Super Duper Supercapacitors Could Accelerate Electric Car Revolution
CleanTechnica
FEBRUARY 23, 2020
Supercapacitors offer exciting new possibilities for electric vehicles. Here are two stories about advances in supercapacitor technology.
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We need to think beyond urban farming
GreenBiz
FEBRUARY 26, 2020
But the broader agricultural world can learn much from how those operations use data.
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Coronavirus Crisis: Tesla May Be One Of Least Vulnerable Automakers
CleanTechnica
FEBRUARY 26, 2020
The ongoing coronavirus crisis finally hit the stock market hard on Monday, as the Dow dropped by 3.5%, its steepest one-day loss in two years. Tesla took a big hit, losing almost 7% at the open on Monday.
Japan’s Expert Panel Agrees That Dumping Radioactive Water Into The Ocean Is Best
Jim Conca
FEBRUARY 1, 2020
An expert panel is recommending that the Japanese government allow Tokyo Electric Power Company to release radioactive water from its crippled Fukushima nuclear plants into the ocean. And that’s a good thing to do since a gallon of this water is as radioactive as a family-sized bag of potato chips.
Manufacturing Sustainability Surge: Your Guide to Data-Driven Energy Optimization & Decarbonization
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.
Airplane fuselage is converted into a minimalist tiny home with off-grid capabilities
Inhabitat - Innovation
FEBRUARY 12, 2020
The Tiny House Guys has breathed new life into a decommissioned Dash 8 airplane fuselage by converting it into the Aero Tiny — a 130-square-foot tiny home fully equipped to go off the grid.
Exposé Shows Rise of Heartland Institute’s Climate Denial Efforts Overseas, Using Dark Money and a YouTuber
DeSmogBlog
FEBRUARY 20, 2020
Read time: 9 mins A recent German news report has shed light on the inner workings of the Heartland Institute’ s international efforts to sow doubts about climate science using the dark money group Donors Trust. Part of those efforts include the climate science-denying organization touting its newest representative, a young German YouTube “influencer,” Naomi Seibt , whom Heartland markets as the deniers’ answer to breakout youth climate activist Greta Thunberg.
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Inside Bill Weihl’s quest to give employees and job seekers a 'ClimateVoice'
GreenBiz
FEBRUARY 24, 2020
A new initiative aims to press companies to have a strong and active voice on climate policy in the United States. Your company and its campus recruiters just may be a target.
Antarctica’s glaciers are melting so fast, you can swim in them. In a Speedo.
Grist
FEBRUARY 3, 2020
Even as someone who spends most of her time thinking about climate change, it’s easy for me to forget about the looming danger of changes happening at the bottom of the earth. But Lewis Pugh, a British endurance swimmer and ocean advocate, doesn’t want anyone to forget about the melting glaciers of Antarctica, and to get our attention, he decided to go for a swim.
Malmö, Sweden orders 60 Volvo high-capacity electric buses
Charged
FEBRUARY 19, 2020
Scandinavian transport operator Nobina, which services Malmo, Sweden, has ordered 60 of Volvo’s 7900 Electric Articulated electric buses. Propelled by dual electric motors with a two-speed transmission, the buses have a maximum power output of 400 kW and maximum torque of 31 kN-m at the driven axle, with battery capacity have up to 396 kWh of storage capacity.
Odd.Bot, the weed-pulling robot that could eliminate herbicides
Inhabitat - Innovation
FEBRUARY 11, 2020
The aging adage, “There’s an App for that,” is evolving into the idea that, “There’s a robot for that”. More and more automation is finding its way to the market for household chores like cleaning floors, and now that innovation is in farmer’s fields with Odd.Bot, an automatic weeding robot.
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.
Tesla Cybertruck Gets New Electric Rival: Meet Nikola’s Hydrogen Badger Pickup
Forbes Green Tech
FEBRUARY 10, 2020
The electric vehicle startup aiming to shake up trucking with hydrogen-powered semis is also targeting drivers who want high-performance work trucks that don’t belch exhaust
Texas perovskite company reaches 18% efficiency with its ink-based solar cell process
Solar Power World
FEBRUARY 12, 2020
Hunt Perovskite Technologies (HPT), a Dallas, Texas-based perovskite material developer, reached a milestone in the development of a highly-durable perovskite technology for the manufacture of low-cost printed solar cells. In December 2019, HPT successfully demonstrated that its ink-based process was able to produce a perovskite solar cell that exceeded key benchmarks recognized by the solar cell… The post Texas perovskite company reaches 18% efficiency with its ink-based solar cell proces
The low price of freed parking
GreenBiz
FEBRUARY 11, 2020
The 270 million vehicles in the United States are parked over 90 percent of the time. There are far more parking spaces than vehicles. How many spaces? The data is imprecise. There could be 500 million parking lot spaces and 1 billion spaces on streets. Add parking in home garages, carports and driveways, and another estimate is 2 billion parking spaces.
