Envirotec Magazine

JUNE 7, 2022

The new research incorporates shorter-lived GHG emissions such as methane, which can arise from sources including landfills (pictured). While previous research has explored this question for carbon dioxide, the new work includes related emissions such as methane, nitrogen oxide and aerosols, like sulphur or soot. C, or, at most, 2°C.

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Impact Alpha

FEBRUARY 9, 2023

ImpactAlpha, February 9 – Fluorinated gasses used for refrigeration are more potent greenhouse gasses than methane or CO2. The post Therma secures $19 million to help companies manage cooling and refrigeration needs appeared first on ImpactAlpha. One way to cut greenhouse.

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Envirotec Magazine

JULY 14, 2021

Adopting best management practices for environmental improvements, Butler Farms chose to cover its pig waste lagoon in 2008 so that as well as significantly reducing odours, methane could be safely flared off. Three years later it began to use that methane to run a biogas engine. It’s a never-ending learning process”, says Tom.

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Grist

JULY 18, 2024

Unlike its carbon cousin, sulfur dioxide tends to cool the planet by creating aerosols that reflect sunlight while also making clouds brighter. Luckily, when combined, the greenhouse gases methane and ground-level ozone warm the planet as much as aerosols cool it. One of the most common comes from sulfur.

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Business Green

OCTOBER 15, 2020

In the latest addition to its 'green recovery' package, the European Commission yesterday unveiled a flurry of crucial green strategies, targets, and policies, ranging from new green building and renewable energy programmes, to tighter rules governing chemical use and methane emissions.

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GreenTechMedia

JUNE 26, 2020

“We think it’s going to be very difficult to have a significant amount of traditional natural gas powering building heating and cooling, and water heating and cooling,” Drew Murphy, senior vice president of strategy and corporate development at Edison International, told GTM in February.

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Green Business Bureau

SEPTEMBER 23, 2021

Given approximately 40 percent of the world’s food gets wasted, rots in landfills and creates methane emissions, food waste significantly contributes to this crisis. For innovators and thought leaders, technology provides advanced solutions to almost any crisis – including climate disruption and food insecurity. Done deal, right?

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Renewable Energy World

DECEMBER 22, 2021

Scaling Disruptive Methane Leak Detection and Quantification. Saving Energy in Commercial and Industrial Refrigeration Systems Using Radiative Sky Cooling. Seven projects received funding through SCALEUP 2019, according to the program’s website: Autogrid Systems – $2.25 Redwood City, CA. Bridger Photonics – $4.6 Vestal, NY.

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DeSmogBlog

APRIL 26, 2023

Methane, a greenhouse gas which is belched out in high volumes by cattle, has been identified by the UN and world leaders as the quickest route to cut global heating. It underplays climate impacts, stating that “research has shown that cows do not produce as much methane gas as was once believed”.

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Green Market Oracle

OCTOBER 25, 2020

Despite the additional complications posed by the coronavirus pandemic a record 312 institutions participated in Sierra's annual Cool Schools rankings in 2020. Here is a countdown of Sierra's top 20 Cool Schools as described by Katie: 20. Sierra has been ranking the environmental performance of colleges since 2006.

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Green Business Bureau

APRIL 12, 2022

According to the Clean Development Mechanism (CDM), carbon offset programs can be grouped into the following broad categories: Renewable energy, energy efficiency, methane abatement, reforestation and conservation, fuel switching, and community projects. Carbon offset program #3: Methane abatement.

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Grist

AUGUST 11, 2022

In the presence of the sun’s rays, nitrogen molecules set of a chain of reactions that produce ozone and destroy free-floating atmospheric methane. Some of these reactions, like the methane destruction, help cool the Earth. During the day, those clouds can reflect sunlight, keeping the Earth cool. Others warm it.

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Smart Energy International

JULY 7, 2022

The focus is on integrated, fossil-free energy solutions for heating, cooling, power generation and energy efficiency. Various generation technologies are to be used, including a high-temperature heat pump with near-surface geothermal energy, photovoltaic systems, battery storage and methane plasmalysis.

