GreenBiz
DECEMBER 28, 2022
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Inhabitat - Innovation
DECEMBER 28, 2022
According to the American Institute of Physics, a new ultra-thin solar cell technology could help with the creation of radiation-resistant solar cells. This technology could increase the longevity of solar cells and reduce the amount of materials needed to create solar panels or similar solar tech that could power everything from satellites to houses.
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GreenBiz
DECEMBER 28, 2022
CCS is either the climate tech breakthrough of the 21st century, according to its advocates, or a multibillion-dollar boondoggle, say activists.
Inhabitat - Innovation
DECEMBER 28, 2022
New year, new laws. Since California is often on the cutting edge, let’s take a look at some of the state’s new laws that are going into effect in 2023. This is just a sample, not the whole list.
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.
GreenBiz
DECEMBER 28, 2022
Before it fades into the sunset, some highlights from the year just passed.
Inhabitat - Innovation
DECEMBER 28, 2022
We all dream of running away now and then, heading for the hills, ocean or forest to escape the chaos of daily life. So it’s no wonder many people escape the hustle and bustle permanently by building an off-grid lifestyle. With this in mind, LawnStarter just released a ranking of the Best States to Live Off the Grid for 2023. Is your state in the top 10?
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Inhabitat - Innovation
DECEMBER 28, 2022
The contours of the landscape literally form the basis for the design of this Mount Shefford, Québec, Canada home. Set into the hillside, Shefford House by Atelier BOOM-TOWN is laid out in three distinct sections for function, flow and minimal site impact.
Charged
DECEMBER 28, 2022
Germany-based team energie provides customers with a variety of energy products, including both fossil fuels and electricity. The company has selected GreenFlux , a provider of EV charging software and services, to help it add e-mobility services to its offerings. team energie says it will add charging services to its fuel card, and will issue new hybrid charge cards to more than 40,000 of its existing cardholders.
Inhabitat - Innovation
DECEMBER 28, 2022
It's only right that this towering structure is named the IQON building. It is now the tallest building in all of Quito, the capital of Ecuador.
Charged
DECEMBER 28, 2022
The DOE’s Oak Ridge National Laboratory (ORNL) has licensed a new battery electrolyte technology to Safire Technology Group, a battery tech startup formerly known as BTRY. The collection of five patented technologies is intended to be a drop-in additive for lithium-ion batteries. It’s designed to prevent explosions and fire from impact by altering the electrolyte from liquid to solid.
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.
DeSmogBlog
DECEMBER 28, 2022
By Angelika Albaladejo, Capital & Main. Extraction Oil and Gas, a Denver-based energy company, sent Boulder County an offer this summer. It’s one that local officials don’t want, but can’t refuse. The company, a subsidiary of one of Colorado’s largest oil and gas producers, Civitas Resources Inc. , gave the county three options: Sell access to its oil and gas, partner up as a working interest owner or get thrown into a legal process known as “forced pooling,” whereby the state can give a com
Charged
DECEMBER 28, 2022
German auto parts manufacturer MAHLE is increasingly becoming an e-mobility supplier. The company says its electric AC compressor is particularly sought-after thanks to its peak power of 18 kW, which makes it the most powerful e-compressor on the market at the moment. The company says it has already secured numerous series orders in the passenger and commercial vehicle sectors, amounting to approximately 1.4 billion euros.
Energy Central
DECEMBER 28, 2022
It's good to see the need for guidance in what qualifies as "green" hydrogen (for purposes of the tax credits dangled in the IRA) getting more attention. The AAAS article linked above references "new research from Princeton’s ZERO Lab" It states, in part: If the energy [for production of hydrogen from water] comes from fossil fuel or coal generators.
Smart Energy International
DECEMBER 28, 2022
Chinese solar technology company LONGi Green Energy Technology Co has announced plans to establish a Future Energy Spacelab. The project is intended to forge effective industry research on applications of clean energy in outer space and to create new energy-related industries, according to the company, which has a background in photovoltaic technologies.
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.
Energy Central
DECEMBER 28, 2022
People are increasingly on board with using renewable energy, realizing doing so is a decisive step toward a more sustainable future with less dependence on fossil fuels. However, meeting the world’s goals in this area requires having a more-resilient renewable energy supply chain. 1. A Significant Increase in Renewable Energy Usage Happening Soon One of the reasons people must.
Smart Energy International
DECEMBER 28, 2022
A new substation at Lambeth in south London is set to be the first in Britain with Hitachi Energy’s SF6-free gas insulated switchgear technology. The new substation, which will be built for National Grid, is at the heart of the London Power Tunnels project and will form a new connection between the electricity transmission network and UK Power Network’s distribution network.
Energy Central
DECEMBER 28, 2022
Origis Energy and Mitsubishi Power Americas are partnering to add the energy systems at three solar sites. The post Southeast US Battery Storage Projects Add 150 MW for Grid Reliability appeared first on Environment + Energy Leader.
