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Carbon-capturing glasshouses grow greener tomatoes, says firm

Envirotec Magazine

An opportunity to invest in the project has just been launched by Abundance Investment, a UK-based ethical investment crowdfunding platform. Sterling Suffolk was formed in 2014 to operate an advanced glasshouse supplying tomatoes for the UK market through a wholesaler to large retailers. Minimum investment is just £5.

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Axiom Exergy Joins List of Commercial Storage Companies Pivoting to Software

GreenTechMedia

The Bay Area startup launched in 2014 with the thesis that lithium-ion batteries made little sense for businesses with high thermal loads, like grocery stores, and that thermal storage could optimize cooling and slash bills for considerably less upfront investment. We were really blown away by the results," he said.

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Google Spinout Dandelion Energy Ramps Up Home Geothermal Installations

GreenTechMedia

Last month, it pulled in another $12 million, bringing total investment to $35 million, and hired a new CEO to handle the growth stage while co-founder Kathy Hannun takes the president role to focus on technology development. Both actions help utilities stressed by peak seasonal heating and cooling needs. cleantech startup.

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World’s Largest Customer-Sited Solar-Storage Plant Planned for Nevada Desert

GreenTechMedia

This marks one entry in a broader effort by Switch founder and CEO Rob Roy to meet his company’s energy needs with clean-energy investment in its home base of Nevada. Part of what made the new project possible is that Roy factored clean-energy siting into his search for the location to build Citadel back in 2014, Kramer said.

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Utilities plus telcos: The case for an arranged marriage

GreenBiz

Cooling existing equipment and adding new sites to cater for 5G wireless networks will add to burgeoning energy costs. As a result, many telcos are investing in renewable energy supply such as solar and wind, as well as in backup generation and storage systems.

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Can Asia’s infectious disease-producing wildlife trade be stopped?

Grist

While the ultimate goal was to liberalize and industrialize the agricultural economy, the weakened state had little money to invest in scaling up livestock production. Eating exotic species is about people showing on social media that they are cool.”. Previously, my friends would say nothing, or they’d say ‘cool’.

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Looking for Fixes to What Broke the Texas Power Grid

GreenTechMedia

Along with a significant share of the state’s ample wind power fleet that lacked the cold weather hardening typical of wind farms in northern climes, coal and nuclear power plants also tripped offline as safety instruments and cooling systems froze up. Why winterization efforts have fallen short.