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Blockchain: Opening doors in the energy sector

Renewable Energy World

Blockchain is most commonly known as the technology that underpins cryptocurrencies, the most well-known of which is Bitcoin. In a 2018 article, Deloitte forecasted that blockchain will serve as the ‘underlying backbone’ of the energy sector’s transactional infrastructure. What is blockchain?

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GMO's Annual Green School Series Posts in 2018

Green Market Oracle

Posts in the 2018 Green School Series addressed student activism, climate denial in schools, green school building and sustainability focused courses. In addition to green buildings, this series has reviewed hundreds of sustainability-focused schools and accreditation.

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Maritime Shipping – Sector Watch 9 August 2019

CleanTech Group

Once considered slow-moving and outdated, the maritime shipping industry has experienced a recent influx of digitization and the implementation of new technologies, including autonomous ships, blockchain, drones and geospatial analytics.

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The Bitcoin Blockchain Helps Hold A Botnet From Being Taken Down

Mearth

The Bitcoin Blockchain Helps Hold A Botnet From Being Taken Down. A strategist’s guide to blockchain examines the potential advantages of this essential innovation—and also suggests a way forward for financial institutions. Blockchain also has potential functions far beyond bitcoin and cryptocurrency. Gox in 2011.

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AEP OnSite Partners signs LOI to develop solar field to power cryptocurrency mining

Renewable Energy World

The company said using renewable energy for cryptocurrency mining has been its goal since beginning the Hennepin project in 2018. Sangha believes that the deal signals a shift in how cryptocurrency miners will be developing their energy resources going forward. This is just the start for us.” ”

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Green Tesla embraces carbon-intensive bitcoin

Charged

A 2019 report entitled The Carbon Footprint of Bitcoin , published in the journal Joule, estimated that bitcoin’s annual electricity consumption (as of November 2018) amounted to 45.8 megatons of CO 2 in 2018. TWh, with corresponding annual emissions of at least 22 megatons of carbon dioxide.

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What is carbon insetting?

Mr. Sustainability

It ends with some of the challenges for carbon insetting and the futuristic opportunity to use blockchain technology in order to face these challenges head on. In 2018, only 0.2% How can blockchain technology help carbon insetting? > > Blockchain technology makes the entire supply chain transparent and possibly cheap.

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