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Technology Trending: data centres in space, smart home appliances, LNG tractor

Smart Energy International

Investigating the possibility of putting data centres into space, LG’s ThinQ UP smart home appliance global launch and ‘circular’ farming with onsite methanol production and use for powering tractors are in the week’s technology radar. Task force to innovate space applications for energy Unlocking smart meter data for research.

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Why now is the time to tackle biogas leakage

Envirotec Magazine

The aim is to convert the biomethane into usable energy either as heat, electrical power or as a replacement for fossil-derived gas fuels, including for use as a transport fuel. Reducing methane emissions to fight global warming. However, what happens if the biomethane escapes from the digester through leakage?

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How Food Waste is Degrading the Environment

The Environmental Blog

Homes generate approximately 61% of this waste, 26% by food service, and 13% by retail. All of this amounts to a waste of the energy, water, and land needed to produce food. Food production, processing, packaging, and transportation all have an impact on global warming. billion tonnes of food, or 30% of what we produce.

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How deeper global clean tech collaboration is needed to avoid net zero delay

Business Green

The global net zero transition risks being "delayed by decades" unless there is far greater collaboration between governments and businesses to accelerate the roll out of the key low carbon technologies required to deliver deep cuts in emissions before 2030, a major UN-backed report today warns.

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COP27: A quick guide to common terms

Business Green

This is the global temperature rise above pre-industrial levels targeted by the 2015 Paris Agreement. The hope is that limiting global warming to 1. COP is the decision-making body responsible for monitoring and reviewing implementation of the UNFCCC. Energy transition. Conference of the Parties (COP). Mitigation.

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The answer to climate-killing cow farts may come from the sea

Grist

They soon discovered that static electricity had caused entrapped methane from the flatulence and manure of 90 dairy cows to explode. Food and Agriculture Organization notes, if aquaculturists remove rocks or native sea grasses to plant massive seaweed farms, they could disrupt ecosystems and even alter coastal currents.

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Is the Climate Culture War being overstated: Government survey reveals public support for lifestyle changes to achieve net zero

Business Green

It found 83 per cent of participants felt climate change was a concern, while just over half perceived their local area to be experiencing the effects of climate change to 'at least some extent', on top of 14 per cent who believed global warming was impacting their area 'a great deal'.