Women in Cleantech and Sustainability

MAY 11, 2017

WCS Member of the Month highlights the amazing work of female leaders jn the cleantech and sustainability sector. This month, Kathryn Verna of GE Renewable Energy is in the spotlight. ?. WCS: What excites you most about the work you’re doing at GE Renewable Energy? Kathryn: For my first 6 years in GE’s Onshore Wind business, I was a Product Manager working to bring down the cost and increase the power output of utility-scale wind turbines.

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Startups Education Sustainability Energy 40

Ambisense

MAY 9, 2017

What comes to mind when you think of the Mars Rover Curiosity? Do you wonder at the boundless innovation of mankind? Awe at the vastness of the cosmos? Or maybe, autonomous onsite analysis springs to mind! Here are 3 Things That Onsite Analysis & The Mars Rover Curiosity Have In Common If like us, you work in the . Continue reading "3 Things That Onsite Analysis & The Mars Rover Curiosity Have In Common".

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Climate-KIC

MAY 10, 2017

The Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) is working on the world’s most advanced 3D-printer for construction, which it hopes will be able to source and build with local and biosynthesised materials. Pictured above, and shown in the video below, is the Digital Construction Platform a four-tonne solar powered robot arm on tank tracks. It can […].

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Construction Solar Power Technology 40

Climate-KIC

MAY 10, 2017

What’s the future of sustainable land use in Europe? How is a Belgian-based beer business reducing its impact? And, how is the addition of algae to solar panels improving how they work? This, and more, in the week’s ten biggest climate innovation stories. 1. New battery concept could give electric vehicles a 1,000km range Electric […]. The post This week’s ten biggest climate innovation stories – 11 May appeared first on Climate-KIC.

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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.

Energy

Ambisense

MAY 8, 2017

If you’ve been considering using new technologies to do your environmental monitoring then here are 4 key things that the environmental monitoring technology should have: So what makes for suitable environmental monitoring communications technology? #1. Power Consumption For devices that are required to report from remote locations with minimal servicing and no fixed electrical connection, power .

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Energy Monitor Technology Electricity 40

Ambisense

MAY 8, 2017

There’s a revolution afoot in the environmental monitoring sector, with technological advances meaning we can get smart about environmental monitoring. A revolution in efficiency has been gaining a steady pace over the past number of years. This is driven by a demand to better understand and protect our fragile environment and the scarce resources such as .

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Ambisense

MAY 8, 2017

With the projected exponential growth in IoT devices (IDC forecast 28.1 billion IoT connected devices globally by 2020) remote monitoring technologies will increasingly become the norm for the environmental sector. Here are the Trade-Offs between Big Data and Continuous Monitoring: The growth in IoT devices will also see a huge increase in the overall amount of data .

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