Solar battery or generator? How to get through the next outage
Sunrun
FEBRUARY 19, 2020
How Batteries and Generators Stack up Blackouts are becoming more common across the country1. As people face an increased risk of power loss, it becomes important for consumers who want to take control of their own energy2 to include a home solar battery in a plan to go solar. A solar home battery system, such as Brightbox by Sunrun, avoids many of the pitfalls of traditional portable backup generators.
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.
Does Tesla have a game-changing new battery cell in the pipeline?
Charged
FEBRUARY 27, 2020
There’s little dispute that Tesla has a substantial head start in terms of battery tech vis a vis the legacy automakers. Now Electrek has reported that Tesla has a secret project called “Roadrunner” that could soon enable the company to produce much cheaper battery cells on a massive scale. For some time, it’s been apparent that Tesla plans to move beyond its long-time partnership with Panasonic, and start making its own battery cells.
Climate-adaptive park in Copenhagen wins Arne of the Year Award
Inhabitat - Innovation
FEBRUARY 10, 2020
One of Copenhagen’s newest green parks, the Sankt Kjelds Square and Bryggervangen, has just received Copenhagen’s most prestigious architecture prize—the Arne of the Year Award. Designed by Danish design studio SLA, the 35,000-square-foot urban park is most notable for its effective solutions to cloudbursts, a term describing sudden heavy rainfall that can trigger violent flash floods.
Former UN Climate Chief Calls For Civil Disobedience
Forbes Green Tech
FEBRUARY 23, 2020
The woman who led the negotiations for the Paris Agreement has called in a new book for political engagement on climate change that goes well beyond the voting booth.
Just how concerned should the solar industry be about battery fires?
Solar Power World
FEBRUARY 17, 2020
Plane crashes rarely happen, but the fear of an accident is real for many people. Still, thousands of Americans fly every day. The NBC television drama “This is Us” showed that Crock-Pots can cause house fires, but we’re still cooking chilis and roasts while we’re away at work. The threat of energy storage systems causing… The post Just how concerned should the solar industry be about battery fires?
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?
Conserving and restoring forests won’t be cheap and easy after all
GreenBiz
FEBRUARY 10, 2020
The corporate world has fallen for trees. But to be effective, the cost of offsetting CO2 emissions with the sequestration power of forests will have to go up. Are companies willing to pay?
Canadian Town Evacuated After Another Oil Train Derails and Burns
DeSmogBlog
FEBRUARY 6, 2020
Read time: 3 mins Early in the morning of February 6, an oil train derailed and caught fire near Guernsey, Saskatchewan, resulting in the Canadian village's evacuation. This is the second oil train to derail and burn near Guernsey, following one in December that resulted in a fire and oil spill of 400,000 gallons.
Nidec launches 50 kW and 200 kW motor systems for EVs
Charged
FEBRUARY 21, 2020
Nidec has launched two new models of traction motor systems: a 200 kW model for the D and E segments and a 50 kW model for the A segment. Both models are based on Nidec’s 150 kW E-Axle. Targeting luxury EVs for the European and Chinese markets, the 200 kW model features a motor and gears that increase the power of the system by more than 30 percent.
Home on a sloped ravine uses natural materials to blend into the landscape
Inhabitat - Innovation
FEBRUARY 20, 2020
Working directly with the nature-loving homeowners, the architects strategically focused on blending the minimalist home, which was built with natural materials, into the idyllic surroundings while reducing its impact as much as possible.
Mangrove forests protect coastlines. ‘Synthetic mangroves’ could do the same for cities.
Grist
FEBRUARY 24, 2020
Humans have lots of reasons to thank mangroves. These swampy, stilt-rooted trees store massive amounts of carbon on tropical shorelines, support nurseries for a wide variety of commercially important fish species, and protect coastal areas from storm damage. Besides these benefits for people, mangroves are unique among trees because they thrive in shallow seawater that’s too salty for most living beings to grow in.
