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Gevo, Google Cloud to measure and verify the carbon intensity of biofuels across supply chain

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Gevo has entered into a partner agreement with Google Cloud to measure and verify the efficacy of next-generation biofuels across the supply chain via full lifecycle sustainability data tracking. The goal will be to help companies create a more data-driven approach to understanding and lowering greenhouse gas intensity globally.

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VW CEO Diess criticizes hydrogen cars for the climate: ‘Please listen to the science!’

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Volkswagen Auto Group CEO Herbert Diess is voicing his distaste for using hydrogen to solve global climate issues. Diess said (via Google Translate): “The hydrogen car is proven NOT to be the solution. The post VW CEO Diess criticizes hydrogen cars for the climate: ‘Please listen to the science!’

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Chip Fabs Go Green

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At this week's COP27 climate conference in Egypt , attendees will have a new group to contend with: an alliance of more than 60 companies involved in the electronics supply chain. The aim is to reduce greenhouse gas emissions "throughout the electronics value chain," according to SEMI.

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We Need to Decarbonize Software

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s climate-change conference, to discuss the urgent need to lower emissions. While software on its own doesn’t release any emissions, it runs on hardware in data centers and steers data through transmission networks, which account for about 1 percent of energy-related greenhouse gas emissions each. Meanwhile, COP28’s website produced 3.69

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Flash Drive: 2024 Chevrolet Equinox EV

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All-New Compact Electric SUV The 2024 Chevrolet Equinox EV is hoping to be what many people have been waiting for—a 300+ mile all-electric range (AER) compact SUV that, with incentives, will be priced in the high $20,000 to low $30,000 range. There is nothing flashy about this latest EV from Chevrolet, which is a good thing.

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The 2025 Cadillac Escalade IQ Gets Impressive Tech and a Six-Figure Starting Price

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The hulking luxury family hauler has been around since the late 1990s and has become a showcase for the automaker’s technology and design prowess, but GM is going electric, and a three-ton V8-powered SUV doesn’t fit with that vision. It can also redirect heat from the battery to the SUV’s climate control system.

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Study finds drone-based delivery could reduce GHG emissions and energy use in the transportation sector, if deployed sensibly

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New research by Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory (LLNL), Carnegie Mellon University, SRI International and the University of Colorado at Boulder shows that drone-based delivery could reduce greenhouse gas emissions and energy use in the transportation sector. An open-access paper on the research appears in Nature Communications.

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