TechXplore

DECEMBER 12, 2023

A group of scientists have discovered a new application to generate and store chilled water to reduce the impact of air conditioning on the environment, reduce energy consumption, and lower dependence on fossil fuels.

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The Verge: Energy

DECEMBER 12, 2023

The beginning of the end for fossil fuels? This text is a step forward on our path towards phasing out fossil fuels, but is not the historic decision we hoped for.” More than 100 countries came to the table pushing for an official agreement to “phase out fossil fuels.”

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ThinkGeoEnergy

FEBRUARY 27, 2024

Bard College , a private liberal arts college in the hamlet of Annandale-on-Hudson, New York State, will soon replace its aging, fossil fuel-fired heating and cooling system located in The Charles P. The geothermal heating and cooling system further progresses Bard College’s mission-driven focus on sustainability efforts.

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GreenBiz

NOVEMBER 3, 2020

"And those that need electricity for heating, cooling, and to keep food fresh." . Solar plus storage also helps the wider grid and environment by letting consumers shift the time when they consume solar power: by storing solar energy when it’s abundant during the day, and using it at night, in place of power generated from fossil fuels.

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Business Green

JUNE 16, 2021

Policymakers must step up efforts to deliver major 'structural shift' away from fossil fuels across all societal and economic activities, report warns. Policymakers must significantly ramp up their efforts to tackle climate change by working together to deliver a "structural shift from fossil fuels to renewable energy", REN21 warned.

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Hydrogen Fuel News

FEBRUARY 19, 2025

Liquid hydrogen, cooled to a staggering minus 253 degrees Celsius, is then stored in ultra-insulated tanks under the airplane’s wings. When released, this liquid hydrogen reacts within a fuel cell to generate electricity, which powers the aircrafts motor and propeller.

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GreenBiz

MARCH 31, 2021

Those processes use a lot of energy and largely come from fossil fuels; one-third of U.S. A key route to industrial emissions reductions is electrification (replacing industrial fossil fuels with electric alternatives). greenhouse gas emissions come from industry. Start with heat.

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Smart Energy International

NOVEMBER 21, 2023

The digitalisation of district heating and cooling is essential to decarbonising the thermal energy system, a new IEA report states. A dedicated effort should be directed to defining shared standards for data stream labelling, component naming and description of district heating and cooling network layout. Have you read?

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DeSmogBlog

DECEMBER 21, 2022

I live in South Louisiana on the front lines of the climate crisis and cover the fossil fuel industry and impacts related to the warming planet, so facing gaslighting is a regular occurrence for me. Cristen Jenkins used the frisbee she got from Shell’s float as a fan to cool off. Credit: Julie Dermansky.

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GreenTechMedia

FEBRUARY 18, 2021

Department of Energy study indicates that geothermal heat pumps, which capture the steady temperatures of underground air to heat homes in winter and cool them in summer, could cost-effectively replace fossil-fuel- and electric-powered heating and air conditioning in up to 28 million homes. About three-quarters of U.S.

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Grist

MARCH 10, 2025

All the excess carbon dioxide generated by people burning fossil fuels is shrinking the upper atmosphere, exacerbating the problem with space junk. We rely on the atmosphere to clean out everything that we have in space, and it does a worse job at that as it contracts and cools, Parker said.

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GreenTechMedia

SEPTEMBER 10, 2020

homes are built with air-source heat pumps instead of fossil-fuel burning systems. The next hurdle is to start electrifying buildings in parts of the country where it's been difficult to eliminate fossil fuel-burning building systems. Already, more than 40 percent of new U.S.

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The Guardian: Energy

JANUARY 14, 2024

Cooling towers are some of the most majestic structures in Britain – form and function in perfect harmony – yet exempt from listed status. Even as they become redundant, those that remain deserve to be preserved as much as any church or castle Consider cooling towers.

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Hydrogen Fuel News

JANUARY 30, 2025

Its worth noting that Toyota has also been pioneering hydrogen internal combustion engines in Japans Super Taikyu series, underscoring the multifaceted efforts across the racing community to replace fossil fuels with cleaner alternatives. Yet, MissionH24s transition to liquid hydrogen is especially significant.

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Canary Media

DECEMBER 19, 2023

The Inflation Reduction Act unleashed a bonanza of incentives to help us get off fossil fuels and switch to electric machines… Dear Canary Media readers, I love making the clean energy transition something everyone can embrace in their own homes and lives. And I couldn’t ask for a better time to be doing this work.

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Envirotec Magazine

NOVEMBER 9, 2023

Given the non-negotiable fossil fuel-phase out, an urgent timeline that many fear the country will fail to meet, given recent policy changes, many wondered: what about the investment needed to accelerate renewables?

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ThinkGeoEnergy

OCTOBER 31, 2023

With the project, the Smith College aims to fully move away from fossil fuels for the heating and cooling systems of the campus. The heat will be extracted either for cooling, or amplified using heat pumps. The geothermal project is expected to be completed by 2028, towards achieving carbon neutrality by 2030.

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Hydrogen Fuel News

JANUARY 21, 2025

liquid-cooled energy storage system, designed to ensure reliable and safe renewable energy storage. Whether its reducing reliance on fossil fuels or enabling cross-sectoral decarbonization, the possibilities are vastand immediate. The collaboration will feature Sungrow’s PowerTitan 2.0

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Green Business Bureau

OCTOBER 20, 2021

A Cleaner Energy-Efficient Approach to Passive Cooling Systems: Wind Catchers. They looked to the ancient past, to wind catchers and a technique called passive cooling that was first thought to be used by the Pharaohs of Egypt and the Shahs of Persia over 3,000 years B.C. What Is Passive Cooling. Clean energy. Cheap energy.