Circularity Challenge Spotlight: American Battery Metals Corporation
Greentown Labs
FEBRUARY 13, 2020
Ryan Melsert, CTO of American Battery Metals Corporation, speaks at the Circularity Challenge Final Showcase. The Circularity Challenge is a six-month accelerator program designed to advance innovative solutions to enable a circular economy. The five participants are disrupting the plastics, energy storage, and recycling value chains. The Circularity Challenge is run by Greentown Launch —Greentown Labs’ internal accelerator—and BASF , and supported by Stanley Black & Decker.
Maersk is testing a biofuel that could alter the course of shipping
GreenBiz
FEBRUARY 4, 2020
The LEO Project, which includes BMW, Levi Strauss, H&M and Marks & Spencer, proposes using a commonly found paper production byproduct as the source of maritime fuel.
Solar Games make installation a spectator sport at Intersolar 2020
Solar Power World
FEBRUARY 5, 2020
Team SPW volunteered on a residential solar installation in 2017, but our two-day 2.5-kW system was amateur hour compared to what I watched at Intersolar North America’s inaugural Solar Games contest. Installation teams from Colorado, Nevada and California competed to install a 3.15-kW system in under 90 minutes — and got extra points for getting… The post Solar Games make installation a spectator sport at Intersolar 2020 appeared first on Solar Power World.
ClipperCreek sells 90,000th charging station
Charged
FEBRUARY 6, 2020
EVSE manufacturer ClipperCreek is on a roll – the company recently produced its 90,000th charging station, an HCS-D40P model, at its manufacturing facility in Auburn, California. In addition to building chargers, the company is a Tier 2 OEM supplier for EV manufacturers, and provides circuit boards for the Level 1 chargers that come with new EVs.
Brazilian home uses solar energy for 100% self-sufficiency
Inhabitat - Innovation
FEBRUARY 6, 2020
Brazilian firm 24 7 Arquitetura has set a stunning modern home into a challenging mountainous landscape in Brazil’s Nova Lima region. In addition to the home’s contemporary aesthetic, which is comprised of several exposed concrete blocks, the residence is completely self-sustaining thanks to its massive rooftop solar array that generates all the power the home needs.
8 Powerful Examples Of AI For Good
Forbes Green Tech
FEBRUARY 9, 2020
Many of the headlines about artificial intelligence warn of its dangers. However, artificial intelligence (AI) can be and is being used for good in many ways from improving the accessibility for people with disabilities to building our resilience to natural disasters.
Believe it or not, the Deepwater Horizon oil spill was even worse than previously thought
Grist
FEBRUARY 14, 2020
After the Deepwater Horizon explosion in the spring of 2010, oil poured into the Gulf of Mexico for nearly three months straight, resulting in the worst offshore oil spill in U.S. history. More than 200 million gallons of light crude flowed into the sea, devastating marine life and fisheries. Ten years later, scientists are still uncovering new facets of the disaster and its aftermath.
4 ways to scale regenerative ag
GreenBiz
FEBRUARY 21, 2020
This article was adapted from the GreenBiz Food Weekly newsletter. Sign up here to receive your own free subscription.This week, I want to talk about one of the most exciting options we have for reforming our food systems and tackling climate change: regenerative agriculture.
Midwest installer Moxie Solar to open 100-MW solar panel assembly plant in Iowa
Solar Power World
FEBRUARY 26, 2020
Iowa-headquartered solar installer Moxie Solar, which installed almost 5 MW of projects in 2018 and likely tripled its business in 2019, has announced plans to set up a 100-MW solar panel assembly operation in Iowa. “If we are going to continue growing solar in the United States, we believe installers need a more reliable supply… The post Midwest installer Moxie Solar to open 100-MW solar panel assembly plant in Iowa appeared first on Solar Power World.
Amazon and Rivian work together to develop new electric delivery van
Charged
FEBRUARY 5, 2020
Amazon caused quite a stir when it announced an unprecedented order for 100,000 electric delivery vans from Michigan-based Rivian. Would a startup company be able to fill such a large order on such a tight timeline? The first of the new EVs is scheduled to hit the road in 2021, and Amazon hopes to have 10,000 of them in service by 2022. Amazon’s transportation team spent 18 months evaluating a variety of EV options.
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