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A Bamboo Carbon Filter for Diesels Could Reduce Emissions

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Looking to make replacement filters more environmentally friendly and affordable, a team of engineering students from the Bangladesh University of Engineering and Technology , in Dhaka, designed a carbon-based version with bamboo. A carbon-based particulate filter Diesel engines produce more polluting particulate matter than gas engines.

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Dell’s Bold Idea: A Laptop You Can Actually Repair

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In December 2021, just before CES, the world’s leading tech event, Dell introduced Concept Luna , a reimagining of the laptop PC that focuses on repairability. Luna looks like Dell’s latest XPS 13 , but clever tweaks have slimmed its carbon footprint. Instead, many components lock into place.

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Tesla’s carbon-wrapped motor to pave way for new Roadster improvements

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Musk’s updates came as a response to Tesla bull @ajtourville , who inquired if the carbon fiber sleeves of the Model S Plaid’s rotors are direct-wound or pressed-on. ” He also noted that the “carbon sleeve must put (the) copper rotor in compression or it loosens at low temp due to differential thermal expansion.”

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Four Startups Aim to Change the Climate Tech Game

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Breakthroughs in battery technology, carbon sequestration, and other energy technologies that result in a five-fold improvement over current technology could literally change the world. Starting a company to develop an energy technology that fights climate change is hard—a lot harder than starting a software company.

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We Need to Decarbonize Software

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grams of carbon dioxide (CO 2 ) per page load, according to the website sustainability scoring tool Ecograder. By 2040, that number could reach 14 percent —almost as much carbon as that emitted by air, land, and sea transport combined. grams of carbon per page view. Meanwhile, COP28’s website produced 3.69

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Better Carbon Sequestration With AI

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One of the big winners was a technology called carbon capture and storage. And specifically, how do you apply recent advances in machine learning in the HPC to carbon capture? Strickland: So we’ll get into some of these super tech details in a little bit. I don’t think anybody’s really considering that anymore.

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Aptera to showcase solar EV tech in the UAE as it preps its first production-intent builds [Video]

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Next, Anthony recaps Aptera’s recent visit to JEC World 2024 in Paris, where its Body in Carbon (BinC) was displayed. Looking ahead, Aptera says it will be attending DRIFTx in Abu Dhabi – a conference in the United Arab Emirates that, according to Anthony, “promotes investment in groundbreaking ideas such as Aptera.”

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