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A Very Fast, Very Safe, Very SLIMM Nuclear Reactor

Jim Conca

The SLLIM is a liquid sodium nuclear fast reactor that generates 10 to 100 MW for many years, even decades, without refueling. It can’t meltdown, can operate without water, is factory fabricated and shipped to the construction site where it is installed below ground in a seismic-resistant cocoon.

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Combining Artificial Intelligence With Urban Farming Can Be A Game Changer for Developing Countries

Forbes Green Tech

An Israeli agtech company called Seedo might have the solution for the challenges of urban agriculture in vulnerable areas such as the Caribbean, that struggle with environmental and climate factors that lead to crop loss.

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Bridging The Gap For Battery Storage: How M-Kopa Labs Is Pulling Academic Research Into The Off-Grid Solar Industry

CleanTechnica

Knowledge transfer between academia and industry has the potential to affect a lot of change for a small off-grid solar company like M-KOPA Solar, a Kenya-based company and 2015 recipient of the Zayed Future Energy Prize. This is why Harini Hewa Dewage joined M-KOPA Labs, the research branch of M-KOPA, in November of 2016 as its battery technology specialist.

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Meet the Ukrainian Start-Up turning coffee into eyewear

Forbes Green Tech

Ochis Coffee comes with a new sustainable alternative: a frame made from coffee grounds: the mulchy coffee bean byproduct that usually gets thrown away before your drink has cooled.

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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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7 “Little Things” We Love About The Tesla Model 3

CleanTechnica

"It's the little things." "Stop to smell the roses." "Don't forget to enjoy life." There are various phrases that try to remind us that big-picture topics don't always dominate our lives. In fact, little things of daily life can influence us on a grand scale. With many little things, it wouldn't hurt us to pause and appreciate them a little more.

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Estonia leads emerging Europe in the Global Innovation Index

Forbes Green Tech

Estonia is the most innovative economy in emerging Europe, and the 24th most innovative globally and 15th in Europe, as indicated by the 2019 Global Innovation Index.

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China Sends In The Inspectors In To Clamp Down On Wasted Renewable Energy

Forbes Green Tech

As China's new solar power program moves to the construction phase, Beijing deploys inspectors across the nation to ensure the provinces are observing both the spirit and the letter of the new laws.

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Electric Porsche 912 With Tesla Motor (Video + Interview)

CleanTechnica

The Porsche 912 and 911 are classic cars some people go nuts over -- the attachment may seem irrational, but it’s still quite real. (The same is true of a number of different Porsche models.) The fact that a 1968 912 can be converted to all-electric status with a Tesla motor only makes it that much sweeter. The look and feel are still Porsche, but the tech is more powerful and is quieter.

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Energy Storage Enjoys Another Record Year

Forbes Green Tech

Installs reach their highest tally with diversifying applications and falling costs likely to undo the current geographic concentration of activity.

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The Importance Of Reducing Light Pollution

CleanTechnica

While light pollution is a topic we've covered here before, it's something that doesn't get enough attention.

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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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Could Acreage Suits, Canopy Pricing Be Big Cannabis' Wake-Up Call?

Forbes Green Tech

Big names and consolidation are teasing billions, but legal woes, management flubs, and small-business issues may signal that Big Cannabis needs slowing down.

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When Is Someone Going To Produce A Tesla Model 3 Competitor?

CleanTechnica

This is really not meant as a tribalistic attack on non-Tesla automakers. This is not a "Woohoo! Tesla is the best!" article. This is a genuine question I am more eager than ever to know an answer to.

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'Wild West Of Wheeled Transportation': E-Scooter Injuries Increasing Without Regulation

Forbes Green Tech

As the popularity of e-scooters rapidly increases, the injuries resulting from them is rapidly rising as well.

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Tesla Model 3 Buyers In China Can Rejoice Thanks To Sales Tax Exemption

CleanTechnica

China has announced that all Tesla automobiles will be exempt from the usual 10% new car purchase tax that applies to most other vehicles. Tesla's warm embrace of China is paying dividends.

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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?

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Generation Z And New Technology's Effect On Culture

Forbes Green Tech

This article examines how Generation Z approaches technology and queries if this demographic might have much more to teach the rest of us than previously thought.

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First Trebinje Energy Summit 2020 to focus on Western Balkans energy future

Forbes Green Tech

The first edition of the Trebinje Energy Summit (SET 2020) is set to take place on the 5th-6th March 2020.

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