Envirotec Magazine

NOVEMBER 9, 2023

While the country continues to depend on oil and gas – and around a quarter of its energy needs are expected to be met in this way until the planned net zero phase-out of 2050 – it makes better sense to produce our own supplies, which have a lower carbon footprint than those imported, he has previously said.

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GreenBiz

AUGUST 13, 2020

This carbon challenge is bigger than cars, aviation and shipping combined. To transform basic inputs into stuff we need, manufacturers constantly heat (and cool) minerals, ores and other raw materials to extreme temperatures. Adam Aston. Thu, 08/13/2020 - 02:15. You may not know it, but you rely on industrial heat every day.

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TechXplore

OCTOBER 5, 2023

As organizations work to reduce their energy consumption and associated carbon emissions, one area that remains to be optimized is indoor heating and cooling. Methods that conserve electricity while still providing a comfortable indoor environment for workers could make a significant difference in the fight against climate change.

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Science Daily: Renewable Energy

AUGUST 22, 2023

A shipping container that can test passive cooling systems could help researchers and builders find carbon-free ways to keep people cool in extreme temperatures. Researchers created the 60 square-foot chamber to test passive systems that use wind towers along with water evaporation instead of electricity to cool spaces.

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ThinkGeoEnergy

SEPTEMBER 6, 2023

These wells will be the foundation of a planned geothermal heating and cooling system that will serve at least 1 million square feet of downtown space including the City Hall, the Mayo Civic Center, and the public library. In cooling mode, you’re pulling heat from buildings and putting it back to the ground for storage.”

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ThinkGeoEnergy

OCTOBER 31, 2023

The Smith College in Northampton, Massachusetts continues its work to build a geothermal system that will contribute to making the campus carbon-neutral by the end of the decade. The geothermal project is expected to be completed by 2028, towards achieving carbon neutrality by 2030.

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Envirotec Magazine

AUGUST 19, 2019

A sustainable housing development is to be developed in Bristol, featuring innovative low-carbon heating. In the search for a means to cut carbon and improve air quality, the Council has selected a heat pump system previously evaluated in London, according to the company behind it, Kensa Contracting.

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Envirotec Magazine

AUGUST 2, 2023

Soletair Power (Finland) has developed a seemingly unique solution for extracting carbon dioxide (CO2) from building ventilation systems to help achieve carbon net zero and even carbon negative building projects. Are carbon-negative buildings possible? The Power-to-X unit being demonstrated.

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Envirotec Magazine

AUGUST 12, 2022

Cooling towers at Drax, North Yorkshire (image credit: Shutterstock.com / Phil Silverman). Like fossil fuels, burning biomass also requires huge amounts of water to be abstracted for cooling, increasing water stress at times of drought. Fossil fuel plants that use oil, gas, and coal, and that burn trees, use this water for cooling.

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Business Green

NOVEMBER 2, 2021

VIDEO: After 50 years Rugeley coal plant's cooling towers were demolished in 2021 - BusinessGreen went to see how future plans for the site are progressing.

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Business Green

MARCH 3, 2021

Zero emission flight powered by hydrogen fuel cell technology moved one step closer to take-off this week, after US green energy technology start-up HyPoint said it would start shipping its "turbo air-cooled" hydrogen fuel cell system to aircraft manufacturers next year.

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Charged

MARCH 3, 2022

Swedish electric boat manufacturer X Shore has taken onboard battery provider Kreisel Electric in a five-year deal worth €50 million. Kreisel Electric says its patented modular immersion-cooled battery technology complies with the DNV marine standard, and is designed to withstand the harshest environmental conditions.

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Charged

SEPTEMBER 15, 2023

Sustainability is one of the fundamental features in electric motors. Using strategic rotor slots, slot bodies and potting, reducing the carbon footprint is not at the expense of rotor strength. First, we speak about challenges in HV component and battery testing and present solutions including electrical, mechanical and thermal tests.

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Smart Energy International

APRIL 20, 2022

The collaboration will see the partners bolster Keppel’s low-carbon energy innovation and research and development (R&D), as well as leverage the NUS Kent Ridge campus for the ‘Keppel Infrastructure-NUS low carbon living laboratory’. Low carbon living laboratory.

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GreenBiz

APRIL 28, 2021

What it's like to ride in an electric big rig. One of the biggest barriers to getting more heavy-duty electric trucks on the roads today is, quite simply, there just aren't enough of 'em. Fleet leaders that want to buy Class 8 electric trucks (those are the really big ones) commonly face long delivery timelines from automakers.

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Envirotec Magazine

OCTOBER 17, 2023

Investment in a range of renewable energy technologies by an electrical actuator supplier based near Bristol is reaping returns through reduced energy costs and meeting sustainability goals, saving over 236 tons of CO 2 and generating more than 420 MWh of energy. The company also operates a fleet of electric and hybrid vehicles.

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Grist

AUGUST 11, 2022

It’s packed with energy; per unit of weight, at least 60 times as much as the lithium-ion batteries used to propel electric cars. But according to a growing body of research, those efforts leave something out: Most of the planet-warming effects of flying aren’t from carbon dioxide. It’s also terrible for the climate. Others warm it.

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Green Business Bureau

APRIL 12, 2022

The voluntary carbon offset market is rocketing, with the Ecosystem Marketplace reporting an annual market value of ~$1 billion in 2021, which was an all-time high. This can make things difficult for business leaders like you, looking to reduce their carbon footprint through purchasing offsets. The rules of carbon offsetting.

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Business Green

MAY 17, 2022

Rolling out cooling technologies to the 1.2 The report assesses 76 countries with cooling access challenges and found that, globally, 1.2 billion people do not have adequate access to cooling, threatening their ability to survive extreme heat, store nutritious food, or secure access to safe vaccines.

