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EU investing €1.8B in 17 large-scale clean tech projects

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billion in 17 large-scale innovative clean-tech projects with a third round of awards under the Innovation Fund. The selected projects are located in Bulgaria, Finland, France, Germany, Iceland, the Netherlands, Norway, Poland and Sweden. The EU is investing more than €1.8 Background.

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Fusion Tech Finds Geothermal Energy Application

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We need to go deeper and hotter to make geothermal energy viable outside of places like Iceland.” We need to go deeper and hotter to make geothermal energy viable outside of places like Iceland.” Quaise Energy , based in Cambridge, Mass., plans to deploy what are called gyroton drills to vaporize rock using powerful microwaves. “We

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11 Intriguing Engineering Milestones to Look for in 2023

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This stretch, called Iris, will link Iceland to Ireland. In subsequent years, the Far North Fiber project will lay down a cable through the Northwest Passage, connecting Iceland to Greenland, then Canada, Alaska, and finally Japan. As a bonus, the tech onboard the balloons runs on solar power.

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Earth Day and the Importance of Green Energy

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In this celebration, we acknowledge the future of green technology is not only healthier for the planet and its residents, but more high-tech than more archaic, higher polluting options. Earth Day and Green Tech. These new choices are often termed “green tech.”. Earth Day is a celebration of our planet.

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Studying Climate Change with an Ice Radar Drone

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Top: Thomas Tesiberg; Above: Mai Bui We carried out our first real-world tests six months later, on Iceland’s Vatnajökull ice cap, thanks to the help and generosity of local collaborators at the University of Iceland and a grant from NASA. That tephra eventually gets buried under new snow and forms a layer under the surface.

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Drive Electric Submission on the Emissions Reduction Plan Discussion Document

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Slovenia, Iceland, the Netherlands, Ireland, India, Denmark, Sweden, Israel, Germany and the United Kingdom all have 2030 deadlines. These standards should be designed so they avoid the risk of tech-lock-in, to enable new technologies to enter the market as they become available. . There are at least 31 countries and U.S. Role of ETS

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Where Plug-In Hybrid Conversions (mostly Priuses) Are

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EnergyCS/Clean-Tech, May 2005 EnergyCS Los Angeles County, CA info@energycs.com 4. Jim Tech Ltd. CalCars PRIUS+/Ron Gremban, Fall 2004 Ron Gremban, CalCars team; initially with EnergyCS technology (not used in redesigned conversion) Marin County, CA info@calcars.org 2. Contact Jason Greenblatt.

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