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GreenTechMedia

AUGUST 6, 2020

” The last option is a nod to work by the Cambridge, Massachusetts-based nonprofit Home Energy Efficiency Team (HEET) to advance a concept called the GeoMicroDistrict , which would see heat pumps in individual buildings transferring thermal energy between a shared district water loop and their own heating and cooling distribution systems.

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Natural gas Cooling Energy Energy 130

Energy Transition

JUNE 22, 2023

However, LNG, which is mainly cooled and compressed methane. For Germany this has meant not only finding new sources of liquified natural gas (LNG), but also spurred the government to establish several new LNG terminals.

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Fossil fuels Natural gas Methane Cooling 52

Greentown Labs

JANUARY 24, 2023

Syzygy Plasmonics is partnering with nonprofit research institute RTI International to demonstrate sustainable fuel production from CO2 and methane—a project sponsored by Greentown partners Equinor Ventures and Sumitomo Corporation of Americas.

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Green Business Bureau

JULY 23, 2020

Methane digesters: In the agriculture and food industry, waste is generated daily from the production of food to its processing, distribution, and consumption. Without thoughtful management, organic waste can emit methane gas as they decompose. The biogas generated can help businesses to save money by reducing their operating cost.

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Grist

JUNE 5, 2024

In recent years, however, this cooling influence has begun to decline in much of the world. Predicted declines in aerosol cooling are already factored into projections of future global warming by the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, or IPCC. NASA They don’t stick around in the air for more than a few days. Met Office.

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GreenTechMedia

JUNE 29, 2020

According to the nomenclature used by market research firm Wood Mackenzie , most of the gas that is already widely used as an industrial chemical is either brown, if it's made through the gasification of coal or lignite; or gray, if it is made through steam methane reformation, which typically uses natural gas as the feedstock.

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Hydrogen Natural gas Methane Transportation 130

R-Squared Energy

JUNE 14, 2020

Over 95% of the world’s hydrogen is produced using the steam methane reforming process (SMR). The reforming reaction with methane as: CH 4 + H 2 O ? The Steam Methane Reforming (SMR) Process. The hot gas exiting the SMR is cooled, which simultaneously generates steam in the process. Hydrogen Production. CO + 3 H 2.

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Grist

OCTOBER 9, 2019

DWR measures the CO2 and methane emissions from the wetlands it created on Sherman Island. tons per acre per year in the delta — but freshwater wetlands also emit the greenhouse gas methane, which has about 30 times the warming potential of carbon dioxide. The longer-term goal is to reverse them. Jonno Rattman / Bay Nature.

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Green Business Bureau

MARCH 10, 2020

Whatever your view is on climate change, we must all agree that climate change is constant; we are and will continue to move through the historical cooling and warming cycles. Climate change is the long-term impact of heating and cooling cycles. Carbon Neutral vs. Zero Carbon – 1.5

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Greenability Magazine

SEPTEMBER 1, 2020

Conserve Heating and Cooling. Air-conditioning packs the biggest punch for dorm power usage, and if your room has individual temperature control, you can set it a few degrees higher to help cut back on how much energy the cooling system uses. Here are some ideas to help you do your part. Save the Food.

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Energy Monitor Climate change Cooling Energy 110

GreenTechMedia

NOVEMBER 15, 2019

” Browne said there is no data on the volumes of methane and carbon dioxide emitted in the process of creating and delivering LNG to end users. Natural gas provides 46 percent of the EU’s heating and cooling, a sector the bloc is finding harder to decarbonize than the power sector.

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Green Business Bureau

APRIL 15, 2021

And, because lights and equipment must be used at some point, try to tighten your building envelope and utilize energy-efficient equipment such as LED lights and high-efficiency, variable-speed heating, and cooling equipment. In addition, most green waste is enclosed in plastic bags and creates methane gas in the landfill.

