Sat.May 23, 2020

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?The Case for Community Wealth Building?: review

Low Impact

This is the first of three articles in three days about ‘community wealth building’ (CWB) and mutual credit. Today we’re explaining community wealth building, and reviewing a book: The Case for Community Wealth Building. Tomorrow we’ll blog about how mutual credit can help post-Covid communities , and on Monday, Dil Green continues the theme, explaining how CWB and mutual credit is a match made in heaven.

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Tesla Roadster Will Really Use SpaceX Rocket Thrusters — Because Elon

CleanTechnica

The next-gen Tesla Roadster will be more than a work of drivable art. It will be an icon that represents Tesla in one multifaceted image.

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Siberia Is Experiencing Record Highs — 40 Degrees Above Average

CleanTechnica

Siberia is experiencing record high temperatures that are nearly 40 degrees Fahrenheit above average. To put things in perspective, The Washington Post writes that some areas are hotter than Washington right now. Snow cover is disappearing, sea ice is melting, and in 2020 fashion, we now have "zombie blazes".

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NOAA Predicts More Active Atlantic Hurricane Season In 2020

CleanTechnica

NOAA’s Climate Prediction Center has released its 2020 hurricane season forecast. NOAA predicts we will continue with the pattern of storms brewing above normal activity, but it will be even more extreme in the Atlantic this year. Aptly, the storm season has started early with Arthur, crossing one name off the list before the official start of the season.

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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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Electric Bus Fleet In Washington Has Completed 50 MWh Of Wireless Charging

CleanTechnica

Electric buses on urban routes started in 2018 in Wenatchee, Washington. That may not sound groundbreaking, but the special thing about it is Link Transit also chose wireless charging for those buses.

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MIT Study Says Using Retired EV Batteries For Grid-Scale Energy Storage Could Be Profitable

CleanTechnica

An MIT study finds that second-use batteries from EVs could provide much needed grid-scale battery storage for less money than using new lithium-ion batteries.

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Texas Tesla Terafactory Option Shows Up On Tesla Navigation ????

CleanTechnica

Austin Tesla Club recently noticed something new showing up on Tesla Navigation Maps.

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Northvolt’s Voltpack, Tesla Texas vs. Tesla Tulsa, Synbio — CleanTech Weekly News Show

CleanTechnica

This is the 9th edition of CleanTechnica’s fairly new weekly news broadcast. This episode covers Tesla gigafactories in Shanghai, Nevada, and potentially Texas and Oklahoma, as well as Northvolt batteries, a Siemens Gamesa wind turbines, Synbio startup Octant, and much more. Have a look.

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More Signs Of Green Recovery From COVID-19 Sprouting In Agriculture (#CleanTechnica Interview)

CleanTechnica

So far the green recovery movement has focused on clean power, but agriculture is also gearing up for a COVID-19 makeover.

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Nearly 85% Of Power Capacity Added In India In Q1 2020 Was From Solar & Wind

CleanTechnica

All new power generation capacity added in India in the quarter ending March 2020 was from non-thermal technologies. The new capacity was dominated by solar power, followed by wind power.

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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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Downsize Your House & Cut Your Costs In Half. We Did It!

CleanTechnica

About 6 months ago, I wrote an article about how I was going to sell my home and downsize my life. Sound a little like Elon's recent tweets? An excerpt from that article is below.

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Italians Can Now Install Rooftop Solar PV Systems For Free

CleanTechnica

Italian homeowners now have new opportunities to put clean energy on the top of their roofs.

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Scorching Hot Solid-State Electric Vehicle Battery Race Heats Up, Now With Buttery Sauce

CleanTechnica

A smooth buttery paste could be the secret sauce that gives the solid-state electric vehicle battery an edge in the race for EV buyers.

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GM EV Batteries Will Last For 1 Million Miles & Have 600 Mile Range

CleanTechnica

General Motors says it is making good progress toward new batteries with higher energy density and lower costs. It will use pouch cells manufactured at a new factory shared with LG Chem in Lordstown, Ohio.

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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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India Misses Renewable Energy Targets In 4th Consecutive Year

CleanTechnica

India has missed its renewable energy capacity addition target for 2019-20. This is the fourth shortfall in achievement of targets in as many years.

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General Motors Signs PPA For Renewable Energy At Spring Hill Factory

CleanTechnica

General Motors has signed a 100 MW PPA with the TVA for its Spring Hill, Tennessee factory, part of a plan by the company to use only electricity from renewable sources by 2030.

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Tesla Gets A Mixed Debut In Largest Danish Car Owner Satisfaction Report

CleanTechnica

The Danish Motorist Association (FDM) has released its newest car owner satisfaction report: The Motor AutoIndex 2020. Tesla is represented for the first time since the first report came out in 2003, with mixed results.

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ORNL Thin Film Electrolyte A Step Forward For Lithium Metal Batteries

CleanTechnica

Researchers at ORNL report they have created a thin film 3D electrolyte for solid state lithium metal batteries.