Thu.Sep 09, 2021

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Climate tech accelerator Elemental starts early-stage Earthshot venture fund

GreenBiz

High-profile backers for Earthshot Ventures include legendary VC John Doerr, philanthropist Tom Steyer and Facebook Chief Product Officer Chris Cox.

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Academic paper highlights AD’s current and future carbon footprint

Envirotec Magazine

Bath University’s recent paper identifies the potential for GHG emissions savings from biogas utilisation. In Wiltshire, Malaby Biogas’s Bore Hill Farm Biodigester was the case study in a research project published by Bath University and supported by Supergen Bioenergy Hub. Using real world data from 2019, the paper sets out the opportunity for massively improving the climate benefits of recycling food waste to produce renewable energy and green fertiliser for farmers.

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To eradicate child labor in the palm oil industry, collaboration is critical

GreenBiz

In June 2021, the ILO and UNICEF reported that the number of children in child labor had increased from 152 to 160 million globally.

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Explore this award-winning design for a self-sustaining town

Inhabitat - Innovation

Located in Norway, Powered by Ulsteinvik by Kaleidoscope Nordic looks like it could be a science fiction movie set. But this is no story. This is what the future of design may look like.

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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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How open source software could revamp the aging electrical grid

GreenBiz

The energy sector should follow telecommunications with software-defined infrastructure rather than hardware-centric updates.

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MIT innovation may make fusion energy a reality soon

Inhabitat - Innovation

Commercially viable fusion energy may soon be a reality, following the successful trial of a new superconducting magnetic field. On September 5, scientists at MIT tested a large high-temperature electromagnet for the first time to gauge its strength.

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Anti-logging protests make history in Canada

Inhabitat - Innovation

More than 866 protesters against old-growth logging have been arrested in western Canada since April. These protests are now the biggest act of civil disobedience in the country's history. The main issue of contention is Vancouver Island's disappearing ancient forests.

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British Airways to offset some COP26-bound flights

GreenBiz

British Airways CEO Sean Doyle argues a ‘global system of sustainable aviation fuels' can help drive down emissions from flying.

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This collapsible cooler is insulated with upcycled coconut fiber

Inhabitat - Innovation

Fortuna Cools recently announced the launch of the Nutshell Cooler, a collapsible cooler made using upcycled coconut fiber sourced from the Philippines and designed to outperform plastic.

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Sponsored Content: Exploring data centres’ free cooling potential

Envirotec Magazine

With the world’s appetite for data growing faster than ever thanks to the pandemic, the carbon footprint of the planet’s data centres is steadily increasing. With as much as 40% of an average data centre’s energy consumption attributable to cooling, there is a clear need for more efficient heat transfer technology when aiming to achieve net-zero carbon emissions by 2050.

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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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Natural Pod furniture takes a different approach to learning

Inhabitat - Innovation

Education is a universal issue. Bridgitte Alomes, the founder and CEO of Natural Pod, has her own approach to learning. She created an idea book designed for Indigenous learners. Her idea blends creative learning, play-based curriculums and Indigenous teaching philosophies.

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Sponsored Content: Growth in gas sensing

Envirotec Magazine

Since its formation OBW Technologies has rapidly grown to become a leading supplier of gas detection equipment. The firm provides calibration and services in Ireland and the UK, and is now the largest re-seller of Honeywell portable and fixed gas detection units in Ireland. “We’re the supplier of choice for many of the largest life sciences and high-tech organisations in Ireland and beyond,” says the firm.

