Envirotec Magazine
OCTOBER 10, 2024
A hydrogen fuel cell forklift truck from Toyota at the opening of a new hydrogen fuelling station at Teesside International Airport in January (image credit: Toyota UK). A report from logistics specialist Toyota Material Handling (UK) indicates priorities and directions for the logistics industry, given the required trajectory of emissions reduction.
NRDC onEarth
OCTOBER 22, 2024
Today, Golden State Natural Resources released the Draft Environmental Impact Report (DEIR) on its industrial-scale wood pellet project proposal. The project would include two industrial-scale wood pellet plants, one in the central Sierras and another in Northern California, as well.
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Energy Transition
OCTOBER 22, 2024
‘Artificial intelligence will make it easier to combat climate change.’ That’s the bold claim made by billionaire and self-proclaimed climate problem–solver Bill Gates. But Gates – a well-known advocate of geoengineering – is not alone in promoting the idea that technology can be our saviour. Seden Anlar reports.
CleanTech Group
OCTOBER 16, 2024
It is our pleasure to bring you this sixth edition of the Cleantech 50 to Watch. As our last edition of the early. The post 2024 Cleantech 50 to Watch appeared first on Cleantech Group.
Speaker: Nikhil Joshi, Founder & President of Snic Solutions
Is your manufacturing operation reaching its efficiency potential? A Manufacturing Execution System (MES) could be the game-changer, helping you reduce waste, cut costs, and lower your carbon footprint. Join Nikhil Joshi, Founder & President of Snic Solutions, in this value-packed webinar as he breaks down how MES can drive operational excellence and sustainability.
Hydrogen Fuel News
OCTOBER 24, 2024
Toyota Unveils Portable Hydrogen Cartridges at Japan Mobility Show 2024 Toyota has once again demonstrated its commitment to pioneering carbon-neutral technologies by unveiling a revolutionary portable hydrogen energy cartridge at the Japan Mobility Show Bizweek 2024 in Tokyo. This innovative technology promises to significantly impact the future of hydrogen-powered vehicles and energy consumption in everyday life.
Charged
OCTOBER 18, 2024
German-Swiss multinational equipment manufacturer Liebherr and Australia-headquartered metal mining company Fortescue have announced a deal for the development and supply of zero-emission technologies that, once they enter series production, will become available for mining companies worldwide. The partnership features a total of 475 zero-emission Liebherr machines that include 55 electric excavators, 60 battery-powered dozers, and approximately 360 autonomous T 264 trucks that will commence on-
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NRDC onEarth
OCTOBER 23, 2024
Despite public promises to embrace zero-emission trucks, some manufacturers are quietly sabotaging the shift to cleaner vehicles, putting public health at risk.
Planet Pulse
OCTOBER 10, 2024
Tanager-1 is made possible by the Carbon Mapper Coalition , a philanthropically-funded effort to develop and deploy satellites designed to detect and track methane and CO2 super-emitters at a level of granularity needed to support direct mitigation action. Tanager-1 combines Planet’s cutting-edge agile aerospace and smallsat bus technology with the state-of-the-art imaging spectrometer design developed at NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL). ### PUBLISHED ARTICLE FROM CARBON MAPPER Pasadena,
Renew Economy
OCTOBER 29, 2024
AEMO reports significant increase in the capacity of new wind, solar and storage projects seeking a grid connection, with the total now exceeding 45 gigawatts for the first time. The post Big batteries lead renewable charge as record 45 gigawatts of new capacity seeks grid connection appeared first on RenewEconomy.
TechXplore
OCTOBER 29, 2024
Tayia Oddonetto was an undergraduate student when her professor inspired her to solve water scarcity. "During class, the professor said that if someone discovered how to turn brine, water with a high salt concentration, into something of value, it'd be revolutionary for the planet," said Oddonetto. "At that moment, I told myself I was going to be the one who found the solution for brine, and that thought has never left me.
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. 📊 Join us for a practical webinar hosted by Kevin Kai Wong of Emergent Ene
Hydrogen Fuel News
OCTOBER 28, 2024
US Introduces New Hydrogen Incentives As the race towards carbon neutrality intensifies, the U.S. government is gearing up to make significant strides in clean energy with the introduction of demand-side incentives for hydrogen. Scheduled to roll out in 2025, these incentives are set to reshape the landscape of hydrogen energy by making it more financially viable for industries to adopt and integrate into their operations.
Envirotec Magazine
OCTOBER 21, 2024
Professor Kumar. The California Air Resources Board (CARB) has recognised Professor Prashant Kumar with the prestigious Haagen-Smit Clean Air Award – an honour widely considered to be the “Nobel Prize” in air quality achievement. Professor Kumar, Founding Director of the University of Surrey’s Global Centre for Clean Air Research (GCARE) , has been recognised for his contribution to international education.
NRDC onEarth
OCTOBER 21, 2024
The world has a strategic plan to reverse global biodiversity loss. We must follow through by working with each other to address the critical issues and build a new relationship with nature.
POWER Magazine
OCTOBER 16, 2024
The power generation sector is looking at numerous ways to provide enough electricity to satisfy demand from data centers. Bloomberg Intelligence recently said its research shows data centers, buildings filled […] The post Power Demand from Data Centers Keeping Coal-Fired Plants Online appeared first on POWER Magazine.
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.
