Sat.Apr 04, 2020

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Impact of COVID-19 on Construction Industry in India

Econaur

In this challenging time where the effects of the pandemic are being felt in every part of the world, the real estate sector has been widely affected. Countries from all over the world are applying strict and extreme measures to break the chain of CoronaVirus. Currently, India is in the Phase-2 status of COVID-19 which has led to businesses experimenting with digitalization through Work From Home model.

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Guide to complying with updated heat network regulations

altenergymag

Switch2 Energy has published a free downloadable eguide to help district and community heating scheme operators to comply with the updated Heat Network (Metering and Billing) Regulations.

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ENGIE NA CEO Shares Lessons From Greenland In A Bid For The Greening Of America

Forbes Green Tech

“My personal commitment is to environmental issues [including] climate change and that’s why I wanted to join a company in the private sector with a clear purpose. ENGIE took bold moves to be the leader in the energy transition. That’s a true differentiator and why I’m passionate about this group.

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Oil-by-Rail Volumes Decreasing While Risks Remain

DeSmogBlog

Read time: 7 mins There are only two things that have made any real difference in protecting the public from the dangers of oil trains: activism that has stopped new infrastructure , and low oil prices. While activism is currently on hold during the pandemic, impacts on oil prices abound. The latest numbers show that U.S. oil-by-rail volumes are down 11% vs. where they were a year ago, which is likely just the beginning of the decline in volumes.

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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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CryoBattery Tech Gets a 2nd Look

GreenTech Gazette

As one of the most important developments in recent times, the ‘Cryobattery’ has been seen as a major solution to how we can store energy. The battery aims to find a way of making sure that we can store energy as a form of liquid air. However, the Cryobattery has been a very long-term project, having been worked on by Rob Morgan. Morgan, a professor at the University of Brighton, believes that his tool could be used to store liquified air at -196C.

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How I got here. architect and green building advocate, Tan Szue Hann

Eco-Business

Tan Szue Hann is one of Singapore's most notable sustainability-focused architects.

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Medtronic & Elon Musk Are Mobilizing To Help Hospitals

CleanTechnica

Medtronic tweeted that it is mobilizing with Elon Musk. By collaborating with Tesla and SpaceX, the companies are making a vital component for critical care ventilators. This will mean that more ventilators will be available for COVID-19 patients.

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Germany Hits Record 9.2% EV Market Share in March, Tesla Model 3 #1

CleanTechnica

Europe's largest auto market, Germany, hit another all-time record plug-in electric vehicle market share in March, reaching 9.2%. The Tesla Model 3 was the best selling full electric model, with an estimated 1490 sales, just ahead of the Renault Zoe. Overall auto market volume fell 38% year on year.

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Tesla Model 3 = 7th Best Selling Car in USA & 19th Best Selling Vehicle

CleanTechnica

The Tesla Model 3 isn't done with the headlines, despite the Model Y's review-grabbing arrival and the coronavirus pandemic we're dealing with at the moment. Tesla has climbed the rankings of the top selling cars in the USA and placed the Model 3 on the 7th rung*. That's up from 9th in 2019 as a whole and up from 13th in the first quarter of 2019. Though, it is the same ranking as the Model 3 obtained in the 4th quarter of.

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The CDC Wants Americans To Wear Cloth Face Masks In Public, + Louisiana Lockdown Maybe Imminent (Exclusive)

CleanTechnica

The CDC now recommends Americans wear cloth face masks or some other face covering out in public. A video shared by Lex Fridman demonstrates just how vital it is to wear something over our faces -- not to protect the wearer but those the wearer interacts with. If everyone had a mask, we would all be safer.

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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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Haaks Is A Dutch Tiny House You Can Have Delivered, Or Take Out

CleanTechnica

With so many of us sheltering in place or locked down in our homes altogether, the tiny house thing may have lost some of its appeal in recent days. Even so, the simplicity and the "getting away from it all" vibe of the movement will always speak to people with wandering hearts, and Dutch company Haaks Campers just made it easier than ever to have your tiny house delivered wherever you want it.

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Elon’s Home HVAC — Is It Time For “The Building Company”?

CleanTechnica

Hey Elon, I saw you again mentioned the idea to release a next generation home HVAC system. That sounds totally awesome. I know that I’d buy one and tons of people would buy one, too, but I know you like to dream big. Considering the huge housing issue in Reno, a surplus of bricks from [&hellip.

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Heartland Institute Warns Renewables Will Damage The Environment & Harm People

CleanTechnica

A new report from the Heartland Institute warns of the dangers of renewable energy. It offers an interesting insight into the twisted minds of fossil fuel advocates.

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Fuel Cell Engineer Develops Fix For Hundreds of Ventilators

CleanTechnica

Last week, California finally received a shipment of life-saving ventilators that the state desperately needed to help in the fight against COVID-19. When the boxes arrived, however, hopes were quickly dashed, as 170 of the ventilators were broken and useless. At least, they were until fuel cell engineer Joe Tavi got a hold of them.

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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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A Guide To Disaster Preparedness — Coronavirus Edition: Final Thoughts

CleanTechnica

A few months back, I wrote two guides to disaster preparedness. They were meant as general references, assuming you may someday face a natural disaster or acute emergency. To many readers, they probably seemed abstract since there was no imminent danger at the time. But here we are, in the midst of a global emergency. [&hellip.

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New Volkswagen ID.3 Videos Focus On Innovative HUD & Lighting Protocols

CleanTechnica

Volkswagen has released several videos that show some of the features of its ID.3 electric car that goes on sale this summer.

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Restoring Marine Life Can Happen Quickly & Will Pay Enormous Dividends

CleanTechnica

Researchers at King Abdullah University of Science and Technology in Saudi Arabia have published a report in the journal Nature that claims the ability of the oceans to support an abundance of plant and animal life could be greatly increased in as little as 30 years.

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The Kia e-Niro Is As Tough As A Viking, Even In Frigid Nordic Winters

CleanTechnica

KIA e-Niro — Cold Review Of A Sleek South Korean That Turns Out To Be Tough As A Viking The Danish Electric Car Owner Association (FDEL) recently posted a great story about the e-Niro. I asked the author, Martin Messer Thomsen of FDEL, if he would like CleanTechnica’s readers to tag along, and he happily [&hellip.

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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?