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Li-Cycle to Build New Lithium-Ion Battery Recycling Facility in Alabama

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-Li-Cycle will Add a Fourth Spoke in Alabama as the Pace of New Battery Mega-Factory Deployment Continues to Exceed Expectations -Commercial Spoke 4 will Provide an Initial Processing Capacity Increase of up to 5,000 tonnes of Manufacturing Scrap and End-of-life Batteries per year, Bringing Li-Cycle’s North American Recycling Capacity to 25,000 tonnes per year

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Sponsored Content: A technology for the timely warning

Envirotec Magazine

Robin Guy from OTT HydroMet believes that the worst effects of extreme weather can be mitigated by effective monitoring and alarm technologies. “Intense rainfall can be the precursor to flooding, and many of the monitoring networks that we supply include real-time precipitation monitors.”. “However, it is also necessary to monitor groundwater and surface water levels because flooding can be caused by a variety of other issues such as high tides in coastal areas, blocked or poorly designed drains

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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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How Aluminum Can Ensure Our Green Future

U.S. Green Technology

When people think about sustainable and green materials, not many of us think about metal. This material is often associated with the production of big buildings and machinery that usually have quite a negative impact on health and nature. However, if we go into it deeper, we can see that many metals are natural and. The post How Aluminum Can Ensure Our Green Future appeared first on U.S.

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EV Summit Highlights

Envirotec Magazine

Electric vehicle adoption is “happening faster than any of us anticipated,” said Daniel Lyons of Shell’s e-mobility division, speaking at the UK’s EV Summit on 1-2 September. The event reviewed developments in the uptake of EVs with over 80 in-person delegates in attendance and 400 online. Held in person at the Said Business School in Oxford, and virtually on the EV Summit Platform, the event brought together EV manufacturers, infrastructure providers, government, local a

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Cementex Double-Insulated Torque Wrenches & Screwdrivers for Electric Vehicles

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Wide selection of industry leading tools provides exceptional safety, durability, and usability

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Apps Spreading like Wildfire?

Envirotec Magazine

The intensifying wildfires of the past couple of years have raised air pollution concerns as the smoke has spread beyond the perimeter of the affected regions. As of 8 August, 107 large active fires had burned more than 2.2 million acres domestically across 15 US states so far this year. In Greece and Turkey fires have surpassed previous levels amid record heat waves.

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Bosch’s new flexible charging cable does away with the “charging brick”

Charged

Bosch’s new smart charging cable, introduced at the recent IAA Mobility 2021 trade show, is designed to be flexible and compact. It includes the usual control and safety technology, but dispenses with the usual bulky in-cable control box, or “charging brick.”. The new cable weighs less than three kg, and comes with adapters for Type 2 and household plugs.

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Leveraging Mobile Data

Envirotec Magazine

Anonymised data from the O2 mobile phone network is being used as part of a series of new government-funded trials to help Thames Valley local authorities (LAs) plan improvements to air quality, public health, road surfaces, traffic flow and energy infrastructure. Funded by the Department for Transport through the £22.9m ADEPT SMART Places Live Labs Programme , the Thames Valley Berkshire Live Lab trials are investigating how technology could transform local places and improve the way people liv

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Planet’s Data Used to Reveal Illicit Shipping Networks Delivering Fuel to North Korea in Violation of UN Sanctions

Planet Pulse

At Planet, we believe that making information accessible and transparent leads to greater global security and stronger political accountability. Thanks to invaluable partnerships, our satellite data is actively being used to shine a light on covert operations and illicit supply chain processes around the world. The Center for Advanced Defense Studies, otherwise known as C4ADS , is a non-profit organization located in Washington, D.C. that provides data-driven analysis and evidence-based reportin

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Access Point Advice

Envirotec Magazine

There are benefits to using inspection chambers to access drains and sewers for cleaning, testing, inspection and maintenance, says the BPF Pipes Group in lieu of releasing a new guide on the topic. It’s all about prioritising the safety of the public and personnel working on the drain or. sewer. There is a diminishing need for manholes to be installed.

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Letter from New Orleans: Climate risk is business risk, and opportunity

Impact Alpha

Consider these statements: “Climate Risk Is Investment Risk.” “The climate crisis poses enormous financial risk to investment managers, asset owners, and businesses. These. The post Letter from New Orleans: Climate risk is business risk, and opportunity appeared first on ImpactAlpha.

