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University Installs Innovative Water Battery to Harness Solar Power

Green Market Oracle

The University of the Sunshine Coast in Queensland, Australia is using a three story high water battery to harness the power of 6,000 solar panels they have installed on campus roofs and parking lots. The project will reduce dependence on the grid by 42 percent and prevent 100,000 tons of CO2 from being emitted into the atmosphere.

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Your ‘Love Is Blind’ addiction is not heating the planet … yet

Grist

These cavernous buildings need significant amounts of electricity to operate and cool their humming servers, the central data repositories for individual devices on a network. Globally, demand for data center services rose by 550 percent between 2010 and 2018, a new study found. And all that computational activity takes energy.

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Is There Enough Biomass to Fuel the World? Part II

Mr. Sustainability

Biomass: essentially solar-powered batteries provided by nature. Energy in this sector is mostly spent on heating and cooling to very high or low temperatures, for instance in steel mills or chemical plants. In terms of application, most our energy is used for heating and cooling. Energy Consumption per Sector.

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Interview – The impact of GeothermEx on the geothermal industry in the last 50 years

ThinkGeoEnergy

When we were acquired by SLB in 2010, GeothermEx became part of a company that is actively innovating in the field of geothermal. This is a heating and cooling play using ground source heat pump technology but in a different way. We are seeing a digital transformation, which is something that we are also deep into as part of SLB.

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A decidedly impartial review of Mark Jacobson’s 100% Clean, Renewable Energy and Storage for Everything

Renewable Energy World

The plans, available at The Solutions Project’s “ Clean Energy ” link, reveal the unique mix of wind, water and sun technologies capable of powering states, countries and even select U.S. Wind, Water and Sun (aka WWS) include wind power; waterpower from tides, rivers, and subsurface water (geothermal water); and solar power.

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Does the WRI’s new Sustainable Food Future report need an update already?

AFN Sustainable Protein

Yet the material itself did feel fairly stale, taking 2010 as its benchmark year while looking forward to 2050. Current trends are sliding to a nearly 600 million-hectare “land gap,” between global agricultural land area in 2010, and expected agricultural expansion by 2050. That’s an area nearly twice the size of India.

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The Potential Of Hybrid Clean Energy Systems To Advance Energy And Climate Justice

Energy Innovation

In particular, new research showcases how coupling existing state efforts (1) to accelerate renewable energy adoption in underserved low-income communities and (2) to replace aging gas distribution networks with district heating and cooling could amplify the benefits of such efforts. residential solar market. percent of income.

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