Undersea Pods Deployed For Energy Efficient Desalination

Credit to Author: Tina Casey| Date: Sun, 24 Nov 2024 03:49:59 +0000

The US startup OceanWell is developing undersea “water farms” that leverage water pressure to operate an energy efficient desalination system.

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Aviation Contrails — Low Hanging Fruit of the Climate Fight

Credit to Author: Maarten Vinkhuyzen| Date: Sun, 24 Nov 2024 03:46:08 +0000

In a recent report, “Contrail avoidance: aviation’s climate opportunity of the decade,” Transport & Environment explained how cheap it was to avoid 80% of the contrails damage. The report was published just before COP29. It got a followup with an event at the conference in BAKU. Recognizing the impact of … [continued]

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My Tesla Got Hit — Fix It At A Tesla Certified Repair Or “Regular” Body Shop?

Credit to Author: Paul Fosse| Date: Sun, 24 Nov 2024 01:08:08 +0000

How is my experience getting an estimate for a minor repair at both a Tesla Certified and a “regular” body shop? I’ve written about Tesla collision repairs before here and here, about 5 years ago. This summer, I got the chance to do a similar repair again! My previous repair … [continued]

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Wherefore Art Thou, Promised Tesla Superchargers For My Chevy Bolt?

Credit to Author: Carolyn Fortuna| Date: Sat, 23 Nov 2024 22:11:37 +0000

It was very exciting a couple of years ago when Tesla revealed it would open up its Supercharger network to non-Tesla brands, albeit with a Supercharger adapter. Up until that point, Tesla had restricted charging to its own vehicle line, and with that limitation came fast chargers that were conveniently … [continued]

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The Fight Over Emissions From Heavy Trucks Moves To The Courts

Credit to Author: Steve Hanley| Date: Sat, 23 Nov 2024 21:39:26 +0000

Blame it on California. Its Air Resources Board (CARB) has been pushing to clean up emissions for diesel-powered heavy trucks for years. A significant amount of the goods that enter the United States from foreign countries every year arrive in ports in California. They cross the ocean in diesel-powered ships, … [continued]

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How Can A Canadian Transit Think Tank Be So Deeply Incompetent?

Credit to Author: Michael Barnard| Date: Sat, 23 Nov 2024 17:06:37 +0000

Recently, I had the opportunity to sit down with Michael Raynor, formerly a managing director of sustainability and thought leadership for Deloitte and author of multiple books on innovation and strategy. We talked about not only an innovative approach to addressing Scope 3 emissions that Raynor has developed, but also … [continued]

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After A Long Wait, Zimbabwe’s Utility-Scale Solar PV Sector Is Starting To Grow

Credit to Author: Remeredzai Joseph Kuhudzai| Date: Sat, 23 Nov 2024 15:38:13 +0000

Zimbabwe has an installed electricity generation capacity of close to 3,000 MW, but there is a huge problem. The Zimbabwe Power Company’s (ZPC) main thermal plants are very old and keep breaking down. There were also three small coal power plants in Harare, Munyati, and Bulawayo that have installed capacities … [continued]

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Sometimes the Sun Don’t Shine … Enough

Credit to Author: David Waterworth| Date: Sat, 23 Nov 2024 04:55:14 +0000

It’s been a miserable rainy week with loads of cloud cover here in Brisbane, Queensland. And you know what, the naysayers were right, sometimes the sun don’t shine. Or at least, doesn’t shine enough. This week, for the first time in months, I have had to use grid power to … [continued]

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Milestone Puts Battery Recycling Industry One Step Closer to Increasing Lithium-Ion Processing in North America

Credit to Author: Cynthia Shahan| Date: Sat, 23 Nov 2024 04:44:04 +0000

A Cirba Solutions battery recycling and materials recovery facility in Lancaster, Ohio, will create battery-grade metal sulfates and lithium carbonate once it’s up and running. These will then become the raw materials for cathode active materials (pCAM) and cathode active materials (CAM) for batteries. The expansion of the site has … [continued]

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Parking Lot Full of Wooden Solar Canopies in France

Credit to Author: Cynthia Shahan| Date: Sat, 23 Nov 2024 04:30:56 +0000

Plans are underway to install wooden-framed parking canopies in Saint-Quentin-la-Poterie (Gard) as part of a future communal self-consumption initiative. BoucL Énergie was chosen to construct photovoltaic canopies on the municipal car park on Chemin de la Carrierasse. The municipality’s self-consumption project aims to reduce CO₂ emissions by producing and sharing solar … [continued]

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