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Noise Frequency Weightings: A Quick Guide

Envirotec Magazine

Noise measurement expert Pulsar Instruments explains the difference between the various noise frequency weightings, and why you need to know about them. Understanding the difference between noise frequency weightings is one of the most important things you need to know about when measuring sound. This is because picking the wrong sound level meter weighting on your sound level pressure meter could mean your results become irrelevant for the purpose and at worst invalid (not legally compliant).

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Testing EV batteries? Here’s how to get to market faster without compromising safety

Charged

EV Battery validation demands more than iterative optimization; it demands innovation in multiple dimensions for which there is no playbook or best practices. Expectations on safety and performance continue rising. Regulations, standards, and ways to test against them change constantly. How do you keep up with this ever-moving target? You move faster by optimizing the way your lab is set up, the way you work, the amount of automation you do, and the value you get from your battery performance da

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A Good Soil

Envirotec Magazine

Diesel-polluted soil from now defunct military outposts in Greenland can be remediated using naturally occurring soil bacteria, according to the evidence of a recently-completed experiment in Mestersvig in the east of the country. The University of Copenhagen contributed. Landfarming works by distributing contaminated soil in a thin layer, which is then ploughed, fertilized and oxygenated every year to optimize conditions for bacteria to degrade hydrocarbons.

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Investors rally behind India’s early, active climate tech scene

Impact Alpha

ImpactAlpha, September 9 – India’s recognition of its vulnerability to climate change has spurred a set of ambitious targets to curb carbon emissions. The post Investors rally behind India’s early, active climate tech scene appeared first on ImpactAlpha.

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eBay UK will encourage use of recycled car parts

Envirotec Magazine

Image credit: Riley , CC BY 2.0 license. E-commerce firm eBay UK has announced initiatives to encourage the use of recycled car parts, and is joining forces with insurers Aviva and LV to this end. It seems eBay will now help garages and car owners to source the exact part they need to do the job, with delivery times as short as three days. The firm says it is allowing drivers to get their cars repaired faster than if they were using new parts.

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SolaREIT Closes on $4.2 Million in Land Deals with Delaware River Solar

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Deal Involves 25+ MW of Community Solar Projects in New York

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First plan for the West Midlands natural environment launched

Envirotec Magazine

(l-r) Simon Atkinson, Head of Conservation, The Wildlife Trust for Birmingham and Black Country; Andy Street, Mayor of the West Midlands; Delia Garratt, Chief Executive, The Wildlife Trust for Birmingham and Black Country; Jacqueline Homan, Head of Environment, WMCA; Cllr Ian Courts, WMCA portfolio lead for Environment and leader of Solihull Council.

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LeydenJar raises €22 million for development of super-battery

Charged

Dutch startup LeydenJar Technologies has raised €22 million in a new investment round. The company will use the funding to scale up its production facility and further develop its battery technology. LeydenJar raised the amount from Dutch and American venture capitalists, and also received a subsidy of over €5 million from the Netherlands Enterprise Agency.

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Cake to liquid in minutes

Envirotec Magazine

Pump specialist Seepex describes a case study where large open hopper PC pumps were installed in a wastewater plant, providing a cost-effective alternative to the way back-mixing is normally conducted, and one that makes less of a demand on pumping and storage resources. SEEPEX pumps back mix 30% DS dewatered sludge into 150m3/h 6% DS homogenous mixture in under 1 hour.

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Q CELLS successfully develops, sells 50 MW Spain solar PV plant to NextPower III

altenergymag

Q CELLS successfully developed the Agenor project in Spain, and sold a 100% equity stake to NextPower III ESG (“NPIII ESG”), NextEnergy Capital’s international institutional solar fund, in June. Now the construction work is in full swing.

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Flushing out lockdown trends

Envirotec Magazine

Wastewater analysis presented at an Autumn meeting of the A merican Chemical Society (ACS) paints a picture of how people’s drug use habits were changed by the lockdown. The team identified a spike in the consumption of easily abused prescription opioids and anti-anxiety sedatives between March and June 2020, while some illicit drug use plummeted.

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