Sat.Dec 28, 2019

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Making 100% Clean Energy Goals a Reality

GreenTechMedia

Countries, states, cities, utilities and corporations are all setting increasingly ambitious targets for clean energy. There are lots of variations on the theme: 100% renewable energy, 100% clean energy, 100% carbon-free energy. They all require ambition -- and lots of planning. In this episode, the first in a three-part series from Wärtsilä, we are exploring the causes and consequences of this 100% trend.

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Secretary-General Says United Nations Must Embrace Blockchain

Forbes Green Tech

In a statement provided to Forbes by the office of the former prime minister of Portugal’s United Nations office, Guterres touted the technology first made popular by bitcoin as a crucial component of the organization with at $TK billion annual budget’s goals to building a more sustainable world.

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A Year Of Resistance: How Youth Protests Shaped The Discussion On Climate Change

DeSmogBlog

Read time: 5 mins By Joe Curnow , University of Manitoba and Anjali Helferty , University of Toronto. Greta Thunberg made history again this month when she was named Time Magazine’s Person of the Year. The 16-year-old has become the face of youth climate action, going from a lone child sitting outside the Swedish parliament building in mid-2018 to a symbol for climate strikers — young and old — around the world.

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Investors Warned To Expect Global Dietary Shift Amid Climate Crisis

Forbes Green Tech

PRI warns investors that a policy response to the climate crisis is inevitable, has not yet been priced into markets, and will prove more disruptive the longer policymakers wait.

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Manufacturing Sustainability Surge: Your Guide to Data-Driven Energy Optimization & Decarbonization

Speaker: Kevin Kai Wong, President of Emergent Energy Solutions

In today's industrial landscape, the pursuit of sustainable energy optimization and decarbonization has become paramount. Manufacturing corporations across the U.S. are facing the urgent need to align with decarbonization goals while enhancing efficiency and productivity. Unfortunately, the lack of comprehensive energy data poses a significant challenge for manufacturing managers striving to meet their targets.

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Event - Conference on Sustainability in Engineering

Green Market Oracle

CSE 2020 will take place February 21 - 24, 2020 at the University of Waterloo in Waterloo, Ontario. The Conference on Sustainability in Engineering is the CFES' newest conference, ratified at Congress 2018. The conference aims to raise awareness about issues in sustainability and environmental engineering, and encourage students to discuss and design solutions to counter them.

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California EV Charging Regulations Don’t Forbid Per-Minute But Are Still Dumb “Gasoline Thinking.”

Forbes Green Tech

Ignore reports that new California rules suddenly banned EV charging by the minute and will force Tesla to retrofit all their superchargers. The new regs don't do this, but they are based on old-school "gasoline thinking" that doesn't belong in the EV world.

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NIO Unveils EC6 In Front Of Cheering Home Crowd

CleanTechnica

CleanTechnica was in the middle of a wild crowd of NIO fans tonight waiting for the rumors to be confirmed, and we weren't disappointed. The new NIO EC6 electric crossover, presumably aimed at the Model Y market, was revealed with fanfare. That joins the ES6 and.

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From Electric Cars To Electric Airplanes, The End Of A Decade

CleanTechnica

2019 is drawing to a close, so let's take stock of a decade of green mobility progress that started with a handful of startups a decade ago.

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Last CleanTechnica Electric Air Mobility News Roundup Of The Year!

CleanTechnica

Here’s more urban air mobility (UAM) electric vertical takeoff & landing (eVTOL) and electric fixed-wing aircraft news for the last week of.

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Renewable Energy From The Ocean, This Time With Bone

CleanTechnica

Today's high tech, nanoscale materials are lending new life to the dream of harvesting renewable energy from the ocean through osmosis.

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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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BMW i4 Will Likely Have 330+ Miles Of EPA Range

CleanTechnica

The BMW i4 sedan is about 2 years away from production, but details are beginning to emerge. The new car is said to have an 80 kWh battery and an impressive 373 miles | 600 km of range in the WLTP testing cycle.

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Atlis Shows Us How To Make A More Conventional Electric Truck

CleanTechnica

Instead of building a unibody truck, Atlis Motors started by building a frame that includes the battery and drivetrain. Attached to this is everything else needed to carry nearly any body on the top.

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Guns & Teslas: EVs Are For Everybody

CleanTechnica

Some stereotypes are useful. Others are not. All of them need to be challenged from time to time. Today, I'm challenging the myth that electric vehicles are for people on the left, instead of being for everybody.

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Volkswagen Increases 2023 & 2025 EV Production Targets

CleanTechnica

Previously, Volkswagen Group announced an intention to produce and sell 1 million fully electric vehicles in 2025. The target year for that is now 2023, while the 2025 target has increased to 1½ million.

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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.