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2019 Keeling Curve Prize winners include Opus 12; conversion of CO2 into fuels and chemicals

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in addition to Opus 12, they are: WILDCOAST (Imperial Beach, California) is working to secure a resilient coastline to help protect communities, economies and ecosystems from climate change impacts in the Gulf of California. Three Wheels United (Bangalore, India) is using finance and technology to decarbonize the auto rickshaw market.

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Aemetis closes $30M equity investment for biomethane pipelines and dairy digesters to produce below zero carbon renewable natural gas (RNG)

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Dairies produce about 25% of California’s methane emissions and have become targets of carbon regulations aimed to reduce climate change. Aemetis subsidiary Aemetis Biogas LLC closed a $30-million equity investment without any dilutive stock issuances by Aemetis, Inc. and funded the first $8.3-million

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Biomass fuels: challenges and opportunities – ET Auto

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By cycling carbon through energy generation systems as biomass, it offers a means to address climate change. High-temperature conventional thermochemical conversion approaches, including combustion, gasification, and pyrolysis, originally developed for fossil fuels, can now be applied to biomass feedstocks.

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Heat Pumps—The Well-Tempered Future of A/Cs

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In other words, an incremental efficiency improvement in heating will have a much bigger overall impact on energy demand and therefore climate change. If air conditioning is going to be climate-friendlier, says Romanin, of Gradient Comfort, “it needs to be smart, talk to the grid, use better refrigerant, and be a heat pump.”

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EV gameplan: Strategic tie-ups, fund raising, the way forward | Autocar Professional

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Klaus Zellmer, the global CEO of Skoda Auto, has visited India thrice in the past 18 months. For the global head of an international automaker to devote so much time to one market may seem unusual, but for the Czech brand — that has been around in India for 20 years — the stakes in this country have never been higher. As India 3.0

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UCL-led study finds climate impact caused by growing space industry needs urgent mitigation

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To meet growing demand, new spaceports and launch vehicle companies are being established in historically aeronautically active nations such as the US and Russia, and in nations with emerging space sectors such as China and India. This study allows us to enter the new era of space tourism with our eyes wide open to the potential impacts.

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Agenda Of International Road Freight Conference Makes It Clear Battery-Electric Will Dominate

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At the coal face of a conference that involved governmental figures, academics, logistics customers and OEMs, the detailed technical conversations are almost all about how battery electric trucks will work in the coming decades.