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New Electric Cars Perform Wonders In Towns, Rural Roads, But Run Out Of Puff On Highways

Forbes Green Tech

Electric car sales are accelerating in Europe, but as “cheaper” versions hit the market, consumers are in for a shock because these city-cars and are hopeless on the highway. Manufacturers could produce a cheap version, a golf cart with windows. Others say by 2025 EVs will be competitive.

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The Potential Cost of Falling Behind on Energy Related Data Analytics

Green Living Guy

Determining the return on investment (ROI) and analytics is a multi-faceted, complex endeavor. Given executives want to see detailed projections before handing over a blank check for metrics analytics tech and training on energy related projects. That’s because many are hesitant to invest money in anything they can’t quantify ahead. The post The Potential Cost of Falling Behind on Energy Related Data Analytics appeared first on Green Living Guy.

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Act now to catalyse growth of digital clean tech, techUK urges government

Business Green

Established digital clean technologies could enable 15 per cent of the emission reductions needed in the UK between now and 2030. The UK government must step up efforts to support the UK's emerging digital climate technology sector, a report published today argues, highlighting the dual benefits of accelerating emissions reductions and winning a bigger slice of a growing global market.

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Considering a Solar Powered Home? Here’s How to Plan

Green Living Guy

Solar energy is very beneficial to us in many forms. The sun generates main energy forms that we can use for several things, including solar power systems. Compared to conventional electricity from coal or natural gas, a solar system can produce clean, pure energy from the sun. The installation of. The post Considering a Solar Powered Home? Here’s How to Plan appeared first on Green Living Guy.

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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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The Carbon Uptake of our Oceans is More Important Than We Thought

Rinexii

A new study published last Friday (September 4, 2020) shows that previous models have vastly underestimated how much carbon the ocean absorbs. Previous data used to create these models looked at ocean temperature, but neglected to take into account the difference between temperatures on the surface and near the surface. How carbon flux works. The ocean is the world’s largest carbon sink, actively removing huge amounts of carbon from the atmosphere every year.

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World Environment Day (WED) 2020

Green Living Guy

For This Event Will Feature Live Feed from Host Country Colombia and UN Environment Programme (UNEP) Stockholm, 5 June 2020–Climate social network leader ‘We Don’t Have Time’ supported UN World Environment Day. All with a special, more than 9-hour, broadcast. It occurred on 5 June. All under the global theme Time. The post World Environment Day (WED) 2020 appeared first on Green Living Guy.

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Virtual Event - Bloomberg Green Festival

Green Market Oracle

The Bloomberg Green Festival will September 14th - 18th, 2020. This 5-day immersive experience featuring global voices and proprietary insight including the Bloomberg Green Data Dashboard. It will be a true thought leadership experience operating at the crossroads of sustainability, design, culture, food, technology, science, politics and entertainment.

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CBI: Give regulators 'clear responsibility' for delivering net zero infrastructure

Business Green

CBI unveils vision for how the government can drum up private investment for 'infrastructure revolution' to build green economic recovery. Regulatory bodies should be given more responsibility for ensuring delivery of infrastructure under the government's long-awaited National Infrastructure Strategy aligns with the UK's net zero emissions target. That is one of the key recommendations contained in a major new report from the Confederation of British Industry (CBI), which sets out its vision for

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Corporate Commitment from Staples with WWF support Lends to products reversing Deforestation

Green Living Guy

Without question, the use of industrial recycled waste and Staples commitment to quality is something to discuss. Furthermore, it lends toward the next “That Was Easy” product to market. WWF Committed to Stopping Deforestation So as the World Wildlife Fund (WWF) commits to stopping deforestation with collaboration, they are part. The post Corporate Commitment from Staples with WWF support Lends to products reversing Deforestation appeared first on Green Living Guy.

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When it comes to net zero infrastructure, it is not just 'what' but 'how' we build

Business Green

Implementing a circular economy approach could cut CO2 from infrastructure projects in half, argues AECOM's Robert Spencer. The Prime Minister's urgent call to build back better, greener and faster is expected to accelerate recovery from the Covid-19 pandemic and reduce greenhouse gas emissions in line with 2050 goals. With infrastructure responsible for 16 per cent of the UK's total carbon emissions, as well as a further 37 per cent often attributable to the materials and energy which are requi

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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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Why the worry about deep-sea mining?

Eco-Business

[PODCAST] Pro-miners argue that deep-sea mining is essential to enable the energy transition. Sian Owen of the Deep Sea Conservation Coalition argues why nature's last frontier should be protected not exploited.

