9 emerging names to know in reuse
GreenBiz
MAY 24, 2024
The Reusies Awards highlight 3 companies, 3 activists and 3 communities driving forward circular economies.
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Transparent metamaterial for energy-efficient regulation in building can clean itself like a lotus leaf
TechXplore
MAY 24, 2024
Researchers at the Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT) introduce a polymer-based material with unique properties in the journal Nature Communications. This material allows sunlight to enter, maintains a more comfortable indoor climate without additional energy, and cleans itself like a lotus leaf. The new development could replace glass components in walls and roofs in the future.
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Australia: An ‘exciting and unique’ BESS market, says Waratah Super Battery provider Powin
Energy Storage News
MAY 20, 2024
Energy-Storage.news speaks with Danny Lu of Powin about some of the system integrator’s thoughts on the Australia market and delivery of the Waratah Super Battery.
New Environment Agency excavation unearths Roman taste for oysters
Envirotec Magazine
MAY 21, 2024
The new sea defences and mudflats under construction between Outstrays and Skeffling A Roman oyster processing site has been uncovered during the building of a major coastal re-alignment scheme in the North-East of England. The scheme will alter the location of existing flood defences so that new habitats can be created for wildlife, explains the Environment Agency (EA).
How to Drive Cost Savings, Efficiency Gains, and Sustainability Wins with MES
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.
Inside Microsoft's record-breaking carbon removal contract
GreenBiz
MAY 22, 2024
The company signed a contract for 3.3 million metric tons of offsets over 10 years from a facility in Stockholm.
Renewable grid: Recovering electricity from heat storage hits 44% efficiency
TechXplore
MAY 23, 2024
Closing in on the theoretical maximum efficiency, devices for turning heat into electricity are edging closer to being practical for use on the grid, according to University of Michigan research.
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10 Things I Hate About You (House Majority Farm Bill)
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MAY 23, 2024
From undermining historic climate funding to compromising food security and weakening species protections, NRDC’s analysis lays out the worst of the worst that this Farm Bill has to offer.
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Allbirds’ sales are in steep decline but it’s hoping a shoe with ‘close to zero’ carbon emissions can help turn that around.
Extending the lifespan of lithium-metal batteries using a fluorinated ether diluent
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MAY 24, 2024
The design of battery technologies with increasingly longer lifespans could help to meet the growing needs of the electronics and automotive industry. Lithium (Li) batteries are the most widely used rechargeable batteries worldwide. Thus, devising strategies that can increase their longevity could be far easier than designing entirely new batteries.
California startup proposes 24/7 renewable PPA with 100-hour thermal energy storage system
Energy Storage News
MAY 20, 2024
Startup Photon Vault Inc proposal in response to a request for information (RFI) from Microsoft, Google and Nucor, while unsuccessful, offered what it claimed could be a first for California.
The Key to Sustainable Energy Optimization: A Data-Driven Approach for Manufacturing
Speaker: Kevin Kai Wong, President of Emergent Energy Solutions
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This weekend marks one year since the U.S. Supreme Court decided Sackett v. EPA, the worst judicial rollback of environmental protections ever.
Environmental worries outpace socioeconomic concerns over past decade, survey finds
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MAY 23, 2024
The public's increased concern about environmental issues underscores the need for governments and businesses to remain committed to the green agenda and simultaneously address socioeconomic concerns, according to GlobeScan.
Cement recycling method could help solve one of the world's biggest climate challenges
TechXplore
MAY 22, 2024
Researchers from the University of Cambridge have developed a method to produce very low emission concrete at scale—an innovation that could be transformative in the transition to net zero.
Don’t let noise be a drain on BESS developments
Energy Storage News
MAY 20, 2024
Projects are increasingly being deployed close to populations as available plots of land become more scarce, making BESS noise a bigger topic than ever before, writes noise and acoustics consultancy Acentech's Ethan Brush.
Electrofuels Are the Future: The Driving Force to Decarbonizing Heavy Transport
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.
No, the Bees Are Not Okay
NRDC onEarth
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On World Bee Day, bees need our help as much as ever.