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GreenTechMedia

OCTOBER 1, 2020

Sacramento Municipal Utility District (SMUD), the publicly-owned utility in California's capital city, has changed its energy efficiency metric from avoided electricity consumption to avoided CO 2 emissions. Building electrification is a core component of SMUD’s strategy to reach carbon neutrality by 2040.

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Smart Energy International

JULY 27, 2022

Emily Newton, editor-in-chief of Revolutionized Magazine , writes on three use cases where the Internet of Things (IoT) is proving a useful instrument to help reduce carbon emissions. These are three ways in which people currently use IoT to reduce carbon emissions. Other home systems can provide similar carbon-cutting benefits.

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Hydrogen Fuel News

APRIL 14, 2024

The Imperative of High Energy Density in ZeroAvia Technology and Aviation Addressing the carbon footprint of commercial flights, particularly from larger aircraft on long-distance routes , has become a pressing issue. The electrons are pushed through an electrical circuit, creating electricity.

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Smart Energy International

OCTOBER 7, 2023

The low carbon energy solutions innovator challenge, launched by the Climate Innovation Platform (CIP) is aimed at supporting businesses dedicated to driving energy innovation. Interoperable and digital solutions are among those from SMEs that can apply. Sign up to our newsletter and stay informed

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Business Green

AUGUST 25, 2023

Liberty Coca-Cola Beverages is building a 'quadgeneration' system to generate electricity, run heating and cooling processes, and recover carbon dioxide to carbonate beverages

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GreenTechMedia

JUNE 26, 2020

Thursday’s letter from PG&E vice president Robert Kenney to the California Energy Commission is a notable concession by the state’s largest utility to the constraints its natural gas operations will face under California’s push to attain zero-carbon emissions by 2045. Southern California Gas Co.,

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Charged

JANUARY 5, 2024

The project involves pairing the bidirectional EV charging of Ford’s F-150 Lightning with a Resideo smart thermostat to explore the potential of the EV batteries to optimize home energy management, reduce customer electricity costs and relieve strain on the electric grid. Source: Ford

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ThinkGeoEnergy

NOVEMBER 21, 2023

The City of Seoul in South Korea has created a “Comprehensive Plan for Promotion and Activation of Geothermal Energy” that aims to grow its current installed geothermal heating and cooling capacity of 278 MWth to 1 GW by 2030. of the city’s renewable energy mix. of the city’s renewable energy mix.

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GreenTechMedia

SEPTEMBER 30, 2020

They began by summing all the emissions released at power plants to keep buildings cool and electricity flowing to wall outlets. In the case of cement, the very chemical reaction at its heart generates massive carbon dioxide. A careful accounting of embodied carbon. They are trying to change the way materials are made.

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Envirotec Magazine

MAY 24, 2023

To mitigate climate change, it is crucial to stop using all fossil fuels, to ban new natural gas boilers, and to massively ramp up renewable electricity production. Methane emissions have a lifetime in the atmosphere of only about 10 years, which is ten times shorter than that of carbon dioxide. The climate does not make compromises.”

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The Environmental Blog

MAY 16, 2024

While nocturnal electricity use generally sees lower demand and subsequently lower rates, its daytime usage, with air conditioners whirring, appliances running, and electronic devices charging, tends to drive up utility bills. This reflects the heightened cost of generating and distributing electricity when demand is high.

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The Verge: Energy

MAY 15, 2024

“In many ways the moon is five times as far away as it was in 2020” Back in 2020, Microsoft set a target of becoming carbon negative by the end of the decade. To translate the jargon, it pledged to slash greenhouse gas emissions by more than half and then capture a greater amount of carbon dioxide emissions than it would produce.

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Envirotec Magazine

NOVEMBER 29, 2019

category, for exploiting previously unused waste heat from two furnaces for electricity generation. The successful projects that received the Energy Efficiency Award show that companies are taking responsibility for a carbon-neutral future. ORC (Organic Rankine Cycle) equipment to convert waste heat into electricity.

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The Verge: Energy

MAY 10, 2024

“We are excited about this both because it’s very high growth, in demand, but also because it [comes from] companies that generally are very committed to the transformation of their [carbon] footprint.” By 2026, AI could gobble up 10 times as much electricity as it did in 2023, according to the International Energy Agency.

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Charged

DECEMBER 21, 2022

Fleets tested Volvo VNR Electric Class 8 tractors for three years: Here’s what they learned. The far higher volumes of carbon dioxide per mile from heavy trucks make them an obvious target for zero-emission powertrains. However, heavy-duty electric trucks from traditional makers have started to hit the market.

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Grist

FEBRUARY 28, 2023

Eight years ago, the field of carbon removal amounted to a handful of academic lab projects and a few fledgling companies working on a novel concept: sucking carbon out of the atmosphere. Scientists have become more outspoken about the need for carbon removal. A lot has changed since then. Last year, a major U.N.

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GreenBiz

OCTOBER 26, 2020

Thanks to converging forces — including supportive policies, dropping battery costs and aggressive climate goals — transportation leaders at large and small organizations are increasingly turning to new zero-emission and low-carbon options that decarbonize fleets and in some cases save money. that fit fleets' needs. Media Authorship.

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GreenBiz

MARCH 25, 2021

Jope also explained Tuesday that achieving net-zero by 2039 would mean ensuring that the emissions associated with Unilever's products are reduced towards zero "as far as possible, with residual emissions balanced by carbon removals, through either natural technological carbon sequestration such as reforestation or carbon capture and storage.".

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