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Zap-Pay: New app promises seamless payment for EV charging

Business Green

Designed by Zap-Map, the new service enables users to search, plan, and pay for their electric vehicle journeys in a single place. Electric vehicle (EV) users will no longer have to shuffle between apps and cards to pay to charge on different networks, with the launch of a new service enabling them to do so from a single app. Zap-Pay launches today, with Engenie the first network available, followed by a wave of partners in the autumn including ESB EV Solutions, LiFe, and Hubsta.

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How do we avert global warming and pandemics? New app has answers

Eco-Business

A new online platform shows where best to protect land in order to safeguard biodiversity and stem carbon emissions.

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Porsche Taycan: Matching Fossil-Fueled Vehicles On Long Journeys (Almost)

CleanTechnica

The hardest piece to write when reporting an event is the final one, the one summarizing it all up after the event is over. Excitement fades away, you are back to your daily chores, and the faint memory of the electric Porsche Taycan turns more faint every hour.

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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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Tuk-tuk warriors: The abuse victims who rode to women's rescue in lockdown India

Eco-Business

In Bhopal, abuse survivors put their new skills as rickshaw drivers to work under lockdown as domestic violence cases increased.

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Tesla’s Industry Disruption, Tesla Solar Roof Reflections After 6 Months, Solar Panel Price Collapse — CleanTechnica Top 20

CleanTechnica

The most popular articles on CleanTechnica were led by Tesla, Tesla, solar, and Tesla last week. Then a Chinese electric vehicle star took the baton, followed by our exclusive review of a different Chinese electric vehicle just after it hit the Jersey Shore.

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Voodoo Economics & Lithium — Lithium Supply = 15% of 2023 Global EV Sales Target

CleanTechnica

In the second portion of our latest Cleantech Talk podcast with RK Equity's Rodney Hooper and Howard Klein, we ventured outside of mining more than we typically do to talk about battery energy density and vehicle-to-grid solutions, but we also circled back around for a strong focus on the gap between electric vehicle sales forecasts from automakers and actual battery-grade lithium production.

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Is Trojan Energy The Future Of Electric Car Charging?

CleanTechnica

I think some of the most popular EV charging options of the future are yet to really roll out and scale up. One idea that I think should take over Europe eventually is being pioneered by Trojan Energy.

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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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The Way The World Needs To Move Forward On Climate Action: Climate Alignment

CleanTechnica

To make fundamental breakthroughs in addressing the causes of climate change, we need to dramatically shift the way we think and act on climate. To date, the world has primarily — and understandably — tackled the issue as a project of nations, leaving countries to formulate their action plans in silos, sometimes even in secrecy. But business doesn’t stop at the border, and neither do emissions.

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Elon Musk Raising Popularity of Space Travel Like He Raised Popularity of Electric Cars

CleanTechnica

Tesla has famously made electric cars cool. Today, NASA and space travel in general are experiencing a resurgence of cool, and Elon Musk’s SpaceX has been a big part of that.

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President Trump Is A Threat To The Planet

CleanTechnica

President Trump is a threat not just to America, but to the planet. I'm not talking about his radicalization of the extreme far-right, but his actions regarding the environment.

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Driving the ID.4 At Volkswagen’s Off Road Testing Facility And Hints Of A Bulked Up Version To Take On Jeep

CleanTechnica

Volkswagen knows customers today want cars that are off road capable and it intends to make sure the ID. 4 SUV fills those expectations.

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How A Tesla & Volkswagen Collaboration Could Help The Environment

CleanTechnica

Before I dive into the idea of this, I want to share where it came from. Bloomberg reported that while in Germany, Elon Musk met up with Volkswagen Group CEO Herbert Diess, and even drove a Volkswagen electric car, the hot new Volkswagen.

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Houston Nonprofit Is Using Old Billboard Vinyl To Tarp Roofs Damaged By Hurricane Laura

CleanTechnica

Recycling is a great way to help those affected by Hurricane Laura and other natural disasters. One way it is helping was shared by KHOU 11 reporter Janelle Bludau on Twitter.

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Amazon Is Helping Hurricane Victims In Louisiana #HelpLouisiana #HelpLakeCharles

CleanTechnica

Climate change is one of the many reasons why we have such deadly natural disasters wreaking havoc around the world. And one problem with that is: the more big natural disasters we have, the more people need help, the more others start blocking it all out.

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Elon Musk Visits With Herbert Diess, Drives An ID.3 During Visit To Germany

CleanTechnica

Elon was in Germany last week to thank the workers building Giga Berlin. While he was there, he had a face to face with Herbert Diess and took a test drive in a Volkswagen ID.3.

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Solar PV Panels Were 12× More Expensive In 2010, 459× More Expensive In 1977

CleanTechnica

Let's take a look at home rooftop solar power system costs, how solar panel costs have come down in time, and Tesla solar's extremely low cost.