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Covid-19 risk greater in urban centres affected by air pollution

Envirotec Magazine

Dr Sara De Matteis, Associate Professor in Occupational and Environmental Medicine at Cagliari University, Italy, and member of the ERS Environmental Health Committee said: “Urban air quality has improved in the last half century, but petrol and especially diesel vehicle fumes remain a serious problem.

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Something in the air

Envirotec Magazine

Scientists at Ben-Gurion University of the Negev (BGU) say they have invented an artificial nose equipped to perform continuous bacterial monitoring – a capability they say has never previously been achieved and one with multiple applications in medicine, environmental monitoring and food. ”

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Study links EVs with real-world reductions in air pollution and respiratory disease

Charged

Electric vehicles produce far lower greenhouse gas emissions over their lifecycles than legacy vehicles, and this fact has been demonstrated by dozens of studies over the past decade (regardless of what you might read on Facebook). Thus, replacing fossil-powered cars with ZEVs in those neighborhoods could deliver outsize health benefits.

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20 C-suite sustainability champions for 2021

GreenBiz

In 2014, the electrical engineer and MBA became the first woman to lead a U.S. As electric vehicles drive toward the mainstream, General Motors has come full circle as well. It mass-produced the first electric car in the 1990s, then literally crushed most of them in 2003. and globally by 2040. LinkedIn | Personal website.

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Renewable energy for remote Amazon village

Smart Energy International

Remote Vila Restauração in northwest Brazil now has 24/7 power, thanks to the installation of a solar plus storage microgrid. Previously the 750-inhabitant village relied on a diesel generator providing three to four hours of power per day. Its distribution subsidiary Energisa Acre is the local distributor.

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Strategies for reducing the fossil-fuel impact of electric vehicles

Renewable Energy World

The impact of electric transportation on pollution and reduced carbon emissions and fossil-fuel consumption is complicated. On the one hand, well-designed electric vehicles (EVs) use much less energy per mile than conventionally-fueled vehicles. Midwest, wind energy is growing quickly. For example, in the U.S.

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Google Cloud partners up to utilise perovskite within IoT

Smart Energy International

Saule Technologies and Columbus Energy have partnered with Google Cloud to develop new products using perovskite solar cells and solutions in the field of distributed energy and IoT (Internet of Things). According to Saule, the lack of power has greatly limited their potential applications to date. billion by 2025.

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