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The Long Duration Energy Storage Search – How Close are we to Low Costs and Zero Carbon?

CleanTech Group

As renewable energy continues to proliferate, a gap in the market is appearing for long duration energy storage demand that lithium-ion, coal-plants and.

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Animal Agriculture Costs More In Health Damage Than It Contributes To The Economy

Forbes Green Tech

As with the climate, the chief culprit is meat and dairy. But when it comes to particulate pollution, the worst offender is poultry.

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Tesla activates Trans-Canadian Supercharger route

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This may not be as momentous an occasion as the 1869 opening of the Transcontinental Railroad – but almost. Tesla’s Trans-Canada Supercharger route, which has been under construction for over a year, is now operational, allowing Tesla drivers to take the northern route from coast to coast. Most of the locations are equipped with Tesla’s new V3 Supercharger, which offers charging levels up to 250 kW (according to Tesla, this allows a Model 3 to add about 100 miles of range in 7 minutes).

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Heavy-Duty Hydrogen: Fuel Cell Trains And Trucks Power Up For The 2020s

Forbes Green Tech

Zero-emission “hydrail” projects kick off in the U.S. in Southern California in 2024 when a hydrogen-powered FLIRT train from Stadler begins operation. By that time startup Nikola aims to be building thousands of hydrogen semi-trucks.

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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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Independent Power Producer Solar Frontier Americas Completes Financing for 210 MWp Solar Project in California

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Solar Frontier Americas completes transactions with major players to close financing on one of the largest project acquisitions in its current North American portfolio.

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When U.S. Emissions Dropped, Mortality Dropped Dramatically

Forbes Green Tech

When utilities reduced emissions from coal burning power plants, they significantly reduced the damage they do to public health and the economy, according to a new study.

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Italy’s Pejo 3000 Becomes The First Plastic-Free Ski Resort in Europe

Forbes Green Tech

Pejo 3000, a ski resort in Northern Italy, is one of the world’s first ski areas to go plastic-free.

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Nexeon acquires 24 patents for silicon anodes

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Silicon anode specialist Nexeon has acquired three sets of patents relating to the use of silicon in lithium-ion battery anodes. The 24 patents cover the manufacture and use of nano-scale silicon particles, alone or combined with graphite, as well as methods for coating carbon particles with silicon using vapor deposition. The patents have global coverage, and were acquired from German battery maker Litarion, which went bankrupt in 2018.

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Flight Shame: BBC Interview With Greta Thurnberg Raises A Modern Dilemma

Forbes Green Tech

This morning the BBC will broadcast its flagship news programme, Today, guest edited by Greta Thurnberg, the 16-year-old environmental activist. Presenter Mishal Husain flew to meet her. Right or Wrong?

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Event - 2020 UN Ocean Conference

Green Market Oracle

This event will take place on June 2-6, 2020 in Lisbon, Portugal. The Governments of Kenya and Portugal will co-host and assume all costs of the Conference. The General Assembly through resolution 73/292 decided to convene the 2020 United Nations Conference to Support the Implementation of Sustainable Development Goal 14: Conserve and sustainably use the oceans, seas and marine resources for sustainable development.

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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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Waste-to-fuel: Government announces £6.5m funding for green transport fuel plants

Business Green

Department for Transport announces support for two plants which aim to produce low carbon road and aviation fuel from waste feedstocks.

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Event - 2020 UN Biodiversity Conference (COP 15)

Green Market Oracle

The 2020 Biodiversity Conference (COP 15) will take place on October 5, 2020 in Kunming, Yunnan, China. The theme of this event is ecological civilization, which is rooted in the Chinese vision of an ecological civilization and draws inspiration from traditional and new eco-innovations. High level officials mentioned that the theme aims to inspire a global society in which economic, social, cultural and environmental concerns are addressed in a truly holistic way, by recognizing that nature is t

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The net zero decade? 10 key trends to watch for the 2020s

Business Green

PART ONE: The next ten years are set to be decisive in the fight against climate change - here are the key trends that will shape the global green economy.

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7 countries that shook up the world in 2019

Eco-Business

From post-apocalyptic red skies in Indonesia to vast swatches of the Amazon gone up in smoke, this year spelled doomsday for some countries while others worked to prevent the world from spiraling further towards climate catastrophe.

