The Environmental Blog
SEPTEMBER 5, 2024
Green onion , often called scallions or spring onions, are more than just a garnish. They are flexible ingredients that add flavor and nutrition to many dishes, making them a staple in kitchens worldwide. This article will explore their classification, cultivation methods, nutritional benefits, and culinary uses, offering insights into why they are so valuable in cooking and gardening.
Envirotec Magazine
SEPTEMBER 6, 2024
International research team say they have identified more than 120 organic micropollutants and investigated their role in damaging aquatic organisms Tonnes of dead fish, mussels and snails were seen floating on the River Oder (Germany) in early August 2022. It soon became clear what was causing the environmental disaster in the German-Polish border river: a mixture of excessive salinity, high water temperatures, low water levels and excessive inputs of nutrients and wastewater triggered a bloom
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NRDC onEarth
SEPTEMBER 1, 2024
Senate Bill 1221 (Senator Min) is a climate bill that will help put gas in the past, all while saving California households money on their energy bills.
Renew Economy
SEPTEMBER 5, 2024
A raft of big new projects will propel South Australia to its target of 100 per cent net renewables by 2027, showing the world that it can be done with wind, solar and storage. The post The massive new projects propelling South Australia towards 100 per cent net renewables appeared first on RenewEconomy.
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
Canary Media
SEPTEMBER 3, 2024
When Ritu Narayan, CEO and co-founder of Zum , looks at the 74 electric school buses and chargers her startup has deployed at a former industrial site in East Oakland, California, she sees a future where clean transportation and a clean and reliable grid come together.
DeSmogBlog
SEPTEMBER 5, 2024
A former Exxon executive sits on a university’s board of trustees. Fossil fuel representatives develop undergraduate courses. Schools lease out their land for fracking. Industry-funded studies end up influencing federal energy policy. These aren’t just isolated examples of oil and gas companies partnering with academic institutions, according to a study published in the journal WIREs Climate Change by researchers with six universities, but an international effort by the industry spanning decades
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Renew Economy
SEPTEMBER 4, 2024
Spanish energy giant starts construction on its biggest solar project in Australia, to be paired with a big battery to help dodge negative prices. The post Spanish energy giant starts building new solar and big battery hybrid project in Queensland appeared first on RenewEconomy.
Charged
SEPTEMBER 4, 2024
C-BATT, a joint venture between US lithium-ion battery components producer X-BATT and carbon and graphite products manufacturer CONSOL Innovations—a wholly owned subsidiary of US-headquartered CONSOL Energy—has launched the next phase of development and commercialization of Obsidia, its tunable silicon-carbon composite battery anode material made with domestically sourced carbon.
POWER Magazine
SEPTEMBER 3, 2024
Clearway Energy’s Daggett Solar + Storage power plant in San Bernardino County is a model for producing renewable energy, and taking advantage of existing infrastructure, at the site of a closed thermal The post Solar-Plus-Storage Project Brings New Energy to California appeared first on POWER Magazine.
Energy Storage News
SEPTEMBER 5, 2024
Mandatory evacuation orders were issued by local authorities in Escondido, California, after a fire broke out at a battery energy storage system (BESS) facility.
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.
Renew Economy
SEPTEMBER 3, 2024
Installation of the first of 444 Tesla Megapack battery systems is underway at one of the biggest grid-scale batteries in Australia. The post First of 444 Tesla megapacks installed at Melbourne’s giant battery project appeared first on RenewEconomy.
Charged
SEPTEMBER 6, 2024
General Motors is merging its BrightDrop division, which designs and manufactures light electric commercial vehicles, into Chevrolet, in order to leverage the latter’s sales and service network. BrightDrop was founded by GM in 2021. Chevrolet was founded 112 years ago in 1911. The move is intended to provide commercial customers with greater convenience when it comes to fleet maintenance and acquisition, by making the Chevrolet BrightDrop vehicles available through select Chevrolet dealerships.
Canary Media
SEPTEMBER 6, 2024
The country that once boasted the world’s first coal-fired power plant is now set to eliminate the highly polluting fossil fuel from its power grid. In late September, the United Kingdom will shutter the Ratcliffe-on-Soar Power Station, the country’s last operational coal-fired power plant.
Energy Storage News
SEPTEMBER 1, 2024
Energisation has begun at Waratah Super Battery, the energy storage project contracted as a ‘giant shock absorber’ for the grid in New South Wales, Australia.
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.
Renew Economy
SEPTEMBER 3, 2024
South Australia has overtaken Tasmania as the country's most renewable state, and achieved this with wind and solar rather than hydro. The post Wind and solar dominated South Australia overtakes Tasmania as Australia’s most renewable state appeared first on RenewEconomy.
Charged
SEPTEMBER 4, 2024
Southwest Airlines and Archer Aviation have announced a partnership to develop plans for electric air taxi networks that will use Archer’s electric vertical take-off and landing (eVTOL) aircraft at California airports where Southwest has a presence. The memorandum of understanding signed by the two companies specifies that the service will utilize Archer’s Midnight eVTOL aircraft, which is currently under development.
PV Tech
SEPTEMBER 1, 2024
From 26 August to 1 September, Australia’s National Electricity Market (NEM) saw the highest rooftop and utility-scale solar PV contribution across the 2024 winter period.
