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Episode 185: Word games, cool planes , Nori's blockchain-driven carbon removal mission

GreenBiz

Plus, many of those food waste stats you've heard don't include what's discarded at the farm. Tune in to hear about both the problem, and potential solutions.

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A Blockchain Crash Course: How It Can Enable the Clean, Smart Grid

Andrew Winston

This is my attempt at an "explainer" on blockchain, describing it as simply as I can, and exploring how it may help build the clean grid. Blockchain is everywhere — at least when you’re talking about media coverage. In short, in the words of a recent Wired overview of the technology , blockchain creates “tamperproof databases.”

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Crypto Climate Accord: UN-backed plan targets net zero digital currencies by 2040

Business Green

A major UN-backed initiative aimed at tackling the growing climate impact of the burgeoning crypto currency industry has been launched today, in bid to encourage all of the world's energy-intensive fintech blockchains to run on 100 per cent renewable power by 2025 and achieve net zero by 2040.

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AI and crypto mining are driving up data centers’ energy use

The Verge: Energy

Keeping all that equipment cool accounts for another 40 percent of demand, with other IT equipment making up the rest. The Ethereum blockchain was able to slash its electricity use by more than 99 percent by switching to a much more energy-efficient method of validating blocks of new transactions.

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Meet Our Members: Introducing Greentown’s Newest Startups of Q1 2021

Greentown Labs

These groundbreaking members are working on solutions ranging from a screen that removes dust from solar panels, to reusable N95 respirators, to blockchain for ESG initiatives, and more. Innovator Energy develops and deploys several breakthrough solutions in cooling, heating, and heat transfer.

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Nailing Your Climate Tech Investor Pitch

Michael Grossman

Let me use blockchain as an example. Bitcoin has been a hot topic for the past few years, and it seemed like everyone would jump on the bandwagon, but you can’t just wave the word around like a flag and hope to generate investment in your blockchain scheme.

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Intel launches crypto mining chip

Smart Energy International

Intel’s new Blockscale technology is designed to deliver energy efficient blockchain hashing for proof of work consensus mechanisms. The Blockscale ASIC is intended to support the rapidly growing compute requirement for blockchains utilising proof-of-work consensus mechanisms, of which Bitcoin is the most prominent example.