Envirotec Magazine

AUGUST 2, 2024

The Bugs Matter app. As the summer holidays begin, the Bugs Matter 2024 survey, led by Buglife and Kent Wildlife Trust, is calling on citizen scientists across the UK to participate in this insect population study. Since the first reference survey in 2004 led by RSPB, analysis of records from nearly 26,500 journeys across the UK shows a continuing decrease in bug splats, with the number of splats sampled on vehicle number plates by citizen scientists decreasing by 78% nationwide between 2004 a

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NRDC onEarth

AUGUST 1, 2024

New analysis shows that Illinois can maintain reliability even after retiring fossil resources by deploying 3 GW of 4-hour battery storage.

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CleanTech Group

AUGUST 1, 2024

Countries in many parts of the world are already experiencing the effects of climate change, and Global South populations are particularly vulnerable. According. The post Global South Ecosystems are Producing Breakthrough Innovation to Solve Local Climate Needs appeared first on Cleantech Group.

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The Guardian: Energy

AUGUST 2, 2024

Infrastructure essential to decarbonise electricity generation by 2030 met with resistance by those affected Tucked away beyond the industrial landscapes of north-east Derbyshire and the M1 corridor, the Amber Valley is an oasis of greenery: ancient trees, listed buildings and public footpaths that are increasingly popular with tourists. But Katie Hirst, a local resident, fears that appreciative visitors will vanish along with the unspoilt landscape if a route of 50-metre-high pylons is brought

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Speaker: Nikhil Joshi, Founder & President of Snic Solutions

Is your manufacturing operation reaching its efficiency potential? A Manufacturing Execution System (MES) could be the game-changer, helping you reduce waste, cut costs, and lower your carbon footprint. Join Nikhil Joshi, Founder & President of Snic Solutions, in this value-packed webinar as he breaks down how MES can drive operational excellence and sustainability.

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Envirotec Magazine

JULY 30, 2024

The review hopes to build a better picture of how UK businesses are adapting to restrictions on single-use plastic, by embedding circular principles into their manufacturing, for example. The Office for the Internal Market (OIM), part of the Competition and Markets Authority (CMA), which independently advises the UK government, launched a study of regulatory restrictions on single-use plastics, on 29 July.

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Renew Economy

AUGUST 1, 2024

Total capacity of wind and solar in China has overtaken coal for the first time, and solar alone is predicted to overtake coal within two years. The post “Pivotal moment:” Wind and solar overtake coal in China in historic first appeared first on RenewEconomy.

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The Guardian: Energy

JULY 31, 2024

Scorching temperatures in Mediterranean countries and north Africa already causing increase in premature deaths The “heat dome” causing scorching temperatures across western Europe and north Africa, and boiling athletes and spectators at the Olympic Games in Paris, would have been impossible without human-caused global heating, a rapid analysis has found.

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Envirotec Magazine

AUGUST 2, 2024

A specially designed planter that captures, uses, and stores rainwater before slowly releasing it into drains has premiered at one of TransPennine Express’ (TPE’s) North Yorkshire stations. The planter at Northallerton station captures water runoff from guttering before it can enter drains, helping to reduce the risk of local drainage networks being overwhelmed during storms, leading to flooding or pollution.

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Renew Economy

JULY 31, 2024

Big nuclear unit in Texas trips after a fire, and the state's growing battery fleet reacts to keep the grid stable. Who knew nuclear needs backup? The post Nuclear plant trips due to fire, and battery storage steps in to stabilises the grid appeared first on RenewEconomy.

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Canary Media

AUGUST 1, 2024

For the first time ever, electric Ford F-150 drivers are getting paid to run their homes from their pickup truck batteries during peak hours to help meet grid demand.

