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Researchers develop sodium battery capable of rapid charging in just a few seconds

TechXplore

Sodium (Na), which is over 500 times more abundant than lithium (Li), has recently garnered significant attention for its potential in sodium-ion battery technologies. However, existing sodium-ion batteries face fundamental limitations, including lower power output, constrained storage properties, and longer charging times, necessitating the development of next-generation energy storage materials.

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CATL unveils ‘five-year zero degradation’ BESS with 6.25MWh per container

Energy Storage News

Lithium-ion battery manufacturer CATL has launched its latest grid-scale BESS product, with 6.25MWh per 20-foot container and zero degradation over the first five years, the company claimed.

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These Chicago CEOs are pioneering circularity

GreenBiz

Local startup innovators share their origin stories and what’s next for the Windy City’s circular economy leadership.

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Flint Water Crisis: Everything You Need to Know

NRDC onEarth

After officials repeatedly dismissed claims that Flint’s water was making people sick, residents took action. Here’s how the lead contamination crisis unfolded—and what we can learn from it.

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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.

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Greater access to clean water, thanks to a better membrane

TechXplore

Water scarcity around the world is a bigger problem than ever, and desalination is critical to solving it. The best available technologies for separating salt from seawater, though, are costly and require a great deal of maintenance.

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Dominion Energy launches RFP for solar and storage projects in Virginia

Energy Storage News

US utility Dominion Energy is seeking proposals for solar, wind and energy storage projects in the state of Virginia.

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Calling New York to break up with toxic PFAS this Earth Day

NRDC onEarth

New York Legislature has a real opportunity to address upstream sources of PFAS contamination

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A flexible and efficient DC power converter for sustainable-energy microgrids

TechXplore

A new DC-DC power converter is superior to previous designs and paves the way for more efficient, reliable and sustainable energy storage and conversion solutions. The Kobe University development can efficiently interface with a wide range of energy sources while enhancing system stability and simplicity at an unprecedented efficiency.

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NHOA commissions 120MWh BESS in Taiwan

Energy Storage News

EV and energy storage technology firm NHOA has commissioned a 120MWh BESS in Taiwan for parent company Taiwan Cement Group (TCC).

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Supreme Court: Companies can’t be sued for not disclosing climate risk

GreenBiz

As the SEC struggles to enforce new corporate climate disclosures, the high court grants companies even more wiggle room.

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The Key to Sustainable Energy Optimization: A Data-Driven Approach for Manufacturing

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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Pebble Mine: Citing EPA Veto, Army Corps Re-Affirms Permit Denial

NRDC onEarth

Canadian owner of embattled Bristol Bay mining scheme rests fading hope on federal lawsuit challenging EPA veto.

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Versatile fibers offer improved energy storage capacity for wearable devices

TechXplore

The latest wearable devices, such as Samsung's Galaxy Ring and Apple's Vision Pro, are taking health care a step further and even enabling people to work virtually. Given the characteristics of wearable devices that require them to be small and lightweight, there is an inevitable limitation on battery capacity, still presenting a technical barrier to incorporating a variety of functions.

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‘South Africa is a trailblazer’: Electricity minister opens solar-plus-storage plant with 1,140MWh BESS

Energy Storage News

South Africa’s electricity minister has said the largest solar-plus-storage project in the Southern Hemisphere is evidence of efforts to mitigate the country’s difficult energy security situation.

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How SBTi’s shift on Scope 3 rules will affect carbon markets

GreenBiz

4 possible outcomes of the proposed flexibility on carbon credits.

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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.

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The Heat Is On During India’s 2024 General Elections

NRDC onEarth

Millions of people will be contending with dangerous temperatures over the coming weeks as they cast their ballots.

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Clearing the air: Wind farms more land efficient than previously thought

TechXplore

Wind power is a source of energy that is both affordable and renewable. However, decision-makers have been reluctant to invest in wind energy due to a perception that wind farms require a lot of land compared to electric power plants driven by fossil fuels. Research led by McGill University and based on the assessment of the land use of close to 320 wind farms in the U.S.

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UK’s SSE Renewables completes first 100MWh BESS project in England

Energy Storage News

SSE Renewables has launched its first operative battery energy storage system (BESS) with a capacity of 50MW/100MWh.

