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What does digital art have to do with sustainability?

GreenBiz

Blockchain-based non-fungible tokens (NFTs) recently have made a big splash in the art world and beyond. In addition to generating both headlines and confusion, NFTs have drawn attention to the high carbon footprint of certain blockchain applications. We now have a misconception that blockchains are equal to energy and climate impact.

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Why carbon tracking and reporting is necessary to hold corporations accountable

GreenBiz

Now, new breakthrough climate accounting technologies are emerging as solutions to track and verify energy and carbon emissions, and report energy purchases and consumption. As more of these services hit the market, corporations making ambitious climate pledges will need to adopt energy and carbon tracking and reporting technologies.

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Blockchain demonstrated for smart grid cybersecurity

Smart Energy International

Blockchain has been demonstrated to validate communication among devices on the smart grid and thereby enhance its resiliency. Digitalising Europe’s energy sector – the strategy Technology changes in the energy sector during the pandemic and beyond. Have you read?

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Energy transmission on the blockchain conceptualised

Smart Energy International

Researchers from Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory (LLNL) have devised a physics-based cryptocurrency that links electricity and blockchain technologies. On the one hand is the blockchain-based ‘stablecoin’, which is a cryptocurrency with a stable price relative to an external currency or asset. Have you read?

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Namibia’s green hydrogen to be verified on blockchain

Smart Energy International

The partnership through the University of Namibia will include establishing a blockchain-native registry and verification system for quantifying the country’s carbon sequestration, carbon emissions and carbon credits from green hydrogen projects within Namibia. Have you read? At COP26, the country announced a $9.4

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$38 million renewable fund to offset blockchain energy use in US

Smart Energy International

Open source decentralised tool R&D lab Protocol Labs has launched the $38 million Filecoin NNI Renewable Energy Fund. The fund, in partnership with community solar developer Nelnet Renewable Energy, is intended to develop a portfolio of solar energy projects across the US. Have you read?

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Blockchain: Opening doors in the energy sector

Renewable Energy World

Blockchain is most commonly known as the technology that underpins cryptocurrencies, the most well-known of which is Bitcoin. But the capability of the technology goes further than just the banking industry as it can also be harnessed to transform the renewable energy industry. What is blockchain?