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Why Empty Office Buildings Still Consume Lots of Power During a Global Pandemic

GreenTechMedia

What happens to an office building’s electricity demand when almost everyone who works there is stuck at home? The result has been significant drops in electricity demand in big commercial centers like New York City and the San Francisco Bay Area , and forecasts that commercial energy usage across the country will decline by 4.7

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Hydrogen Trucks That Outperform Diesel? Daimler’s Game-Changing GenH2

Hydrogen Fuel News

Over the past year, its Mercedes-Benz GenH2 Truck prototypes have undergone rigorous performance testing, signaling a major leap toward commercial viability for hydrogen-powered heavy-duty vehicles. Liquid hydrogen, stored at cryogenic temperatures of -253C, enables a significantly higher energy density compared to its gaseous counterpart.

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Europe’s wood pellet market is worsening environmental racism in the American South

GreenBiz

The series is supported by the Temple Hoyne Buell Center for the Study of American Architecture at Columbia University, and is part of their POWER project. . And then once [Enviva] start building it, then they were saying ‘oh this is coming,’ and I told them ‘this is what I tried to tell you all about.’” .

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Leveraging Satellite-Based Solutions for Illegal Logging

Planet Pulse

Learn how satellite technology can be used to address illegal logging and help ensure compliance with regulations. Illegal logging presents a major global environmental challenge. As more government agencies and organizations adopt satellite monitoring for illegal logging, the worlds collective ability to protect forests will improve.

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A closer look at purpose-built power analyzers for precise EV test and measurement

Charged

When tasked with measuring the electrical power of complex systems like EVs, an inexperienced engineer may first reach for general instrumentation like oscilloscopes, data acquisition (DAQ) systems and digital multimeters (DMMs). We designed our newest power analyzers to provide precision with an error margin as low as 0.03%.

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Planet Accelerates Deployment of Forest Carbon Monitoring System

Planet Pulse

Salo is a climate technology company that builds cutting-edge forest monitoring systems to measure Earth’s constantly changing ecosystems using artificial intelligence and multi-sensor Earth observation data. Salo Sciences’ global data on forest carbon stocks reveals tree-level insights.

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Specialist CHP firms deliver big results for local authority AD plant

Envirotec Magazine

The 600kW facility converts over 30,000 tonnes of kerbside-collected food waste each year into renewable energy and employs two MWM V12 CHP (combined heat and power) engines. Unlocking the control panel has given the power back to the operator. The control panels also feature IGS-LOG software as standard.