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E-Waste is a Cybersecurity Problem, Too

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million metric tons of electronic waste in 2019, up more than 21% over five years, according to the United Nations’ most recent assessment. Only about 17% of that e-waste was recycled, and what happens to the rest can be detrimental for both human health and privacy. The world generated a record 53.6 We have so, so, so many devices.

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Shell opens major new technology center in Bangalore; waste-to-fuels demo plant

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Shell Technology Center Bangalore (STCB) brings together R&D staff who previously worked at separate locations in Bangalore and also provides additional space for high-tech innovation and demonstration facilities. The new center houses a variety of technical experts, laboratories and technology demonstration units.

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Clean Energy Ventures leads investment battery startups Nth Cycle and Volexion; upstream, downstream

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Clean Energy Ventures , a $110-million venture capital firm investing in early-stage climate tech startups, is leading the investments in two battery startups: one in the upstream ( N th Cycle ) and one in the downstream ( Volexion ). million in funding from investors led by climate tech venture capital firm Clean Energy Ventures.

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Syntec Biofuel and EERC Enter Joint Development Program to Convert Biomass and Waste to Bio-Butanol

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has entered into a joint development program with the Energy & Environmental Research Center ( EERC ) at the University of North Dakota (UND) in Grand Forks for converting a wide variety of biomass and waste into bio-butanol. The EERC is one of the leading developers of cleaner, more efficient energy and environmental technologies.

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Wind-to-Hydrogen Tech Goes to Sea

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Hydrogen is thus greasing the wheels of the global transition to cleaner energy. For example, there’s an investigation into whether the electrolyzer’s waste heat can be used for desalination, and if this amount of heat is sufficient over the entire operating range of the plant. And the world is going to need a lot more of it.

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Making Information Tech Greener Can Help Address the Climate Crisis

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The wasteful approach of throwing more computing power at a problem to get better results has been dubbed red AI. Let's pledge—and act now—to create a cleaner and greener planet. From 2012 to 2018, for instance, the. Machine learning and other software tools can help guide decisions that could reduce carbon emissions.

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Nth Cycle says its electroextraction tech significantly reduces transportation costs for Li-ion battery recycling

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However, to extract ever more minerals by mining and dispose of the waste in landfills, would be to continue the practices that got the world into its current environmental mess. Nth Cycle works with battery recyclers and miners to recover production-grade critical minerals from separated electronic waste and low-grade mine tailings.

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