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How Ambitious Is China’s Zero-Carbon Goal?

GreenTechMedia

China, the world's biggest carbon emitter, is making a promise to get to zero emissions 40 years from now. Is it a breakthrough? Or is it a plan to keep burning coal? We’ll hash it out. Then, the Governor of California wants to stop selling any new cars that run on gasoline in 15 years. It’s ambitious, can it be done? Is it legal? What will that take?

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How NextEra Overtook ExxonMobil As The Largest U.S. Energy Company

Forbes Green Tech

Over the past decade, NextEra has vastly outperformed ExxonMobil in the financial markets, and briefly overtook the company to become the largest energy company in the U.S.

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Can Technology Help You Get Better Health Care?

U.S. Green Technology

This is the first in a series of columns that will try to provide answers to that question, by examining the results of a recently completed, landmark Canadian study – The Action For Health Project. When you encounter the health care system in any way, whether it be a visit to the doctor, the hospital, The post Can Technology Help You Get Better Health Care?

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Webinar - Canada’s Clean Energy Landscape

Green Market Oracle

This webinar will take place on Wed, October 21, 2020 2:00 PM – 4:00 PM EDT it will look at Canada’s current wind, solar and energy storage portfolio and project pipeline. The Canadian Renewable Energy Association will leverage its newly aggregated data to provide key insights into renewable energy and storage in Canada. The webinar will feature expert opinion on the rapidly accelerating energy transition, and industry leading guest speakers will shine a light on the true state of the industry i

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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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Earth911 Reader: This Week’s Recommended Sustainability, Recycling, Business and Science News

AGreenLiving

Every week, the Earth911 team combs news and research for … The post Earth911 Reader: This Week’s Recommended Sustainability, Recycling, Business and Science News appeared first on Earth 911. Originally posted here: Earth911 Reader: This Week’s Recommended Sustainability, Recycling, Business and Science News.

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Tesla’s Future Is Not What We Thought

CleanTechnica

Well it’s true, the response to Tesla Battery Day is a mixed bag of cats and we are all trying to see what we should make of it (just not in the culinary sense). It has been more than a week now, I have gone through the technologies, gone through the numbers, and have come to the following conclusion: what Tesla has presented to us is exactly what we had hoped for and were expecting.

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Why Is Battery Manufacturing So Hard? Tesla Battery Day For Dummies (Like Me)

CleanTechnica

"Large-scale manufacturing, especially if it’s a new invention, is somehow between 1,000 and 10,000% times harder than a prototype.” — Elon Musk In this article, I will try to explain why.

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Trump’s Policies Indicate Love For Toxic & Deadly Pollution, Not Electric Vehicles

CleanTechnica

When Trump claimed in the recent debate that "I think I'm all for electric cars, I've given big incentives for electric cars, but what they've done in California is just crazy," I cracked up laughing at first. Then I cried.

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NIO Sets Quarterly And Monthly Sales Records

CleanTechnica

NIO is quietly setting quarterly and monthly sales records with its electric cars in China.

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Transit Agencies In California Can Now Purchase Phoenix Motorcars’ Zero-Emission Shuttle Buses

CleanTechnica

Phoenix Motorcars' ZEUS Zero Emission Shuttles was selected as an eligible vehicle by the Morongo Basin Transit Authority ("MBTA") and California Association for Coordinated Transportation ("CALACT") purchasing cooperative.

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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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Rocky Mountain Institute Study Shows Renewables Are Kicking Natural Gas To The Curb

CleanTechnica

The latest analysis by the Rocky Mountain Institute shows the declining costs of renewables is putting pressure on plans to build more natural gas fired thermal generating facilities.