Make the internal business case for sustainability investment
GreenBiz
MAY 22, 2024
The ROSI framework provides a 5-step approach to unlock investment in sustainability initiatives.
Iron could be key to less expensive greener lithium-ion batteries, research finds
TechXplore
MAY 23, 2024
What if a common element, rather than scarce expensive ones, was a key component in electric car batteries? A collaboration co-led by an Oregon State University chemistry researcher is hoping to spark a green battery revolution by showing that iron instead of cobalt and nickel can be used as a cathode material in lithium-ion batteries.
Ameresco and Envision Energy to deploy 624MWh UK BESS for Atlantic Green
Energy Storage News
MAY 24, 2024
Developer-operator Atlantic Green has enlisted system integrator Ameresco and clean energy manufacturer Envision Energy for a 300MW/624MWh BESS project in the UK.
AR/VR Simulations for Sustainable, Regenerative, Circular Cities
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.
Four Ways the House Farm Bill Would Weaken Pesticide Protections
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The House majority's draft would undermine critical protections for people and wildlife.
Here's how to tell your circularity story to consumers
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By offering circular models to consumers, brands can become heroes and help people view themselves as eco-friendly.
Doing laundry when it is sunny: Households with solar panels face challenges in shifting their energy consumption
TechXplore
MAY 23, 2024
Did your grandmother also do the laundry when a sunny day was forecast? Now that so many households have solar panels and the electricity network is experiencing problems due to overload at peak times, it would also be better if households with solar panels run appliances such as the washing machine on sunny days. The energy generated is then immediately consumed instead of stored, reducing grid congestion.
‘Bad for energy transition’: Industry reacts to US’ new tariffs on China’s batteries
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We hear from developers, IPPs and upstream battery sources about the US' decision to massively hike tariffs on batteries and battery components from China.
How Digital Transformation will Bend the Curve of the Linear Economy Toward the Circular
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?
Can coal mines be tapped for rare earth elements?
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MAY 22, 2024
Deposits of designated critical minerals needed to transition the world’s energy systems away from fossil fuels may, ironically enough, be co-located with coal deposits that have been mined to produce the fossil fuel most implicated in climate change. Research led by the University of Utah has documented elevated concentrations of a key subset of critical minerals, known as rare earth elements, or REEs, in active mines rimming the Uinta coal belt of Colorado and Utah.
Investors push for more disclosure on corporate lobbying
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New 3D polymeric structure combines lightweight properties with high energy density to enhance lithium metal batteries
TechXplore
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A research team has developed a three-dimensional polymeric structure, a lightweight structure that facilitates the transport of lithium (Li) ions. Their study was recently published in the journal Advanced Science.
Kern County progresses Avantus’ 2GW California battery storage and solar project
Energy Storage News
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Morrisons is first UK supermarket to roll-out coffee pod recycling scheme
Envirotec Magazine
MAY 22, 2024
In an effort to make coffee pod recycling easier and accessible for the UK, Morrisons has announced a nationwide roll-out of dedicated coffee pod collection points in more than 350 stores nationwide in partnership with Podback, the pod recycling service. Roll out of the new recycling points will start in June. Customers are already able to pick up free Podback recycling bags from Morrisons customer service desks.
FedEx and Pyxera Global launch Circular Supply Chain Coalition to upcycle rare earth minerals
GreenBiz
MAY 24, 2024
The group wants to mine used electronics for valuable metals to reduce waste and grow jobs.
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TechXplore
MAY 23, 2024
Researchers from the Johns Hopkins Applied Physics Laboratory (APL) in Laurel, Maryland, have established new, scalable methods of developing battery- and solar-powered fibers, making it theoretically possible for electrical energy to be harvested from, and stored in, the clothing people wear.
Saudi oil giant Aramco and thermal energy storage firm Rondo in GW-scale deployment MOU
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Sponsored: Decarbonizing high-emitting but critical industries shouldn’t have to wait for the perfect framework to jumpstart the financing for real change.
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