Energy Storage News
SEPTEMBER 3, 2024
The Clean Energy Council (CEC) of Australia has revealed that six large-scale energy storage projects totalling 573MW/2,047MWh reached financial commitment in the second quarter of 2024.
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?
Renew Economy
SEPTEMBER 2, 2024
The share of coal power falls below 50 per cent average for whole week, for the first time in what industry observers are hailing as a "turning point." The post “Turning point:” Share of coal in Australia’s main grid falls below 50 pct for first time appeared first on RenewEconomy.
POWER Magazine
SEPTEMBER 3, 2024
Research from a group that tracks fossil fuel and other energy projects shows that just 15 countries, led by China and India, account for 98% of coal-fired power plants under […] The post Report Says China, India Account for Nearly All New Coal-Fired Generation appeared first on POWER Magazine.
TechCrunch: Climate
SEPTEMBER 3, 2024
Flexible green methanol, which is made without fossil fuels, could rid carbon pollution from a range of industries. © 2024 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal use only.
Energy Storage News
SEPTEMBER 5, 2024
The energy storage system integration arm of Canadian utility Hydro-Québec, EVLO, will deploy 300MWh of battery energy storage systems (BESS) in Virginia, US.
Renew Economy
SEPTEMBER 3, 2024
Six new big battery projects named as winners of the federal government's first auction under the Capacity Investment Scheme. The post Six new big battery projects emerge as winners of first capacity tender appeared first on RenewEconomy.
Impact Alpha
SEPTEMBER 5, 2024
Greetings Agents of Impact! In today’s Brief: Featured: Sustainable Fashion To disrupt the $3 trillion fashion industry, VCs back tech for sustainability and. The post The Brief: These VCs are looking to disrupt fashion with sustainability and authenticity appeared first on ImpactAlpha.
Charged
SEPTEMBER 4, 2024
Wright Electric , a US developer of ultra-lightweight motors, generators and batteries for the aerospace and military sectors, along with its partners, which include NASA, DOE and DOD, has been awarded a $3.34-million grant from the FAA’s Fueling Aviation’s Sustainable Transition (FAST) program. The funding will be used to develop a new class of batteries for large electric aircraft accommodating 100+ passengers—the segment of the aerospace industry that accounts for more than 90% of its carbon
BloombergNEF
SEPTEMBER 4, 2024
Texas is poised to become the leader in solar power capacity in the US by the end of the decade, as a tripling of installed capacity vaults it above California. But that record build could be eclipsed by the expected growth in power demand, driven by the electrification of oil and gas production, and rapid expansion of data centers. The post Texas Tug of War: Grid Juggles Solar Boom and Power-Hungry Data Centers appeared first on BloombergNEF.
Renew Economy
SEPTEMBER 1, 2024
Mingyang Smart Energy completes installation of a 20MW offshore wind turbine, the world's largest. The post World-first 20MW offshore wind turbine installed in China appeared first on RenewEconomy.
The Verge: Energy
SEPTEMBER 5, 2024
Image: Cath Virginia / The Verge; Netflix The Verge spoke with Bill Gates about AI, misinformation, and climate change. Bill Gates has spent billions funding technologies he thinks will shape the future — from fighting climate change to eradicating disease. Gates gets into the thick of it all in a new Netflix series called “What’s Next? The Future with Bill Gates.
Charged
SEPTEMBER 6, 2024
Germany-headquartered Freudenberg Sealing Technologies has introduced cell caps and nonwoven cell stack envelopes for prismatic battery cells. The battery cell envelopes use nonwoven materials that wrap the cell stack and, like conventional films, protect it during the assembly and provide electrical insulation. Nonwoven envelopes consist of a fiber network forming an ultra-homogeneous pore structure.
Impact Alpha
SEPTEMBER 6, 2024
TGIF, Agents of Impact! We’re getting out and about. Connect with ImpactAlpha’s Amy Cortese, who will be sniffing out signs of the sustainability. The post The Week in Impact Investing: Sustaining the surge in entrepreneurship and ownership appeared first on ImpactAlpha.
Renew Economy
AUGUST 31, 2024
South Australia sources more than 101 per cent of its demand over past week from wind and solar, in last week of winter. The post South Australia runs on more than 100 pct net renewables in last week of winter appeared first on RenewEconomy.
Hydrogen Fuel News
AUGUST 31, 2024
The microbes could be used to help create biogas and provide power and reduce reliance on fossil fuels When it comes to human waste, most of us can’t flush it away fast enough, but according to many researchers, it can be used to produce biogas, which can in turn be used as a source of clean energy to reduce reliance on fossil fuels. Researchers have been examining ways to turn sewage into power Among those researchers includes one in Richmond, British Columbia, Canada, which has been wor
Charged
SEPTEMBER 6, 2024
The cities of Athens and Thessaloniki in Greece have ordered 89 FUSO eCanter trucks from Portugal-headquartered truck maker FUSO, which is owned by Daimler Truck, for waste collection in their metropolitan areas. Forty of the trucks are expected to be deployed in November, and the rest will be delivered over the course of 2025. The trucks are configured with bodies and rotating drum compaction technology from Greek refuse-collection equipment manufacturer Kaoussis.
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