The Environmental Blog
SEPTEMBER 17, 2024
Key Takeaways Vehicle-themed murals offer unique and dynamic decor options for various spaces. Understanding where and how to use these murals can enhance interior design quality. Creative applications extend beyond traditional home decor to commercial and recreational spaces. Proper installation techniques ensure longevity and visual impact. What Are Vehicle-Themed Murals?
Envirotec Magazine
SEPTEMBER 16, 2024
The pilot is installed at enfinium’s Ferrybridge-1 EfW facility in Knottingley. UK energy-from-waste (Efw) operator enfinium has launched the UK’s first carbon capture pilot at an EfW site, the group announced on 16 September. The launch is described as a milestone for the sector and for the group’s plans to deploy Carbon Capture and Storage (CCS) technology across its UK facilities to generate carbon removals at scale.
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NRDC onEarth
SEPTEMBER 16, 2024
In a stark visual reminder of the threat to public health from dangerous lead water pipes, NRDC (Natural Resources Defense Council) today released a map based on U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) data revealing the specific communities and water systems.
Renew Economy
SEPTEMBER 16, 2024
Another spring day in Australia, another renewable energy record – this time, a new all-time high for the maximum contribution of rooftop solar to the mix of electricity in NSW. The post Rooftop solar makes record high contribution to grid on same day home battery push announced appeared first on RenewEconomy.
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
The Environmental Blog
SEPTEMBER 17, 2024
Types of Flooring There are plenty of choices available when it comes to choosing the ideal flooring. Hardwood , laminate, vinyl, and carpet are the most popular options. Every category has distinct advantages and disadvantages that accommodate various requirements and preferences. Hardwood floors are renowned for their enduring charm and strength, bringing a sense of sophistication to any space.
Envirotec Magazine
SEPTEMBER 16, 2024
Jeff Borrman of Bioscope Technologies reviews the fate of components and materials used in electronic printed circuit boards, and introduces a process that he suggests as a game-changer: bioleaching. Jeff Borrman is CEO of critical raw materials recovery firm Bioscope Technologies. Many IT and electronics equipment manufacturers are still lacking when it comes to offering modular upgrades of equipment, leading to the rip-and-replace culture for hardware assets such as TVs, mobile phones, IT serv
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Renew Economy
SEPTEMBER 16, 2024
Snowy Hydro is seeking approval to run the Hunter Power Project entirely on diesel fuel in 2025, in a move that will send the hybrid gas plant's year-one emissions soaring by up to 80%. The post Snowy seeks approval to burn six times more diesel than planned at Kurri Kurri gas generator appeared first on RenewEconomy.
Hydrogen Fuel News
SEPTEMBER 16, 2024
Tom’s Truck Center Ushers in a New Era with First Hydrogen Refueling Station in Santa Fe Springs, LA County Tom’s Truck Center has made a groundbreaking move by opening the first hydrogen refueling station onsite at a commercial truck dealership. This significant event took place at their Santa Fe Springs location in Los Angeles County, marking an important milestone in California’s push towards a hydrogen-powered future.
PV Tech
SEPTEMBER 16, 2024
The European Investment Bank (EIB) and FirstRand Bank have allocated €400 million (US$444 million) to support the development of solar PV and wind generation projects in South Africa.
Green Living Guy
SEPTEMBER 15, 2024
Let’s talk the Tesla battery cell 4680. So hey there, green living enthusiasts! I’ve got some electrifying news that’s sure to get your eco-friendly hearts racing. Tesla, our favorite electric vehicle trailblazer. For it has just hit a mind-blowing milestone in battery production. Let’s dive into this game-changing achievement and what it means for the.
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
SEPTEMBER 15, 2024
NSW's new Consumer Energy Strategy aims for 1 million homes and small businesses kitted out with solar batteries by 2035, crucial for a no coal grid. The post NSW aims for a million solar battery homes in landmark consumer energy strategy for no coal grid appeared first on RenewEconomy.
Canary Media
SEPTEMBER 16, 2024
Over the next few years, residents of select California neighborhoods may start getting phone calls and mailers from gas utilities and community organizers offering an unexpected proposition: Would you like to ditch gas and switch to all-electric appliances instead?
CleanTech Group
SEPTEMBER 17, 2024
As consumers demand more transparency around the safety and sustainability of the food they consume, governments are responding with stricter rules. A flurry. The post Taking A Byte of Transparency: The Tech Behind Agri-Food Traceability appeared first on Cleantech Group.
Hydrogen Fuel News
SEPTEMBER 14, 2024
The planet has massive reserves of heat just below the surface that can be used for power Data centers demand a tremendous amount of electricity, and geothermal energy is being considered to provide a solution to this growing need. Meta made a clean energy announcement at a DoE workshop Meta – parent company of popular social media platforms such as Facebook, Instagram and WhatsApp – chose the geothermal energy workshop at the US Department of Energy (DoE) to announce its plans to
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.
Renew Economy
SEPTEMBER 15, 2024
Significant milestone claimed as tests validate first use of vanadium electrolyte produced at Perth facility in a functioning battery. The post Milestone for vanadium flow battery technology after electrolyte tests for Australian project appeared first on RenewEconomy.
