Charged

APRIL 14, 2023

Volvo Trucks and Swedish mining company Boliden have teamed up to implement electric truck transport in underground environments. Exhaust gases from diesel vehicles are responsible for most of the carbon dioxide emissions from Boliden’s mines.

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The Verge: Energy

FEBRUARY 27, 2024

More Bitcoin is mined in the US than anywhere else in the world , a trend that has sparked legal battles over the impact energy-hungry crypto mines have on the power grid, nearby communities, and the environment. There’s some early evidence that Bitcoin mining has already affected the US energy system.

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Hydrogen Fuel News

JANUARY 21, 2024

Transforming Mining Vehicles and The Impact of Hydrogen Fuel Cells on Heavy-Duty Mobility In an exciting development, General Motors (GM) and Komatsu, an industry leader in mining and construction equipment, have joined forces. Numerous other companies are also exploring the potential of hydrogen fuel cells in the mining industry.

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Hydrogen Carbon-neutral Fossil fuels Logistics 101

Envirotec Magazine

NOVEMBER 7, 2023

LKAB has awarded ABB a contract to install two ABB Gearless Conveyor Drives (GCDs) on the existing conveyor belt system at its Malmberget mine near Gällivare, Norrbotten County, Lapland, the most northern province in Sweden. LKAB is running a conveyor system that carries 15 million tons of iron ore every year.

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Charged

APRIL 4, 2023

The electrification of mining haul trucks has taken a step forward with the launch of the CharIN Mining Task Force, a partnership between charging standards body CharIN and the International Council on Mining and Metals (ICMM). These are enormous trucks we’re talking about, with carbon footprints to match.

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Envirotec Magazine

AUGUST 6, 2020

has been investigating mining waste contaminated with arsenic and other toxins. In order to understand how these ticking time bombs affect the environment, she examines their crystal structure with cross-disciplinary expertise from crystallography and chemistry, as this article explains. Sensitive region. Source: Tamara ?or?evi?.

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The Environmental Blog

APRIL 28, 2022

Wind Energy Crypto Mining. It is common knowledge that cryptocurrencies can have devastating effects on the environment. The green movement refers to the switch from nonrenewable resources to renewable sources for cryptocurrency mining. Mining With Wind Energy. Let’s dive in. The Green Movement. Way Forward.

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GreenBiz

OCTOBER 5, 2020

The mine in question — actually, thousands of them — can be found in the eastern Indian province of Jharkhand, just over 200 miles west of the cultural hub of Kolkata. Mica mining has become a growing problem for the image- and brand-conscious cosmetics industry. Inside Beautycounter’s quest to transform its mica supply chain.

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ThinkGeoEnergy

OCTOBER 19, 2023

The Gateshead mine water heating scheme located in northeastern England has been hailed a great success six months after it officially started operations in March 2023. Heat is extracted from mine water from 150 meters below the Gateshead town centre via three boreholes that have been drilled into 200-year-old mine workings.

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Home Energy Monitoring Building Energy Monitoring Business Energy Monitoring Energy Monitor 105

Envirotec Magazine

MARCH 24, 2022

According to the European Commission and the European Environment Agency, the top 10 largest methane emitting coal mines in Europe are in Poland. Collectively, these mines released around 282,300 tonnes of methane into the atmosphere in 2020. Methane emissions from coal mining.

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Envirotec Magazine

JUNE 13, 2022

Materials technology firm Betolar has been granted a patent for a method for converting mining waste material into a reinforcing binder. In the mining industry, the recovery and enrichment of metals generate large amounts of metallic effluent, sludge, and dregs, which are in many ways cumbersome to handle and risky for environmental safety.

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TechXplore

FEBRUARY 6, 2024

Current lithium-ion batteries use cobalt oxide as the cathode, an expensive mineral mined in ways that harm people and the environment. Lithium-sulfur batteries can potentially store five to 10 times more energy than current state-of-the-art lithium-ion batteries at much lower cost.