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The Verge: Energy

JULY 11, 2024

It can pull carbon dioxide out of the air, run partially on servers’ waste heat, and even generate water to help cool a data center more efficiently. Instead, it continuously moves the sorbent between two chambers to avoid the energy loss that comes with reheating, cooling, and changing the pressure in a single chamber.

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Canary Media

NOVEMBER 21, 2023

Gulf Coast over the past decade, burying once-remote shorelines under hundreds of acres of concrete and steel where the fossil fuel is cooled so it can be shipped across the globe. The liquefied natural gas, or LNG, industry has exploded across the U.S. The war in Ukraine…

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Renew Economy

JULY 15, 2024

The big four banks have made significant strides to curb lending for fossil fuel projects but a report says they still have not met their own climate targets. The post Big banks go cool on coal and gas but fall well short on climate funding: report appeared first on RenewEconomy.

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Envirotec Magazine

DECEMBER 6, 2022

A planning application was submitted in August, which set out an ambitious sustainability agenda of climate resilience and Net Zero requirements, integrated into the design, including ultra-low carbon emissions, an acute focus on energy efficiency, insulation, on-site energy generation and zero use of fossil fuels in the running of the building.

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Science Daily: Renewable Energy

MAY 23, 2023

Nontraditional water sources can be deployed to help cope with climate-induced water risks and tackle the increasing water demand for decarbonization of fossil fuel-fired power plants, but that could increase the cost of electricity generation by 8 percent to 10 percent.

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Envirotec Magazine

AUGUST 19, 2019

David Broom, Commercial Director at Kensa Contracting says: “With fossil fuel heating systems being ruled out from new-builds from 2025, Bristol City Council’s commitment to a lower carbon alternative six years ahead of the deadline should be viewed as the new benchmark.

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GreenTech Gazette

JULY 1, 2024

Massachusetts is taking a leap forward in sustainable energy with a first-of-its-kind geothermal system planned to heat and cool dozens of homes. This initiative holds promise for reducing reliance on traditional fossil fuels and creating an eco-friendlier living environment. What is Geothermal Heating and Cooling?

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The Guardian: Energy

SEPTEMBER 8, 2024

The Drax power plant burns 7m tonnes of biomass pellets a year and generates 4% of the UK’s electricity needs The cooling towers of the giant Drax power station loom over rural North Yorkshire as a reminder of Britain’s grimy past – and as a beacon of its efforts to create a net zero economy by 2050.

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GreenTechMedia

JUNE 5, 2020

Most buildings run on multiple fuels. And they consume fossil fuels such as natural gas or propane to power furnaces, boilers, and water heaters. That persistent reliance on fossil fuels makes buildings one of the largest sources of planet-warming pollution. Does anyone oppose a shift to all-electric buildings?

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ThinkGeoEnergy

JUNE 25, 2024

The facility of Bosch under the Car Multimedia division in Braga, Portugal has installed a geothermal heating and cooling system as part of a wider initiative to eliminate the use of natural gas as an energy source at the site. Developed and implemented between 2022 and 2023, it is considered one of the largest geothermal plants in Portugal.

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ThinkGeoEnergy

MAY 27, 2024

Geothermal heating and cooling projects in urban areas include fire stations, university campuses, a recreation center, a science and technology hub, and mixed-use neighborhood developments. Projects of this nature can provide a new and more sustainable economic opportunity for communities transitioning away from fossil fuel production.

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Envirotec Magazine

MARCH 7, 2023

We also produce systems to improve the operation and efficiency of AD plants, including our HRS BDS (Biogas Dehumidification System), and heat exchangers for exhaust gas cooling and digester heating. Notes [1] [link]

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The Verge: Energy

OCTOBER 24, 2023

It’s not a question of ‘if,’ it’s just a matter of ‘how soon’” With renewables now the cheapest power source, solar and wind energy are loosening fossil fuels’ grip on the global economy. Cleaning up pollution from homes, buildings, and transportation will require electrifying everything from cars to heating and cooling systems.

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ThinkGeoEnergy

FEBRUARY 12, 2025

To understand the size of the industrial heat market, the Figure below shows the data for heat and cooling demand for the US.? Commercial (a) heating and (b) cooling demand by U.S. Geospatial Characterization of LowTemperature Heating and Cooling Demand in the United States. Renewable Energy , 164 , 777790. link] NREL.

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Grist

JANUARY 21, 2022

And it also released a cloud of sulfur dioxide, a chemical that, in large enough quantities, reflects the sun’s rays and cools the planet. They called for an “international non-use agreement” on so-called solar geoengineering technologies, which would cool the planet by releasing sun-reflecting chemicals into the atmosphere.

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Mosaic

MARCH 21, 2024

What do EV chargers, solar panels, battery storage and electric heating and cooling systems have in common? Lower utility costs Around 43% of a home utility bill comes from heating and cooling needs. Electricity uses less energy than fossil fuels, helping to reduce energy use and lower the cost of monthly bills.

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Hydrogen Fuel News

DECEMBER 9, 2024

By shifting from traditional fossil fuels to renewable sources like hydrogen and solar, industries can reduce greenhouse gas emissions, paving the way for a cleaner future. Cogeneration techniques could also be used in commercial buildings for heating, cooling, and hot water needs while saving energy.

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Green Living Guy

APRIL 27, 2022

Heating and cooling are often some of the biggest power consumers in a house, and more than 80% of energy sources worldwide are fossil fuels. HVAC systems are essential for comfort and health, but they’re not typically eco-friendly. Thankfully, new technologies can help reduce emissions from these systems.

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