BRUSSELS, Belgium, November 18, 2023 (Maximpact.com Sustainability News) – The European Commission has approved a €3 billion Austrian plan to support companies facing soaring energy costs due to Russia’s war against Ukraine. Solar photovoltaic capacity, both large utility-scale and small distributed systems, accounts for two-thirds of this year’s projected increase in global renewable capacity.
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ZURICH, Switzerland, October 23, 2023 (ENS) – Scientists are finding innovative ways of turning waste into problem-solving products – even the 102 million tonnes of chicken feathers produced globally each year by the industrial processing of chickens for meat. The waste feathers have been sent to landfills or incinerated, but now there are ways to transform them into valuable products from fuel cell membranes to oil spill dispersants.
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An international project led by the Graz University of Technology brings together 15 universities, companies and research institutions with the single goal of training urgently needed specialists for the European semiconductor industry, expected to boom now that the European Chips Act took effect in September.
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The AI industry could consume as much energy as a country the size of the Netherlands by 2027. The world’s data centers account for 1% of the global electricity demand and 4% of all ghg emissions.
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Drought is spreading as the climate heats up, stressing scarce water resources. To find the water they need, many governments and industries are looking to water recycling and reuse of the purified wastewater, and new technologies are being implemented everywhere in this fast-growing market.
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The aviation industry is moving briskly toward market takeoff for electric commercial aircraft, and many companies on the front lines of these new technologies are developing them cooperatively. From a battery-powered 186-seat commercial passenger jet to smaller hydrogen fuel cell regional planes, electric aircraft are arriving shortly. Have your boarding passes ready!
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September is a month clothed in glamour in Europe and New York, as the runways fill with the latest ideas from the fashion world’s most talented designers, but little do we know about the catastrophic environmental footprint this industry causes.
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Ten scientists say special inks have the potential to reduce the energy used to heat and cool buildings, and could slash global greenhouse gas emissions.
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At a Climate Justice Camp in Lebanon next week, 450 young leaders from nearly 100 countries in the world’s most climate-stressed regions across the Global South will gather to co-create strategies that will advance an equitable climate action framework at this year’s United Nations climate conference, COP28, and beyond.
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Walk more to live longer, a team of European scientists says after conducting a study of how walking benefits our health.
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The health care sector accounts for about 4.5 percent of GHG emissions, but now a new readiness in the industry to curb those emissions is emerging.
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Excess heat from mechanical or electronic devices is a sign or cause of inefficient performance. Researchers in Tokyo are demonstrating embedded sensors to monitor the flow of heat.
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To meet society’s growing need for renewable energy, scientists and engineers are exploring the potential of adding offshore solar power generation to existing offshore wind farms.
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US$ 2.8 trillion is set to be invested globally in energy in 2023 – a record amount. And US$ 1.7 trillion of that, more than half the total, is expected to go into clean energy technologies.
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