Business Green
DECEMBER 28, 2022
'Robust' amendments to insurance law and international environmental law needed to allow carbon capture, utilisation and storage projects to advance. A major overhaul of environmental laws and legislation covering the insurance sector may be required to enable the rapid roll out of carbon capture, utilisation, and storage (CCUS). That is the conclusion of a new study published last week in the European Energy and Environmental Law Review , which argues that a robust liability framework for CCUS
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?
Solar Power World
DECEMBER 28, 2022
Almost half of U.S. states have now adopted the 2020 National Electrical Code, which includes specific fire safety requirements for rooftop solar projects. If a fire should break out at a home or commercial building, the code ensures firefighters won’t be harmed by an energized solar array on the rooftop. Installers now have multiple options… The post Fire safety guide for rooftop solar installers appeared first on Solar Power World.
Business Green
DECEMBER 28, 2022
With biodiversity loss in freefall, central banks and financial regulators must address the sectors most harmful to both nature and the climate, argues Maud Abdelli. 2022 saw pressure build on UK banks and financial regulators and supervisors to take urgent action to integrate climate and nature into financial decision-making. Many have been lobbying for the upgrade of environmental considerations to a statutory objective in the Financial Services and Markets (FSM) Bill, while WWF-UK's recent as
Eco-Business
DECEMBER 28, 2022
The world agreed to protect almost a third of nature areas on Earth at the COP15 biodiversity summit. But only 6 per cent of pristine Southeast Asia is currently conserved.
Impact Alpha
DECEMBER 28, 2022
ImpactAlpha, Dec. 28 – ImpactAlpha produced nearly 50 weekly podcasts and more than a dozen longer-form interviews with Agents of Impact. VC Includes Bahiyah. The post Holiday List: No. 2: Ten ImpactAlpha podcasts worth another listen in 2023 appeared first on ImpactAlpha.
AFN Sustainable Protein
DECEMBER 28, 2022
Data Snapshot is a regular AFN feature analyzing agrifoodtech market investment data provided by our parent company, AgFunder. Click here for more research from AgFunder and sign up to our newsletters to receive alerts about new research reports. Agrifoodtech investors took a major interest in eGrocery and restaurant marketplaces in 2022 — at least for the first part of the year.
Eco-Business
DECEMBER 28, 2022
Indonesia’s fisheries ministry is working with a conservation NGO to draw up plans prohibiting fishing gear considered dangerous to critically endangered Irrawaddy dolphins in the Mahakam River in Borneo.
The Environmental Blog
DECEMBER 28, 2022
Sustainability is becoming increasingly important for the consumer pool, which is dominated by Millennials and Gen Z-ers. Modern-day consumers have high expectations of their chosen brands. According to a recent survey , the general public expects businesses to do more for climate change, and more than 40% of consumers have already changed their buying habits accordingly.
Eco-Business
DECEMBER 28, 2022
Many north Indian farmers currently burn their farm waste, polluting the air. However, farm residue can be converted into nutritious cattle feed, say researchers.
Green Business Bureau
DECEMBER 28, 2022
Eco friendly retail packaging guide. In this Green Business Bureau eco friendly retail packaging guide, we explore sustainable packaging solutions for 6 of the most common types of packaging materials used. We explain our current waste crisis in detail, before defining an effective business waste management strategy to reduce packaging waste. Use the links below to navigate this guide: The need for sustainable packaging: Giving perspective to our waste crisis.
Eco-Business
DECEMBER 28, 2022
A freakish storm has left 4,000 houses in Moran damaged and devastated crops in Rabi.
CleanTechnica
DECEMBER 28, 2022
The crème de la crème of European car journalists have made a shortlist for the 2023 European Car of the Year competition, demonstrating that they are a bunch of shockingly incompetent car journalists. What they did was look at buggies to compete with the T-Ford in the market a century ago — in a moment […].
CleanTechnica
DECEMBER 28, 2022
Rightsizing your vehicle to daily needs makes a lot of sense. If you’re driving a big truck around every day to work, and nobody else or their belongings ride with you, you’re throwing money away day in and day out. So, it makes sense to move to something that actually makes sense on a daily […].
CleanTechnica
DECEMBER 28, 2022
In another piece highlighting some comments Sandy Munro made in an extended Q&A session at TeslaCon Florida, this one includes a few videos about the EV transition, big legacy automakers he believes in and ones he doesn’t, and even short commentary on the large potential customer Sandy decided to turn down. In the first video […].
CleanTechnica
DECEMBER 28, 2022
In a recent press release from Qmerit, the company that (among other things) facilitates things like charging station installs, announced that it had a pretty good 2022. For those unfamiliar, my biggest experience with the company was having my EV charging station installed after buying my Bolt EUV. GM promises to pay for your installation […].
CleanTechnica
DECEMBER 28, 2022
Invisible Solar panels from a small family-owned business in Italy are being used in historic restoration projects in Pompeii.
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