Renew Economy
OCTOBER 28, 2024
Neoen formally opens first stage of what will be Australia's biggest battery, soaking up rooftop solar and helping ease the last coal generators out of the grid. The post First stage of Australia’s biggest battery project switched on, well ahead of schedule appeared first on RenewEconomy.
Energy Storage News
OCTOBER 18, 2024
Installed battery storage capacity in California has grown from just 500MW in 2018 to more than 13,300MW at the latest count.
The Guardian: Energy
OCTOBER 12, 2024
Party donor Dale Vince warns that urging homeowners to switch to clean-power technology risks political storm bigger than Ulez The government risks a huge political backlash if it keeps pushing the public to install heat pumps to replace their boilers, one of Britain’s leading green entrepreneurs has warned. Dale Vince , a major Labour donor and renewable energy advocate, called on Keir Starmer to rethink national programmes, championed by Boris Johnson , pushing the technology.
Envirotec Magazine
OCTOBER 15, 2024
The UK’s annual Recycle Week launches today (15 October) with a warning that households are wasting over one billion items every year that could be recycled. New statistics reveal millions of recyclable bottles, sprays and toilet roll tubes are facing incineration, or landfill (words: WRAP). Britain’s most binned items include: 845 million cleaning product bottles 526 million aerosols 7.4 million yoghurt pots* 6 million aftershave and perfume bottles Toilet roll tubes** Recent figures show UK re
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.
NRDC onEarth
OCTOBER 3, 2024
The EPA will soon issue a major new rule to control lead in tap water. We expect it will finally take a big step toward addressing this public health scourge.
TechXplore
OCTOBER 12, 2024
A team of engineers at AI inference technology company BitEnergy AI reports a method to reduce the energy needs of AI applications by 95%. The group has published a paper describing their new technique on the arXiv preprint server.
Renew Economy
OCTOBER 24, 2024
Broken Hill has a big wind farm, a solar farm and a big battery, all of which are all looking pretty useless now. The battery, in particular, is not doing what it says on the box, and highlights industry frustration with the grid management process. The post Broken Hill has a wind farm, a solar farm and a big battery. So, why are the lights out? appeared first on RenewEconomy.
Energy Storage News
OCTOBER 7, 2024
Exclusive preview and key takeaways from the Battery StorageTech Bankability Ratings Report, launched by our colleagues at PV Tech Research.
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?
Hydrogen Fuel News
OCTOBER 9, 2024
Unveiling Toyota’s Portable Hydrogen Cartridges: A New Era in Sustainable Energy Toyota is set to showcase its groundbreaking portable hydrogen cartridges for the first time in Japan, October 15th to the 18th, at the Japan Mobility Bizweek event. These innovative cartridges are crafted to revolutionize the future of hydrogen energy by providing a swappable power source for next-generation fuel cell electric vehicles (FCEVs).
Envirotec Magazine
OCTOBER 29, 2024
One of the underwater robot undergoing trials in Heriot Watt Universitys wave tank facility. Technology could reduce the use of large maintenance vessels in wind farm repairs, reducing fuel consumption by 97%. That’s according to the National Robotarium – an innovation hub based at Heriot Watt University’s Edinburgh campus – which is supporting the development of new artificial intelligence and control systems that could allow underwater robots to operate autonomously and
NRDC onEarth
OCTOBER 21, 2024
Explore a new model illustrating potential pathways to scale up international climate funding for the Paris Agreement's new collective quantified goal on climate finance
TechXplore
OCTOBER 27, 2024
The use of photovoltaics (PVs) to generate household electricity is on the rise, as a growing number of individuals worldwide are now choosing to power their home using solar panels. To store the excess energy generated by solar panels on sunny days and re-use it at night and on cloudy days, one requires additional energy technologies known as home storage systems.
Renew Economy
OCTOBER 25, 2024
Ten days after Broken Hill was isolated when storms below down transmission lines - and a day after Renew Economy asked what's going on - the local big battery will finally start doing what it is supposed to do. The post Agreement finally reached to switch on Broken Hill battery, nearly 10 days after storm blows down power lines appeared first on RenewEconomy.
Canary Media
OCTOBER 18, 2024
For years, Duke Energy has studied the threats that climate change poses to its power grid. It has produced tomes forecasting the risk to its power lines, substations, and power plants from fires, heat waves, and floods.
Hydrogen Fuel News
OCTOBER 25, 2024
Large-Scale Hydrogen Module Testing for Low Cost Green Hydrogen Production This week marks a significant milestone for SunHydrogen, Inc. (OTCQB: HYSR) as the company announces the official commencement of initial fabrication and testing of its large-scale green hydrogen modules. This development is integral to the company’s mission to produce renewable hydrogen through its innovative technology.
Envirotec Magazine
OCTOBER 14, 2024
The Responsible Electronics and Circular Technologies Centre (REACT) was announced on 7 October, one of five new centres to share in £25m from a new UKRI programme intended to support the innovation necessary for net zero. Described as the UK’s first sustainable electronics centre, REACT aims to address both the environmental and economic challenges of achieving net zero in the electronics arena, while promoting the adoption of green technologies.
NRDC onEarth
OCTOBER 31, 2024
The world’s largest corporate climate reporting standards are getting a makeover. Watch out for a new corporate loophole posing as a climate solution.
Energy Storage News
OCTOBER 1, 2024
The EU could save €9 billion a year in gas costs by deploying BESS to capture excess wind and solar, according to think tank Ember.
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