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Business Green

AUGUST 14, 2020

To transform basic inputs into stuff we need, manufacturers constantly heat (and cool) minerals, ores and other raw materials to extreme temperatures. Costs add up quickly: equipment to collect biogas (the unprocessed methane-rich vapor given off by waste); upgrade the gas to pipeline quality; and connect to existing gas pipelines.

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Aviation Carbon Natural gas Cooling 93

Business Green

NOVEMBER 10, 2022

More specifically, the report urged philanthropists to help create a market for minimising upstream methane emissions; boost capacity for peatland protection and restoration projects; accelerate the shift to alternative and plant-based proteins; create a market and enabling environment for reducing methane emissions in agriculture; support the market (..)

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Electricity Global warming Methane COP 69

Grist

APRIL 29, 2024

With some scientists worried that coral reefs may have already passed a point of no return , researchers are turning to desperate measures to save them, from building artificial reefs to attempts to cool down reefs through geoengineering. degrees Celsius (2.7 degrees Fahrenheit) of warming over pre-industrial times.

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Grist

FEBRUARY 3, 2021

Boston Metal, an outfit spun out of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, or MIT, uses electric currents to heat iron ore into a bright orange-white liquid, which converts into metal and cools as gray steel blocks. Tadeu Carneiro, the company’s CEO, said Boston Metal is “ushering in a new era of metallurgy.”

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Hydrogen Carbon-negative Carbon Construction 145

Renewable Energy World

MAY 24, 2021

Here are four: Design Super Emitter Programs to Abate the Largest Methane Leaks. Methane , the principal component of natural gas, is a potent greenhouse gas that has more than 80 times the warming power of carbon dioxide over the first 20 years after it reaches the atmosphere. Recent research shows that estimated U.S.

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Green Business Bureau

JANUARY 18, 2022

Bonus points if you sell your existing furniture rather than send it to the landfill (where it otherwise releases uber-potent methane for years). Items made from wood, glass, metal, leather, or marble age beautifully (and move quickly on AptDeco) — and the lived-in look is what makes a home go from cool to cozy. – Goodside.

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Business Green

SEPTEMBER 27, 2021

LNG fuel - which is essentially natural gas cooled down into liquid form - has been touted by some firms as a lower carbon alternative to conventional diesel and petrol, as it produces lower levels of CO2, nitrogen dioxide, and sulphur emissions. per cent less methane than the former. It found the latter emitted only 7.5

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Grist

DECEMBER 10, 2024

The long-frozen soil beneath the Arctic could rapidly thaw and release vast amounts of carbon dioxide and methane stored within it, heating up the atmosphere even more in a feedback loop. Wouldnt it be cool to try and look for tipping points in business, or in social policy, or in advertising, or in any number of other nonmedical areas?

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Envirotec Magazine

AUGUST 2, 2023

For example, with CO2-lean air coming into the building you can reduce ventilation levels – which saves on heating, cooling, and energy, further reducing operational CO2 emissions. Our system also delivers cost-reduction, employee well-being, and sustainability benefits.

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Building Energy Monitoring Carbon Technology Energy Monitor 130

Green Market Oracle

OCTOBER 21, 2020

The EU study also disproved the theory that the release of methane hydrates was the cause of the Permian-Triassic boundary event, however, another study published on October 16 in Science Advances, shows how Arctic warming of even a few degrees can accelerate ice melt and release vast amounts of GHGs (methane and CO2).

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EDF + Business

JULY 19, 2019

For example: Methane, the primary component of natural gas, is a potent greenhouse gas responsible for 25% of the warming we’re experiencing today. The largest source of industrial emissions is the oil and gas industry, which loses $30 billion worth of methane each year from operations.

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Business Energy Monitoring Technology Building Energy Monitoring Energy Monitor 53

Business Green

JUNE 24, 2020

A sense of a world gone awry, even before you start to think through the potential implications for wild fire risks and permafrost methane leakage. None of this will cool the sweltering Arctic, not yet at least. What to do with this information if denialism and defeatism is not your thing? We all need to prepare for that.

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