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Good Energies, Google and Marubeni Investing in Offshore Wind Backbone

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Energy investor Good Energies, Google and Marubeni Corporation are investing in the Atlantic Wind Connection (AWC) backbone transmission project. The 350-mile (563-km) long transmission backbone will provide approximately 6,000 MW of offshore wind capacity, enough power to serve 1.9 Source: Google.

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Amazon Vies for Nuclear-Powered Data Center

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Data center operators are also exploring energy options from solar and wind , but these energy sources would have a difficult time matching the constancy of nuclear, even with grid storage to help even out their supply. Being served by a nuclear unit looks great on their corporate carbon balance sheet,” Clark says.

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We Need to Decarbonize Software

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Companies like Salesforce have launched their own software sustainability initiatives , while the Green Software Foundation now comprises 64 member organizations, including tech giants Google , Intel , and Microsoft. The Case for Sustainable Software So why should programmers care about making their software sustainable?

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The Rise and Fall of 3M’s Floppy Disk

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BASF, a German chemical manufacturer, has a somewhat similar corporate history and logo design to fellow thick-Helvetica enthusiast 3M. Wind-vortex generators: In 2016, 3M developed a technology to help wind turbines generate airflow more optimally to ensure they work better, in partnership with Smartblade.

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DOE awarding >$24M to 77 projects through Technology Commercialization Fund

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Quanex Building Products Corporation, Houston, Texas SCP SYS LLC, San Francisco, Calif. Johnson Matthey, Billingham, UK Enabling Autonomous Wind Plants through Consensus Control, $250,000 RES Group, Broomfield, Colo. Arlington, Texas Environmental Insights Explorer for Buildings, $750,000 Google, Mountian View, Calif.

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Report from the REFF-Wall Street; Themes in Renewable Energy Finance

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Auerbach adds that due to economies of scale and over capacity in the industry “ wind energy should have a 20% reduction in equipment costs within the next year ” and he has seen realistic projections of “ solar, with a 10% tax credit, being competitive with baseline generation in 2020 ”. Earlier post.). What does normal operation look like?

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Tigor EV Highway Drive: Bengaluru - Coimbatore - Ooty - Mysuru

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Followed Google Maps to hit Hosur road - and from then on the Maps was switched off. And is currently sold only to corporates. We switched on Google Maps and left for Ooty. Jayram works with Google and has been staying at Seattle for two decades before that. But that is not the case in the cockpit. That is quite neat.

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