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A New Era for Climate-Focused Venture Capital

GreenTechMedia

billion — a 30 percent decrease from a previous peak in 2011. Suddenly, it’s cool to be putting your money into the sector again. The first wave was all about the “coolness” of cleantech — thin-film solar, electric sports cars, printable batteries. Five years ago, it had fallen to $5.2

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More solution than pollution?

Envirotec Magazine

In a bid to reduce its impact on the environment, Butler Farms developed its own pig-manure-powered biogas operation in 2011. In addition, a new hydrogen sulphide (H2S) removal cleaning module, which cools and dries methane prior to being used as a fuel for the biogas generator, has been installed. Butler Farms in North Carolina.

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Improve EV charging ROI and customer experience by choosing the right fast chargers

Charged

Tritium is currently revamping its supply chain to make the sleek liquid-cooled DC fast chargers built at its new Tennessee factory compliant with NEVI and Build America regulations. Charged : When we started covering Tritium in 2011, the company was making a controller people used to build custom EVs. IP stands for ingress protection.

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Steps taken by Government of India in Promoting Energy Efficient Buildings

Econaur

Mechanical ventilation and air conditioning tend to be electrically driven and operational throughout the building’s occupied life, which makes them both expensive to operate and, depending on the combined efficiency of the national power generation plant, a significant source of greenhouse gas emissions.

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Extreme heat leads to extreme behavior in humans

AGreenLiving

Lower-income individuals and countries with no way to cool off. Related: Gradient offers cooling and heating with a lower energy footprint Park analyzed test scores of nearly a million New York City students who took a combined 4.5 million exams between 1999 and 2011. million exams between 1999 and 2011. Uh, maybe not.

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Carbon offsets alone won’t make flying climate-friendly

Grist

It’s packed with energy; per unit of weight, at least 60 times as much as the lithium-ion batteries used to propel electric cars. Some of these reactions, like the methane destruction, help cool the Earth. percent of total warming in 2011 on aviation alone — which may sound small, but the number has been growing fast. “The

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Fourth Generation Nuclear Reactors Take A Big Step Forward

R-Squared Energy

The paper notes: “For advanced economies, nuclear has been the biggest low-carbon source of electricity for more than 30 years, and it has played an important role in the security of energy supplies in several countries. Second, they are more efficient, with higher conversion rates of nuclear fuel to electricity.