Impact Alpha
SEPTEMBER 16, 2024
Beep Saúde has developed an app that helps patients obtain more than 30 vaccines, including for influenza and HPV, set up appointments with. The post Lightsmith and Chan Zuckerberg invest $16.6 million in Beep for in-home health in Brazil appeared first on ImpactAlpha.
Green Living Guy
SEPTEMBER 14, 2024
Government Going Green The U.S. government is going green. Today, the Department of Defense (DoD) and General Services Administration (GSA) announced a groundbreaking initiative. They issued a Request for Information (RFI) on carbon-free electricity supply. This move is crucial. It transforms government energy procurement. Moreover, it sets the nation on a path to clean electricity.
TechCrunch: Climate
SEPTEMBER 14, 2024
Fusion startups have raised $7.1 billion to date, with the majority of it going to a handful of companies. © 2024 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal use only.
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?
Renew Economy
SEPTEMBER 16, 2024
Australia needs more longer duration energy storage to fix a forecast winter demand peak when renewable supply can be low. The post Australia must start valuing storage duration to solve winter demand peaks and renewable droughts appeared first on RenewEconomy.
The Guardian: Energy
SEPTEMBER 15, 2024
Emissions from in-house data centers of Google, Microsoft, Meta and Apple may be 7.62 times higher than official tally Big tech has made some big claims about greenhouse gas emissions in recent years. But as the rise of artificial intelligence creates ever bigger energy demands, it’s getting hard for the industry to hide the true costs of the data centers powering the tech revolution.
Green Living Guy
SEPTEMBER 14, 2024
(BPT) – Spend a few days in a waterfront town, vacation destination or golf community, and you’ll likely see a surge of local electric vehicles on neighborhood streets. The street-legal, low-speed vehicle category extends the fun, yet practical vehicles to suburbia and urban downtowns as the market for sustainable transportation grows. Low-speed vehicles (LSVs) offer.
TechCrunch: Climate
SEPTEMBER 16, 2024
Accounting for the emissions of a global tech empire is not a simple task, and what industry standards we do have for disclosure may allow tech companies to systematically understate their carbon footprint. A Guardian report compares official declarations of carbon emissions, including what amount to offsets purchased elsewhere, with “location-based” emissions, another standard metric […] © 2024 TechCrunch.
Renew Economy
SEPTEMBER 15, 2024
Rooftop solar continues to reshape the grid, with record levels of large scale curtailment, even as coal plants dialled down to their bare minimum. The post Record curtailment as rooftop solar reshapes biggest coal grid appeared first on RenewEconomy.
The Guardian: Energy
SEPTEMBER 17, 2024
Angela Eagle, border security minister, says prime minister has to answer why he has accepted £76,000 worth of gifts since 2019 election The number of migrants who have crossed the English Channel since Labour won the general election has passed 10,000, according to provisional figures from the Home Office. As PA Media reports, some 65 migrants were detected crossing the Channel on Monday, taking the cumulative number of arrivals since July 4 to 10,024.
POWER Magazine
SEPTEMBER 16, 2024
Battery energy storage systems (BESS) can be the key to tackling any number of issues your grid or business may be facing, such as a need to support more renewables, […] The post Turning Energy Storage From an Idle Backup Into a Money-Making Asset appeared first on POWER Magazine.
Impact Alpha
SEPTEMBER 15, 2024
A new Harvard Business Review paper argues that assessment of a company’s progress toward combating climate change should include a “sphere of influence” lens that measures its “societal-level climate solutions.” The post You’re counting carbon emissions all wrong, two impact researchers say appeared first on ImpactAlpha.
Renew Economy
SEPTEMBER 15, 2024
W.A. government seeks expressions of interest in four new transmission corridors to deliver huge amounts of wind and solar to Australia's most fossil dependent economic region. The post Australia’s most fossil dependent economy opens up to renewable energy highways appeared first on RenewEconomy.
Energy Storage News
SEPTEMBER 18, 2024
Three-quarters of the lithium-ion battery supply chain could have exposure to forced labour, contravening US and EU laws and potentially leading to products being blocked from those markets, a report said.
NRDC onEarth
SEPTEMBER 17, 2024
Hundreds of thousands of households have faced multiple damaging floods. Federal, state, and local action is needed to reduce risk now and into the future.
Canary Media
SEPTEMBER 16, 2024
Canary Media’s Electrified Life column shares real-world tales, tips, and insights to demystify what individuals can do to shift their homes and lives to clean electric power. Canary thanks EnergySage for its support of the column.
Renew Economy
SEPTEMBER 16, 2024
CEFC announces “landmark” investment to help decarbonise maritime ports in South Australia, focusing on the electrification of vehicles and equipment. The post CEFC invests $70m to help electrify and decarbonise maritime ports appeared first on RenewEconomy.
TechCrunch: Climate
SEPTEMBER 17, 2024
The startup focuses on optimizing the entire widget, from the electrolyzer’s electrodes to the tangle of pipes and pumps that support them. © 2024 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal use only.
NRDC onEarth
SEPTEMBER 17, 2024
If EPA doesn't finalize its new, lead-in-water rule by October 16, 2024, it risks plunging the sector into confusion and diminishing health protections.
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