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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. Together, Google Cloud and Verity expect to work on product-level engagements to address market and customer needs.

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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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Google Unveils Faster, Cheaper Mechanism To Track Worldwide Deforestation Online; Support for Land Use Change Measurement, Verification and Reporting

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Landsat images via Google Earth. Through its philanthropic arm, Google.org, Google introduced an online suite of beta software that leverages cloud computing to track worldwide land-use changes such as deforestation. Google Earth, as analyzed by Carnegie Landsat Analysis System. Sources: USGS. Click to enlarge. Click to enlarge.

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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. That appears to be a tiny amount, but if the site gets 10,000 views each month for a year, its emissions would be a little over that of a one-way flight from San Francisco to Toronto. Meanwhile, COP28’s website produced 3.69

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TAE Technologies exceeds fusion reactor performance goals by 250% as company closes $250M round; $1.2B to date

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TAE’s safe, non-radioactive approach avoids carbon and particulate emissions, mitigating any impact on the environment or climate change. Google continues to be an exceptional computational AI and machine learning partner for TAE.

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Google Street View car used to spot, quantify methane leaks

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But methane leaks that emit large volumes of climate-change gas into the air may offset that advantage. Now, a Google Street View car has allowed researchers to pinpoint and quantify the severity of natural-gas leaks in five different.

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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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