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Sponsored content: Green chiller is cool choice

Envirotec Magazine

Mackie’s green initiative involves replacing the gases used in its refrigeration plants from HCFC – which have a very high global warming potential – to ammonia, an environmentally-friendly refrigerant that has no impact on global warming or ozone depletion. www.gea.com.

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An enduring threat to water?

Envirotec Magazine

As a result of the transition to F3 foams an increasing volume of fluorinated firefighting foams require treatment, with traditional disposal options being challenged, a series of alternative technologies are being developed. In 2016, the detection of PFAS in drinking water in the USA took a step forward. Treatment technologies.

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US, China commit to phase down climate-warming HFCs from refrigerators and air conditioners – but what will replace them this time?

Renewable Energy World

CFCs were destroying the ozone layer high in the Earth’s atmosphere, which is essential for protecting life from the Sun’s harmful ultraviolet radiation. Refrigerators and air conditioning use a technology known as a heat pump. China , a major producer of these chemicals, ratified the amendment effective Sept. What can replace HFCs?

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Green City Solutions fights air pollution with IoT, biotech and moss

Green Tech Challenge

In December 2016, the Chinese government reported the highest air pollution and the red alert was implemented in 23 cities in northern China. In 2016, World Energy Outlook made a study on air pollution as the fourth-largest threat to human health – but also to our environment. The moss, therefore, literally eats air pollution.

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The Overview Effect

Grist

Astronauts have countered that space exploration can go hand-in-hand with solving troubles on our home planet, leading to technological breakthroughs as well as fresh perspectives on environmental problems. Some warned that NASA’s technology was polluting the Earth with rocket exhaust and industrial manufacturing. NASA / Joel Kowsky.

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Understanding the Anthropocene, Resilience Thinking, and the Future of Industry

Green Business Bureau

At the end of the first century, there were approximately 170 million people on Earth, by 1800, the population was over 1 billion people with major cities developing, breakthrough medical advancements, and continued technological innovation. The Great Acceleration – Beyond Natural Variation.

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Part 2: The Dirty Dozen Documents of Big Oil’s Secret Climate Knowledge

DeSmogBlog

And they talk about solutions like carbon capture, which shows this was an established technology. Carbon capture is not a new technology, it’s an old technology. He’s like, “Remember that whole ozone layer thing, and then governments got together to get rid of these chemicals? So they had to get ready.