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Technology Trending: data centres in space, smart home appliances, LNG tractor

Smart Energy International

Investigating the possibility of putting data centres into space, LG’s ThinQ UP smart home appliance global launch and ‘circular’ farming with onsite methanol production and use for powering tractors are in the week’s technology radar. Task force to innovate space applications for energy Unlocking smart meter data for research.

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Sea Level Rise: The Past As An Indicator Of The Future

Energy Innovation

Energy Innovation partners with the independent nonprofit Aspen Global Change Institute (AGCI) to provide climate and energy research updates. After the depth of the last Ice Age some 20,000-22,000 years ago when much of North America was buried in ice, the Earth began to warm and with that warming sea level began to rise.

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Dusting For “Fingerprints” On Our Climate: Innovations In The Attribution Of Extreme Events

Energy Innovation

Energy Innovation partners with the independent nonprofit Aspen Global Change Institute (AGCI) to provide climate and energy research updates. These global trends raise local questions. Did global warming cause last week’s heat wave (or wildfire or flood or hurricane) in my hometown? 1 in 400 years.

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4D powerline digital twin solution launched

Smart Energy International

Citing California’s extreme wildfire season as an example, Chris Beaufait, CEO of Sharper Shape, says that as global warming continues to threaten society, better decisions need to made. Have you read? Sign up to our newsletter and stay informed.

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Inside the University of Chicago’s controversial solar geoengineering initiative

Grist

After the Tambora volcano in Indonesia erupted in 1815, parts of Europe and North America saw a “year without summer.” It is part of a broader university effort to become a global leader in the climate and energy space. degree Celsius (0.9 degree Fahrenheit) for about a year.

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'Half measures won't halve emissions': The green economy reacts to IPCC's climate solutions report

Business Green

And so today's report's conclusion that while the scale of the challenge is monumental - the world must peak emissions by 2025, before halving them by 2030 - it also encouragingly makes clear that the world already has all of the tools it needs to achieve these aims, in order to keep the chances of limiting global warming to 1.5C

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Sustainable funerals: Part 1 – with Ethical.net

Low Impact

Sustainable funerals do not: Release greenhouse gases into the atmosphere, contributing to global warming. But there is a growing awareness that cremation (as currently carried out) is not a sustainable option: Energy use and emissions. Globally, cremation emits over 6.8 percent of world carbon dioxide emissions.