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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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Project sets out to create compostable crop sensors

Envirotec Magazine

An international research collaboration is setting out to find new ways of monitoring crop growth with biodegradable sensors which can be composted at the end of their lifespan. Professor Dahiya said: “The internet of things has huge potential to revolutionise every aspect of human activity, from home lives to global industry.

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Flash Drought Hotspots: Southwestern United States

Planet Pulse

To call this swath of North America home is to accommodate water’s ebbs and flows; to live with one eye on reservoir levels and the other scanning the horizon for clouds. Drinking water, agriculture, wildfire sensitivity, hydropower production, and aquatic recreation are all under threat.

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IP/MPLS secures the journey to a net-zero emissions future

Smart Energy International

This transition from fossil fuels, which in Europe has accelerated with Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, is driving the electrification of transportation, home heating and cooking, agricultural production and many industrial processes from concrete to steel worldwide. US power company Ameren, which serves 2.4

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Greentown Go Energize 2023 with Vineyard Wind and MassCEC Announces Startup Cohort with Innovations for Responsible Offshore Wind Development

Greentown Labs

and Houston, Texas, June 28, 2023 — Greentown Labs , the largest climatetech incubator in North America, and Vineyard Wind , developer of the first utility-scale offshore wind farm in the United States, today announce five startup participants for Greentown Go Energize 2023. SeaDeep (Malden, Mass., offshore wind industry. “The

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Bayer Joins Greentown Labs’ Corporate Partner Network

Greentown Labs

World-leading life science company will engage directly with climatetech startups to advance agriculture technology. May 26, 2021 — Greentown Labs , the largest climatetech startup incubator in North America, today announced Bayer as the newest member of its growing corporate partner network. Somerville, Mass., billion euros.

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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. Agriculture is responsible for one-third of all global greenhouse gas emissions, and each year, we throw away roughly 1.8

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