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Utilities are the new cool

GreenBiz

Thriving in the age of climate change pivots around electricity, and that means electric utilities are at the center.

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Our COVID-19 response can make our cities more resilient to heat waves

GreenBiz

Our COVID-19 response can make our cities more resilient to heat waves. There is an urgent, global need for building urban resilience to heat and, as usual, business has a key role to play. Over the past months, it has become clear that resilience strategies for COVID-19 in cities could help us approach other threats as well.

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US DOE publishes report on Commercial Liftoff of geothermal heating and cooling

ThinkGeoEnergy

Department of Energy (DOE) has published a new report that highlights pathways for the expansion of geothermal heating and cooling. The full report, “Pathways to Commercial Liftoff: Geothermal Heating and Cooling,” can be accessed via this link. Click here to register for the webinar.

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5 companies that are using nature to redefine good design

GreenBiz

When most people think about good design, they do not think about the speed of a sailfish, the strategy of serotinous pine cones or the resilience of a Joshua tree in the desert. Infinite Cooling. Much of the water used in industrial cooling towers at manufacturing sites or power plants leaves the facility as high-density water vapor.

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Latest designs for new £57m climate resilient West Sussex school released

Envirotec Magazine

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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Bedrock Energy secures $12m in funding to scale business

ThinkGeoEnergy

By unlocking scalable geothermal heating and cooling as a resilient, always-on category of distributed clean energy, Bedrock aims to save billions of dollars for both property owners and utilities alike. Geothermal energy has incredible promise as an always-on, 24/7 carbon-free source of power and heating and cooling.

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NONA Technologies Electrifies Water Desalination, with Industrial and Resiliency Applications

Greentown Labs

Crawford sees evaporative cooling as a major market for NONA Technologies. The startups tech can remove sediments that build up in the cooled water, recycling 99 percent of it and drastically reducing the amount of new water facilities need to draw in. Demand for this application is growing as more AI-server cooling towers come online.