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How Engineers Can Help Protect Earth From Worsening Climate Change

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Deforestation has caused the Amazon rainforest and similar areas to lose their ability to recover from disturbances such as drought, wildfires, and human development, according to a recent article published in Scientific American. Let’s pledge—and act now—to create a cleaner, greener planet. Let’s treat every day as Earth Day.

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E-Waste is a Cybersecurity Problem, Too

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Over the years I spoke about it at conferences anyway, and at one of these in 2017, Robert Hackett from Fortune asked for an interview and wrote an article that ended with this line : “Turns out e-waste isn’t just an environmental menace, but a cybersecurity one too.” Comparatively. But everyone on Earth is a stakeholder in this.

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Just Calm Down About GPT-4 Already

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Brooks, who is now working on his third robotics startup, Robust.AI , has written hundreds of articles and half a dozen books and was featured in the motion picture Fast, Cheap & Out of Control. You wrote a famous article in 2017, “ The Seven Deadly Sins of AI Prediction. “ If I can just expand on that a little.

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Nth Cycle says its electroextraction tech significantly reduces transportation costs for Li-ion battery recycling

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We started the company in 2017. Our core value to them will be a much more efficient, cleaner way to process that black mass into these separated valuable products. This article appeared in Charged Issue 56 – July/Aug 2021 – Subscribe now. We actually use a combination of electricity with water filtration.

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How Do EVs Compare To Gas Cars?

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In fact, as our ‘ How COVID-19 Is Changing Our Environment ’ article shows, with governments currently looking to rebuild economies following the COVID-19 outbreak, there is a huge opportunity to reinforce the EV charging landscape and create a more sustainable planet. Are EVs really cleaner & greener choices?

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Former EPA exec surveys the road ahead for US emissions standards

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Federal emissions and fuel economy regulations have been instrumental in encouraging (or coercing) automakers to produce EVs, and to make their legacy vehicles cleaner. Under President Obama, we set the first set of standards [for model years] 2012 to 2016, and the second set for 2017 to 2025. Q&A with former EPA exec Margo Oge.

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