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Envirotec Magazine

MAY 25, 2021

Dawdon mine water treatment scheme (image credit: Copyright Coal Authority. A new white paper published by the Mine Energy Taskforce and Local Energy Hub network has called for greater support for mine energy as a key low carbon heat source in the UK that can contribute to government’s ambition to reach net zero by 2050.

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Envirotec Magazine

DECEMBER 13, 2021

More than 140,000 species have been Red Listed but less than 15% are from marine environments and barely any are from the deep sea. The deep sea is the largest environment on earth with thousands of unique species living in extreme habitats. Endangered, Critically Endangered, etc.) Image credit: Dr Chong Chen.

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Envirotec Magazine

AUGUST 16, 2023

However, they are typically mined overseas using methods harmful to the environment. By recovering the rare metals at the end of machinery’s lifecycle – including many of Scotland’s older wind turbines – manufacturers could re-use them to create new alloy metals instead of relying on imports of mined materials.

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Waste Waste Biotechnology Recycling 130

Envirotec Magazine

OCTOBER 27, 2021

The unexpected bounty of nature seems apparent from the discovery that a harmless food-grade solvent can be used to extract highly sought rare-earth metals from coal ash, reducing the amount of ash without damaging the environment and replenishing supplies of an important resource. Environmentally friendly method for mining rare-earth metals.

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Envirotec Magazine

MARCH 17, 2022

While subject to consultation, the revised targets are to be incorporated into the Environment Act , which became law on 10 November last year. Environment Secretary George Eustice said the proposed targets are “intended to set a clear, long-term plan for nature’s recovery.”. “In Air quality. particulate pollution in the air from 20

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Grist

OCTOBER 5, 2023

The federal Surface Mining Reclamation Act of 1977 requires coal companies to leave the denuded land in roughly the shape they found it or restore it to “higher and better use” at their expense, though many of them find ways to slip out of the obligation. It all becomes waste, dumped into a valley below the site.

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Renew Economy

NOVEMBER 27, 2022

Queensland court rules Palmer-owned Galilee Basin coal project should not go ahead, due to impacts on climate, environment and human rights. The post Court ruling on Clive Palmer’s enormous coal mine heralds new era for climate cases appeared first on RenewEconomy.

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Charged

OCTOBER 7, 2022

Today, much of the nickel that goes into EV batteries is produced by strip mines in Indonesia and the Philippines, and from a sulfur dioxide-spewing mine in Norilsk, Russia. Talon’s partner in the Minnesota project, mining giant Rio Tinto, has a long history of environmental and human rights-related scandals.

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Smart Energy International

MAY 3, 2022

New York State Assembly has passed a bill establishing a two-year moratorium on new proof-of-work crypto mining operations, unless 100% renewables powered. Moreover, during the same period no new permit renewals for full or partly carbon-based fuel mining operations will be approved. Have you read?

Building Energy Monitoring 98

Building Energy Monitoring Energy Monitor Blockchain Fossil fuels 98

Envirotec Magazine

MARCH 28, 2023

Named UPA S 250, this pump series is designed for use in general water supply, agriculture, mine dewatering and ground water management as well as for general pressure boosting tasks, for example. The KSB Group has launched a new submersible borehole pump series.

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GreenTechMedia

FEBRUARY 24, 2020

Anglo-Australian mining giant Rio Tinto announced last week that it will build its first in-house solar plant to power mine operations, adding to a slew of recent renewable energy pledges from mining companies. Another mining behemoth, Anglo American, will only use renewable energy for its Chilean operations after 2021.

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Envirotec Magazine

JULY 2, 2021

According to the authors, plastic pollution is a global threat, and actions to drastically reduce emissions of plastic to the environment are “the rational policy response” Plastic is found everywhere on the planet: from deserts and mountaintops to deep oceans and Arctic snow.

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ThinkGeoEnergy

OCTOBER 10, 2023

Bakrom Mining (Bakrom Madencilik San. As published on the website of the Ministry of Environment, Urbanization and Climate Change, the Geothermal-IR 17/27 operating license has been transferred to the Bakrom Mining company. USD 317,300). The license had previously been held by Yerka Elektrik Uretim A.S.