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Speaker: Kevin Kai Wong, President of Emergent Energy Solutions

In today's industrial landscape, the pursuit of sustainable energy optimization and decarbonization has become paramount. ♻️ Manufacturing corporations across the U.S. are facing the urgent need to align with decarbonization goals while enhancing efficiency and productivity. Unfortunately, the lack of comprehensive energy data poses a significant challenge for manufacturing managers striving to meet their targets. 📊 Join us for a practical webinar hosted by Kevin Kai Wong of Emergent Ene

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POWER Magazine

JULY 30, 2024

Construction of Hermes, Kairos Power’s 35-MWth iterative non-power demonstration molten salt nuclear reactor, has officially kicked off in Oak Ridge, Tennessee. The effort marks another major step for the burgeoning advanced […] The post Another Fourth-Generation Nuclear Reactor Begins Construction in the U.S. appeared first on POWER Magazine.

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Envirotec Magazine

AUGUST 1, 2024

The first WJA Trade Show taking place in September will provide a strong focus on key issues in the water jetting industry, including health and safety, training and innovations like robotic systems. The first water jetting exhibition of its kind held by the Water Jetting Association takes place at the StoneX Stadium, North West London, on Thursday 12th September 2024.

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Renew Economy

JULY 31, 2024

Wind and solar energy generation in the EU overtook fossil fuels for the first time during the first six months of 2024, The post Wind and solar power overtake fossil fuels in Europe appeared first on RenewEconomy.

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Canary Media

AUGUST 2, 2024

This story was first published by Grist.

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Speaker: Ayesha Choudhury - Senior Vice President, Head of Capital Markets at Infinium

With the first wave of the energy transition, renewable energy sources (such as solar and wind) have begun replacing coal power generation. However, some sectors are lagging behind and struggling to decarbonize more than others, including large-scale transportation like commercial aviation, shipping, and rail transit. Electrofuels (aka eFuels) are the next generation of solutions to help the hardest-to-abate sectors pivot from their reliance on fossil fuels.

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Grist

JULY 30, 2024

For the past four years, plant biologist Elsa Godtfredsen has trekked to a subalpine meadow in Colorado to study the interactions between wildflowers and bumblebees. The pollinators buzz among fields of purple delphinium and columbine, an iconic image of spring in the Rocky Mountains. Godtfredsen works at the Rocky Mountain Biological Laboratory , a research center set amid evergreens and jagged granite peaks in Gothic, Colorado.

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Envirotec Magazine

JULY 30, 2024

Biochar has been used to make office items for a Birmingham law firm, in a recent project by Aston University researchers. Mills & Reeve have kitted out their new city centre building at One Centenary Way with the environmentally-friendly products, while working with local suppliers. A collection of durable plant and pen pots were made for them from material produced at a pyrolysis demonstrator at Cofton horticultural nursery in the south of the city that is run by Aston University’s Energy

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Renew Economy

JULY 30, 2024

Barnaby Joyce reckons the "gig is up" for "intermittents" as he hoorays a cancelled project and EnergyCo rolls out scoping report for New England REZ. The post “The gig is up:” Joyce celebrates as wind project shelved and new route to New England zone unveiled appeared first on RenewEconomy.

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Canary Media

JULY 30, 2024

The U.S. Department of Energy announced plans last week to transform a contaminated former nuclear weapons production site into what could be the largest solar project in the country.

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Speaker: Nik Gowing, Brenda Laurel, Sheridan Tatsuno, Archie Kasnet, and Bruce Armstrong Taylor

With 191 country signatories to the Paris Climate Agreement now hard at work in the race to zero carbon by 2050, much of the heavy lifting in ecosystem sustainability falls on the shoulders of the world's densely populated urban centers. This conversation considers how today's AI-enabled simulation media, such as AR/VR, can be effectively applied to accelerate learning, understanding, training, and solutions-modeling to sustainability planning and design.

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The Guardian: Energy

JULY 27, 2024

Victorian brolga numbers have shrunk due to habitat loss and drying wetlands. Now conservationists are calling for careful planning of windfarms Sign up for the Rural Network email newsletter Join the Rural Network group on Facebook to be part of the community The vast, windy plains of Neville Oddie’s property in Chepstowe offer a lesson in biodiversity.

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Envirotec Magazine

JULY 30, 2024

A new report by the National Physical Laboratory (NPL) outlines the crucial needs and challenges that must be addressed to boost the hydrogen economy and support the UK in reaching its net zero goals. The NPL report, “Measurement challenges in the hydrogen sector”, identifies measurement challenges in four areas of the hydrogen economy: production, storage, distribution and end-use.

