Sat.Oct 02, 2021

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A Complete Guide To Sustainable Shaving

Unsustainable

Sustainable shaving not only reduces waste and helps support small businesses, but it also saves you money and let’s face it, it just feels more luxurious!

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Energy lawsuits pact seen threatening Paris climate deal

Eco-Business

Concerns are growing that a treaty originally intended to protect EU energy firms when the Soviet Union collapsed could undermine the Paris Agreement on climate change.

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Volkswagen Debuts BattMan Software, Plans More PHEVs

CleanTechnica

Volkswagen has a new diagnostic tool for used batteries and has many improvements scheduled for its plug-in hybrid vehicles.

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Tesla Superchargers Have Entered Africa, Starting in Morocco

CleanTechnica

In May 2020, I chatted with a friend in the Tesla community who lives in Morocco. He had a special request for Elon Musk: “Morocco needs Tesla Supercharging stations.” Khalil Amar, who was a huge source of help to Tesla owners in Tunisia who set up charging stations in hotels, had been consistently asking Elon […].

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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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BlueDot Perovskite Solar Cells Inch Forward

CleanTechnica

Two holdouts put President Joe Biden's transformative legislative agenda at risk, but the perovskite solar cell revolution soldiers on.

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Tesla, Unlike Some Of Its Competitors, Had An Awesome Q3

CleanTechnica

Tesla announced its Q3 vehicle production and delivery numbers today, and The Verge noted that Tesla’s competitors aren’t faring as well as Tesla this quarter. The article pointed out that in 2019, Tesla sold a total of 367,500 vehicles, and it just sold 241,300 in the 3rd quarter of 2021. Tesla’s exponential growth continues. Tesla […].

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Tesla Blasted Through Sales Record With Almost 250K Vehicles Delivered In Q3

CleanTechnica

The Tesla team has been working incredibly hard to help Tesla achieve its mission of accelerating the transition to sustainability, and we can see the results. Tesla sold almost 250,000 vehicles in one single quarter. The exact numbers are: Production: 237,823. Deliveries: 241,300. The bulk of these sales were Models 3 and Y. Together, they […].

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Every Offshore Drilling Disaster Started with a Lease Sale

CleanTechnica

Article courtesy of NRDC. By Lauren Kubiak & Valerie Cleland It’s hard to believe that after record-breaking oil spills in the Gulf of Mexico, the Biden Administration is gearing up for a huge offshore oil and gas lease sale. Even amid an onslaught of catastrophic climate change-fueled disasters, the administration plans to move forward with an offshore lease […].

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Compact Medium-Voltage Converters To Enable Advanced Grid Architectures & Operations

CleanTechnica

As we trend toward more renewables and distributed energy resources (DERs), the design of the electric distribution system itself imposes physical limitations. These system constraints could lead to issues like overloaded power lines and faults that propagate freely. But what if we could restructure the underlying system to support greater renewable integration and system resilience?

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Another Tesla Record: 100 Fast Charging Superchargers In A Single City

CleanTechnica

Tesla is reportedly the only company that has achieved building 100 fast-charging stations in one single city. Tesla China announced through its social media that Tesla’s 100th Supercharger station and 1,000th Supercharger stall in Shanghai was officially in service. The video below from “JayInShanghai” notes that the 100th Supercharger Station is located in hot new […].

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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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GM Begins BrightDrop EV600 Production, Moves Renewable Energy Target Forward

CleanTechnica

GM has begun small scale production of the BrightDrop EV600 delivery van.

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New PBS Documentary on Elon Musk Highlights His Ability to Overcome Adversity

CleanTechnica

This week PBS premiered a fascinating new documentary on Elon Musk. In its second season, PBS’ most recent episode of In Their Own Words provides unique insights into Musk. The special highlights Musk’s breathtaking journey from bullied boy to brilliant billionaire. How did he amass such a fortune? And how did he, against all odds, battle […].

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Norway’s EVs Break Through The 90% Barrier — Tesla Takes Top Two Trophies

CleanTechnica

Norway’s plugin electric vehicle market share in September broke new ground, hitting 91.5% with full electrics alone taking 77.5% share. Diesels lost more than half their share year-on-year, falling to just 2.3%, with petrol and plugless hybrids not faring much better. Overall auto market volume was 17992 units, slightly above seasonal norms. The Tesla Model […].

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Correlated Electrons “Tango” in a Perovskite Oxide at the Extreme Quantum Limit

CleanTechnica

“The research could prove indispensable for future information and computing technologies,” added Ok, a former ORNL postdoctoral fellow.

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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?