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Training for repair work in explosive environments: Courses get a refresh

Envirotec Magazine

The Association for Electrical and Mechanical Trades (AEMT) has revised and relaunched its internationally acclaimed Ex Repair course for individuals involved in repairing electromechanical equipment used in potentially explosive atmospheres. This was in response to feedback from previous delegates, said the group. The revised course builds on the success of the Association’s Ex Theory, Ex Hands-On, and Ex Refresher courses, consolidating the learning into one new course designed for both those

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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.

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Poll: People Want Action on Plastics for Health and Wildlife

NRDC onEarth

New poll results show overwhelming public support for government action to address the plastic crisis, including a strong global plastics treaty.

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Harvesting vibrational energy from 'colored noise'

TechXplore

The energy demands of today's ubiquitous small electronic devices—including sensors, data transmitters, medical implants and 'wearable' consumer products such as Fitbits—can no longer be met by chemical batteries alone. This gap can be filled by energy harvesters, which turn ordinary, ambient vibrational energy into electrical energy.

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New York community-scale developer Ninedot secures US$13 million real estate financing

Energy Storage News

Community-scale battery storage developer Ninedot has been supported in purchasing project sites in New York by specialist real estate investment trust SolarREIT.

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Switch to green wastewater infrastructure could reduce emissions and provide huge savings

Envirotec Magazine

A group of researchers says they have shown that a transition to green wastewater-treatment approaches in the US, away from greywater treatment, could save $15.6 billion and just under 30 million tonnes of CO2-equivalent emissions over 40 years. The findings from Colorado State University were published in Nature Communications Earth and Environment in what’s described as a first-of-its-kind study.

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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?

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How Neonics Harm Earthworms

NRDC onEarth

Neonics harm earthworm growth and reproduction in exchange for uncertain benefits

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Garbage could replace a quarter of petroleum-based jet fuel every year

TechXplore

Every year, the nation's aviation industry uses around 22 billion gallons of jet fuel, which produces about 1 billion tons of carbon dioxide—or 3% of the world's carbon dioxide emissions. Because of this, researchers and policymakers alike are eyeing aviation as an industry ripe with opportunity to lower emissions.

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Buy now or wait? Tensions pull at US battery energy storage procurement decisions 

Energy Storage News

Rapid technology improvements and trade policy risk pose a dilemma for US battery storage procurement decision-makers, write George Touloupas and Jeff Zwijack of consultancy and market intelligence firm Clean Energy Associates (CEA).

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Cooling conjecture: cloud engineering could be more promising than previously believed

Envirotec Magazine

Cloud ‘engineering’ could be more effective for climate cooling than previously thought, because of the increased cloud cover produced, new research seems to show. In a study published in Nature Geoscience , researchers found that marine cloud brightening (MCB), also known as marine cloud engineering, works primarily by increasing the amount of cloud cover, accounting for 60-90% of the cooling effect.

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Fourteen Years After Deepwater Horizon, Drilling is Still a Threat

NRDC onEarth

Despite the devastation of the BP Deepwater Horizon disaster, offshore drilling remains a threat to communities, our ocean, and the climate.

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Climate change will increase value of residential rooftop solar panels across US, study finds

TechXplore

Climate change will increase the future value of residential rooftop solar panels across the United States by up to 19% by the end of the century, according to a new University of Michigan-led study.

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Friday Briefing: Thermal plants offer brownfield opportunities but require ‘a lot of coordination’  

Energy Storage News

This Friday Briefing looks at the rich prospects for putting batteries onto brownfield power plant sites, with regard to news stories from South Africa and New England, US.

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Are there VOCs lurking in water-based paints?

Envirotec Magazine

Water-based paints may create less of a stink, but some still contain chemicals flagged as potentially hazardous, according to new research. Water-based paints have emerged as “greener” and less smelly than solvent-based options. And they are often advertised as containing little-to-no VOCs. But a new study of these paints shows many of them do contain compounds that are considered VOCs, along with other chemicals of emerging concern.

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New Rule Charts Conservation Path for Public Lands

NRDC onEarth

The Bureau of Land Management has modernized the agency’s strategies for conserving water, wildlife, and other natural resources.

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Mess is best: Disordered structure of battery-like devices improves performance

TechXplore

The energy density of supercapacitors—battery-like devices that can charge in seconds or a few minutes—can be improved by increasing the 'messiness' of their internal structure.

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