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Renew Economy

JULY 30, 2024

Australian big battery projects headed for record year as storage prices halve over the last year. The post New big battery projects in Australia double in size as storage prices plunge appeared first on RenewEconomy.

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Canary Media

AUGUST 1, 2024

Earlier this year, Puerto Rico passed a law that extends the island’s highly successful rooftop solar program through 2031. Lawmakers and solar advocates say the measure is needed to maintain the clean energy boom that’s helping households and communities across the U.S.

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Speaker: Bruce Armstrong Taylor, Co-Founder & Managing Director of SmartNations Foundation, Jimmy Jia, Venture Partner at Pi Labs, Fabienne Durand, Senior Advisor to the SmartNations Foundation, & Roger Strukhoff, Executive Director of the Tau Institute

The Climate 4.0 Economy. Climate change is here. We see it in many ways already. Weather catastrophes: Texas freezing over, the wildfires of California, the increasingly unpredictable violence and frequency of hurricanes, the rapid melting and disappearance of polar ice caps. Much more evidence all around us. What can we do in our corporate organizations, in our homes and communities, to change the current course?

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The Guardian: Energy

AUGUST 2, 2024

As demand for the tin ore cassiterite soars, special forces units of Brazil’s Ibama environment agency must play a cat and mouse game with the thousands of illegal miners pouring into Yanomami reserves In the back yard of the federal police headquarters in Roraima, the northernmost state of Brazil , giant sacks lie strewn and overflowing with a jet-black, gravel-like mineral: cassiterite.

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Envirotec Magazine

JULY 29, 2024

Biotechnology sees plastic sails transformed into synthetic vanilla flavouring Waste textiles from sailing boats could be given a new lease of life as a result of a research project upcycling plastic fibres from sails into new chemicals such as vanillin – the compound used in cosmetics and food products for a vanilla flavour and smell. Around 2,000 tonnes of polyethene terephthalate (PET) sails used by the marine sector worldwide are decommissioned or damaged beyond repair every year, with the m

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Renew Economy

JULY 30, 2024

Wholesale electricity prices hit a new landmark on Tuesday night when all five state grids had prices pushed above $15,000 a megawatt hour (MWh) at the time. Greed is the new black. The post Generators fill their pockets again, pushing grid prices to new highs and leaving renewables to cop the blame appeared first on RenewEconomy.

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Canary Media

JULY 29, 2024

Linda Cleveland knew that getting solar panels on the roof of the Watts-Willowbrook Church of Christ was more than just a way for her congregation to save on electric bills. It would further its broader community mission too.

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The Guardian: Energy

JULY 29, 2024

Cop29 host Baku has cleaned up since its Black City days – but this summit needs to do more than whitewash the facade of a petrostate Just a few miles from the site of the next UN climate conference in Baku, Azerbaijan, is a district that for more than a century was known as Black City. Every house and factory was thickly stained with soot, from the oil that was extracted and refined here, by the shores of the Caspian Sea.

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FuelCellsWorks

JULY 29, 2024

Madrid– The international developer of large-scale renewable hydrogen plants and independent producer DH2 Energy has received the Integrated Environmental Authorization for its Hysencia plant, a 35 MW electrolysis and 49.

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Renew Economy

JULY 29, 2024

The expansion of solar photovoltaic systems in Germany continues to grow as more companies and private households opt for solar energy. The post Germany achieves stunning increase in solar installations and output appeared first on RenewEconomy.

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Canary Media

JULY 31, 2024

To help the energy transition happen faster, the high-voltage power lines crisscrossing the U.S. will need a high-tech upgrade.

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TechCrunch: Climate

JULY 30, 2024

The startup is betting it can bring its fusion technology to market at a breakneck pace by leaning heavily on partners. © 2024 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal use only.

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FuelCellsWorks

AUGUST 2, 2024

An enthusiast from hydrogen and battery-electric truck manufacturer Nikola shared three pictures on Facebook on Wednesday, showing around 20 trucks parked at J.B. Hunt’s headquarters. J.B. Hunt, one of the largest supply.

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