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Students Use Their Tech Know-How to Protect the Environment

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and its environs. A solar electricity system for a community garden At the Charles Madison Nabrit Memorial Garden in Columbus Ohio, Damon Nabrit [right] shows a participant how a FarmBot works. Shaheer Alam A high concentration of nitrogen and other gasses has reduced native plant species and the overall biodiversity in Fremont, Calif.,

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Tesla Solar and Powerwall will fuel the exclusive, luxurious Panther National community

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Tesla and the new, exclusive, and luxurious Panther National community in Palm Beach Gardens, Florida, are partnering to develop the world’s first residential community that offers luxury lifestyle amenities in an energy-efficient, sustainable environment. All of the houses also have a flat roof design. Credit: Panther National.

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New UK energy strategy pushes new nuclear; up to 8 additional reactors

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This will be underpinned by new planning reforms to cut the approval times for new offshore wind farms from 4 years to 1 year and an overall streamlining which will reduce the time it takes for new projects to reach construction stages while improving the environment.

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Toyota goes large on hydrogen with new US headquarters

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The microgrid includes 230 kW of solar, a 1 MW stationary proton exchange membrane fuel cell generator, 325 kW solid oxide fuel cell, and a 500 kWh battery storage system. If fuel cell vehicles were fueled by green hydrogen , they would be cleaner. It hosts Toyota’s largest dynamometer (1.2 Read more: Toyota to invest $1.3B

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CMA CGM partners with Energy Observer on hydrogen-powered shipping

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It is sailing round the world in order to speed up development of the most innovative solutions for the environment. The CMA CGM partnership deals with the development of cleaner and more sustainable energies to eliminate CO 2 emissions, greenhouse gases and air pollutants.

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Renault and French Atomic and Alternative Energy Commission Sign RD Agreement on Cleaner Vehicles and Sustainable Mobility

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Renault and the CEA (French Alternative Energies and Atomic Energy Commission, le Commissariat à l’énergie atomique et aux énergies alternatives) have signed a cooperative research and development agreement that encompasses work on electric vehicles, new energies, and cleaner combustion engines.

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Harvard team finds large-scale US wind power would cause warming that would take roughly a century to offset

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Extracting energy from the wind causes climatic impacts that are small compared to current projections of 21 st century warming, but large compared to the effect of reducing US electricity emissions to zero with solar. If your perspective is the next thousand years, then wind power is enormously cleaner than coal or gas. 2018.09.009.

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