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Germany drops renewables surcharge, household bills to fall by €300

Renew Economy

German consumers will no longer have to pay the renewables surcharge on the power price as of July 1, 2022, saving families $A450 a year. The post Germany drops renewables surcharge, household bills to fall by €300 appeared first on RenewEconomy.

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She helped change vaccines forever

GatesNotes

Long before most of us heard of mRNA vaccines, this hero saw their potential to save lives.

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Tri-Cities Scientists “Magically” Mining Metals From Water

CleanTechnica

Centuries ago, alchemists tried to turn lead into gold. While they were not successful, the prospect of coaxing valuable materials from abundant sources remains tantalizingly attractive. Today, scientists at the Department of Energy’s Pacific Northwest National Laboratory are working with industry to test an approach that uses magnetic nanoparticles to capture critical materials, such as lithium, from […].

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Meet the GERM team

GatesNotes

Creating the GERM team is one of the most important things we can do to prevent the next pandemic.

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Electrofuels Are the Future: The Driving Force to Decarbonizing Heavy Transport

Speaker: Ayesha Choudhury - Senior Vice President, Head of Capital Markets at Infinium

With the first wave of the energy transition, renewable energy sources (such as solar and wind) have begun replacing coal power generation. However, some sectors are lagging behind and struggling to decarbonize more than others, including large-scale transportation like commercial aviation, shipping, and rail transit. Electrofuels (aka eFuels) are the next generation of solutions to help the hardest-to-abate sectors pivot from their reliance on fossil fuels.

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Electric Car Sales Soar Despite Ballooning Battery Costs

CleanTechnica

Originally posted on EVANNEX. By Charles Morris.

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3 things we can do right now

GatesNotes

If we’re going to make COVID-19 the last pandemic, the world needs to get to work right away on these key areas.

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Let’s make this the last pandemic

GatesNotes

My new book is all about how we eliminate the pandemic as a threat to humanity.

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Batteries Included, Thanks To Tesla

CleanTechnica

In a recent Ted talk that took place at the Tesla Gigafactory Texas, Elon stated that the world would need 300 TWh of battery capacity to be fully sustainable. Giga Texas at full steam is predicted to produce 0.1 TWh. Elon believes that, overall, Tesla could scale up to 10% of world needs in the […].

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Vaccinate the world in six months

GatesNotes

To prevent pandemics, we need to be able to do it. Here's how.

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Point | Counterpoint: Tesla’s CEO Should Focus On Tesla & Ignore Twitter

CleanTechnica

During a week in which Tesla reported another record quarter and smashed Wall Street estimates for revenue and profit, CEO Elon Musk has been derided for his attempts to take over Twitter. Is the criticism valid?

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AR/VR Simulations for Sustainable, Regenerative, Circular Cities

Speaker: Nik Gowing, Brenda Laurel, Sheridan Tatsuno, Archie Kasnet, and Bruce Armstrong Taylor

With 191 country signatories to the Paris Climate Agreement now hard at work in the race to zero carbon by 2050, much of the heavy lifting in ecosystem sustainability falls on the shoulders of the world's densely populated urban centers. This conversation considers how today's AI-enabled simulation media, such as AR/VR, can be effectively applied to accelerate learning, understanding, training, and solutions-modeling to sustainability planning and design.

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LG Chem & LG Energy Solution Recognize Li-Cycle As North American Preferred Battery Recycling Partner

CleanTechnica

LG Chem and LG Energy Solution recently recognized Li-Cycle as their preferred lithium-ion battery recycling partner in North America, just as Li-Cycle completed its commercial agreements with LG Energy Solution. On Thursday, April 21, Li-Cycle held a signing ceremony which marked the completion of the commercial agreements. The three companies entered into the collaboration in […].

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Will Gigafactory Berlin–Brandenburg Give Tesla An Unfair Advantage In Europe?

CleanTechnica

As electric vehicles take hold of the larger auto market, Tesla trails vehicle sales across Europe by a somewhat narrow margin. However, the U.S. automaker’s new Gigafactory Berlin-Brandenburg could be set to change that, some say. Tesla could take back EV market share in Europe overall with its new Gigafactory Berlin, according to a report […].

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How China Impacts Volkswagen & Tesla Electric Car Manufacturing

CleanTechnica

China figures into decisions by both Volkswagen and Tesla when it comes to deciding where to build there electric car factories.

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Do-It-Yourself Electric Vehicles

CleanTechnica

“I love Teslas,” says Graeme, owner of Oz-DIY Electric Vehicles, “they make great spare parts!” Graeme knows a lot about cars, both fossil fueled cars (ICE cars) and EV. He was the chairman of Australian Electric Vehicles Association Queensland for 7 years. Wandering around his workshop, I see a multitude of cars in various stages […].

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How Digital Transformation will Bend the Curve of the Linear Economy Toward the Circular

Speaker: Bruce Armstrong Taylor, Co-Founder & Managing Director of SmartNations Foundation, Jimmy Jia, Venture Partner at Pi Labs, Fabienne Durand, Senior Advisor to the SmartNations Foundation, & Roger Strukhoff, Executive Director of the Tau Institute

The Climate 4.0 Economy. Climate change is here. We see it in many ways already. Weather catastrophes: Texas freezing over, the wildfires of California, the increasingly unpredictable violence and frequency of hurricanes, the rapid melting and disappearance of polar ice caps. Much more evidence all around us. What can we do in our corporate organizations, in our homes and communities, to change the current course?