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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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New Year Honours: Raft of climate experts and green business figures receive awards

Business Green

Queen recognises almost 100 climate scientists, environmental policy experts and green business figures in 2020 New Year Honours list.

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Top 5 Climate Change Videos of 2019

CleanTechnica

As 2019 comes to an end, we’re taking a step back to look at the videos about the climate crisis that caught the attention, and even inspired, Climate Reality followers.

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PowerHouse Energy snaps up Waste2Tricity

Business Green

Firm says the acquisition could pave the way to 'mass market, low-cost hydrogen created from waste plastic'.

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Volkswagen Group Aiming To Produce 3 Million Electric Vehicles In 2025 — How Might It Get There?

CleanTechnica

Volkswagen Group has been spending a lot of time these days focused on its electrification plans — or e-mobility, as they call it in Europe. Some take this as simply PR, but I think the sales targets are real and we know the company has launched an initial electric car factory and is investing tens of billions of euros into batteries and EV development.

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Breaking: 1st Made in China Tesla Model 3 Delivered to Customer (Updated with Video)

CleanTechnica

I think we'll have more to come on this, but for now, the breaking news is that the first Made in China Tesla Model 3 has been delivered to a lucky customer. More are surely flowing out as I write this.

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Owning A Tesla At 18

CleanTechnica

Our friend "TeslaRaj" has shared a story of someone who owns a Tesla and is only 18 years old. When I was 18, I was still in high school and working full time because my mother lost her job and was going to school full time. Of course, this was back in the day of non-smart TVs, mostly landlines, and cell phones that were heavy brick things almost no one owned.

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Boring Bricks Could Help People In More Ways Than One

CleanTechnica

When Elon Musk said he wanted to use bricks from The Boring Company to help build affordable housing, I thought it was genius. (For the record, our own Kurt Lowder recommended this, and a bit more, way back in April 2018.) Millions of families in America experience homelessness or have been homeless (raises hand), and those of us who have experienced it know that housing in a good area is considered a luxury for those working low-wage jobs.

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StartNext Plans Massive Direct Democracy Event In Berlin On June 12, 2020

CleanTechnica

On June 12, 2020, thousands of climate activists will gather in Berlin's Olympic Stadium to simultaneously submit a series of petitions to the Bundestag. If any gather more than 50,000 signatures, the legislature is obligated to consider it and vote on it. Representative democracy in action.

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Pumped Hydro Social License, Pt 1: Wind Energy Experience Says Don’t Expect You Have Full Approval

CleanTechnica

One of the key take aways from the wind industry experience is that assuming that you have social license because of the virtuousness and safety of an electrical generation technology is a big mistake.

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Pumped Hydro Social License, Pt 2: The Usual Suspects Will Raise The Usual Fears That Must Be Countered Early

CleanTechnica

One of the key take aways from the wind industry experience is that assuming that you have social license because of the virtuousness and safety of an electrical generation technology is a big mistake.

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25+ Things Tesla Autopilot Shows Drivers In 2019

CleanTechnica

Here is a list of just over 25 things that Autopilot can "see" in 2019, and Autopilot will be learning to see even better in 2020. There's a vision joke in there somewhere, but I've kind of lost sight of it. Okay, I'm done.

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Green New Deals For The World Are Green Good Deals

CleanTechnica

The Earth is rapidly approaching 1.5°C global warming, air pollution kills over 7 million people worldwide each year, and diminishing fossil fuel resources portend social instability. Yet, recently, world leaders at the United Nations Madrid climate talks failed to agree on a path forward. The core of the problem is the belief by some leaders that solving global warming will be expensive and drain the economy of their country.

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Democratic Candidates & Their Clean Energy Plans

CleanTechnica

What scores do you give the different Democratic candidates for the presidency on their plans to fund the switch to clean energy.

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New Submarine To Explore Underside Of Thwaites Glacier In Antarctica

CleanTechnica

A team of researchers from the US and the UK are camped on the Thwaites Glacier in a remote part of Antarctica where they will attempt to drill through 600 meters of ice to insert a torpedo shaped drone into the waters below.

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Honda CEO Peers Into The Future, Sees Nothing But Piston Power From Here To Eternity

CleanTechnica

The CEO of Honda is one of the industry leaders who believes no one really wants to buy an electric car. Apparently Tesla sales reports never penetrate the inner sanctum of the Honda boardroom.