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Energy Monitor Climate change Energy Energy 52

Envirotec Magazine

SEPTEMBER 19, 2023

It more clearly shows how human activities like farming, mining, forestry and industry can contaminate water, cause soil erosion, and pollute the atmosphere. She said: “Humans have been heavily modifying the Earth for nearly 12,000 years now through agriculture, mining, forestry, and urbanisation.”

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Charged

FEBRUARY 24, 2023

The company recently displayed prototypes of electric construction machines and batteries at the bauma trade show in Munich, and successfully demonstrated its first battery-electric 793 large mining truck at its Tucson Proving Ground in Arizona.

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Batteries Investment Energy Energy 127

ThinkGeoEnergy

APRIL 10, 2024

The decision of the Senate comes after a presentation by Manja Schreiner, Senator for Mobility, Transport, Climate Protection and the Environment. For this purpose, the State of Berlin is working to submit an application for a coherent mining law permit that will cover the entire city area.

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Green Business Bureau

JULY 1, 2022

How do startups affect the environment? In terms of the environment, research from the Center for Research into Energy Demand Solutions at the University of Sussex (UK) found that working from home can reduce an employee’s emissions by up to 80%. Servers in data centers need a cool environment, which demands energy.

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Business Energy Monitoring Startups Home Energy Monitoring Energy Monitor 147

Energy Central

NOVEMBER 18, 2022

These supplies rely on raw-materials mining that is harmful to the environment and utilizes unethical labor practices. Building sustainability into the EV battery supply chain will require action from automakers and suppliers, as well as greater adoption of new technologies.

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Business Green

MAY 25, 2021

A quarter of UK homes and businesses are said to be situated on former coalfields, according to Mine Energy Taskforce. Heat energy sourced from former underground mines could play a key role in decarbonising UK homes, according to fresh research led by a coalition of firms from North East England.

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Charged

JANUARY 20, 2022

Several companies are pursuing plans to extract the mysterious lumps, which Gerard Barron, the CEO of seabed-mining firm The Metals Company, calls “a battery in a rock.”. Mining them, he says, would be “as simple as vacuuming golf balls off a putting green.”

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Batteries Demand Technology 119

GreenBiz

JULY 16, 2020

According to a December report by the United Nations Environment Program, roughly 50 million tonnes of electronic and electrical waste is produced globally on an annual basis. When I started mining some of my stories from a year ago, those figures were eerily familiar. First, some stats. But that’s a subject for another essay.).

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DeSmogBlog

SEPTEMBER 27, 2023

Boyd found that the number of known ISDS cases targeting environmental protections has “skyrocketed” in recent years, with nations ordered to pay more than $100 billion in damages to coal, oil, gas, electricity, and mining firms. Boyd also urges nations to negotiate new agreements that protect human rights and the environment.

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Fossil fuels Climate change Law Investment 122

Smart Energy International

JANUARY 16, 2023

Illegal crypto mining threats have been on the rise in the UK and US energy sectors, UK headquartered Darktrace has reported in its 2022 sector threat trends review. Darktrace states that the tools necessary for crypto mining are increasingly accessible, but the energy required has never been more expensive. Crypto mining threat.

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DeSmogBlog

SEPTEMBER 18, 2021

While commercial mining of the deep seafloor is not yet happening, momentum is building and the world is now seriously entertaining the possibility. After separating out the minerals onboard the ship, the processed waters, sediment and mining ‘fines’ (small particles of the ground up nodule ore) are piped overboard, to depths as yet unclear.

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Building Energy Monitoring Business Energy Monitoring Biodiversity Energy Monitor 89

DeSmogBlog

JULY 16, 2021

The developer has just declared it will not be appealing the decision, while its latest financial statement indicates the company, Banks Group, does not expect to get permission for any new mines, because of a lack of “political will”. The people behind these victories are not NIMBYs (Not-In-My-Back-Yard).

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