Let's Not Repeat the Mistakes from the Past! A New TikTok Video from Advanced Biofuels USA

April 29, 2022

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by Nathália Fernandes Pimentel (Advanced Biofuels USA) Let’s not repeat the mistakes from the past! Volunteers with Advanced Biofuels USA are responding to the demands from students and TikTok posters to tell them what is being done to mitigate climate change; to recognize that they know the doom and gloom projections and to let them know that is not the whole story.

In her second TikTok video for Advanced Biofuels USA, Nathália Fernandes Pimentel, a college student from Brazil who is finishing a thesis about biogas while studying in Hungary, continues her series explaining how renewable fuels can not only help mitigate climate change, but also contributes to energy security and energy independence which mitigates the vulnerability inherent in relying on imported energy exemplified by current experiences due to the war in Ukraine and European dependence on Russian energy resources.

Here’s what she has to say:

https://www.tiktok.com/foryou?feed_mode=v1&is_from_webapp=v1&item_id=7091407827176017157&web_id=7046946454615098885#/@advancedbiofuelsusa/video/7091407827176017157

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Previous TikTok video

We are working on additional videos for this series. Search advancedbiofuelsusa on TikTok and find us on Twitter, Facebook, Instagram and LinkedIn, too. @advancedbiofuel

And, take a look at our other videos in our Just A Minute and 30/30 sections. We also have a puzzle page for young learners and more suggestions of how you can lower your carbon footprint in our What You Can Do tag.

DEPARTMENT OF ‘ENERGY WAR’: (Politico's Morning Energy)

EU rushes out $300 billion roadmap to ditch Russian energy: The European Union’s executive arm is moving to jump-start plans for the EU to abandon Russian energy amid the Kremlin’s war in Ukraine (ABC News)

5 things to know about the EU’s plan to scrap Russian energy: The European Commission’s REPowerEU plan aims to spend €300 billion to boost renewables, improve energy efficiency and strike short term deals for non-Russian oil and gas. (Politico Pro)

Excerpt from Politico's Morning Energy: DEPARTMENT OF ‘ENERGY WAR’: On the same day Russia’s Gazprom set off a political crisis by halting gas deliveries to Poland and Bulgaria, top officials in the Energy Department began talking about other ways to package their renewable energy policies. ...

“Perhaps renewable energy is the greatest peace plan this world will ever know,” (Energy Secretary Jennifer) Granholm said Wednesday during a joint appearance with European Energy Commissioner Kadri Simson at an offshore wind industry conference in New Jersey.

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But the disruption of oil and gas supplies from Russia is solidifying transatlantic alliances, said Andrew Light, the energy department’s assistant secretary for international affairs, who called the situation “an energy war." “Who in their world would want to live in an energy system that can be weaponized against you?” Light said during remarks at the same conference. “No one. Not a single person in the world.” READ MORE