,from the perspective of network science,we propose a theoretical framework to explore the resilience of the coal market of China.We show that the processes of increasing the connectivity and the competition between the coal enterprises,which are widely believed to improve the resilience of the coal market,can undermine the sustainability of the coal supply.Moreover,our results reveal that the policy of closing small-sized coal mines may not only reduce the safety accidents in the coal production but also improve the resilience of the coal market network.Using our model,we also suggest a few practical policies for minimizing the systemic risk of the coal energy supply.
基金financially supported by the National Key R&D Program of China(No.2023YFB3809503)the National Natural Science Foundation of China(Grant Nos.92472105,52002350,52471243)+1 种基金the Local Science and Technology Development Fund Projects Guided by the Central Government(2023ZY0022)partly funded by the German Research Foundation(DFG)under Project ID 390874152(POLiS Cluster of Excellence).
文摘Lithium-ion batteries(LIBs)drive the energy transition towards decarbonization by being widely deployed in almost every aspect of our daily life,ranging from portable electronics to e-vehicles and grid storage.In a typical LIB,Li-ions shuttle between the cathode and anode upon charging/discharging to store and release energy on demand with high round-trip efficiency.
文摘Arup,the global design,engineering,and business consultancy,is the creative force behind many of the world’s most innovative and sustainable buildings and transport and civil engineering projects.Founded over 60 years ago,Arup has operated in China for more than three decades,and almost a quarter of their worldwide staff of 9,000 is based in Hong Kong and China.Arup was initially commissioned by the Shanghai Industrial Investment Corporation in 2006 to put forward concept proposals for a new sustainable city:Wanzhuang Eco-City,located in Hebei Province.Plans for the 80 sq km site are now being guided by a Development Strategy,the Preliminary Control Plan and Sustainability Design Guidelines.British engineer Peter Head has been a director at Arup since 2004 and is based in London.He is chairman of global planning and leads the company’s planning and integrated urbanism business,which includes development planning,economics and policy,integrated urbanism,transport and environmental consulting and sustainable development.In his early career,Peter worked at the forefront of steel bridge technology,and in 1998 he was awarded an OBE for his services to bridge engineering.He is also chairman of the Steel Construction Institute.Peter was appointed a Commissioner on the London Sustainable Development Commission in 2002,representing the construction sector.There,he was a member of the group that drafted the Sustainable Development Framework for London,which led an initiative to create a voluntary code of practice for sustainable planning,design,and construction of London’s built environment.For the last decade or so,Peter has been dedicated to overthrowing the notion that urbanization is inevitably the fast track to environmental collapse.Specifically,he is fighting to ensure that a growing number of the world’s mega cities,and the associated mega projects,embrace sustainability principles from the outset.From 2004 to 2008 he was project director for the Dongtan Eco-City project near Shanghai,a project that has recently stalled.Over the last five years,Peter Head has lectured all over the world on sustainable development and the transformation of cities.He gave the 2008-9 Brunel Lecture Series for the Institution of Civil Engineers,titled“Entering the Ecological Age,”which he presented in twenty countries.The Brunel Lecture looked,in detail,as to whether there is a model that would enable 9 billion people to live sustainably on Earth in 2050.It asked which policies and investments would be needed to achieve this and whether it could be done without damaging the economy.In focusing on this ecological transition Peter developed retrofit scenarios for existing buildings.Steffen Lehmann met with Peter Head at the IGBC Conference in Singapore in October 2009(where they were both speakers)that discussed the world crises caused by climate change,food and water shortages,and resource constraint problems.Steffen asked Peter what the planner’s and engineer’s role will be in the cities’transformation to sustainable urbanism.Particularly,how such urban concepts and technologies could be scaled to fit the world’s most populous country,China?Here are excerpts from their conversation.
基金supported by the National Key Research and Development Program of China(2023YFB4004702)the State Key Laboratory of Physical Chemistry of Solid Surfaces,Xiamen University(202409).
文摘The conversion and storage of sustainable energy is essential in addressing the global energy and environmental crises.Hydrogen,a clean and abundant energy carrier,plays a pivotal role in decarbonizing energy sectors.Anion exchange membrane water electrolysis(AEMWE)has gained attention due to cost-effective membranes and non-precious-metal electrocatalysts at the anode.
